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Real Overwatch Fact #287:

Moira’s healing/damaging fluid is actually grape juice and lemonade.

melonmemes:

How the 3D printer economy toppled. Follow melonmemes on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/realmelonmemes

people joke about this but this is literally how you build 3d printers other than buying them. buy the microcontroller, spools, metal framing, LCD screen(s), and print bed, 3d print the chassis of the thing, and then wrestle with firmware on the microprocessor for a few days and hey presto a new 3d printer. i know at least 4 people who have built their own like this

23 June 2015

Targeting Tapeworms

This cute-looking creature is actually the larval form of a life-threatening parasite. Echinococcus granulosus, also known as the dog tapeworm, can be transmitted to humans and grow reproductive cysts in major organs such as the lungs or liver. The current treatments fail for 30–40% percent of patients, but there’s a promising potential cure. A drug called metformin is already used to treat hyperglycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes. It works by blocking the electron transport chain, which is part of the process of respiration that converts energy from the sugars in food into a form that an organism can use. Metformin also prevents the liver from producing more sugars, which means that the parasite can’t get enough energy to survive. Because of its ability to block energy release, metformin is also being tested in combatting cancer cells, which use a lot of energy.

Written by Esther Redhouse White

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Image from work by Julia A. Loos and Andrea C. Cumino Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina Originally published under a Creative Commons Licence (BY 4.0) Research published in PLOS One, May 2015

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Artist and stamp creator Nakashima723 has put together an instructional graphic to help defend against unwanted sexual advances. The image, which has been shared 16,406 times, illustrates four specific defenses that could be used if a target finds themselves trapped between a wall and their attacker. The suggestions are based specifically on the difference between the attacker and defender’s height.

Image 1 If your attacker is approximately your height, with both arms blocking an exit, a swift jab to the tender armpit can cause a great deal of pain.

Image 2 In this position, where the individual is slightly taller than you, the image recommends a punch to the solar plexus. The solar plexus is right under the breastbone and a blow to it causes the feeling of having the wind knocked out of you.

Image 3 If you find yourself trapped with someone a head taller than you, the picture recommends a classic uppercut to the chin.

Image 4 In the last image, when facing someone significantly taller than you, the image shows a jumping headbutt to the chin. Please note that headbutting someone is risky, as it can injure both parties depending on what part of the head comes in contact.

Besides self-defense techniques, Nakashima723 also illustrates stickers on LINE and other examples of the pros and cons of height differences.

There was once an English minstrel called Roland the Farter. He was awarded lands by the king on the condition that he turn up to the court every Christmas to perform his characteristic “whistle, leap and a fart”. His children could keep the lands after his death if they learnt and performed the same trick.

When an army of Swedes went off to war with the Norwegians, they left all the women to manage everything, however, in the village of Smaland, right on the Southern Border, they were attacked by an opposing force of Danes. The women, led by a woman named Blenda, responded to this by inviting the invaders in, feeding them, making them comfy and basically having a massive party to get them REALLY drunk. When all the invaders all passed out, the women slaughtered them all with anything they could find, and when the men came back, the King was so impressed that he basically granted them a bunch of new rights that were previously unavailable to them. From that point on, all daughters had the right to inherit property, money and land equally with their brothers, and were allowed to wear military-style garments around town and at their weddings.  They were also given the prestigious right to wear the Royal Coat of Arms on their clothing – a tradition that has lasted to this day.

The term in Chess “Checkmate” is thought to have come from the Persian term “Shah Mat” which means “The King is dead”.

Captain Benjamin Hornigold, the mentor to Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, once captured a ship just so he could steal all of the crew’s hats, because his crew had gotten drunk the night before and thrown all of theirs overboard.

Poor creepy Tøˆr˜b´jórñ…

Rule #15 - No Smoking! And no making Genji smoke!!

A request from Patron Carrie!! 

“The boys pranking Gabe while he’s sleeping. Like who can balance more cheerios on his bicep, putting shaving cream in his hand and tickling his nose with a feather, etc etc until Gabe wakes up to their antics”