Woman Gets Angry at a BLIND Man for Staring at Her at the Gym.

“Stop Staring at Me!”: Woman Gets Angry at a BLIND Man for Staring at Her at the Gym.

He says that he was at the gym one time and was just standing there doing tricep pushdown exercises. Since he can’t see, he just kind of stares off into space while doing his thing at the gym. Even sighted people have moments of staring off into space at the gym – it’s perfectly normal.

Then, halfway through a set, he started hearing footsteps that seemed like they were coming in his direction. He then learned who was getting closer to him when all of a sudden, one woman was right up in his face and seemed upset as she said, “I didn’t come here to be stared at!”

The guy was like “Huh!” as he couldn’t even see the woman, let alone stare at her. “I’m sorry, I’m blind,” he told her, as any person in his situation would have responded. Despite his explanation that he was unable to see or stare at her, she kept saying “stop staring at me!”

The woman then stormed off and returned with the manager a few minutes later to address the issue of a blind man “staring” at her. To explain himself to the manager, he had to reach into his wallet and pull out an ID card from the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, and then say, “I’m blind, I wasn’t staring at anybody.” 

He chuckled as he recalled the response he received from the manager: “Okay, but you still can’t make other gym members uncomfortable, by looking at them.” 

Heinous crimes of human trafficking and organ harvesting.

Penis Is Turning To Bone.

Penile Ossification: Doctors Discover Bone Forming in Man’s Penis.

The unnamed 63-year-old showed up at an emergency room in New York after falling on the sidewalk onto his buttocks. Shortly following the fall, he developed a pain in his knee, for which he sought medical treatment. During an examination, he reported that he was also having pain in his penis. There were no signs of swollen prostate or discharge.

He was given an X-ray of his pelvis to rule out any potential fractures from the fall. When his medical team looked at the X-ray, they discovered his penis had been turning to bone for some time.

The doctors describe it as “An extensive, plaque-like calcification along the expected distribution of the penis was evident,” in the case report. “The diagnosis of penile ossification along the entire penile shaft was suspected,” they concluded.

Penis ossification is extremely rare, and fewer than 40 cases of penis ossification have been published, according to the report. It occurs when calcium salts “build up in soft tissue [of the penis], forming extraskeletal bone”. In a similar case in 2017 doctors found “what appeared to be calcified tissue along 80% of the shaft” of a 43-year-old man’s penis.

Peyronie’s disease is thought to affect between 0.5 and 13 percent of men in the United States, though many people are unaware they have the condition, according to the Urology Department of Weill Cornell Medicine. 

According to a separate review in the Canadian Urological Association Journal, the condition was first described in 1827. In that case, the entire length of the penis had become ossified.

Stool Banking. (Shit Banking.)

How to: Establish and run a stool bank.

WTF News: Long and full of science babble. But the source site is 5x longer at least.

Since 2013, several stool banks have been developed following publications reporting on clinical success of ‘faecal microbiota transplantation’ (FMT) for recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (CDI). However, protocols for donor screening, faecal suspension preparation, and transfer of the faecal suspension differ between countries and institutions. Moreover, no European consensus exists regarding the legislative aspects of the faecal suspension product. Internationally standardized recommendations about the above mentioned aspects have not yet been established.

The overall and primary aim of a stool bank is to provide on a (inter)national or regional level, ready to use, high-quality donor faeces solutions to treat patients with recurrent or refractory CDI. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a recommended therapy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection and is being investigated as a potential therapy for dozens of microbiota-mediated indications. Stool banks centralize FMT donor screening and FMT material preparation with the goal of expanding access to FMT material while simultaneously improving its safety, quality, and convenience.

As FMT is not yet an approved, treatment modality by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), commercial stool banks are not the preferred suppliers. A stool bank working group should consist of experts in the fields of microbiology, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, biobanking, and methodology, and if donor faeces is considered to be a drug, pharmacology. There are published consensuses on donor screening guidelines, there are few reports about the implementation of those guidelines in functioning stool banks.

