Food can be an evil thing in the wrong hands. Here are a series of obesity-enhanced photos to show you what your favorite celebrity would look like with a few extra pounds.
At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication—a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup.
This is amazing to me. I’m happy for the two girls, especially since they seem to be happy.
Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel were born on 7 March 1990, Carver County, Minnesota, United States and they are dicephalic conjoined twins. Brittany is the left twin, and Abigail is the right twin. They have two spines which join at the pelvis. They have two stomachs, three lungs, and two arms. (A third, underdeveloped and useless arm between their heads was removed in infancy.)
Most of Abigail and Brittany’s shared organs lie below the waist line. The deatil is presented below:
2 heads
2 arms—originally 3, but the short malformed central arm was removed
2 spinal cords and backbones which merge at the pelvis – surgery corrected scoliosis
3½ lungs—surgery expanded their chest cavity
2 breasts
2 hearts in a shared circulatory system—medicine taken by either affects both
1 liver
2 stomachs
3 kidneys
2 gallbladders
1 bladder
1 ribcage
1 large intestine
1 female reproductive system
Trying to map the brain has always been cartography for fools. Most of the other parts of the body reveal their workings with little more than a glance. The heart is self-evidently a pump; the lungs are clearly bellows. But the brain, which does more than any organ, reveals least of all. The 3-lb. lump of wrinkled tissue—with no moving parts, no joints or valves—not only serves as the motherboard for all the body’s other systems but also is the seat of your mind, your thoughts, your sense that you exist at all. You have a liver; you have your limbs. You are your brain. . .
. . .Modern scientists have done a far better job of things, dividing the brain into multiple, discrete regions with satisfyingly technical names—hypothalamus, caudate nucleus, neocortex—and mapping particular functions to particular sites. Here lives abstract thought; here lives creativity; here is emotion; here is speech. But what about here and here and here and here—all the countless places and ways the brain continues to baffle us? Here still be dragons.
Full story atTime.com
