Meta Principia.

• 2013-04-30

  

  myidealhome:

  • [travel tuesday] stunning Aescher Hotel in Switzerland 

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• 2013-04-12

  Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a great deal to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.

  — (via beautifulvomit)

  (via the-morning-and-the-evening-star)

  Source: beautifulvomit

• 2013-03-24

  

  biomedicalephemera:

  Wound closure techniques ca. 1855.

  Fig 1. Closure of the wound without sutures, using adhesives and cloth.
  Fig 2. Simple interrupted suture.
  Fig 3. Simple uninterrupted suture.
  Fig 4. Interfolded suture, with stabilizing rods. Suture passes under wound and is pulled together despite no stitches over the wound site.
  Fig 5. “Suture en zigzags” - Continuous horizontal mattress suture.
  Fig 6. Twisted suture. Dieffenbach used this stitch in the early steps of his reconstructive surgery.
  Fig 7. Suture needle holder.
  Fig 8. Curved suture needles.

  Précis iconographique de Médecine Opératoire et d’Anatomie Chirurgicale. Drs. Bernard and Huette, 1854.

  Source: biomedicalephemera

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  aviculor:

  vouisluitton:

  yungtoothpic:

  i always wished kakashi would use it in battle 

  Hell yeah, fuse that shit with the Lightning Blade

  Disintegrate a nigga

  The entire point of this scene, this entire arc, was that he couldn’t fuse it with the raikiri. Combining perfect shape manipulation and perfect element manipulation was a feat beyond even the 4th Hokage’s ability, that’s why Naruto’s Rasenshuriken was such a big fucking deal. It meant he surpassed both Kakashi and Minato.

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• 2013-03-23

  

  roadsandkingdoms:

  “Asian magicians love to work the cards. They love flourish,” Armstrong says as we make our way though the crowd. Flourish is the technical term for special shuffling and card contortion, with a vast subgenre of moves with names like the Charlier Cut, the Biddle Grip and the Anaconda. The room is thick with Vietnamese kids manipulating decks into elaborate shapes like a crew of street kids throwing up gang signs. We walk up to a young man with long hair pulled back into a ponytail and Armstrong asks him to show us his best stuff.

  The boy pushes up his sleeves and goes to work, fanning the cards into impossible shapes, raining them down in elaborate waterfalls of laminated cardboard. “Very nice,” says Armstrong.

  “I did magic for five years, then I became frustrated because magic requires an audience,” the flourisher tells me. “Art doesn’t. That’s why I switched to fire.”

  Asian flourish, Saigon scooter gangsters, and a look inside the mind of one of the world’s most famous close-up magicians 

  Source: roadsandkingdoms.com

• 2013-03-22

  1. How to break up with someone: Give them a sock and tell them they are a free elf now.

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  When you’re angry as f*ck and someone tries to talk to you.

  sodamnrelatable:

  

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  lolsofunny:

  lol

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  ticktock-itsjohnlock:

  benshaws:

  i think what i dislike so much about school there’s this shove-down-your-throat emphasis on exams, and grades, and coursework, to the point where (as a person who enjoys learning) i don’t enjoy what i’m being taught. to the point where it can make me mentally unwell, and there’s really something fucking wrong about that.

  THIS IS SO FUCKING ACCURATE. TOO ACCURATE FOR WORDS.

  (via theperksofbeingbryna)

  Source: benshaws

• 2013-03-18

  

  (via lilycactus)

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  9gag:

  Arab and proud

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  moshita:

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  Ralph Hutchings for Visuals Unlimited

  (via medicalwatson)

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  nursingnerds:

  Dyspnea (shortness of breath) is a symptom common to many pulmonary and cardiac disorders, particularly when there is decreased lung compliance or increased airway resistance. 

  (via medicalwatson)

  Source: nursingnerds

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  bpod-mrc:

  Fruit Fly’s Sweetheart

  Fruit flies are so named because of their penchant for sweet tasty fruits, but even they shouldn’t go overboard with the sugar. Just like humans who overindulge their sweet tooth, fruit flies given a high-sugar diet develop heart problems – including weakened pump activity, irregular heartbeat, and accumulation of fibrous tissue – all of which can shorten lifespan. Although a fruit fly’s heart is just a simple tubular pump (seen running left to right across the centre of the picture), quite different to the four-chambered human heart, the high-sugar-induced defects are remarkably similar. For example, people with adult-onset diabetes – where blood sugar levels are too high – have a higher risk of weakened heart muscles and heart failure. By studying these teeny weeny insect hearts scientists can discover molecular pathways that might link blood sugar to heart defects in man.

  Written by Ruth Williams

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  • Karen Ocorr
  • Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, USA
  • Originally published under a Creative Commons Attribution license
  • Published in PLOS Genetics 9(1): e1003175

  Source: bpod.mrc.ac.uk

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  Emphysema.

  fuckyeahmedicalstuff:

  Introduction to emphysema

  The lungs are a pair of organs in the chest that are primarily responsible for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the air we breathe and the blood.

  The lung is composed of clusters of small air sacs (alveoli) divided by thin, elastic walls or membranes. Capillaries, the tiniest of blood vessels, run within these walls between the alveoli and allow blood and air to come near each other. The distance between the air in the lungs and the blood in the capillaries is very small, and allows molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide to transfer across the membranes.

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  Source: fuckyeahmedicalstuff