“I’m used to looking at that with regular animals,” says Gardner. “But I’m not a regular animal—I’m me!” Gardner went to the student health center to get treated, microscope slide in tow. Sure enough, the doctor confirmed he had contractedAscaris, a pencil-thin pa...
He used a leech to draw out the blood and saved the ear. Since then, leeches have often been used in surgery where body parts are reattached. During surgery, a leech is placed on the area where the surgeon does not want the blood to pool and clot. Then the leech produces a thing ...
And france also used leeches at that time as well, right? So leeches became almost extinct in Western Europe. [23:21] So they had got to go to Turkey to import leeches. So there you are, you say, these were two modes. [23:27] Now back to venisection first. Now venisection, in...
Three leeches have three beloved daughters that are not full, and a fourth does not say, "It is enough": OT TranslationsJPS Tanakh 1917The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not: 'Enough' :Brenton Septuagint ...
The drug is still used today and is known for the annoying side-effect of triggering explosives scanners at airports.Finally, there is chemotherapy. We have the deadly chemical warfare agent mustard gas to thank for this. During the first world war, scientists noticed that mustard gas destroyed...
to see if they still work for most. I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the obvious: weSFers need to get the fuck out of our cars and improve public transportation.SFdoesn’t need to be a driving city, and it’s ruining quality of life for everyone. Generous though it may be, driving...
“pounced on it, and began drumming the flames with her forefeet while bouncing on and off the blaze until only the edges still had sparks”. The fire wasn’t out yet, so the coyote, with its shoulder, pushed the scrap of paper with embers against the ground, then stood up to ...
“Five years ago, I’d still get 50 fish a day,” one anonymous angler tells me. Now, this angler sometimes nets as few as five. “I’ve heard people say, ‘I’m not coming up because there’s no fish.’” It’s the same story with all the guides I interview: The haul was ...
The technique uses the body’s sugars to turn an injected gel into a flexible electrode without damaging tissues, experiments show. Zebrafish with these electrodes grown in their brains, hearts and tail fins showed no signs of ill effects, and electrodes tested in leeches (水蛭) successfully stim...
“We have somethings other people don’t have and they have things we don’t have.” “Choices have consequences.” People don’t like to hear that choices have consequences. But the universe doesn’t give a damn about that – so choices still have consequences....