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Sometimes, it’s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there’s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn’t know you.

Linwood Barclay (via hplyrikz)

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#countdown to s4 part 1: #throwback day 10: TAB throwback

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Chris Evans for Modern Weekly China

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When your friend gets into a new fandom and talks about it so much that you are reluctantly pulled into it, too.

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3D Print a heart

Carnegie Mellon researchers want to use low-cost 3D Printing hardware (less than $1,000) and open source bioprinting software to solve the shortage of heart transplants, which are currently needed to repair damaged organs.

“We’ve been able to take MRI images of coronary arteries and 3-D images of embryonic hearts and 3-D bioprint them with unprecedented resolution and quality out of very soft materials like collagens, alginates and fibrins,” said Adam Feinberg, an associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

“The challenge with soft materials — think about something like Jello that we eat — is that they collapse under their own weight when 3-D printed in air,” explained Feinberg. “So we developed a method of printing these soft materials inside a support bath material. Essentially, we print one gel inside of another gel, which allows us to accurately position the soft material as it’s being printed, layer-by-layer.”

In the video below, Feinberg describes and demonstrates his work in 3-D printing soft materials:

One of the major advances of this technique, termed FRESH, or “Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels,” is that the support gel can be easily melted away and removed by heating to body temperature, which does not damage the delicate biological molecules or living cells that were bioprinted. As a next step, the group is working toward incorporating real heart cells into these 3-D printed tissue structures, providing a scaffold to help form contractile muscle.

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Lane Bryant is bringing the plus-size revolution to Fashion Week

Lane Bryant announced Thursday the #PlusIsEqual campaign is going to shut down Times Square in New York City, from noon until 2 p.m. Monday, to upstage the Midtown madness and, more importantly, New York Fashion Week. They’re teasing a runway show all over social media — one with a powerful message to send.

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me: going 100mph (100 mistakes per hour)

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I am the nicest, sweetest, most rage-filled person I know

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“You don’t need makeup. You look fine without it.”

Yes but if I look fine without makeup then I must look pretty fantastic with it on so why must you try and keep me from achieving that level of exquisiteness

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Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season:

They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.)

They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs.

They fire people for having mental illnesses.