I never thought I could be repulsed, intrigued and hopeful all at the same time like this… I stumbled across this article on Slate the other day in which they are treating some intestinal infections with fecal transplants. Yes, you read it correctly. Here is the article… gross and yet intriguing.
http://www.slate.com/id/2282768/
6Feb11
Fecal Transplants?!?
When a 52-year-old woman went to get her colon checked out, she was glad to hear that there was no signs of cancer. But it wasn’t all good news! Why? Because doctors somehow found a cockroach jammed in her transverse colon…
I keep an eye on http://www.digg.com for technical articles and stumbled across and article about a guy “taking stock GM parts and snapping them together in clever new ways” to make a H3 Hummer into a hybrid that gets 60 miles to the gallon – while also getting 2,000 foot-pounds of torque.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/30/14161/066
Take a look… [...]
This made me laugh out loud when I saw it…
A slightly nicer spin on that saying ”an eye for an eye.”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_ODD_Burglar_Cleanup.html?source=rss
Here is the text so you don’t have to go to the page…
Last updated October 18, 2007 6:03 p.m. PT
Couple make burglar clean up at gunpoint
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong [...]
