The Monty Python character known as the Gumby would often be found saying “My brain hurts”. Now Reuters reports: In what is billed as an “extremely silly” event, hordes of Monty Python fans will gather in full Gumby attire in London on Saturday to celebrate the British comedy troupe’s 50th anniversary. Kitted out in rubber boots, sleeveless sweaters, rolled-up trousers and…
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Putin Could Decide For the World On CRISPR Babies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: According to Bloomberg, top Russian geneticists held a “secret meeting” this summer with government health officials in Moscow to debate a bid by a scientist there, Denis Rebrikov, to create babies genetically modified with the gene-editing technology CRISPR. The first such children were born in China last year as part of…
‘Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates’ Premieres on Netflix
hcs_$reboot shared this report about Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, a new three-part documentary that debuted Friday on Netflix from Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim: The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist is asked what his worst fear is. It’s not family tragedy or personal pain. “I don’t want my brain to stop working,” he responds… A portrait emerges of a…
Medication causes woman’s blood to turn blue
A 25-year-old woman who was using a common pain relief drug for toothache ended up with inky blue blood. The patient, who hails from Rhode Island, had… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/330621/medication-causes-womans-blood-to-turn-blue…
New Prosthetic Legs Let Amputees Feel Their Foot and Knee In Real-Time
In a paper published in Nature Medicine today, researchers led by ETH Zurich describe how they modified an off-the-shelf prosthetic leg with sensors and electrodes to give wearers a sense of knee movement and feedback from the sole of the foot on the ground. Engadget reports: The researchers worked with two patients with above-the-knee, or transfemoral, amputations. They used an Ossur…
The back pain epidemic: Why popular treatments are making it worse
Chronic back pain is on the rise – in part because the way we treat it often does more harm than good. It’s time to think differently about our aches Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332450-600-the-back-pain-epidemic-why-popular-treatments-are-making-it-worse/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Scientists Just Found a Previously Unknown Organ Lurking Under Your Skin, and It Helps Detect Pain
You can blame this mysterious newfound organ for the pain you feel when you prick your finger. Source: https://www.livescience.com/new-skin-organ.html
Scientists have discovered a new organ in skin
It turns out that our skin may be home to an entirely new organ and it is all to do with how we process pain. Typically our skin registers pain throug… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329756/scientists-have-discovered-a-new-organ-in-skin…
Scientists Discover New Pain-Sensing Organ
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new organ involved in the sensation of pain has been discovered by scientists, raising hopes that it could lead to the development of new painkilling drugs. Researchers say they have discovered that the special cells that surround the pain-sensing nerve cells that extend into the outer layer of skin appear to…
Kotaku Posts ‘A Reminder That Video Games Are A Force For Good’
An anonymous reader quotes Kotaku Australia:
Spurred on by the recent discussions of video games and violence, and spurred on by the emotional and often downbeat tone of that discussion, a user on Twitter posted a simple thought exercise. Rather than talking about the misery and pain of the week, what if people shared all the times Nintendo games changed lives instead?…