Happy Baby in a Polka Dot Sleep Sack Flaps Her Limbs Excitedly Whenever the Family Cat Is Near

An adorable baby dressed in a polka dot starfish-like sleep sack, flapped her limbs excitedly when her mom brought the family cat to her crib to visit. While the baby was absolutely elated, the cat was less than impressed.

She’s incapable of controlling her limbs when her kitty is around. The obsession grows every day. P.S. That’s a sleep sack she’s in. Not a starfish outfit. Although I wish I were cool enough to dress my daughter in a starfish outfit.Source==

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Lightning strikes Delta plane at Atlanta airport, moment was caught on camera

The recording shows rain drenching the airfield crowded with aircraft, waiting to take off from the world’s busiest airport. The lightning strikes the plane about 17 or 18 seconds into the 36-second video.

“While filming the line of planes all stacked up during a ground hold in Atlanta on 8/18/15 I happened to capture this direct lightning strike on a 737,” wrote a YouTube by the name of Jack Perkins. He posted the video on Wednesday.
Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant confirmed that lightning struck Las Vegas-bound Delta Flight 67 on Tuesday, as the Boeing 737-900R aircraft was in the takeoff queue in Atlanta.
There were no reports of injuries among the 111 customers and six crew, Durrant said.
The plane took off nearly two hours late at 7:32 p.m. ET but landed only about 20 minutes later than scheduled, at 8:11 p.m. PT, according to FlightAware.com.
“As with any event involving aircraft, Delta is doing a thorough investigation of the circumstances around this flight as safety is always Delta’s top priority,” Durrant wrote in an email.
“Aircraft design allows lightning bolts to be safely redirected,” Durrant wrote. “Fuselage structure and industrial-grade insulation acts as (a) super-conductive lightning rod that rechannels lightning around and away from customers and crew and out into the ground via the landing gear.”
Planes are hit by lightning strikes more commonly than travelers probably realize and are designed with that in mind, commercial airline pilot and AskThePilot.com blogger Patrick Smith said.
“The energy does not travel through the cabin electrocuting the passengers; it is discharged overboard nine times in ten leaving little or no evidence of the strike itself,” Smith wrote in his book, “Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel.”Source==CNN====

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See the world's biggest heart

As the largest animal to have ever lived, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) can also be expected to have some record-breaking internal organs.
Tales of its heart being as big as a car, with the aorta (its main artery) large enough for a human to swim through abound, but as finding intact specimens to research is rare, the truth has been difficult to find out.

So when a dead blue whale washed ashore in Newfoundland, Canada, experts saw a valuable opportunity.
A team from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) was sent to dissect the 76.5ft (23.3m) blue whale, which had died after becoming trapped in ice.

This is the first blue whale heart to be anatomically preserved

"We had to get the chest cavity opened to expose the heart and then get in there and free the heart up from all of the surrounding tissues, getting in with what was left of the lungs and blood, pretty much up to my waist," explains Jacqueline Miller, a mammalogy technician from the ROM.
"It took four of us to push the heart out through a window we'd made between the ribs and the side of the chest cavity."
The organ that they retrieved can be seen in the video clip above, taken from Big Blue Live, a new series coming soon to BBC One in the UK and PBS in the US.
"I was expecting something the size of a car, but found a heart more like the size of maybe a small golf cart or circus bumper car for two," Ms Miller says.

The blue whale represents the extreme upper limit of size and physiology

The aorta was also discovered to be slightly smaller than it is reputed to be, probably capable of fitting a human head inside.
But at 28st 4lb (180kg) it was still hefty and the ROM team used about 1,000 gallons of formaldehyde, which stops tissue from decomposing any further, to begin the preservation process.
"To our knowledge this is the first blue whale heart to be anatomically preserved for exhibit and study. People are always curious how big it is, and if it is the same as our heart, structurally," Ms Miller says.
The blue whale heart, along with the skeleton of the animal it came from, will eventually be put on display at the museum.
The team are also working with Dr Robert Henry and Dr Paul Nader, two anatomy specialists from Lincoln Memorial University, Tennessee, US, to properly document the whale.
"The blue whale represents the extreme upper limit of size and physiology, and its behaviour and physiological tolerances should be accordingly affected," Ms Miller says.
"Anatomically, not a lot has been published about the blue whale heart. We'd also like to have an answer for our visitors when they ask 'how big is it'?"Source==BBC====

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Yahoo Weather warns you about rain in time to find an umbrella

Weather apps are quite handy, and now Yahoo's mobile software is even more helpful. The app will send you an alert 15 minutes before rain or snow is expected to start so you have enough time to prepare. The new feature offers warnings similar to Dark Sky's weather info. That app takes readings from the barometric sensors in users' iPhones, though. What's more, Yahoo says its Weather software is more accurate too, with the ability to zoom in on small areas should the need arise. Of course, you want to take a slightly different approach to getting your forecast, you could always go the route of an aspiring meteorologist..Source==engadget===

