Tag: Those Sick Fucks
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Wood Opal
Wood opal is a form of petrified wood which has developed an opalescent sheen or, more rarely, where the wood has been completely replaced by opal. Other names for this opalized sheen-like wood are opalized wood and opalized petrified wood. It is often used as a gemstone. References
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“Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal”
The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population. The photos are simple black-and-white images of each individual standing upright from front, back and side perspectives. Harvard previously…
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BÄrĂ»tu, the âart of the divinerâ
The BÄrĂ»tu, the âart of the diviner,â is a monumental ancient Mesopotamian compendium of the science of extispicy or sacrificial omens stretching over around a hundred cuneiform tablets which was assembled in the Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian period based upon earlier recensions.â At the Assyrian court, the term extended to encompass sacrificial prayers and rituals, commentaries and organ models. The ikribu was the name of collections of incantations to accompany the extispicy.…
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Zombie Ant Fungus “Medicinal potential”
Ophiocordyceps are known in the pharmaceutical world to be a medically-important group. O. unilateralis fungi produce various known secondary metabolites, as well as several structurally uncharacterised substances. These natural products are reportedly being investigated as potential leads in discovery efforts toward immunomodulatory, antitumor, hypoglycemic, and hypocholesterolemic targets. In an Ophiocordyceps species within Japanese cicadas, the Ophiocordyceps replaces the symbiotic bacteria within the cicadas to help the host…
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Pisse Prophecy: A Brief History of Urinalysis
Urinalysis, the first laboratory test, has had a long and fascinating history. Diagnoses and prognostications were made by ancient physicians after observation of the urineâs color and character. Over the centuries, the uro-scopistâs skills, aided by newer and more modern physical and chemical methods being continually applied to the evaluation of the urine, were greatly…
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Tetragastrin is commonly used in scientific research to induce panic attacksÂ
CCK-4 reliably causes severe anxiety symptoms when administered to humans in a dose of as little as 50Όg
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The Holy Innocents’ Cemetery is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century
In 1780, the former Holy Innocents’ Cemetery in Paris was closed because of overuse. In 1786, the bodies were exhumed and the bones were moved to the Catacombs.[ “Paris’ Les Innocents cemetery”. Retrieved February 6, 2011.] Many bodies had incompletely decomposed and had reduced into deposits of fat. During the exhumation, this fat was collected and subsequently turned into candles and soap.[“You (posthumously) light up…
