Baby Socks and Space Gerbils
Two fun articles for today’s post.
A study by the British Journal of Dermatology has shown that wearing tight socks, even just once, can leave sock scars on a baby’s legs.
Socks and, I imagine, tight socks, have been around for so long. Why are we only noticing now?
Everyone please take a moment to examine your lower calf for sock scars.
The article, here at BBC News Health, explains that it’s important to know about sock lesions so as to differentiate them from other, more serious conditions, like birth defects.
No one knows if the scars will be permanent, although, in some children, they have seen the scars persist for months, even years.
Moral of this story: sock your babies very carefully. Give their little legs plenty of sock room at the top of their socks.
Tight socks are the worst, no?
Moving on, Russia is shooting gerbils into space. Somehow, this is going to help them in their quest to put people on Mars.
From the BBC article:
“The Russian space agency has blasted 10 gerbils into space for a 12-day mission to test the possible effects on humans of a flight to Mars.”
Also:
“The 10 are all sand rodents, praised as ‘a very interesting object for research’ because they ‘can live for more than a month without using liquids,’ said Anatoly Grogoryev of the Russian Academy of Science.”
A month without any liquids! Why, just like us! On Mars!
What?
I’m sure they know what they’re doing. Something about salt exchange in…in space. They’re even filming the gerbils up in their little gerbil spacecraft, and have installed machines that will clean up their droppings.
I hope this footage becomes available on youtube.
Look out, Mars - here we come.
Mommies and daddies - don’t leave your babies alone with any suspicious socks.
The end.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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