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Peep Research Posted: 2 years ago by genkan
Various scientific experiments are conducted to test the resilience of the lovable Easter marshmallow ducks. Check out the surgery performed to separate the conjoined peep quintuplets.
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77-Year-Old Gets Transgender Operation Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
Renee Ramsey is recovering from the surgery that she's been dreaming of for decades.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 255 [+].
High school cheerleader dies during breast surgery Posted: 2 years ago by moe
Ugh, this is terrible.
Comments: 25 Score: [-] 524 [+].
Where Plastic Goes When You Don't Recycle Posted: 2 years ago by gnikgnok
This is one place where it ends up, anyway.
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Plastic Jungle Posted: 11 months ago by suebe
Can't use that Target gift card or just need the cash? You can sell/buy gift cards at a discount. There are other sites, too, but this one seemed so comprehensive.
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Plastic Solar Cell Efficiency Breaks Record at WFU Nanotechnology Center Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Researchers from Wake Forest University (WFU) in the U.S. report that they have developed flexible organic solar cells with an energy efficiency surpassing 6 percent, more than double the 3 percent efficiency they reached two years ago.
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World's largest 'diamond' denounced as plastic fake Posted: 2 years ago by rambler
Here's the (expected) follow-up to an earlier post about this allegedly largest diamond ever found.
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Nurse called out of surgery to be laid off Posted: 7 months ago by tigertony
When the Madison, WI health-care provider announced that it planned to “immediately” lay off 90 employees, they weren't kidding.
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Surgeons do 1st near-weightless surgery Posted: 3 years ago by Wingnut
Patient comes back down to earth when he gets the bill. *rimshot*
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Successful Surgery on Dog in Parking Lot Posted: 2 years ago by mandolinorange
...veterinarian operates on dog outside while his clinic and home burn down.
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Do your homework before getting surgery at the mall Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
"While these locations may offer convenience, the limited training and supervision of the person performing the procedure..."
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Full without food: Can surgery cure obesity? Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
At 43 years old, New York chef Thomas Pallozzi-Haynes was morbidly obese and close to despair. While his initial weight gain had been triggered by type 2 diabetes, he now found himself in an endless cycle of failed diets and weight gain that ultimately caused him to balloon to 124 kilograms.
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Microwave turns plastic back to oil Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
The key is a machine that uses 1200 different frequencies within the microwave range, which act on specific hydrocarbon materials.
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RSPCA officers tried to rescue plastic owl Posted: 12 months ago by Bornbad
Firemen and RSPCA officers were left feeling like right Twit-twoo's after spending hours trying to rescue a toy owl from a telegraph pole.
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Sculptor Gives New Meaning to 'Plastic Arts' Posted: 6 months ago by jpetar75
Lots of sculptors these days use blowtorches and create their works in hard steel. Jerry Ross Barrish uses a glue gun and makes his art from discarded plastic. And the art is something to behold.
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New color-changing technology created Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A team of British and German scientists has created a new type of flexible plastic film that allows objects to precisely change color.
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Plastic People Posted: 10 months ago by Bornbad
See the world through the eyes of miniature people. The "PLASTIC PEOPLE" Flickr set by Vincent Bousserez shows us some beautiful scenes from another point of view, where the world seems as ordinary as our very own but in a smaller scale!
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Penis surgery cock-up Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The internal bleeding caused his penis and testicles to turn black - and his testicles swelled to more than three times their normal size.
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Perfecting Closed-Skull Brain Surgery Posted: 4 months ago by suebe
Although surgeries that involve nary a slice or a stitch have heretofore been limited to science fiction, doctors in Switzerland announced that they've successfully performed closed-skull brain surgery on 9 patients using only sound waves.
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Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic Posted: 5 months ago by sharon22
It's not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last month's year's Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic.
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