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Bees? Really?
This might be one of the weirdest thing we’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the weirdest thing this Taiwanese woman has ever seen, considering it’s BEES in her EYE.
One more time, for the people in the back: BEES. IN. HER. EYE.
The unfortunate 29-year-old, identified as He, reported to a hospital with sharp eye pain that she assumed was from dirt in her eyes after a vigorous afternoon of gardening near a grave site. Upon close inspection, the hospital’s head of ophthalmology noticed “something that looked like insect legs” floating in her eye and carefully pulled them out. (Pause to dry heave.)
The eyeball intruders turned out to be “sweat bees,” which nest in fallen trees and are attracted to human perspiration. The bees flew into He’s eye and started drinking from her tear duct, which was overproducing because of the immense pain she was in. Miraculously, He’s eyeball and sight are intact, and she’s expected to make a full recovery. The bees are fine, too.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, sweat bees live all over the world. We’re wearing goggles outside from now on.
Flip it and reverse it
Imagine you’re back in your med school days, happily dissecting another cadaver. You pop the body open and … every organ is in the wrong place??
That’s what some students at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) experienced recently. They discovered their body donor had a condition called situs inversus with levocardia – meaning, her heart was in the right place (hah), but all her abdominal organs were transposed right to left. The deceased woman was Rose Marie Bentley, who had died at the ripe old age of 99 without ever knowing she had this condition.
What makes her remarkable is barely anyone with this condition lives to adulthood. Professor Cam Walker of OHSU estimates the odds are 1 in 50 million, and there are only two other known cases of older patients who lived with situs inversus. After taking a look at their mother’s medical records, Bentley’s children noted that the surgeon who removed her appendix recorded its strange location, but no one raised any alarm.
Ms. Bentley lived a full and happy life, despite her organs being a mirror image of virtually everyone else’s anatomy. Some people are just special.
Turn that smile upside down
Service with a smile. Put on a happy face. Let a smile be your umbrella. Seems like good advice, but don’t let these cliches fool you. They are all examples of surface acting – hiding feelings of annoyance behind a mask of forced pleasantness – and they’re not really good for you. At least not if you work with the public and are required to be nice.
Investigators at Penn State University and the University at Buffalo looked at survey data from nurses, teachers, and people in food service and found that they were more likely to drink after work than those who did not interact with the public on a regular basis. “In these jobs, there’s also often money tied to showing positive emotions and holding back negative feelings. Money gives you a motivation to override your natural tendencies, but doing it all day can be wearing,” lead investigator Alicia Grandey said in a written statement.
Personality also plays a part. The risk of increased drinking is greater for surface actors who are more impulsive. And it is stronger still for impulsive people who “also worked in jobs where employees have one-time service encounters with customers, like a call center or coffee shop, rather than relationships, like health care or education,” the investigators said.
They suggested that businesses could give their employees more autonomy, but we’ve got another idea. There are lots of awards for real actors, so how about one for surface actors? They could call it the Oscar … Mayer. Best performance in serving a drive-thru customer who smoked a little too much marijuana. Creative achievement while helping a credit card applicant who still doesn’t understand after being told the same thing five times. Stunt coordination while helping a patient use a bedpan (the “turn the other cheek” award). Choreography to get out of bed every day to face the blank stares of sullen teenagers (the “Lord, give me strength” award). The “okay, we get the picture, you can stop with the awards” award.
That’s not the ice cream truck
Any story that starts with strange men in white, unmarked vans is never going to end well. Especially when that strange man is offering $20 in exchange for DNA samples.
However, this is the situation that Louisville, Ky., finds itself in. According to WAVE3 News, the aforementioned men have been cruising the poorer neighborhoods of the city for a couple of months, offering money to anyone who belongs to Passport Health. Cheek swabs are collected, no questions are asked, and the person walks out with 20 extra dollars.
This is already shady territory, but to make things worse, Passport Health has denied any affiliation. And when asked by one of their customers, the men reported being with Freedom Health. The number the customer was given? Of course it didn’t work.
The cherry on top of the shady cake? According to a professor from the University of Louisville interviewed by WAVE3, the swabs can be used to test for only certain kinds of cancer, and those tests aren’t even commercially available yet. What, you mean this was all a scam? We’re shocked! SHOCKED!
Bees? Really?
This might be one of the weirdest thing we’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the weirdest thing this Taiwanese woman has ever seen, considering it’s BEES in her EYE.
One more time, for the people in the back: BEES. IN. HER. EYE.
The unfortunate 29-year-old, identified as He, reported to a hospital with sharp eye pain that she assumed was from dirt in her eyes after a vigorous afternoon of gardening near a grave site. Upon close inspection, the hospital’s head of ophthalmology noticed “something that looked like insect legs” floating in her eye and carefully pulled them out. (Pause to dry heave.)
The eyeball intruders turned out to be “sweat bees,” which nest in fallen trees and are attracted to human perspiration. The bees flew into He’s eye and started drinking from her tear duct, which was overproducing because of the immense pain she was in. Miraculously, He’s eyeball and sight are intact, and she’s expected to make a full recovery. The bees are fine, too.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, sweat bees live all over the world. We’re wearing goggles outside from now on.
