Phantasmagoria

leslieseuffert: Loui Jover

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:12:12 -0500

Loui Jover

In ancient rome...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:00:29 -0500

at the Matralia, a women’s festival held June 11 in connection with the goddess Mater Matuta, free women ceremonially beat a slave girl and drove her from the community.

nationalpost: Shark survives police gunfire to maul N.Z....

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:47:24 -0600

nationalpost:

Shark survives police gunfire to maul N.Z. swimmer to death as hundreds watch in horror
A shark possibly four metres long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator.

Muriwai Beach near Auckland was closed after the fatal attack, one of only about a dozen in New Zealand in the past 180 years.

Pio Mose, who was fishing at the beach, told The New Zealand Herald he saw the swimmer struggle against the “huge” shark. He told the man to swim to the rocks, but it was too late. (Ross Land / The Associated Press)

too much friction in water, most bullets disintegrate moments after breaking the surface. don’t they teach that crap?

Photo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:33:24 -0600

photobigbang: Anon / Vintage snapshot / 50s / clown

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:24:45 -0600

photobigbang:

Anon / Vintage snapshot / 50s / clown

How many cops does it take to kill a handcuffed mentally-ill...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:00:00 -0600

How many cops does it take to kill a handcuffed mentally-ill homeless person?

Just six.

theoddmentemporium: The Boy in the Bubble Born with Severe...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:06:16 -0600

theoddmentemporium:

The Boy in the Bubble

Born with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), a disorder preventing the immune system from working, David Vetter, or ‘The Boy in the Bubble’, became famous during his short life for living in a completely sterile environment. At the time this was the only option for children born with SCID until a bone marrow transplant could be performed.

Ten seconds after being born David was placed inside a specially sterilised chamber, where he would remain, for the most part, for the rest of his life. It had been expected that a David’s sister would donate bone marrow, however, she was not a match. Everything that entered the cocoon had to be first sterilised in a chamber of ethylene oxide at 60˚C for four hours before be aerated for seven days. David was touched only through plastic gloves that lined the walls of the cocoon.

He was given as normal a life as possible, with a formal education and access to television, although on one occasion he complained: “Why school? Why did you make me learn to read? What good will it do? I won’t ever be able to do anything anyway. So why?”His condition was explained to him when, at four years old, he realised he could poke holes in his cocoon.

As David grew so did the cocoon and, as he longed to explore what he saw out of the window and on TV, a transport chamber and an additional cocoon at his parents’ home were built. On one occasion he attended a screening of Return of the Jedi at a local cinema in his transport chamber. Furthermore, researchers at NASA constructed a suit that would allow David to walk around more freely, though David was somewhat resistant to using it.

Due to a lack of proper human contact David’s behaviour grew increasingly erratic. As he entered his teens he became angry and depressed and was perpetually anxious about germs, experiencing repeated nightmares about ‘The King of Germs’. The case raised numerous ethical questions, the government discussed cutting funding for research into finding a cure, and public support lacked.

Then, in 1983, the doctors that had initially encouraged David’s parents to have David in the first place, proposed to give him an unmatched bone marrow transplant. Initially it seemed that transplant had gone well, and there was hope that David might be able to leave the bubble, however, a few months later David became sick for the first time in his life; suffering diarrhea, fever, severe vomiting and intestinal bleeding. David had to be taken out of the bubble for treatment. Out of the bubble, he worsened and sank into a coma. His mother was able to touch his skin for the first and last time. He died on February 22, 1984 aged 12.

[Written with help from this article and Wikipedia]

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“unmatched bone marrow transplant”

wat.

“What I am you will be too”

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:59:10 -0600

“What I am you will be too”

no sympathy for the devil. you take the ticket, you ride the...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:26:39 -0600

no sympathy for the devil. you take the ticket, you ride the ride.

Guess who's back?!

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:52:07 -0600

Slim Shady.

"Why is it that one runs to one’s ruin? Why is destruction such a fascination?"

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:13:32 -0600

“Why is it that one runs to one’s ruin? Why is destruction such a fascination?”

- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via sadfag)

unbalanced allocation of resources. also, sharing is...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:49:39 -0600

unbalanced allocation of resources.

also, sharing is ANTI-AMERICAN COMMUNISM!

8bitfuture: Woman grows bones in eye after stem cell...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:33:19 -0600

8bitfuture:

Woman grows bones in eye after stem cell treatment.

A Los Angeles resident in her late sixties became unable to open her right eye without considerable pain, after a procedure to rejuvenate the skin in her face went wrong. Doctors as a Beverly Hills clinic used adult stem cells isolated from the womans abdominal tissue, which were then injected into her face and were meant to heal aging cells nearby.

Instead, the unapproved procedure caused bone fragments to grow in the womans eye, eventually causing the pain and a scraping sound when she opened and closed her eye - the sound was bone fragments on the eye and eyelid scraping together.

After a six and a half hour surgery to remove the bone, the womans eye was left scratched but with no severe damage.

stem cells =/= magic

huberthumphreydeathrally: In neoliberal society, all of the...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:17:01 -0600

huberthumphreydeathrally:

In neoliberal society, all of the most basic human drives are linked to consumption. Without consumption, one is convinced that they cannot be perfect and that perfection may only be obtained through a rational quest for the optimal combination of commodities, in search of utilities that compliment one another in a perfect manner.

In this society, one cannot perceive of perfection without commodity consumption. Sex, nature, conversation, all the once perfect creations of the divine are suddenly left lacking, due to complete submergence of culture in a sea of unrealistic portrayals of pleasure in a way that is often impossible to achieve. Therefore, the standards are raised, promoting consumption as a method to filling the gap leftover.

This consumption is the work of advertisers, trained adversaries of perfection by nature who seek to leave consumers with an artificial lacking and artificial need for a commodity. Through advertising, many things are maintained, such as docility, risk averse individuals and shameless consumers, all the things that neoliberalism demands in the working masses of the developed world.

queeruption: Post modernism

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:39:43 -0600

queeruption:

Post modernism

"Everything I do is the attitude of an award winner because I’ve won an award"

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:10:21 -0600

“Everything I do is the attitude of an award winner because I’ve won an award”

"Can it be that man has such a love of destruction and chaos (it’s indisputable that he sometimes..."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:36:28 -0600

“Can it be that man has such a love of destruction and chaos (it’s indisputable that he sometimes loves them very much; that is a fact) because he is instinctively afraid of achieving the goal and completing the edifice he is creating?”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (via milksheikh)

Man catches only for the thrill of the chase?

logicallypositive: I found a wild #metapod

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:42:38 -0600

logicallypositive:

I found a wild #metapod

"That lady just walked in that bathroom barefoot. She so nasty. I just wiped up some pee off that..."

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:34:07 -0600

“That lady just walked in that bathroom barefoot. She so nasty. I just wiped up some pee off that floor. It was all sticky like somebody got diabetes in there.”

- clinic nurse

(via wayfaringmd)

ⒹⒺⓈⓊⓊⓊ~

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:18:11 -0600