In 2018, the stool bank received 7,536 stool donations from 210 donors, a daily average of 20.6 donations, and processed 4,271 of those donations into FMT preparations. It is generally believed that a high viability of bacteria in stools increases the chance of successful FMT. As the majority of faecal bacteria are anaerobic, faeces must be processed within 6 hours of defecation [

To prevent environmental contamination, faeces is collected by the donor in a faecal container (e.g. Fecotainer). For suspension, approximately 60 g of donor faeces is used based on the data of a systematic review suggesting a decreased cure rate with <50 g. The faeces is homogenized with saline using a mortar and pestle, whereas some laboratories use a commercial blender. Disadvantages of blenders are difficulties with appropriate sterilization and aerosolization of the faeces.

A metal sieve (mesh 300 μm) is used to remove undigested food fragments. The faecal suspension is then concentrated by centrifugation (15 min, 6000 g) and glycerol is added as cryoprotectant to a final concentration of 10% in a total end volume of 200 mL. A recent study showed that frozen faecal suspension is equally effective as a fresh faecal suspension for the treatment of CDI.

This allows stool samples to be stored at −80°C for a longer period of time until the donor has been retested prior to actual use of the donor faeces. Clinical success of frozen suspensions is reported until 5 to 6 months of storage at −80°C, but could be much longer, in theory. Like OpenBiome, the NDFB uses a storing period of 2 years.

170-Year-Old Champagne Recovered From a Baltic Shipwreck.

170-Year-Old Champagne Recovered (and Tasted) From a Baltic Shipwreck.

April 20, 2015

The term “vintage” may now have a whole new meaning for wine lovers—a treasure trove of 170-year-old champagne has been unearthed from the bottom of the sea. In 2010, a group of divers in the Baltic Sea happened upon the remains of a sunken trade schooner possibly on the way to a Russian market or a Germanic Confederation. 160 feet below the surface off the coast of Finland they discovered 168 bottles of French bubbly that had aged in near perfect conditions for decades.

Although the local government (Of course.) ultimately claimed the bottles, a team of scientists led by Philippe Jeandet, a professor of food biochemistry at the University of Reims, was able to obtain a small sample of the preserved beverage for testing Their chemical and sensory analysis, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides a unique lens into the past, offering information about conventional winemaking practices in the 19th century.

To conduct their chemical analysis, the team compared the older “Baltic wine” with modern Veuve Clicquot. Their results show that the Baltic versions contained lower alcohol content and higher sugar levels than their modern-day counterpart. Many of these chemical differences can be explained by “steps in the production process that were less controlled than they are today,” says Jeandet. Specifically, the researchers believe that the lower alcohol levels are a consequence of a colder average climate, which would inhibit grape maturation and overall levels of alcohol from sugar, as well as use of a less efficient yeast product. grapes did not produce particularly high sugar yields, 19th-century winemakers were known to add a considerable amount of sugar to artificially sweeten their champagnes. Addition of sugar syrup at the end of the production process would have diluted the wine, also possibly accounting for the lower alcohol content.

The aged wine also had enhanced levels of iron, copper, sodium and chlorine. The researchers hypothesize that the increased concentration of iron and copper, accompanied by several wood compounds, suggests the use of metal- and wood-containing vessels during the manufacturing process. This contrasts with the steel vessels that are predominately used today. Furthermore, in the 1800s “copper sulfate was often used for the control of disease in the vineyard, as opposed to fungicide containing organic compounds used today,” says Jeandet.

The heightened levels of sodium and chlorine in the Baltic wine can be attributed to salt, which was repeatedly added to help stabilize wine during the 19th-century manufacturing process. Today, these similar processes occur after the blending of the wine, leading to relatively lower sodium levels. 

What does this stuff taste like?

Most of the bottles had been preserved in ideal conditions—at a depth characterized by minimal light and temperatures ranging between 35 and 39 degrees Fahrenheit. As part of the testing, the team had a panel of wine experts take a taste.

