Things Not Necessary To Stay Alive: Add "Breathing" To The List

Harvard biologists have developed oxygen-filled microparticles that can be directly injected into oxygen-deprived patients (like those who aren’t breathing). Rabbits tested with the technology obtained normal blood oxygen within seconds, and were able to survive without a breath for 15 minutes.

Considering that critical brain regions can die within ten minutes of oxygen starvation, and a mere five minutes starvation can lead to brain damage, this could change medical treatment of cardiac arrest.

And I can’t be the only person thinking of how deep someone is going to try and dive underwater using this stuff … right?

More at The Atlantic.

Participle Accelerator What If CERN Smashed Words Rather Than Protons? The high-energy particle beams we find in places like the Large Hadron Collider drive protons and other bits of matter toward fantastic collisions, at speeds up to 0.999999991 the speed of light. The result is a fantastic scattering of debris, the products of which can contain rare, short-lived elementary particles like the recently identified Higgs boson. What if, instead of smashing protons, we could smash words? That’s what Moritz Heller wondered. By driving two words together, their individual phonetics and letters are driven apart in pre-programmed patterns. The sum of those two words’ ingredients jetting away from each other draws patterns that remind me of the beautiful neutrino bubble chambers of old. Vowels, plosives, frikatives … they’re all there. What a super-cool idea! Check out this video for more: (↬ Co.Design)
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Participle Accelerator

What If CERN Smashed Words Rather Than Protons?

The high-energy particle beams we find in places like the Large Hadron Collider drive protons and other bits of matter toward fantastic collisions, at speeds up to 0.999999991 the speed of light. The result is a fantastic scattering of debris, the products of which can contain rare, short-lived elementary particles like the recently identified Higgs boson.

What if, instead of smashing protons, we could smash words? That’s what Moritz Heller wondered. By driving two words together, their individual phonetics and letters are driven apart in pre-programmed patterns. The sum of those two words’ ingredients jetting away from each other draws patterns that remind me of the beautiful neutrino bubble chambers of old.

Vowels, plosives, frikatives … they’re all there. What a super-cool idea! Check out this video for more:

(↬ Co.Design)

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