Ghouls (and a few other things)
The Ghoul A Monstrous Mashup of Myth and Macabre Meet the ghoul, a creature so delightfully demonic it’ll make you shiver with excitement. Born from the mystical realms of pre-Islamic Arabian folklore, this monstrous humanoid has evolved into the ultimate symbol of undead terror in modern fict
Ghoul Busters: Indianapolis guards its dead (or does it?) by Stephen J. Taylor
JANUARY 24, 2015 STEPHEN J. TAYLOR Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana’s Digital Newspaper Program From the late 1800âs into the early years of the 20th century, Indianaâs capital city had a body problem. How to protect people who were already dead? Around 1900, even supernatural
The Graves Violated â Not Very Many Bodies Are Left In Greenlawn Cemetery (Indianapolis Journal, 1899)
GRAVES VIOLATED. The city owns a strip of ground, acquired from the squatters along the river front, immediately adjoining the cemetery and extending to the river, and if successful it is contemplated merging the two tracts into one new park. This policy being understood by a number of families, for
A coffin, a corpse and a baseball field: The strange history of Indianapolisâ Greenlawn Cemetery (by Dawn Mitchell, IndyStar)
by Dawn Mitchell, IndyStar, April 17, 2019 Itâs not uncommon during excavation for new construction in Indianapolis that one might unearth artifacts, such as bottles, blackboards, even safes. The discovery of a coffin in 1986 might have been a shock to some, but for those who were a
đ A neomort is a braindead person who can be kept on life support for organ transplantation, medical and nursing education, and drug research. đ
A brain-dead human being that could be kept on life support for organ transplantation, medical and nursing education, and drug research.
Charles Warren Stoddard
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
The extermination of the incurably ill and the mentally defective prompted the most effective episcopal protest against the actions of the Nazi regime
It was, in fact, the extermination of the incurably ill and the mentally defective that prompted the most effective episcopal protest against the actions of the Nazi regime. In a sermon at the St. Lamberti Church at Munster, Cardinal Galen publicly revealed the facts of the top-secret euthanasia pro
The Poisonous Pulse of Vapniarka: Grasspea, Lathyrism, and the Holocaust’s Forgotten Horror
During the Second World War, amidst the atrocities of the Holocaust, a little-remembered but harrowing chapter unfolded in the Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria. Here, under the command of Colonel Ioan Murgescu, over 1,000 Jewish detainees were subjected to a cruel experiment in survival:
Lysine Tyrosylquinone (LTQ)
LTQ does not have a wikipedia page so I will check elsewhere. In the meantime, I found another reason to just say no to beans – osteolathyrism aka odoratism, which is a form of the disease Lathyrism. Wikipedia says: The disease results from the ingestion of Lathyrus odoratus seeds (sweet pe
Green fluorescent protein (GFP)
The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein that exhibits bright green fluorescence when exposed to light in the blue to ultraviolet range. Prendergast FG, Mann KG (Aug 1978). “Chemical and physical properties of aequorin and the green fluorescent protein isolated from Aequorea fo
Desmosine
Desmosine is an amino acid found uniquely in elastin, a protein found in connective tissue such as skin, lungs, and elastic arteries. Desmosine is a component of elastin and cross links with its isomer, isodesmosine, giving elasticity to the tissue. Detection of desmosine in ur
Protein secondary structure
Protein secondary structure is the three dimensional form of local segments of proteins. The two most common secondary structural elements are alpha helices and beta sheets, though beta turns and omega loops occur as well. Secondary structure elements typically spontaneously form as a
