False teeth The story of Washington's dental woes resonates even today because of the legacy of slavery and continuing debates over America's founding and the Founding Fathers' place in history. During his presidency, Washington was politically ambivalent about slavery; he signed some legislation, ...
The fake teeth caused him great discomfort, and were one of the reasons he rarely smiled. He had to have his morning hoe cakes and syrup (chosen for their softness) cut into tiny pieces to make them easier to eat. 6. Washington wasn’t always a great general, but he was an excellen...
Pamela Yelick, a professor at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine and lead researcher of the effort, said pigs have as many as five or six sets of teeth that grow throughout their lives. If scientists can understand how pigs regrow and replace teeth so many times, Yelick said, they might...
Lance Armstrong appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Confessional TV franchise to admit he doped and lied. If Oprah polled her television audience for who should be next episode’s guest star, it might have to be Manti Te’o explaining that his dead fake internet girlfriend was a beard. Imagine the...
Some suggested methods for use in psi experiments include high-pitched whistles (Hansel, 1959; Scott & Goldney, 1960), subtle changes in lighting conditions (Estabrooks, 1947, pp. 122–126), radio transmitters (Soal & Bowden, 1960), and even transmitters hidden in teeth (Targ & Puthoff, ...
The scenes Orwell depicts of Winston’s imprisonment and torture are gut wrenching and horrifying. They starve him until he becomes skeletal and loses his hair, break most of his bones, smash his teeth, burn his insides with electrical shocks. We are forced to watch a once dignified man redu...