3D: 3D Virtual Heart So Real Doctors’ Own Hearts Go Pitter Patter
3D: 3D Virtual Heart So Real Doctors’ Own Hearts Go Pitter Patter
Friday, October 24th, 2008 | No Comments
Hamsters and chicks are dangerous, doctors warn (via The Guardian)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | One Comment
Hamsters can be dangerous, Academy of Pediatrics report warns. Photograph: G.K. & Vikki Hart/Getty
Young children should not keep hamsters, baby chicks, lizards, turtles or hedgehogs as pets, according to the leading US paediatricians’ group, in a new report about dangers from exotic animals.
Besides evidence that they can carry dangerous and sometimes potentially deadly germs, exotic pets may be more prone than cats and dogs to bite, scratch or claw … putting children younger than five particularly at risk, the report says.
Citizen Enforcers Take Aim (via NYTimes)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | No Comments
By BENEDICT CAREY
Last month a Georgia woman named DeShan Fishel was driving near a school and saw a Jeep rush past a stop signal on a school bus, clipping a 5-year-old boy. The other driver sped away.
Ms. Fishel whipped a U-turn and gave chase. She stayed with the Jeep on surface streets and caught the driver on a highway in Dawson County, Ga., making him pull over. She watched the driver until police officers arrived.
