It’s like having married a woman who’s still beautiful in your eyes, still wonderful, and for some legal reason they replace her with another one,” Mr. Zeffirelli, 86, said Friday by telephone from Rome.
This analogy makes no sense to me. Can they replace one's spouse for legal reasons? I mean, they might upgrade you to the newest Stepford wife model, but would they really downgrade you?
Video: doctors implant tooth into eye, restore sight, creep everyone out
by Vladislav Savov
posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 6:25AM
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis. It's a real procedure that really does revive people's ability to see, yet we get the feeling that people will be more, um, excited about how it's done than why it's done. The seemingly Mary Shelley-inspired doctors extract a tooth from a blind person and drill a hole through it, where a prosthetic lens is placed, and the resulting macabre construction is implanted into the blind person's eye. The tooth is necessary as the body would reject an artificial base. It's not at all pretty, and it cannot repair every type of blindness, but it's still a major step forward. To hear from Sharron Thornton, the first American to have undergone the procedure, check the video after the break, but only if you can handle mildly graphic content -- you've been warned. [Via Daily Tech]
Let's hit the rewind button on technological progress. We've gone too far.
And yes, that's horribly insensitive.
The Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail. Its first map of the entire sky is set to be complete in about six months.
"The afterglow of the big bang" ... We are sending peeping tom probes into deep space. The Planck spacecraft, sitting in a tree staring into the universe's window.
