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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Around 1920s, the diminished testicular emission theory aging by the French physiologist Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard Gained currency. so anti-aging treatment by transplanting of whole or sliced up testicles from cadavers into the scrotum of the patient became popular in Europe. When human gonads became scarce, Monkey testicle transplant became the primary means of anti agent treatment. This general means of anti aging treatment did not become quite late credited until attempt was made to transplant monkey ovaries into women, usually with considerably more disastrous results than transplant of monkey testicular tissue into men.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
the gonadal anti-aging therapy was also popular in the United States. In Kansas Dr John R Brinkley made a name for himself transplanting hundreds of goat testicles into the scrotums of his aged patients. The The patients had the privilege of selecting the right goat from the doctor’s personal herd. He became so popular that he was almost voted governor of Kansas in 1930. He also became wealthy enough to build and operate Kansas’s very first commercial radio station KFKB “Kansas’s first, Kansas’s best”.
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(January 29, 2024 at 4:43 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: the gonadal anti-aging therapy was also popular in the United States.   In Kansas Dr John R Brinkley made a name for himself transplanting hundreds of goat testicles into the scrotums of his aged patients.    The The patients had the privilege of selecting the right goat from the doctor’s personal herd.   He became so popular that he was almost voted governor of Kansas in 1930.   He also became wealthy enough to build and operate Kansas’s very first commercial radio station KFKB “Kansas’s first, Kansas’s best”.

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So, it looks as though the American penchant for voting for dangerous lunatics is nothing new.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
First Cases of Medically Acquired Alzheimer's Disease Reported

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02729-2

Long story short, children got treated with human growth hormone extracted from cadavers. It was contaminated with amyloid-beta protein.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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Quote:A farl is any of various quadrant-shaped flatbreads and cakes, traditionally made by cutting a round into four pieces. In Ulster, the term generally refers to soda bread (soda farls) and, less commonly, potato bread (potato farls), which are also ingredients of an Ulster fry.

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In Scotland today, the word is used less than in Ulster, but a farl can be a quarter piece of a large flat scone, bannock, or oatcake. It may also be used for shortbread when baked in this particular shape.[1]

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After receiving letters praising his sensitive portrayal of a stammerer in A Fish Called Wanda, actor Michael Palin co-founded The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering in 1993. It operates to this day, providing speech therapy for stammerers and stutterers.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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this the concept or “mitochondria eve” relies on the supposition that all mitochondria in human cells are inherited from the mother. However, while it is indisputably true that vast majority of each person mitochondria is inherited from the mother, there is actually no work that would systematically exclude the possibility that some proportion of the mitochondria is, in fact, inherited from the father.    What is known is sperm cells have 40 or 50 mitochondria.  During fertilization, these mitochondria enter the egg cell, and what happened to them afterwards has never been satisfactory explained.  An unfertilized egg cells is crammed full of mitochondria. Each egg cell having between 50,000 and 100,000 mitochondria.    So egg mitochondria would outnumber sperm mitochondria in the fertilized egg 1000 to one.  In fact, if one out of every thousand mitochondria in each human body did have a different parentage than the rest, that will be below the detection threshold of any method that has yet been applied to examine the problem.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(January 31, 2024 at 11:49 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: After receiving letters praising his sensitive portrayal of a stammerer in A Fish Called Wanda, actor Michael Palin co-founded The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering in 1993. It operates to this day, providing speech therapy for stammerers and stutterers.

Boru

Cool. I always liked Mr. Palin.

Kevin Kline, on the other hand, did not sensitively portray mocking a stammerer in the same movie. Otto was a bit of a dickhead.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
That growing up, my grandmother was likely making her own version of mincemeat pie.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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(February 1, 2024 at 1:08 am)Foxaèr Wrote: That growing up, my grandmother was likely making her own version of mincemeat pie.

Vegan?

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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