In a procedure that would be nothing short of revolutionary, a 30-year-old Russian man has volunteered to be the first person to have his head transplanted onto another human body.
In an interview with Russia Today, Valery Spiridonov, the volunteer, explained that he has a rare muscle condition, called Werdnig-Hoffmann disorder, aka spinal muscular atrophy, which causes one’s muscles to waste away and which has no known cure.
The only other exception to this naming convention are the decidedly generic sounding names of the Earth and Moon. Since we’ve already explained how the Earth came to be known as such, that just leaves us with why our largest satellite doesn’t have a more colourful name like the moons of the other planets in our solar system.
As it turns out, the Moon did have other names, notable among them, and in keeping with the naming schema of other local celestial bodies, was one taken from the name of an ancient and powerful deity- Luna, the Roman Goddess of the Moon.
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Film List:
The Breakfast Club
16 Candles
Adventures in Babysitting
An American Werewolf in London
Back to School
Back to the Future
Better off Dead
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
Dirty Dancing
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Flashdance
Footloose (1984)
Heathers
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Lost Boys
One Crazy Summer
Pretty in Pink
Real Genius
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Say Anything
Some Kind of Wonderful
Stand by Me
Summer School
Teen Wolf
The Goonies
Weird Science
In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy who passed away earlier this year, it may be, ahem, logical to revisit old episodes of ‘Star Trek’ or brush up on your Klingon skills. tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhbe’ you say? Thankfully, Duolingo‘s here to help.
The app known for gamifying the language-learning process has announced that it will now help users learn how to speak Klingon thanks to its Language Incubator program.
As the story goes, the original owner of this unwieldy building located in Willow, Alaska built his house shortly after a forest fire with a clear view of Mount McKinley and Denali National Park. As the surrounding trees recovered, the pristine view was obscured and the owner decided to add few more stories, eventually spending a decade adding floors until it reached the 12-ish story tower you see today. Not surprisingly, locals refer to the building as the “Dr. Seuss House” as the design so closely mimics structures you might see in Theodor Geisel’s illustrated storybooks.
