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Ruth Negga photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue US (November 2016)

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Ruth Negga photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue US (November 2016)

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falling series

Harry Potter - Hogwarts School Subjects (part II)

part I

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His sentence means so many things.

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You think one ought to speak kindly of a traitor merely because he’s had a sword put through his heart?

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This is not a political statement in any way.

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i love that hillary calls trump “donald” bc it reminds everyone that he’s held no political position and has no experience, plus it diminishes all the power of the brand name “trump” and instead reminds us of a stuttering idiot duck-looking motherfucker who doesn’t ever know what he’s talking about

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Wise words from a wise man

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simplyandrypin turned 4 today!

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A team of scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston made news earlier this month when they published research in the journal Biomaterials describing how they’d created the world’s first bioartificial limb in the laboratory.

Or, in other words: scientists have now grown the entire forelimb of a rat in a lab.

Dr. Harold Ott, head of the Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration,and his team were able to “engineer rat forelimbs with functioning vascular and muscle tissue,” according to the hospital.

The scientists used a process called decellularization. They removed the living tissue from an existing rat limb, leaving just a “framework” — made of things like proteins — behind. Then they re-populated that “scaffolding” with new, living cells.

This may be an important first step leading to the eventual creation of functional, bioartificial limbs that could be used in transplants. That could be a step up from existing prosthetic devices.

In Massachusetts Lab, Scientists Grow An Artificial Rat Limb

Photo: Bernhard Jank, MD/Ott Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine

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How is it that I’ve lived in Hawaii for nine years, been learning Hawaiian words and speaking pidgin back to my local friends for nine years, know how to say significantly more complex Hawaiian phrases, and yet I had to turn over a Puna Brewing Company bottle cap to find out that Lilo means “lost”?

And now my heart is busted.

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Some more of the dancer lady from yesterday!