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Google is doubling down on biotech

Re/code, Asa MathatGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin
Google is doubling down on biotech.
The company is turning the team that develops smart contact lenses and other healthcare initiatives into a full-fledged, standalone company rather than a lab project.
The life sciences group will "graduate" from the Google X labs and become its own separate company under the new Alphabet corporate structure, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said on Thursday.
Andy Conrad, a molecular biologist who joined Google in 2013, will be the CEO of the new company, Brin said.
"While the reporting structure will be different, their goal remains the same. They’ll continue to work with other life sciences companies to move new technologies from early stage R&D to clinical testing—and, hopefully—transform the way we detect, prevent, and manage disease," Brin explained. 
The move could signal that Google views some of the life science initiatives as promising enough to be their own commercial entity.
The move follows Google's announcement last week of a massive overhaul of its corporate structure. What was once Google will become a holding company called Alphabet, made up of several individual companies including Google's traditional Web businesses (search, maps, YouTube, Android, and so on), Nest (Google's home appliances group) and Fiber (Google's high speed Internet delivery service). 
Google X, the research lab for projects such as self-driving cars and airborne wind turbines, will also become a separate subsidiary within Alphabet.GoogleGoogle's smart contract lens
The life sciences group, which will now be pulled out of X, includes a nanodiagnostics platform, a cardiac and activity monitor, and the Baseline Study, Brin noted in the post.
The Baseline Study is an effort by Google to collect genetic and molecular information from hundreds of people to create a picture of what a healthy human body looks like. 
With the move, Alphabet will actually have two health-focused companies under its flag: the new life sciences company (which presumably will get a catchier name at some point) and Calico, a separate company that Google created in 2013 that is focused on health issues related to aging.
Here's Brin's full Google+ post on the life sciences change:
3 years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens – an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health.  While I am delighted at the progress that project has made, I could not have imagined the potential of the initiative it has grown into – a life sciences team with the mission to develop new technologies to make healthcare more proactive.  The efforts it has spawned include  a nanodiagnostics platform, a cardiac and activity monitor, and the Baseline Study.
It’s a huge undertaking, and I am delighted to announce that the life sciences team is now ready to graduate from our X lab and become a standalone Alphabet company, with Andy Conrad as CEO.  While the reporting structure will be different, their goal remains the same. They’ll continue to work with other life sciences companies to move new technologies from early stage R&D to clinical testing—and, hopefully—transform the way we detect, prevent, and manage disease.  

   
The team is relatively new but very diverse including software engineers, oncologists, and optics experts.  This is the type of company we hope will thrive as part of Alphabet and I can’t wait to see what they do next.

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California .. Assistant to legalize euthanasia

Lawmakers restored, California, Tuesday, put forward a draft law allows the termination of life with the help of a doctor had collapsed amid opposition from the Catholic Church and activists defending people with special needs, as leaders pledged to Democrats that this issue top priority.In a move that made it clear that lawmakers are seeking to rally support from Catholics Hispanic - who are concerned about opposition to the Church's supporters display a draft law to support senior Catholic politicians Hispanics, Tuesday.Some of them spoke Spanish passionately about the suffering endured by patients suffering from the disease is impossible to recover their doctors say it will kill them inevitably.Democrat Kevin de Leon, said the Council of elders of the state of California: "It is not the people of California can wait more than that."Supporters of the termination of life with the help of a doctor had tried many times to no avail give legislative nature of this bill in California.The renewed debate on the issue after that erupted after the death of terminally ill American Brittany Maynard her recovery from cancer (29 years) last year, which moved to Oregon to take advantage of the application of this law in the state.With the opinion polls, which indicate the continuing support for this action in California more US states in terms of population put Democratic lawmakers draft law after the death of Maynard allows the termination of life with the help of a doctor to hopeless of recovery.The bill met strong opposition at first from hospitals, doctors and organizations opposed to abortion and groups defending the rights of people with special needs, as this law applies in

the states of Oregon, Washington and Montana and Vermont.

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Scientists produce "human brain" almost completed

Scientists succeeded at the American University of Ohio for the first time in the production of human brain almost complete configuration within the medical laboratory.
Scientists seek behind this little brain, approximates the size of a pencil eraser, to learn more about diseases such as autism, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease (known as Parkinson's disease).

And it looks like a new brain brain 5 weeks old embryo, contains 99% of the cells and genes in the brains of human embryos, as nerve cells includes circuits for signal transmission, according to Professor Rene Anand supervisor of the experiment.
Anand stressed during the presentation of the "new brain" during one of the seminars in Florida Tuesday, that he get drunk more integrated model of the human brain, which is being developed to date, ask where production team of researchers about 12 weeks.
And Anand and his team used cells from the skin of adults and around to the stem cells can be used to produce any tissue in the human body.

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