The life and mind of Amanda

LIFE 16 aug 1954

They have to defuse a WW2 bomb in your city and nobody is really concerned because that happens from time to time. 

Almost walked on a non explosed pair of shells while looking for mushrooms. 

Yes, around 1200 German SD-1 fragmentation bombs… only found in 2014!

And all anyone bitches about is the detour they’re forced to take because if it didn’t blow up the past 71 years, they could have waited another week to defuse it, couldn’t they? Eugh.

It was more like a social event than trouble.

War really fucks a place up.

The hole turned out to be a secret ww2 bunker that nobody knew existed that caved in.

Like this happens, you just kind of shrug and go ‘huh cool’ and get on with your day

because that is a thing people say in norwegian and i just think it’s important for americans to know that?

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)

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dir. Henry Selick

Jason ‘I like to throw axes at bullseye’ momoa

Diego Luna dirty dancing in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

We didn’t know when we would see each other again, but we knew that this wasn’t our last dance.

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

this is legitimately the funniest thing ive ever seen in my life 

…i love her?!?