Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Timelies! Or gronklies, whatever.
Does anybody else here watch Barking Mad on Animal Planet? It's an English series where behaviorists go to the homes of problem pets (and problem pet owners) and come up with training solutions. And they just don't do cats and dogs -- all kinds of birds, ferrets, rabbits, horses, donkeys, goats and so on. They even had a problem sheep....
Was it Harold the clever sheep? Because he's realised that a sheep's life consists of standin' around for a few months and then bein' eaten. And that's a depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep.
Researchers systematically amputated digits and damaged various organs of the mice, including the heart, liver and brain, most of which grew back.
The results stunned scientists because if such regeneration is possible in this mammal, it might also be possible in humans.
The researchers also made a remarkable second discovery: When cells from the regenerative mice were injected into normal mice, the normal mice adopted the ability to regenerate. And when the special mice bred with normal mice, their offspring inherited souped-up regeneration capabilities.
The mice, known as the MRL strain, were specially bred to develop lupus. But researchers don't know why exactly the animals' injuries heal so well.
Researchers systematically amputated digits and damaged various organs of the mice, including the heart, liver and brain, most of which grew back.
Wow. Now we're just black leather outfits, a militaristic society, and a perpetual pout away from becoming Sebaceans.
It's a tough life, being a lab mouse.
It's a man's life in an animal testing laboratory.
(I'm the only one who will get that joke, sadly.)
I trampolined this morning. So much fun! I hadn't done it since I was a kid. Hooray for exercise that doesn't bore me to tears!
Actually, most of us get the Monty Python references.
Actually, most of us get the Monty Python references.
Yes, it's all part of "The Test," which you'll find out soon enough.
OK, I have a question: the NASA site gives the times for the eclipse tomorrow in UT, which I assume is Universal Time (and not University of Texas, Utah, or urinary tract). What does that translate to here on Earth? GMT?