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11 Ways We Used Radiation in Everyday Life

(via Mental Floss) Radiation as a medical cure has valid uses and definite dangers to the human body. We use

(via Atlas Obscura) In an ordinary Tampa, Florida, office park, just a couple of blocks from a bustling thoroughfare, a

(via Atlas Obscura) No matter who you are, your fingernails need to be trimmed. Every couple of weeks you have

(via Atlas Obscura) In most middle-class British households in the 18th and 19th centuries, you would find a booklet filled

(via Atlas Obscura) At the Necker Hospital in Paris, Dr. René Laennec stood at the bedside of a female patient

(via Neatorama) Throughout most of history, if you lost a limb, the replacement of choice was a wooden peg (which

May 3, 2016May 2, 2016 0 Comments medical, surgery

Here’s something most people don’t know about surgery—at a certain point in an operation, it can smell. Really bad. Head