Posted Without Comment of the Day: Says @chiefbrody1984: “If you’ve seen a better picture of a dog dressed as two pirates carrying a treasure chest today, I don’t believe you.”
Posted Without Comment of the Day: Says @chiefbrody1984: “If you’ve seen a better picture of a dog dressed as two pirates carrying a treasure chest today, I don’t believe you.”
Okay… I hate to be the killjoy here, but obviously, this is not a complete puzzle. Both of these pieces still have holes that need to be filled, and knobs that need to fill holes. I don’t know if that’s the right terminology, but… Furthermore, it is a shitty puzzle. There is no real image. How do we even know that these two pieces go together? Someone could have just forced two pieces together.
I mean, in general, this is a pretty harsh, gritty, and realistic portrayal of the pains of love and human relationships. They seem cute and happy on the outside, but they are shit on the inside, when you look past the surface.
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Every day. Oh, who am I kidding? At least once an hour.
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Mother’s Day: Always a Part of Us, Always a Part of Them
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms everywhere. There’s a million jokes about mothers never letting go of their babies, no matter how old they get. But it’s true … we never leave them, and they never leave us.
When you’re in the womb, cells from your growing body entered your mother’s bloodstream. Just before you were born, one out of a thousand cells in mom’s blood was yours. Many persist for decades, and your cells may help to attack inflammation or maybe even morph into new neurons in your mother’s brain. Often, too, those fetal cells may harm the mother, tripping the alarms of the immune system. We help, and we hurt.
Her cells also took refuge in your body, with as many as one in a hundred thousand of your cells not being yours. Scientists aren’t really sure what they do, if anything. Perhaps they help train our immune system, perhaps they can lead to autoimmune disease. Whatever the answer, she is in us.
Some of those maternal cells may have come from brothers and sisters that were present in her body, themselves deposited years before you were conceived. We may carry more than thoughts and memories of our families. Perhaps we carry their cells as well.
Near or far from your mom today, you’ll always be there with each other.
For more: Check out Radiolab’s episode “Fetal Attraction”, or read more on Boing Boing.
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For yesterday
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