Rare Conjoined Twins Found in Arkansas
Why so rare? Because they’re barn swallows, and it’s practically impossible to find conjoined birds since they tend to die quickly. This set, joined at the hip, apparently survived early babyhood (birdhood?) until they fell out of the nest. The landowner brought them to the vet, where one died and the other was euthanized.
Better Prosthetics That Fuse With Bone
Medical science is an amazing thing, but io9 are always fun for the comments, too. Writer Ed Grabianowski’s musings over future “upgrades* using the prosthetics technology prompted these, for example:
Can I get another set of thumbs? The ones I have now are fine, I just want a set on the other side of my hands.
Man, I would totally take a robotic eye, even if it was only as good as a regular one, if it has a little laser pointer built into it.
(Check out all the comments through the link above.)
Now here’s all the medical information you could ever need:
(Photo by Flickr user H. Michael Harshis)
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Which way again?
(Photo by Flickr user Robert Brook.)
Those pill colors are bizarre! Is there a special color pill for asthma?
Maybe they’d be the color of despair–Les Miz tells me that’s black, lol.
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