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See the friendship between cat and squirrel That's so cute see how much they are taking care of each others http://bit.ly/2VdHs4E
Friendship between cat and dog see in video how much they are teasing each others also they are loving http://bit.ly/2WoRU66
This is fascinating! I was diagnosed with dextrocardia w/ situs inversus at 19. I didn't make it to 99 years old to find out I had it, but several physicians and doctors in my childhood missed the diagnosis too. Story time! This is written on mobile so I apologise for grammar and spelling errors. I had awful asthma as a child and would frequently visit hospital till my teenage years because of asthma attacks and simi…
You know, this sounds like the kind of thing you get a tattoo for!
Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams [1] is an amazing read. It discusses a wide variety of "unusual" human physiological characteristics, including bones that only occur sometimes. One hears the refrain "everyone is unique". The thing is, technically you can say "every factory made part is unique" at some level. But humans are much more unique on many more different levels, than any human-made-machine (things…
He and his helpers took 10's of thousands of measurements of thousands of air force pilots and determined that, there is no such thing as the 'average pilot'.
Well there was. About two dozen of them. Turns out that all the measurements were uncorrelated in the already highly selected group that is air force pilots.
Aerospace manufacturers were forced to redesign cockpits with adjustable seats and controls. And the rate of accidents declined.
> The remarkable thing is how the different parts of a living thing can still function well with that capacity to vary
What's really whack when you consider it is the same neuromuscular system that allows us to walk can also be repurposed to drive a car, fly a plane and operate other machinery.
This is fascinating! I was diagnosed with dextrocardia w/ situs inversus at 19. I didn't make it to 99 years old to find out I had it, but several physicians and doctors in my childhood missed the diagnosis too. Story time! This is written on mobile so I apologise for grammar and spelling errors. I had awful asthma as a child and would frequently visit hospital till my teenage years because of asthma attacks and simi…
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This is awesome! For some reason I got really nervous reading about your accident. I was sure they opened you up and did some damage! I hope you keep going strong with the condition. I wonder how many people have lived full lives and never had it be detected.
They'd be dozens of us! Dozens! Haha. Ah, I was very lucky in the accident. The driver was on his phone and distracted and hit me at 60 kmh. I was very, very lucky.
I was rear ended by a guy going 100kmh while strapped into my seat. I can't imagine.
Why is this so rare?
One thing I've learned since I was diagnosed is how little we seem to know about the gut and the surrounding area. I hope more research will shed light for future generations.
She ended up showing symptoms of not being able to keep food down (although eating slower seemed okay) and so we got it fixed for a pretty penny. It really seems like depending on where the organs end up, there might not be any issue. I was really impressed with how mechanical the problem is and how reliably successful surgery is. Presumably there could be complications if there's a real tangle.
Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams [1] is an amazing read. It discusses a wide variety of "unusual" human physiological characteristics, including bones that only occur sometimes. One hears the refrain "everyone is unique". The thing is, technically you can say "every factory made part is unique" at some level. But humans are much more unique on many more different levels, than any human-made-machine (things…
My favorite was a statistician in the late 40's early 50's who was tasked by the air force to find the 'average pilot'. The reason was new fangled jet fighters were crashing due to pilot error. At higher rates than could be anything but problems with the man machine interface. He and his helpers took 10's of thousands of measurements of thousands of air force pilots and determined that, there is no such thing as the…
Isn’t this because we purposely design all those things around our anatomy though?
I’d imagine alien octopuses’ vehicles would be designed around their anatomy and they would have no trouble using them.