Sociopathindisguise

setheverman: just got a grand piano and you know what that...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:13:46 +0200

setheverman:

just got a grand piano and you know what that means

justdishonoredthings: [img source]JDT: asking Jindosh why he...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:40:24 +0200

justdishonoredthings:

[img source]
JDT: asking Jindosh why he can’t use his robots for mining instead of killing.

wild-nirvana: spectacularuniverse: I’ve seen this photograph...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:28:25 +0200

wild-nirvana:

spectacularuniverse:

I’ve seen this photograph very frequently on tumblr and Facebook, always with the simple caption, “Ghost Heart”. What exactly is a ghost heart?

More than 3,200 people are on the waiting list for a heart transplant in the United States. Some won’t survive the wait. Last year, 340 died before a new heart was found.

The solution: Take a pig heart, soak it in an ingredient commonly found in shampoo and wash away the cells until you’re left with a protein scaffold that is to a heart what two-by-four framing is to a house.

Then inject that ghost heart, as it’s called, with hundreds of millions of blood or bone-marrow stem cells from a person who needs a heart transplant, place it in a bioreactor - a box with artificial lungs and tubes that pump oxygen and blood into it - and wait as the ghost heart begins to mature into a new, beating human heart.

Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, has been working on this– first using rat hearts, then pig hearts and human hearts - for years.

The process is called decellularization and it is a tissue engineering technique designed to strip out the cells from a donor organ, leaving nothing but connective tissue that used to hold the cells in place.

This scaffold of connective tissue - called a “ghost organ” for its pale and almost translucent appearance - can then be reseeded with a patient’s own cells, with the goal of regenerating an organ that can be transplanted into the patient without fear of tissue rejection.

This ghost heart is ready to be injected with a transplant recipient’s stem cells so a new heart - one that won’t be rejected - can be grown.

(Source)

THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL. MAN I LOVE SCIENCE. SO MUCH.

heartbreak-queen:the best font.

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:55:09 +0200

heartbreak-queen:

the best font.

littlemistrashqueen:House

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:50:06 +0200

littlemistrashqueen:

House

kazeself: dualityofsquid: markv5: Так видит себя мой кот,...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:49:44 +0200

kazeself:

dualityofsquid:

markv5:

Так видит себя мой кот, когда я с утра не дал ему поесть

“this is how my cat sees himself in the morning before I give him food”

you right russian blogger, you right

sdzoo: Nothing to see here… just a few fluffy and fierce Amur...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:25:15 +0200

sdzoo:

Nothing to see here… just a few fluffy and fierce Amur leopard cubs.
📷s: Penny Hyde

baku: cutekittensarefun: He thinks he’s being sneaky whose...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:08:17 +0200

baku:

cutekittensarefun:

He thinks he’s being sneaky

whose being sneaky

Photo

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:29:59 +0200

dopeluminarydreamer: aspiringwarriorlibrarian: sleepy-kumin: s...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 06:49:52 +0200

dopeluminarydreamer:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

sleepy-kumin:

some people: robots will see the cruelty of man and will destroy us

MIT scientist: let’s make this robot evil on purpose

Okay, let’s clarify….Norman is not evil. Norman was just fed an amount of reddit captions about death, while another AI got standard reddit captions, and then both did rorshach tests as an experiment to show how easily algorithms could be bent. For example, where the standard AI saw “vase with flowers” Norman saw “a man is shot dead”.

Since Norman has shown no actual desire to harm any living thing, merely a fascination with death, I propose we rebrand him as the first Goth AI.

Also, the monstrosity in the pic is not even Norman. Norman is a fucking string of code

sixpenceee: Halitrephes maasi is a species of deep sea...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 06:32:14 +0200

sixpenceee:

Halitrephes maasi is a species of deep sea jellyfish. They look like fireworks deep in the ocean. (Video Source)

Video

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:06:33 +0200

adhighdefinition: adhdteacherthings: Can people without ADHD actually just choose to focus on...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:04:12 +0200

adhighdefinition:

adhdteacherthings:

Can people without ADHD actually just choose to focus on something and then focus on that thing every time without being distracted by something else? They don’t have to put in continuous effort to sustain their focus on that one thing once they’ve chosen to focus on it? They don’t have to fight with their brain to do something that they want to do but can’t make themselves focus on?

I’m genuinely shocked… I didn’t know people could do that.

hhhhh, sounds fake

adhighdefinition: the concept of movie marathons is genuinely bewildering to me. watching ONE movie...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:01:16 +0200

adhighdefinition:

the concept of movie marathons is genuinely bewildering to me. watching ONE movie already takes up all of my focus energy so how the hell does one possibly decide that watching more than one in one sitting is a good idea. plus, if i’m not even able to pause that approx. 120 min of brain hell….. count me the fuck out

adhighdefinition:you come into my house

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:53:41 +0200

adhighdefinition:

you come into my house

smallestcitrus: neurotypical ppl are so against ADHD kids getting any kind of education that...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:53:43 +0200

smallestcitrus:

neurotypical ppl are so against ADHD kids getting any kind of education that requires any effort from the educator’s part

we have to work twice as hard to “earn” the same baseline education that neurotypical kids are automatically given, without question.

irontargaryen: sir-hathaway: these are their stories where...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:34:08 +0200

irontargaryen:

sir-hathaway:

these are their stories

where the hell are these photos coming from

shampooligan: you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent....

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:29:49 +0200

shampooligan:

you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

espyardstick: My favorite part of having ADHD is when you talk about it to someone and suddenly...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:24:59 +0200

espyardstick:

My favorite part of having ADHD is when you talk about it to someone and suddenly they become an expert and know more than you do about how it works

Like okay Kyle, manager of a cracker barrel, you’re right, you have bested me in knowledge of mental illness and you alone decide what is and isn’t actually adhd

Photo

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 23:20:13 +0200