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Decellularization is the name for a tissue engineering technique which is designed to strip the cells from a donor organ, thus leaving nothing but connective tissue that once held the cells in place. It’s referred to as a “ghost organ” for it’s pale appearance. It can then be reseeded with the patient’s cells. The goal is to render an organ that can be transplanted into a patient without of the tissue being rejected.

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Tessa’s Instagram Stories (December 28th)

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All smiles in Saskatoon 😊

Bonus: Scott’s smirk… again

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A Victorian charm in the form of a skeleton within a coffin, a symbol of death and memento mori.

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Cassidy Goodson was 14-years-old when she became pregnant with her first baby. Instead of telling her parents, Cassidy decided to hide the fact she was pregnant; she wore baggy clothes and even handed her mother bogus pregnancy tests that showed she wasn’t pregnant.

When she was ready to give birth, Cassidy used a pair of scissors to “pry the baby out” and subsequently delivered her baby - a little boy - in the toilet of the home she shared with her parents. Afterwards, she strangled the newborn boy to death. “Its eyes weren’t open but I felt to see if it was breathing or not, and it was breathing so I put my hands around its throat to make it stop breathing,” she confessed to police. When asked what motive she had, Cassidy told police she was afraid of disappointing her parents and afraid of getting in trouble. After killing her newborn son, Cassidy hid his body in a shoebox in her bedroom. After three days, Cassidy’s mother, Teresa Goodson, started to smell the decomposition and made the grisly discovery.

Following Cassidy’s arrest, Teresa was asked why she was unaware of her daughter’s pregnancy to which she replied she thought her daughter was just gaining weight. “Honestly, if I would have known, this would have never happened,” she said. Rumours had circulated around the school that Cassidy was pregnant and the father of the baby - a classmate - questioned Cassidy. Initially, she confessed before telling the boy she was only joking around and that “even if she was, she would not have kids with him.” 

Cassidy Goodson was sentenced to just 18 months in a state facility.

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Light Amongst The Darkness by Luke Stackpoole

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Cupcakes for all! 🧁

(recipes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

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Destroyer of tornadoes, village hero, ultimate good boi

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It was the 31st of December, 2003, when the body a young baby was discovered in plastic bag in a burn barrel in a wooded area behind Sycamore Amish School in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She weighed just 6 pounds and had brown hair and blue eyes. Her umbilical cord was still attached to her stomach. Her throat had been slit ear to ear, seemingly almost as soon as she took her first breath of fresh air. She became known as Baby Allison.

An investigation as to who the mother could have been was underway when an employee from Turkey Hill Mini-Market called police and told them they found blood in the restroom shortly after the discovery. It was located about 4 miles from where Baby Allison was discovered. Police started to contact customers who had made credit card purchases that day to question whether they had seen anything out of the ordinary but it was unfruitful.

It was determined that she wasn’t a baby born from incest. Police theorised that the mother was most likely a young woman. Police started to search for women who had recently been pregnant but it led them nowhere. Over the forthcoming years, they only received about 20 leads in the case, all of which were investigated scrupulously. Despite an exhaustive search, the mother could never be found.

She was denied dignity in life but the community wouldn’t let Baby Allison be denied dignity in death. A local man called Lester Cramer purchased a grave site for her at the Conestoga Memorial Park.

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Created by Efisio Marini, an Italian naturalist doctor, this table is made completely out of human remains, including petrified brain, blood, liver, bile, lung, and glands. On the top of the table sits a foot, four ears, and a cut vertebrae. It is housed as the Museum of the History of Medicine, located in Paris, France.

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How Do Court Reporters Keep Straight Faces? These are from a book called Disorder in the Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place. ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning? WITNESS: He said, ‘Where am I, Cathy?’ ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? WITNESS: My name is Susan! _______________________________ ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: What year? WITNESS: Every year. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can’t remember which. ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you? WITNESS: Forty-five years. _________________________________ ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget.. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam? ____________________________________ ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he? WITNESS: He’s 20, much like your IQ. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken? WITNESS: Are you shitting me? _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time? WITNESS: Getting laid ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: She had three children , right? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: How many were boys? WITNESS: None. ATTORNEY: Were there any girls? WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney? ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated? WITNESS: By death.. ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated? WITNESS: Take a guess. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I’m going with male. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ______________________________________ ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral… _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? ______________________________________ And last: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

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The Hiroshima Peace Flame is located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. The flame has burned continually since it was lit in 1964 and it shall remain lit until all nuclear bombs on earth are destroyed and the earth is finally free from the threat of nuclear annihilation. 

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Hoshizuna no Hama is a beach located on the remote island of Iriomote in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The name roughly translates to “star sand beach” and was named aptly, due to the star shaped sand which calls this beach home. One-celled organisms called baclogypsina sphaerulata have pointed arms which are used to help them move. The other shell of these organisms is made from calcium carbonate and when they die, they leave their exoskeletons behind which make up this beach.

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An exquisite kitchen in a cabin at Tretopphytter – “Treetop Cabins” – two hours north of Oslo, Norway.

Capture and shared by @copenhagenwilderness

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