Initially, the experts described the Baltic wines with words such as “animal notes,” “wet hair” and “cheesy.” However, after the wine was swirled a bit in the glass, providing some much needed oxygen, it took on a whole new character. Once it had a chance to breathe, the champagne was described as “grilled, spicy, smoky, and leathery” accompanied by fruity and floral notes.

Several of these bottles have been auctioned off for up to 100,000 euros each, according to Jeandet. Other bottles have been sent to museums or historical institutions. Further work may prove useful to enologists who are now investigating the potential for deep-sea aging as a technique to enhance or augment the taste of various wines.

“the middle of nowhere,” Found. Name: Point Nemo.

Pole of inaccessibility.

In 1992, Croatian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela set out to find the exact point in the Pacific that was farthest away from any land using a computer program. According to Live Science, the program calculated the coordinates that were the greatest distance from three equidistant land coordinates. It is very possible that no human has ever passed through Point Nemo’s exact coordinates.

Point Nemo is officially known as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” or the point in the ocean farthest from land. Located at 48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W, the spot is quite literally the middle of nowhere, surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction.

In fact, that is precisely why NASA and other global space agencies have designated Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean as their underwater space graveyard for falling debris. And in 2031, when the International Space Station comes crashing down, it will do so here — as far away from any humans as geographically possible. NASA first started using the region in 1971. Since then, more than 263 pieces of junk have crashed into the area, including some of the world’s greatest spacecraft, including the Russian Mir space station and NASA’s first space station, Skylab.

The closest landmasses to the pole are one of the Pitcairn Islands to the north, one of the Easter Islands to the northeast, and one island off the coast of Antarctica to the south.

There are no human inhabitants anywhere near Point Nemo. And scientists chose to call the location “Nemo” because it is Latin for “no one” and as a reference to Jules Verne’s submarine captain from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

The location is so isolated that the closest people to Nemo are not even on Earth. According to the BBC, astronauts aboard the International Space Station are around 258 miles from the Earth’s surface at any given time. Since the inhabited area closest to Point Nemo is more than 1,000 miles away, the humans in space are far closer to the pole of inaccessibility than those on land.

Yes, Some Plants Do “Scream.”

Yes, Some Plants Do “Scream” When They’re Cut -You Just Can’t Hear It.

To put it simply: plants are smart. While they may not have brains like humans do, plants talk to one another through smell and even communicate with insects to maintain survival. Like any living thing, plants want to remain alive, and research shows that when certain plants are cut, they emit a noise that can be interpreted as a scream. But before you feel guilty for all the leafy greens you’ve cut over the years, it’s important to note that as humans, we process pain because we have a nervous system – plants do not. Because of this, we can’t say a plant’s “scream” is due to suffering, but is rather a form of communication for survival.

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made sounds, which humans cannot hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stem is cut.When water is lacking the tomatoes and tobacco plants emit sounds that are inaudible to humans. This was discovered by Itzhak Khait of Tel Aviv University when he noticed his tomato plant made noises during its daily cycle of wilting on hot days, then reviving at nightfall. The frequencies range from 50 Hz for smaller species like petunias or carnations down to 20 kHz for larger ones such as chili peppers or maize (corn). Other plants could even hear the other plants squealing in pain as well.

Drought-stressed tomato plants made an average of 35 sounds per hour, while tobacco plants only produced 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato and the unstressed group both averaged less than one sound in the following hour. It is even possible to distinguish between the plants’ sounds and noise in order to determine what kind of stress they are under. Researchers trained a machine-learning model, successfully identifying dryness versus cut damage most of the time based on intensity and frequency.

The results of this study cannot yet be extrapolated to other factors such as salt and temperature because we don’t know if moths can hear these sounds. This is speculation for now, but it would really interesting if the idea could work in practice with animals too!

