futurefantastic:

zacwells:

futurefantastic:

zacwells:

How long does your ideal hug last

38-45 minutes

that’s really impractical

u said ideal, not realistic

callsigntheslayer:

[x]

building-an-unstoppable-fist:

hapkidogirl:

smaugmcgann:

likealittlechild:

spectacularuniverse:

I’ve seen this photograph very frequently on tumblr and Facebook, always with the simple caption, “Ghost Heart”. What exactly is a ghost heart?

More than 3,200 people are on the waiting list for a heart transplant in the United States. Some won’t survive the wait. Last year, 340 died before a new heart was found.

The solution: Take a pig heart, soak it in an ingredient commonly found in shampoo and wash away the cells until you’re left with a protein scaffold that is to a heart what two-by-four framing is to a house.

Then inject that ghost heart, as it’s called, with hundreds of millions of blood or bone-marrow stem cells from a person who needs a heart transplant, place it in a bioreactor - a box with artificial lungs and tubes that pump oxygen and blood into it - and wait as the ghost heart begins to mature into a new, beating human heart.

Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, has been working on this— first using rat hearts, then pig hearts and human hearts - for years.

The process is called decellularization and it is a tissue engineering technique designed to strip out the cells from a donor organ, leaving nothing but connective tissue that used to hold the cells in place. 

This scaffold of connective tissue - called a “ghost organ” for its pale and almost translucent appearance - can then be reseeded with a patient’s own cells, with the goal of regenerating an organ that can be transplanted into the patient without fear of tissue rejection.

This ghost heart is ready to be injected with a transplant recipient’s stem cells so a new heart - one that won’t be rejected - can be grown.


(Source)

Excuse me but we can’t just kill pigs to save human lives. That is wrong.

Found the vegan

“soak it in an ingredient commonly found in shampoos” What the fuck am I putting in my hair?!

^ hahahaha, yes. this is a good point.

zincesaucier:

Sherlock AU: It’s been a couple years but Sherlock’s time after the fall still haunts him.

consultinginternetlover:

cumberbatched-italia:

Articolo/intervista sul numero di oggi del Corriere della Sera.

Foto di Marghika

For non-italians according to this newspaper of course XD:

• He’s vegetarian. (this is new to me)
• He’s against the Scotland indipendence (“I wish Scotland to remain part of the UK. You can also find independence within a union.”)
• He has a passion for cars (“because they are objects of desire, machines that you can own and carry it wherever you want but, paradoxically, I don’t like driving.”)
• He thinks that sentimental loneliness can be a benefit for an actor, but he believes in friendship.
• He wants to preserve his privacy, he wants his family to be proud of his work and not for the gossip about him.
  

He had never said some things before, haven’t he?

By the way, a further translation of the other main points of the interview made by me: (sorry Jenks I didn’t want to steal (?) you anything)

[…]

“He spends his time filming videogames, reading books about Van Gogh” […]

[on his experience in a Buddist monastery] “One of the most intense moments of my life. It made me undestand the importance of the silence, which I often use in acting”. He admits he is still obsessed with Julian Assange whom he played on screen in The Fifth Estate, he favours animated films because “they free your mind, they make you feel like a child”, he loves theatre. “Next year I will be playing Hamlet at Barbican Theatre of London, city I will never leave for Hollywood. In my opinion there are resemblances between Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespearian character. The dilemma rules their existences.”

Cumberbatch was born and raised in a noble family; his great-grandfather was at Queen Victoria’s Court. […]

He minimizes his possible nomination at the Oscars; “For sure - he asserts with elegant irony - Academy members love actors with Irish or British accents. They are subjected through inferiority complexes to the Anglo-Saxon charm. There are many of us: from Hugh Grant to Christian Bale, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Hardy, Micheal Fassbender, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor…I’m not snob, but I feel I’m every inch English and I don’t go to press conferences or talk shows wearing trainers. I’m not in the right position to dispense opinions, success comes and goes, I detoxify myself from that by travelling to Africa, by confronting myself with those who have nothing, taking on campaigns for the protection of women in Afghanistan and claiming rights for every minority and liberty for gay people. I don’t take selfies and I don’t have familiarity with social media nor I write on Twitter what I’m eating for breakfast.

And after the role of Turing in The Imitation Game, what has he got in store? “I will be in a movie about the Iraq war, after Toronto I will come back on set with Johnny Depp for Black Mass, from the book by Scott Cooper, a biopic about Whitey and Billy Burger brothers. We film in Boston, I always like studying the real story of the characters I portrait. It’s a process that tones down vanity, ego, even the actors’ insicurities. It saves me from every satisfaction and dictates a sort of self-meditation, which I practise regularly.”

[…]

[on an actor loneliness and the importance of friendship] “Contradictions are part of my nature but I try to be invisible to fans, to lead a life that belongs to me. For privacy I’ve led battles in England, one of my goals is to make my family proud of me not for the gossip but for what I do.”

What gave you your painful interpretation of Turing, who in the Second World War helped the UK to crack the secret Nazi codes? “The sense of fragility of the human nature, the loneliness of the intellect, the courage of one’s own sexual orientation. I need intensity in life, Alan Turing gave it to me through the shame of the English courts’ persecutions against his homosexuality. Homophobia, antisemitism, racism still exist and spread in this world.”

buttart:

there’s so much going on in this gif

mirandahamilton:

_{If I don’t invest in myself, no one else ever will.}

queensbian:

queensbian:

What was Zeus’s stripper name?

Greece Lightning.

cumberbum:

An Edit a Day - Benedict Cumberbatch - [396/?]

floozys:

parental figure: “sit like a lady”

me:

lecompanion:

_{DW +  Favorite Scenes}

kissthefuture:

#team lecter after the finale