If you read the whole article, you’ll learn why human efforts to cause these little squirrels to reproduce have failed……they are territorial, they hate high temperatures (so when the AC breaks, the fetus dies) and they hate noise (can’t be pregnant with noise).
Excerpt:
It began with a bolt of lightning on June 7 and ended with a fire that eventually encompassed a staggering 48,000 acres of southeastern Arizona. By the time the blaze had been extinguished this past July, thousands of trees had been lost or damaged, impacting the already degraded habitat for the critically endangered Mount Graham squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis). Surveys conducted this past September in the high-elevation forests of the Pinaleño Mountains, about three hours east of Phoenix, revealed that the squirrels’ population had fallen to an estimated 35 animals and that at least 80 percent of their habitat had been damaged by the fires.
Could this be the end of the Mount Graham squirrel, which was already once thought to be extinct and has been protected by the Endangered Species Act since 1987?
The answer to that question may lie not on the mountain itself but in the halls of Phoenix Zoo’s Arizona Center for Nature Conservation, where five Mount Graham squirrels form the core of a captive-assurance program that could help save the species from extinction.
There’s just one catch: We need to figure out how to get them to breed first.
That hasn’t been easy, says Stuart Wells, the zoo’s former director of conservation and science, who was in charge of the program until last month. The squirrels, it turns out, are extremely territorial, aggressive loners who attack and even kill other squirrels, including potential mates, that invade their home turf. That makes it impossible to keep the captive animals together in the same enclosure — or even within sight of each other. On top of that minor complication, the animals are also incredibly sensitive to environmental changes like temperature and sound. And until recently we simply didn’t know how to keep the species healthy in captivity, let alone get it to breed.
Apparently this is a running gag in math textbooks
Oh, no, my friend, @aceyuurikatsuki . It’s not just that. It is so much more. Settle down and let your friendly neighborhood x-ray tech explain you a thing.
Throckmorton’s Sign, otherwise known as Throckmorton’s Principle, does in fact have to do with dicks. Because it is fairly normal for a dick to show up on a hip or pelvis x-ray. But the thing about Throckmorton’s Sign is, it’s not just that the dick is visible. It is a legitimate diagnostic tool.
Let me explain: let’s say a person equipped with a penis is in a car accident and has right leg and right side hip/pelvic pain. Their doctor will order x-rays. Unfortunately, sometimes fractures are so small that they can be missed, or, because the patient is in such bad shape and the images obtained aren’t the best quality, the radiologist can’t be sure for one reason or another if what they’re seeing is actually a fracture.
So what do they do? They look for the dick.
You heard me correctly. The dick.
Throckmorton’s Sign is when “the penis points to the area of pain.” So if the above-mentioned AMAB patient’s xray aren’t displaying a clear, obvious fracture, but their dick is pointing to the right side, 9 times out of 10, the injury or fracture is on the right hip or leg area, so then the radiologist will focus on that side while reading.
Now I know what my non-radiology followers are thinking. “Ace, this sounds like bullshit. This can’t be true. You’re lying through your teeth.” But I swear to you, it is 100% accurate. I have seen a positive Throckmorton’s Sign multiple times with my own eyes over the course of the past 7 years. Ask any x-ray tech, and they will probably agree with me.
Your dick is good for at least one thing, and that thing is helping a radiologist diagnose your upper femur, hip, or pelvic fracture.
Don’t worry, it’s not really true. The Throckmorton, or more commonly, the John Thomas Sign, is a joke. There is a large amount of literature pretending it’s serious for the purpose of disproving it (I know because a friend wrote a metanalysis for a journal’s Christmas joke, and you’d be surprised how many references you can scrape together of everyone else doing the same thing).
There is such a thing as comedy scientific papers, which are published for the sole purpose of everyone amusing each other. Like how the BMJ has just published a paper questioning whether Peppa Pig, a children’s cartoon, promotes “unrealistic healthcare expectations” in children (because the doctor character does house visits, and gives children liquid medicine that apparently cures the common cold.) this paper is clearly written to amuse the specific audience of the journal, not to actually drag Peppa Pig. Occasionally these papers get noticed outside of that specific audience, and then the public laughs because “lol scientists and doctors are being so stupid, looking at ghost dicks and criticising the societal implications of Peppa Pig.” But these things are meant to be professional jokes, really. There are some famous and good comedy papers in the literature. John Thomas papers are just further examples because dick jokes presented in academic jargon and published in journals are funny.