Plants may be making noises when they are stressed, but it doesn’t sound like the plants know what’s happening. They emit a popping noise that scientists think is made because of bubbles in water moving around under pressure called cavitation. One scientist says “cavitation would explain the sounds”, but other experts doubt this since there need to be more controls and experiments done on these findings before anything can come out about them being accurate or not.”

Farmer adds that the idea moths might be listening to plants and shunning stressed ones is a “little too speculative”, and there are already plenty of explanations for why insects avoid some plants and not others.

World’s Oldest Terrarium.

World’s Oldest Terrarium / Sealed Bottle Ecosystem by David Latimer – Only Watered Once in 53 Years.

March 26, 2022

In 1960 David Latimer got curious and decided to plant a glass bottle with seed. Placing a quarter pint of water and compost in the ten-gallon bottle. He then lowered in spiderworts seeding with a wire. Finally, sealing it and put it in a corner filled with sun. Letting mother nature do its thing through photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis puts moisture and oxygen in the air through the plants.  The humidity then builds and begins to rain back down on the plants.  Leaves will also fall and rot, producing carbon dioxide that the plants need for nutrition.

Larimer did open the bottle in 1972 to water the plant. But, since then, it has remained sealed without fresh water or air.

He plans on passing on this experiment to his kids when he passes.  If they don’t have an interest in it, it will then get passed on to the Royal Horticultural Society in London, England.

7 Facts All About Beer.

7 Facts All About Beer.

1) The oldest recipe for beer hailed from Mesopotamia – and is over 4,000 years old.

2) Women were actually the first brewers!

While some people think of brewing beer as a man’s game today, women with elite backgrounds were the ones who got it all started back in Babylonia.

By Kim C. on May 7, 2020

Unsplash / Elevate Beer

Next time you’re at the bar, wow your friends with one of these little-known facts about your favorite carbonated way to kick back and relax. Trivia and beer often go hand-in-hand, so why not serve up a full pint of beer-themed trivia?

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1) The oldest recipe for beer hailed from Mesopotamia – and is over 4,000 years old.

2) Women were actually the first brewers!

While some people think of brewing beer as a man’s game today, women with elite backgrounds were the ones who got it all started back in Babylonia.

3) Beer used to be consumed hot, like tea. In the 1600s, experts even advised people to replace meals with hot beer as a healthy alternative to food.

4) Sunlight is bad for beer.

Ever wonder why beer is packaged in dark-colored glass? Exposure to light speeds up the breakdown of beer, and dark glass keeps it safe.

5) In the Czech Republic, beer baths are a popular option for tourists – the experience is said to be great for the skin.

6) Beer was once used as currency!

This was the case for the pyramid workers of ancient Egypt, who were paid in beer.

7) Ever think about majoring in beer?

That’s a thing. Zythology is the study of beer and beer making, and Colorado State University allows students to major in it.

Scientists growing Neanderthal brains to compare to human’s.

Scientists growing Neanderthal brains to compare to human’s.

June 28, 2018

The University of California, San Diego researchers hope the franken-creature showdown will explain why homo sapiens whooped the evolutionary butts of Neanderthals some 40,000 years ago. The tiny Neanderthal brains are grown in Petri dishes and they plan on putting inside crab-like bots — then pitting them against human-brained robots, according to new reports.

Geneticist Alysson Muotri’s team used stem cells containing the genes of our extinct ancestors to create the “mini brains” — pea-sized blobs of tissue that mimic a brain cortex, he told Science magazine. Scientists use the same process to grow mini human organs known as “organoids” — and they’ve dubbed the new creations “Neanderoids.”

Already they’ve noticed differences between the two — Neanderoids grow into a “popcorn” shape while human brain organoids are round. And the neural network of the Neanderoids have some similarities to the brains of children with autism, Muotri told Science.

The researchers have already devised a way to wire organoids up to crab-bots in the hope that the blobs will eventually learn to control the contraptions and explore their surroundings.

The next step is to hook the Neanderoids up in the same way and see how the two brains compare.