Hi. I'm allison. I enjoy a variety of things, but for the most part this blog consists of preppy sailing things and the various things that make me laugh...insert quote about sailing here: âHave you ever tried to explain to a non-sailor what makes sailing so fascinating and challenging, or harder yet, justify why it often seems that the only thing sailors talk about is sailing? Take pro football-a pretty complex sport, right? but every game is played on the same size feild, in the same amount of time, against the same amount of people, week after week, all over the country. Now imagine, just for a minute, that every field was a different size; that, in fact the boundaries changed during the game. furthermore, the playing surface moved along under the feet of the players and varied in speed and direction throughout the game. In addition, some areas of the field were soggy, others icy, and still others sandy, with irregular one foot high ridges running all over. The game would still be the intricate offensive vs. defensive with high premium on excellent individual performances. But there would only be 11 guys per team. no specialist teams, no offensive unit seperate from the defensive unit, no punt return team, and no guy to come out just to kick the extra point. In fact, there would be no substitutes, no trainers, and no coaches high up in the grandstands looking down on the game, analyzing the upcoming defensive formations. When you stop to think about it, sailing is possibly the most complex sport in the world.â ~Dave Perry
Patients of surgeon Harold Gillies during WWI and WWII
Okay, these photographs pissed me off a bit, because they donât show off how much of a genius Dr. Harold Gillies, the father of modern plastic surgery, was. Rhinoplasty, skin grafts, and facial reconstructions have been practised for centuries. However, it was this New Zealander surgeon who standardized these techniques and established the discipline of âplastic surgery.â
The introduction of more destructive weapons of WWI and WWII resulted in devastating injuries. In addition, in trench warfare, the head was more exposed than the rest of the body, and soldiersâ faces were often shattered or burnt beyond recognition. Despite the best efforts of surgeons, many soldiers were left hideously disfigured. Traditionally, the edges of facial wounds were simply stitched together, but when scar tissue contracted faces were left twisted and disfigured, so a new type of surgery was needed.
Gillies rebuilt faces using tissue from elsewhere in the body. Antibiotics had not yet been invented, meaning it was very hard to graft tissue from one part of the body to another because infection often developed, so Gillies invented the tubed pedicle,â where he used a flap of skin from the chest or forehead and âswungâ it into place over the face. The flap remained attached but was stitched into a tube. This kept the original blood supply intact and dramatically reduced the infection rate. After many surgical construction, grafting, and healing, which could take months to years, the tentacle-like tubing would be removed, and (volia!) a new face!
He was also the first to do sex reassignment surgery from female to male in 1946, then male to female using a flap technique in 1951, which became the standard for 40 years.
Oh I really do enjoy how the 2020s are shaping up to be a lot like the 1920s. You get a generation of lost kids that grew up during a war. They reject their parents conservative attitudes. The youth has created a resurgence of Dadaism and Nihilism that the older generations donât understand. An artistic boom replacing the materialistic tendencies of our parents. The queer community is thriving in a way that it hasent been in years. Activism and socialist ideologies are on the rise again. How wonderful. It makes me want to go to Paris and be the next Gertrude Stein
imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and thereâd be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales thereâd be giant deer and just wow
1. i can do this! after outlining everything i need to do, it doesnât seem so bad. in fact itâs very methodical and easy to follow and i can do it.
2. oh my god its happening. its the end for me. i might as well be dead. everything is due now. i was put on this earth to suffer. i have two essays due in 45 seconds and all ive eaten today is half a goldfish cracker. i can only feel pain
And Iroh just decides to mess with him and just goes âWell, I suppose we should start searchingâ and Zuko doesnât find out until later in the episode
Literally I was writing a paper on Asian salt water crocodiles, like a simple about them paper for a college class, and I started noticing some inconsistencies in the scientific papers I was sourcing and I accidentally discovered that the crocodile has been misdiagnosed as least concerned on the endangered species list when they should be classified as endangered and now my professor is having me write a formal report to the international Red List to have them reclassified and all I wanted to do was write this paper on an animal I thought was cool and now Iâm considered an expert on this speciesâŠ
this is how it works half of esteemed biologists trip and fall into their specialty while pursuing something else. one lecturer i just went to started as a biochemist researching antibiotics and discovered that crocodiles change colors based on environment and now he has 30+ crocs in his yard for research purposes and heâs just likeâŠÂ âwait⊠iâm a chemistâŠâ
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