One of the first questions a pediatrician asks a new patient's family is "Do you have a trampoline?" along with "Do you always use proper child restraints in the car?" Here you see a few of the horrible things that can happen when you jump on a trampoline -and these clips don't include people who were seriously injured. -via Videogum
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Mystery novels starring the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew have been around for over 80 years, and there are so many of them that it might be hard to tell them apart. If you love solving mysteries, you've probably read a lot of both series. In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given a title, and you decide whether it belongs to a Hardy Boys book or a Nancy Drew book. Simple? Don't count on it! Link
Together, Matt Richert and Keith Habersberger make up the comedy band
Cardboard Sword. This is music video for their song "Giant Bird in a Man Suit." Try to imagine the brainstorming session that came up with this. -via The Daily What
Primrose is the smallest ever patient at the Bind Equine Veterinary Practice in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England. The adorable donkey was born so prematurely that her front legs were not developed enough to hold her weight. To keep them from breaking, vets fitted her with a pair of bright pink casts, which will only be necessary until Primrose gains proper strength. Link
Margaret Parker of Carlisle, England, found a five-inch-long tortoise in her garden. The miniature tortoise was cute, so she brought it inside and tried to feed it. Parker's daughter brought some lettuce for it, but it still wouldn't eat. So the women called Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue Centre for advice, and a volunteer was sent out. Pauline Adams picked up the tortoise and figured out the problem.
She said: “At first when I arrived I didn’t have my glasses on and I thought it was a baby tortoise. It was sitting there in the shoe box, on a bed of lettuce and tomato.
“Then I put my specs on, and thought: ‘Oops - what’s this?’
“When I picked it up I saw the CE mark and the words Made in China, and I just cracked up.
“I laughed even more when she told me her daughter had been to the Co-op to buy tomato and lettuce for it. She was very apologetic. Judging by the moss on it, it had been in the garden a long time.
Adams and Knoxwood founder George Scott both said Mrs. Parker did the right thing by calling them. Link -via Arbroath
We all used these games to stretch our imaginations and make our world a little more interesting when we were kids. I recall a lot of car games that involved making my side of the road better than the side my brother looked out on -which is not all that easy in the modern world where we drive on divided highways. What games would you add to this? -via reddit
The Magdeburg (Germany) football team went five games straight without scoring a goal. The few fans they had left decided to help out in the only way they could. -via TYWKIWDBI
Organ transplants saves lives, but there aren't enough suitable and available organs for those who need them. There just aren't enough donors. Two doctors, Joseph Vacanti of Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts and David Cooper of the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, are looking at ways around the human organ shortage problem.
Faced with this common problem, Vacanti and Cooper have championed very different solutions. Cooper thinks that the best hope of providing more organs lies in xenotransplantation—the act of replacing a human organ with an animal one. From his time in Cape Town to his current position at the University of Pittsburgh, he has been trying to solve the many problems that occur when pig organs enter human bodies, from immune rejection to blood clots. Vacanti, now at Massachusetts General Hospital, has instead been developing technology to create genetically tailored organs out of a patient’s own cells, abolishing compatibility issues. “I said to myself: why can’t we just make an organ?” he recalls.
Grow your own organs or use organs from animals? Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science writes about the research going on in both areas, and how they might possibly end the organ shortage, at TheScientist. Link
Sunny looks like Pikachu, but he's a yellow cockatiel. Here he shows off his musical talents with the theme from the TV show The Addams Family. -via Buzzfeed
This happy family was selected for a photo opportunity with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. You can tell they are overjoyed. This reminds me of a recent Twaggie about family portraits. -via Buzzfeed
(Image credit: KCNA/Reuters)
What better time to show off this Cthulhu wedding cake than on author H.P. Lovecraft's birthday! It was made by Kerry's Custom Cakes of South Park, Pennsylvania, for redditor lakshmispet's wedding. See more photos of it in the baker's Facebook gallery. Link -via Rue The Day
The more fun stuff we can cram into our phones, the more people think it's just a "little" distraction. Please don't draw and drive. This Twaggie was illustrated by MacLeod Cartoons from a Tweet by @andypitz. See a new Tweet illustrated every day at Twaggies. Link
Residential architect Andre Rothblatt designed this copper-heavy bathroom for a techie couple who introduced him to steampunk style. Not only is it stylish, but it also provides a handy place to hang your hand-washables! Link -via Boing Boing
(Image credit: Andre Rothblatt)
Before selecting your election campaign music, better check out the politics of the musicians. The third or fourth time I read a story like this, I wondered why in the world didn't the campaign managers bother to get the music licensed. But it's not a copyright-infringement issue most of the time -the campaigns do get a license to use the music, usually through a third-party service. The issue is when the musician just plain doesn't like the politician or what he/she stands for. Since the music is properly licensed, the only recourse is to use the media to distance the musicians from the political campaign, and that can backfire on the politician. But since it rarely happens more than once to the same politician, we see it happen again and again as candidates rise to the big leagues. Read about eleven public candidate-musician spats at Time. Link
Mo Farah won gold for Great Britain in the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 meter races, which solidified his status as a national hero. A classic image showing the moment he realized he'd won the second gold medal lent itself to an photo mashup meme, many of which are enshrined in the Tumblr blog Mo Farah Running Away from Things. No, he's not panicked, but with the proper menacing background, it sure can look that way! Link -via Unreality magazine
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