Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice - Slashdot
sciencehabit writes “Many physicians and parents report that their autistic children have unusually severe gastrointestinal problems, such as chronic constipation or diarrhea. These observations have led some researchers to speculate that an ailing gut contributes to the disorder in some cases, but …
Further evidence for the gut microbe theory of Autism…
IT. IS. ON.
REAL MATCH REAL MATCH
I would watch this with the intensity of one thousand burning suns.
Oh, I want to see this.
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Read more »A few days ago in a parking lot in Lisbon wheelchair users and volunteers occupied all the available Non-Handicap spaces to make a point to able-bodied motorists what it is like to have “their” parking places unavailable to them.
On every wheelchair various notes were left like: “be right back”, “it only takes a moment”, “I’m get something here”, etc.
Reblogged this yesterday from
“No, Lasagne! My only weakness!”
Rael did his utmost to resist Shayde’s variants of charm. It rarely worked, but he persisted. Often as much as she did.
It had, in fact, reached the point where she arrived with temptation in hand. Usually in a tin box, but this time, she arrived with a thermally insulated parcel.
“I know ye dinnae like the ballet, but I have tae go an’ yer me preferred plus one. And ye
Read more »you know what would be cool? a show about, like, vigilante Victorian prostitutes hunting down Jack the Ripper.
They never did figure out why he stopped killing. And most serial killers don’t stop unless they are stopped. I’m just saying.
HOLY CATS I WANT TO WRITE AND DRAW THIS AS A GRAPHIC NOVEL
OMG THE RESEARCH ALONE WOULD BE AWESOME
THIS IS BRILLIANT.
::starts chant:: Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
Read more »“When you wish upon a star, it’s actually a satellite. Your wish has been recorded and an agent assigned to your case.”
She’d just passed the written test. She knew the rules. When it came to wish granting, they gave the toughest one of the day to the rookies. To see what they could do.
It was all part and parcel of being a F.A.I.R.Y. Facilitating All Invocations, Responding Yesterday.
It was
Read more »I have hit and passed 46K in book 3. I have 14K to go. This means 28 writing days at my current speed - which is about four and a half weeks.
PLEASE get back to me about book 2 before then?
Read more »Someone has set up a little model nativity scene, and then has to explain to the others “why they are sacrificing that baby to the animals”
The ships’ human had set up a small altar in their assigned space. There was a small pine tree (live) that had been stasis-shipped from Britania. There was assorted sparkly lights, a metallic plastic substance referred to as ‘tinfoil’ and numerous spheroids hung about the little branches.
The saurians who were
Read more »That’s what chilled me most about the picture when I saw it again, when I really got a good look the second time. Without that single detail, it could’ve really been perfectly ordinary, like any other plain old image taken a million times by a million other people. It looked so deceptively normal except for the one thing that could never, ever be normal. – Josh
It was blurry, but the eye could make out what appeared to be
Read more »Someone has been crammed into a penguin suit, protesting or not, and wow does it look good on them
The last thing he remembered was a voice demanding, “FORMAL ATTIRE IS MANDATORY,” before the minions descended.
He missed his JOAT coat the most. At least the shoes were marginally serviceable. Too shiny and too thin, but they could do in a pinch.
The pants were completely wrong. Black was not his colour. He was anti-religious. The white waistcoat fit his
Read more »“What a good thing you had all those clockwork ducks”
[AN: Your Girl Genius fandom is showing. And so is mine, because I know exactly where that line came from]
Rael peeked through the one hole in the barrier that let him see without being seen.
“Okay,” he recapped. “They’ve got our ship surrounded. They’re armed to the teeth. And there’s hundreds of them. And only two of us.”
Shayde
Read more »Read more »Steam Powered Giraffe is probably one of the best bands of all time. And yet half of America still doesn’t know who they are. I think they need a little more exposure.
“Before you say we’re a bunch of brats for wanting to get paid- please think about all the artists who do not normally see an income. This is why most of your parents will roll their eyes when you say you want to be one. Making
timey-wimey-consulting-detective:
Rebloging again because of this gif.
We better reblog this as much as we can 2013 is almost over
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