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NIckGorton writes:
The father of modern heart surgery died this week at age 99. He was integral to the development of pretty much everything in modern cardiovascular surgery: bypass (heart-lung machines that made open heart surgery for the first time possible possible), coronary artery bypass surgery (he did the first one ever), carotid endarterectomey (again he performed the first one ever), the development of Dacron graft blood vessels, and the development of MASH units. He was a consummate geek and there are numerous surgical instruments that bear his name. He was also the first surgeon to videotape surgeries — in the 1960s. He was considered by the NEJM to be the single greatest surgeon alive until two days ago. In his career he performed over 50,000 heart surgeries and practiced medicine (though not surgery) until the day he died. Paradoxically in 2005, he underwent the Debakey procedure which he pioneered, to treat the aortic dissection he suffered.
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NIckGorton writes:
Wired has posted a story about a website that will send an email to your loved ones excatly six days after the rapture (or when three of their staffers fail to log in to check their email for six days, whichever comes first.) For $40 yearly, they will send a post-rapture email to 62 people and maintain 150 megabytes of documents encrypted by something that could be as complicated as a decoder ring (to give the recipient access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys). Otherwise, since there will be no bodies, your junk will be locked up in probate until the 7 year reign of the Antichrist is over. Which would obviously suck. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/service-lets-yo.html
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NIckGorton writes:
A new video game's objective is to go back in time and destroy the founders of the three big monos before to nip Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the bud. Players do this by murdering Abraham and the authors of the Bible, before beheading Muhammad.
http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/article/object_of_new_video_game_is_to_stop_the_spread_of_christianity_and_islam/11957/
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NIckGorton writes:
A sexually frustrated seal was caught on camera attempting to have sex with an unconsenting penguin. The description of this unusual behavior was published in the Journal of Ethology, complete with interspecies pron. According to one of the authors and witnesses to the event: 'At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin, but then we realised that the seal's intentions were rather more amorous.' The researchers speculated that the seal, who was too inexperienced to get access to females, in a state of frustrated sexual arousal turned to a penguin for release.
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NIckGorton writes:
Bush uses 9th veto of his presidency to stop Congress' attempt to prevent interrogation techniques like waterboarding whose use is prohibited by the military and law enforcement agencies in the us (aka torture).
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NIckGorton writes:
Two ten year old boys experiment to see if your tongue really will freeze to a flagpole in sub-zero weather. Turns out they do. Ouch. http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/01/26/news/top_news/doc1bcbc32da2b0aab0862573dc00097f23.txt