There is no particular correlation between the direction of the penis on an x-ray and the side of the fracture. There is no mechanism by which this could operate, apart from (possibly) the fact that penis-owners tend to “dress” on one side or another, which often relates to their dominant hand. The dominant side of the body may or may not be the side that is struck in falls or accidents. But considering that’s a mechanism I am proposing at random, it’s not the most helpful.
Spreading the word and making it clear how serious the net neutrality issue is is one thing, but yall really for actual have to stop with that fear mongering bullshit. Like a good chunk of people don’t even understand that even if it does get passed in congress, it still has to go through the courts, and even after that, there’s already been talk of counter measures from a ton of different states.
People are in a panic and thinking that if it doesn’t fail today than tomorrow the internet is just going to be fucking gone because thats the narrative being pushed, and I don’t think that kind of message is good for anyone, especially the people with high anxiety, who have a hard problem speaking out on these things, which is the exact audience these kind of scare posts are aimed towards.
You know whats the easiest way to get people with anxiety to do something that would otherwise set off their anxiety hardmode like? Fucking tell them the entire truth of the situation, and reassure them that their part in it matters, without saying “If you don’t fucking do this, your life is goddamn over idiot.”
The FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality, but I would like to reiterate to all of you that now is not the time to panic. It’s time to get angry and active, but not time to panic.
Clickbait sites are painting today as the definitive “end” of it all, but it’s not. This shit’s still got to go through the courts.
The FCC has tried to repeal net neutrality twice before, and both times it got repealed by the courts.
The voting public’s support for Net Neutrality is overwhelming. Last I checked, 83% of polled voters nationwide are in support of Net Neutrality staying.
Republican politicians and lawmakers are aware of this overwhelming support and have been voicing their support as well.
Doug Jones victory in Alabama was a wake-up call for Republican politicians, letting them know they are not invincible.
Join the millions of Americans making their voices heard. Contact your representatives. Call them. Email them. Tweet at them. Anything you can do helps. Use the links provided on this website:
An extra layer of clothes added all around, and I’m feeling slightly less like a block of ice now 🖒 I keep meaning to get some thermal leggings, but a pair of yoga pants under the sweats is bulkier than I want but much better than nothing.
I also managed to dig up some insoles to help make those new warm slippers wearable. Ordered some, but they haven’t arrived yet. Finally remembered there were some that should work in some shoes I haven’t worn in a while. Those are wearing out but usable, thankfully.
The other style of that brand I bought before came with nice cushiony soles. It pissed me off to find that these new ones really, really didn’t.
The problem? “Hollow inferior bottoms” with thin enough padding over top that I could clearly feel the hard plastic grid pressing into my heels 😬
Best illustration I could find quickly, and yes that type of sole deserves a big red X. (“[P]erson easily sprained foot” is the least of it 😒) Sensory issues plus neuropathy making it worse or no. And those were indeed sold specifically as extra-comfy granny slippers.
I was tempted to send them back over the cheap-ass manufacturing making them unwearable out of the box, but that would require too many spoons and finding something else. Glad to finally get them usable, and my feet less freezing.
So I really hate to do this, but I need help again. Last time I asked for help, the response was overwhelming. I’m so grateful to each person who reached out to me, who sent some money and/or signal-boosted my post. Your kindness and generosity are appreciated far more than I can ever express. But I’m in a situation where I have to turn to you once more.
My mom has colon cancer, 4th stage, and is suffering from pain and nausea. It’s been made clear to us there is no way to save her life. However, there should be some way to help relieve the symptoms. Right now she’s so bad she can barely sleep and eat. And the doctors in my area are not interested in trying too hard to help a hopeless patient. None of them have offered any help whatsoever.
I’ve found an doctor from an Israeli clinic online who’s willing to talk to me and my mom via Skype. All she can offer is some advice on palliative treatment, but it’s better than all we’ve got from the other doctors, so we’d definitely take it.
But the fee is $650, and we cannot afford that, having already spent all we had on medication that doesn’t even help.
If you have anything to spare, please consider helping me and my mom. If you can’t, I’ll be very grateful if you just reblog.
