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JustAnotherUser

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There are scientists who claim that, within the next several years, they will be able to use MRI images, a 3D printer, and human cells to print a human heart organ. They can already print parts of it. How crazy is that?
Mind giving the link/source you found this from? I have a hard time believing that, considering that we still haven't had successful cloning and reverse/stop cell process to reduce aging. I don't think I'd want them anyway, even though I wouldn't get it if they did exist.
 

ChandlerFan

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Mind giving the link/source you found this from? I have a hard time believing that, considering that we still haven't had successful cloning and reverse/stop cell process to reduce aging. I don't think I'd want them anyway, even though I wouldn't get it if they did exist.
The place I originally heard about it was from Fareed Zakaria's podcast. (It's a great one if you like keeping up on current events.) You can listen to the episode here.

For reading purposes, though, I just did a Google search and came across this article:
The next frontier in 3-D printing: Human organs
 

Fenner

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That made my heart smile. Whatever you're doing with your kids, keep doing it. They're growing up to be wonderful people. :) I hope he never loses that courage and tenderheartedness of his.
Thanks Lil, often times I am uncertain if I'm doing tue right things with my kids, especially since my Son is so sensitive and my Daughter is very strong willed.
 

Fenner

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So.today at Preschool, work, the kid's painted pictures of clouds. One little boy who likes things his way wanted black paper not blue. I watched him painting and asked, what's the cloud going to be? He said, A white piece of paper because blue is dumb. He painted the whole paper white, I guess because blue is dumb.
 
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So.today at Preschool, work, the kid's painted pictures of clouds. One little boy who likes things his way wanted black paper not blue. I watched him painting and asked, what's the cloud going to be? He said, A white piece of paper because blue is dumb. He painted the whole paper white, I guess because blue is dumb.
Future Nobel prize winner. :rolleyes:
 
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so in filling out an app for a trucking company, everything is great until I get to the personal reference..

rut ro. name no prob, city state no prob. how long i have known them no prob.

phone number. problem..... I don't call people. its ether e-mail or you contact me. so now I got to wait and wait and wait for someone to get back to me with their number.
 

seoulsearch

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I'm currently watching "The Theory of Everything", not from the perspective of supporting Stephen Hawking's scientific theories (which I'm too dense to fully understand anyway), but rather, from the perspective of watching a married couple deal with a life-changing, as well as life-threatening, illness.

If I had even half the strength of what Mrs. Hawking has in her little pinky (caring for children AND a husband who literally can do nothing for himself), I would be a person who is 1000 times more effective than I am now. It's just very sobering (and depressing) to know that in real life, he left his wife to marry another woman.

This movie makes me want to lobby for and donate to making every public place easily accessible to the differently-abled.

And Eddie Redmayne is, by far, one of the most phenomenal actors I've ever seen. Completely amazing, and heartbreaking.

No special effects or computer generated imagery needed here to create an honest portrayal of a seemingly impossible situation.
 

Lynx

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lets ship all the snow to India
I'm reminded of a Super Chicken episode where the king of India (it was a kids cartoon) shipped elephants all over the earth to upset the earth's balance so they would have snow in India. (I TOLD you it was a kids cartoon...) As I recall it succeeded, and everyone in India got snow. But they weren't accustomed to the cold so they all caught a cold. Kleenex were in high demand on the black market for three weeks.
So a friend of mine told me on Facebook today that yesterday my Son saw another child punch her child, he ran over to her shielded her and yelled at the other child to never hit her again. My Son is very quiet and doesn't share much about his school day with me, he's in 3rd grade and he's 9 years old so maybe that's common for boy's his age, I don't know. I was very surprised to read that he had done that and I'm very proud of him.
You teach them and you could swear they don't hear a word. You try to set a good example and they don't seem to be watching. Then years later, out of the blue they do something that shows they WERE paying attention! :D :D :D As a Children's Church teacher this is one event/feeling I can share with parents.
 
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Tintin

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I want to learn to sleep properly again. It's been a few months since I've had a proper, restful sleep.
 
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LittleBit1987

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I want to learn to sleep properly again. It's been a few months since I've had a proper, restful sleep.

Do you snore? Do you wake up feeling exhausted? Do you have allergy problems?
 
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I'm currently watching "The Theory of Everything", not from the perspective of supporting Stephen Hawking's scientific theories (which I'm too dense to fully understand anyway), but rather, from the perspective of watching a married couple deal with a life-changing, as well as life-threatening, illness.

If I had even half the strength of what Mrs. Hawking has in her little pinky (caring for children AND a husband who literally can do nothing for himself), I would be a person who is 1000 times more effective than I am now. It's just very sobering (and depressing) to know that in real life, he left his wife to marry another woman.

This movie makes me want to lobby for and donate to making every public place easily accessible to the differently-abled.

And Eddie Redmayne is, by far, one of the most phenomenal actors I've ever seen. Completely amazing, and heartbreaking.

No special effects or computer generated imagery needed here to create an honest portrayal of a seemingly impossible situation.
I'm sure his wife is an amazing person and all but the beef I have with stephen hawking is how he is trying to tell the world that the universe doesn't need a God to exist or to sustain itself.
 
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I'm currently watching "The Theory of Everything", not from the perspective of supporting Stephen Hawking's scientific theories (which I'm too dense to fully understand anyway), but rather, from the perspective of watching a married couple deal with a life-changing, as well as life-threatening, illness.

If I had even half the strength of what Mrs. Hawking has in her little pinky (caring for children AND a husband who literally can do nothing for himself), I would be a person who is 1000 times more effective than I am now. It's just very sobering (and depressing) to know that in real life, he left his wife to marry another woman.

This movie makes me want to lobby for and donate to making every public place easily accessible to the differently-abled.

And Eddie Redmayne is, by far, one of the most phenomenal actors I've ever seen. Completely amazing, and heartbreaking.

No special effects or computer generated imagery needed here to create an honest portrayal of a seemingly impossible situation.
The ending made me sad. His wife's faithfulness and loyalty to him deserved more than for him to stray from her literally the first time a woman seemed interested in him. Any respect I had for him was gone at that point. :(
 

lil_christian

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I do need God, but how do I show people that? Especially when I still struggle with the question of what kind of loving God stands on the sidelines while your mother dies and you're crying for her to be spared?

How can others understand if I don't even understand?