People are helping premature babies by crocheting tiny octopuses. The tentacles are thought to mimic the feel of an umbilical cord, and babies who cuddle an octo are less likely to pull out their monitors and tubes. When hospitals that participate in the Octo Project noted an increase in the overall health of their preemies, volunteers around the world began flooding them with donations. SourceSource 2Source 3
I am so here for preemies cuddling with crocheted octopi.
a chef on cutthroat kitchen: what we have here is a perfectly poached egg
me, eating sponge-bob shaped boxed mac and cheese: the yolk is hard you tepid fool
I like the parts of the study where they compare the pigeons to human radiologists:
In a study of human radiologists and radiology residents given the same cases to review, accuracy averaged 97% for calc-(negative) images, but only 70% for calc-(positive) images; our birds’ performance did not reliably differ between the categories. In fairness, unlike the pigeons, the radiologists were not shown just small regions of interest, but whole images that had to be searched for abnormalities, a more challenging task.
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Thus, the pigeons’ errors did not appear to be random; instead, the least-accurately classified images contained features that were relatively unrepresentative of the rest of the corresponding benign or malignant set, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that images used for training fairly represent the gamut likely to be encountered in future specimens. This, of course, is true for pathology residents’ training as well.
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Overall, our results suggest that pigeons can be used as suitable surrogates for human observers in certain medical image perception studies, thus avoiding the need to recruit, pay, and retain clinicians as subjects for relatively mundane tasks.
Also, here’s a picture of the pigeons’ working conditions!
(The link to the study is in the article, and the contents of this post including the picture were copied from the study.)
rey can’t be a descendant of padme because everyone with the padme gene dedicates 50% of their money to fashion………like leia and luke are the only ones who have multiple costume changes in the orig trig and like have you seen how hard it is to put together a kylo ren cosplay? that’s because kylo ren is bringing the #amidalastyle to the sith where his grandfather never could
okay whoa whoa whoa we’ve established that rey grew up destitute and starving on a nigh-deserted junkyard planet with NO money to spend on fashion AND YET she has somehow delicately maintained her exceedingly stylish three-bun hairstyle for years, she has devised yeezy season 2 looks out of abandoned rags, she has created couture sunglasses out of smashed-up stormtrooper helmets? she has no resources and she is still making it fucking #work, truly she is padme’s descendant.
The mountain goat’s feet are well-suited for climbing steep, rocky slopes with pitches exceeding 60°, with inner pads that provide traction and cloven hooves that can spread apart. The cliffs they spend most of their lives on confer numerous benefits, including protection from land-bound predators, foraging, and access to mineral licks.
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 