You can send your donations to paypal.me/heidimoose (set up by my friend because paypal/other similar sites don’t allow donations to Russian accounts, and this is where I have the misfortune to live)
“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.
The tour through Alabama’s rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Of particular concern to Alston are specific poverty-related issues that have surfaced across the country in recent years, such as an outbreak of hookworm in Alabama in 2017—a disease typically found in nations with substandard sanitary conditions in South Asia and Subsaharan Africa.
The U.N. investigation aims to study the effects of systemic poverty in a prosperous nation like the United States.
90% of the poorest areas in America are in Republican Red zones.
B-b-b-b-b-b-but poverty in the Red States isn’t all that bad, right?
Right?
Errrrr
Jesus christ, and to think how many billionaires we have in the US while this is happening
How is anyone surprised by this though?
Do people not look around?
Or is this really not prevalent anywhere but the South? It’s damn near everywhere you look in the South. I had friends in the high school with houses that when you flushed the toilet it went from a pipe in the trailer out to a ravine out back. I remember burning our trash. And it wasn’t unusual. I mean I’m in my thirties and it’s not uncommon for me to meet people in my generation who are the first in their family to have indoor plumbing.
The republicans aren’t blind. They aren’t naive. They’re just greedy. You can’t amass that kind of wealth by giving it away to the less fortunate. And don’t be tricked into thinking the wealthy Democrats are any better. Politicians will say whatever it takes to get voted into a position, and then they’ll vote however they need to in order to keep the money rolling in.
They really don’t look around. Myself included. (I knew things were bad in the Deep South but I didn’t think they’d been quite this bad since the ‘30s.)
Like… have you seen how many people complain whenever you talk about poor white people? Most middle-class folks don’t want to believe that things could be this bad for anyone. A lot of lefty middle-class white people want to believe that poor white people are poor because they’re stupid and racist and probably fat, and poor black people are poor because they’re ~discriminated against~ without thinking about what that means for 30 seconds. (And often with a side dose of subconscious racism– of course black people are poor, they can’t rise above their station.)
Talking about what that kind of ‘poor’ actually looks like? Bursts people’s bubble. It means they have to think about how people could be suckered to do something that’s not in their best interests, whether it’s white coal-mining families voting for Trump or black people being anti-abortion because they’ve bought the ‘abortion is racist eugenics’ lie. It means they have to realize that politics isn’t a Tribe Game where it’s good when Your Team wins and Their Team loses, it’s a matter of life and death for a lot of people. It means they have to realise people on Their Team aren’t just stupidracistcrazy, a lot of them are desperate and afraid and have been suckered by greedy people.
And we can’t have that, can we? However will we have the Horse Race if we have to acknowledge that real humans’ lives are at stake? However will we get to feel superior over other people if we don’t think of social class as a morality-based hierarchy? </sarc>
[insert obligatory disclaimer that a lot of Trump’s base had a college education and a lot of people who are in the worst circumstances here are black; it’s just that White Is The Default and so people get mad when you talk about poverty happening to Default People.]
(also side note: growing up in the semi-rural Midwest, we had a septic tank, and it busted really badly a couple times. the smell was undescribable and Mum, longsuffering as she was, had to keep us from playing in literal shit more than once. …I can’t imagine living like that full-time, but of course people do.)
Comparing the growth of other Kinds of nonprofits, the researchers believe they were able to identify the causal effect of these community groups Every 10 additional organizations in a city with 100,000 residents, they estimate, led to a 9 percent drop in the murder rate and a 6 percent drop in violent crime. In a criminology field that has produced some eyebrow-raising ideas, this one is actually not so surprising. That national finding echoes local studies of some individual programs, like one run by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society that converts abandoned lots into green spaces and that has been linked in Philadelphia to reduced gun violence. The research also affirms some of the tenets of community policing: that neighborhoods are vital to policing themselves, and that they can address the complex roots of violence in ways that fall beyond traditional police work. “It’s absolutely consistent with what I would argue is probably the prevalent theory of policing among the major cities today,” Richard Myers, the executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, said of the new research.
“Any time people’s basic needs are met, violence goes down – that’s not new,” said Noreen McClendon, who directs the nonprofit Concerned Citizenes of South Central Los Angeles.
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