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Sometimes, cartoons get it right. A punch to the head left one man in Austria with an actual star in his eye, according to a report published in April in the New England Journal of Medicine. A strong hit to the face from balls, punches or even airbags can send shock waves through the eye strong enough to damage the lens and cause a cataract. Doctors say the cataract that appeared in the 55-year-old's eye was only strange because of the intricate star shape. "Nature has made a beautiful cataract," said Dr. Mark Fromer, an ophthalmologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.Usually, such cataracts appear as a white-yellow cloud, not a star. In these types of cases, cataract surgery can restore a person's vision.
*http://www.livescience.com/37919-oddest-medical-case-reports.html
*http://www.livescience.com/37919-oddest-medical-case-reports.html
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Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed...
It dates back 130 years, to a period of early U.S. paleontology known as the Bone Wars, the Bone Wars was the name given to a bitter competition between two paleontologists, Yale's O.C Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia. Lamanna says their mutual dislike, paired with their scientific ambition led them to race dinosaur names into publication, each trying to out do the other. It was in the heat of this competition, in 1877, that Marsh discovered the partial skeleton of a long-necked, long-tailed, leaf eating dinosaur he dubbed Apatosaurus. It was missing a skull, so in 1883 when Marsh published a reconstruction of his Apatosaurus, he used the head of another dinosaur to complete the skeleton. Two years later his fossil collectors that were working out west sent him a second skeleton that he though belonged to a different dinosaur that he named the Brontosaurus. Although the mistake was spotted by scientists by 1903, the Brontosaurus lived on in movies, books, and children's imaginations.
*http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-brontosaurus-never-even-existed
It dates back 130 years, to a period of early U.S. paleontology known as the Bone Wars, the Bone Wars was the name given to a bitter competition between two paleontologists, Yale's O.C Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia. Lamanna says their mutual dislike, paired with their scientific ambition led them to race dinosaur names into publication, each trying to out do the other. It was in the heat of this competition, in 1877, that Marsh discovered the partial skeleton of a long-necked, long-tailed, leaf eating dinosaur he dubbed Apatosaurus. It was missing a skull, so in 1883 when Marsh published a reconstruction of his Apatosaurus, he used the head of another dinosaur to complete the skeleton. Two years later his fossil collectors that were working out west sent him a second skeleton that he though belonged to a different dinosaur that he named the Brontosaurus. Although the mistake was spotted by scientists by 1903, the Brontosaurus lived on in movies, books, and children's imaginations.
*http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-brontosaurus-never-even-existed
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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein