Fucked up that they've classified it. I expect they give clearance to enough doctors so it won't be a problem in practice, but it still sucks.
A new human organ has been classified
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#22does everything have to have a purpose, i.e function. maybe not anymore.
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#23It's amazing that after hundreds of years of dissecting people we can still make discoveries life this. Shows how little we really know.
Well, it is actually more a matter of classification than discovery. Scientists knew it was there for a long time, just they studied the functions better and made the case that we can define it as an organ.
>This only makes it more disturbing, the fact that researchers knew of its existence and DISMISSED it is absurd and embarrassing
"Absurd and embarrassing" compared to what? What non-researchers did? It's the actual practitioners of science that set its baseline.
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#24For someone with no medical training, the reference to Gray's Anatomy was confusing and interesting.
Yep, a well-regarded reference resource for 150 years prior to the show's conception. I always assumed the show was named after the book(never watched the show), I wonder if the one-off spelling 'Gray/Grey' shielded the creators from copyright infringement, as revisions of the book are still being released.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grays_anatomy
The title is a double entendre. It's a show about doctors with the lead doctor being "Meredith Grey". So it refers to both the protagonist and the book, since it's a famous book in medicine.
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#25For someone with no medical training, the reference to Gray's Anatomy was confusing and interesting.
Yep, a well-regarded reference resource for 150 years prior to the show's conception. I always assumed the show was named after the book(never watched the show), I wonder if the one-off spelling 'Gray/Grey' shielded the creators from copyright infringement, as revisions of the book are still being released.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grays_anatomy
It must really confused conspiracy theorists too[1]. ;)
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#26For someone with no medical training, the reference to Gray's Anatomy was confusing and interesting.
Yep, a well-regarded reference resource for 150 years prior to the show's conception. I always assumed the show was named after the book(never watched the show), I wonder if the one-off spelling 'Gray/Grey' shielded the creators from copyright infringement, as revisions of the book are still being released.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grays_anatomy
I've never watched it either, but assumed there's someone called Grey, and it to be a pun on the text.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have never thrust a spear at a mammoth either, yet "we" did. Work on that reading comprehension. "We" is referring to something much broader.
> "We" is referring to something much broader. Yes, it's all very poetic. Can you define it though? What else did "we" do? Were "we" the nazis? Or were we the allies? Were we the indians or the europeans? Did we write "All along the Watchtower"? Did we invent the first digital computer?
>What else did "we" do? Were "we" the nazis? Or were we the allies? Were we the indians or the europeans? Did we write "All along the Watchtower"? Did we invent the first digital computer?
We should cut the BS, and stop bike-shedding on the use of "we", whose use has been accepted for millennia when one speaks of the collective whole that is humanity and its achievements.
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#28I originally thought this was going to be on the same level as the mind-blowing discovery of an entirely new (as in, never before known) lymphatic system for the brain/CNS, which has the potential to explain alzheimer's and more [0], discovered just last year. But alas, no.
0: https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "We" is referring to something much broader. Yes, it's all very poetic. Can you define it though? What else did "we" do? Were "we" the nazis? Or were we the allies? Were we the indians or the europeans? Did we write "All along the Watchtower"? Did we invent the first digital computer?
Yes nazis, allies, indians (both kinds, but one of those terms is pretty racist, so be careful with your terminology) and europeans. We wrote all along the watchtower and invented the first digital computer. There might be a few prickly edges around carthaginians, aztecs and other civilizations we eradicated. We hung on to trigonometry in spite of eradicating the babylonians. In this case we means humans who are able…
> indians (both kinds, but one of those terms is pretty racist
I'm pretty sure it isn't.
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#30I originally thought this was going to be on the same level as the mind-blowing discovery of an entirely new (as in, never before known) lymphatic system for the brain/CNS, which has the potential to explain alzheimer's and more [0], discovered just last year. But alas, no. 0: https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-...
This was a hugely exciting development, I'm not up to date on current plans to investigate further, now reminded I will certainly be looking.