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- Japanese Hospital Uses Miniature Sushi and Origami to Test Surgery Interns
- These Sunglasses Let You Experience LSD Hallucinations, No Drugs Required
- Artist Creates Tree Able to Grow 40 Different Kinds of Fruit at Once
| Japanese Hospital Uses Miniature Sushi and Origami to Test Surgery Interns Posted: 03 Aug 2015 04:40 AM PDT Instead of testing potential interns' surgery skills on real patients, a Japanese hospital devised an innovative examination process that involves miniature origami and sushi! The Kurashiki Central Hospital, in southern Japan offers one of the best surgical internship programs in the country, but medical students who want to secure a position here have to prove their skills in a series of bizarre hand-on challenges. First, they have to use surgical instruments to fold a piece of paper into an origami crane. That sounds easy enough for someone with a bit of experience in creating origami, but did I mention the piece of paper measures only 1.5 square centimeters? |
| These Sunglasses Let You Experience LSD Hallucinations, No Drugs Required Posted: 03 Aug 2015 02:11 AM PDT Thanks to Hungarian artist Bence Agoston, drug-induced hallucinations can now be an everyday experience. His 3D-printed sunglasses can simulate a visual replica of an LSD trip! You don’t need a prescription to get these special glasses, only an appetite for the bizarre. Aptly named 'Mood', the glasses are made from 3D-printed frames fitted with six different patterned lenses that can be layered in different ways. Each lens has a unique Moiré pattern that filters red, green, or blue light. You've got to rotate them – kind of like an optometry device – in order to create different patterns. |
| Artist Creates Tree Able to Grow 40 Different Kinds of Fruit at Once Posted: 03 Aug 2015 01:21 AM PDT In a bid to reintroduce Americans to long-forgotten native fruit, a New York sculptor has created an incredible tree that can produce 40 varieties of stone fruit at once. Sam Van Aken, who is also an art professor at Syracuse University, grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania where grafting was a common practice. However, to him, it always seemed magical. "When I'd seen it done as a child it was Dr. Seuss and Frankenstein and just about everything fantastic," he said during a Tedx talk last year. Van Aken has been growing multi-fruit trees since 2008, through a technique called 'chip grafting'. He starts by taking a slice of a fruit tree that includes buds, and inserts it into a matching incision in a host tree that is at least three years old. He uses electrical tape to hold the pieces together. Soon enough, the "veins" of different trees flow into each other, sharing the same life energy. |
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