A large lump in a teenager’s stomach turned out to be her own “twin” growing inside her. Source: https://www.livescience.com/teens-twin-found-inside-adbomen-fetus-in-fetu.html
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Teen Girl Has 3-Pound Hair Ball Removed from Her Stomach
A teen girl in India who secretly ate her own hair ended up having a giant hairball removed from her stomach. Source: https://www.livescience.com/giant-hairball-stomach-rapunzel-syndrome.html
How To Make Compost
We probably don’t need to tell you the benefits of compost for your soil. With a few easy steps you can grow bigger healthier plants and save your scraps from being turned into garbage. Plus, composting gives you the opportunity to see exactly what is going into your fertilizer. So enrich your soil, plants, and life…Continue Reading
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Did these tardigrades survive crash-landing on the moon?
When Israel’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades – water bears – aboard. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tardigrades-lunar-library-beresheet-spacecraft-crash-moon…
US Dept. of Transportation Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as Service Animals
An anonymous reader shares a report: For all its indignities, air travel is also surprisingly democratic — people of all stripes and shades crammed together into a small metal tube and lofted into the sky. Some of them have service animals, some of which are a hair more exotic than a vested dog. This has caused some spirited debates. But on…
Meet a family of NASA space robots
NASA engineers are working on a new family of space robots that can roll, climb, and use artificial intelligence to navigate around obstacles in rough terrains on other worlds. Meet the family, here. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-space-robots-lemur-ice-worm-robosimian…
Nomads Travel To America’s Backroads and Walmarts — to Stock Amazon’s Shelves
The Verge recently profiled “a small group of merchants who travel the backroads of America searching clearance aisles and dying chains for goods to sell on Amazon. “Some live out of RVs and vans, moving from town to town, only stopping long enough to pick the stores clean and ship their wares to Amazon’s fulfillment centers.” The majority of goods sold…
Man’s Foot Pain Was Due to Rare ‘Hair Splinter’
For one man in Brazil, a fallen strand of hair became more than a nuisance when it got embedded in his foot. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65881-hair-splinter.html
Scientists Discover a New Way To Provide Plants the Nutrients They Need To Thrive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a new method for delivering key nutrients to plant roots — without having to ensure they’re present in the soil where the plants are growing. This method, described by researchers in detail in a new academic paper, would manage to improve efficiency to nearly 100% absorption…
Remembering The Retiree Who Became America’s Worst Counterfeiter
The Hustle tells the story of a mysterious legend who “produced thousands of the ugliest counterfeit $1 bills ever made…so poorly done that the Secret Service thought the perpetrator was intentionally mocking them” — using a small hand-driven printing press in his kitchen:
It was printed on cheap bond paper that could be found at any stationary store. The serial numbers were…