Flip it and reverse it
Imagine you’re back in your med school days, happily dissecting another cadaver. You pop the body open and … every organ is in the wrong place??
That’s what some students at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) experienced recently. They discovered their body donor had a condition called situs inversus with levocardia – meaning, her heart was in the right place (hah), but all her abdominal organs were transposed right to left. The deceased woman was Rose Marie Bentley, who had died at the ripe old age of 99 without ever knowing she had this condition.
What makes her remarkable is barely anyone with this condition lives to adulthood. Professor Cam Walker of OHSU estimates the odds are 1 in 50 million, and there are only two other known cases of older patients who lived with situs inversus. After taking a look at their mother’s medical records, Bentley’s children noted that the surgeon who removed her appendix recorded its strange location, but no one raised any alarm.
Ms. Bentley lived a full and happy life, despite her organs being a mirror image of virtually everyone else’s anatomy. Some people are just special.
Turn that smile upside down
Service with a smile. Put on a happy face. Let a smile be your umbrella. Seems like good advice, but don’t let these cliches fool you. They are all examples of surface acting – hiding feelings of annoyance behind a mask of forced pleasantness – and they’re not really good for you. At least not if you work with the public and are required to be nice.
Investigators at Penn State University and the University at Buffalo looked at survey data from nurses, teachers, and people in food service and found that they were more likely to drink after work than those who did not interact with the public on a regular basis. “In these jobs, there’s also often money tied to showing positive emotions and holding back negative feelings. Money gives you a motivation to override your natural tendencies, but doing it all day can be wearing,” lead investigator Alicia Grandey said in a written statement.
Personality also plays a part. The risk of increased drinking is greater for surface actors who are more impulsive. And it is stronger still for impulsive people who “also worked in jobs where employees have one-time service encounters with customers, like a call center or coffee shop, rather than relationships, like health care or education,” the investigators said.
They suggested that businesses could give their employees more autonomy, but we’ve got another idea. There are lots of awards for real actors, so how about one for surface actors? They could call it the Oscar … Mayer. Best performance in serving a drive-thru customer who smoked a little too much marijuana. Creative achievement while helping a credit card applicant who still doesn’t understand after being told the same thing five times. Stunt coordination while helping a patient use a bedpan (the “turn the other cheek” award). Choreography to get out of bed every day to face the blank stares of sullen teenagers (the “Lord, give me strength” award). The “okay, we get the picture, you can stop with the awards” award.
That’s not the ice cream truck
Any story that starts with strange men in white, unmarked vans is never going to end well. Especially when that strange man is offering $20 in exchange for DNA samples.
However, this is the situation that Louisville, Ky., finds itself in. According to WAVE3 News, the aforementioned men have been cruising the poorer neighborhoods of the city for a couple of months, offering money to anyone who belongs to Passport Health. Cheek swabs are collected, no questions are asked, and the person walks out with 20 extra dollars.
This is already shady territory, but to make things worse, Passport Health has denied any affiliation. And when asked by one of their customers, the men reported being with Freedom Health. The number the customer was given? Of course it didn’t work.
The cherry on top of the shady cake? According to a professor from the University of Louisville interviewed by WAVE3, the swabs can be used to test for only certain kinds of cancer, and those tests aren’t even commercially available yet. What, you mean this was all a scam? We’re shocked! SHOCKED!
Bees? Really?
This might be one of the weirdest thing we’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the weirdest thing this Taiwanese woman has ever seen, considering it’s BEES in her EYE.
One more time, for the people in the back: BEES. IN. HER. EYE.
The unfortunate 29-year-old, identified as He, reported to a hospital with sharp eye pain that she assumed was from dirt in her eyes after a vigorous afternoon of gardening near a grave site. Upon close inspection, the hospital’s head of ophthalmology noticed “something that looked like insect legs” floating in her eye and carefully pulled them out. (Pause to dry heave.)
The eyeball intruders turned out to be “sweat bees,” which nest in fallen trees and are attracted to human perspiration. The bees flew into He’s eye and started drinking from her tear duct, which was overproducing because of the immense pain she was in. Miraculously, He’s eyeball and sight are intact, and she’s expected to make a full recovery. The bees are fine, too.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, sweat bees live all over the world. We’re wearing goggles outside from now on.
Flip it and reverse it
Imagine you’re back in your med school days, happily dissecting another cadaver. You pop the body open and … every organ is in the wrong place??
That’s what some students at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) experienced recently. They discovered their body donor had a condition called situs inversus with levocardia – meaning, her heart was in the right place (hah), but all her abdominal organs were transposed right to left. The deceased woman was Rose Marie Bentley, who had died at the ripe old age of 99 without ever knowing she had this condition.
What makes her remarkable is barely anyone with this condition lives to adulthood. Professor Cam Walker of OHSU estimates the odds are 1 in 50 million, and there are only two other known cases of older patients who lived with situs inversus. After taking a look at their mother’s medical records, Bentley’s children noted that the surgeon who removed her appendix recorded its strange location, but no one raised any alarm.
Ms. Bentley lived a full and happy life, despite her organs being a mirror image of virtually everyone else’s anatomy. Some people are just special.
Turn that smile upside down
Service with a smile. Put on a happy face. Let a smile be your umbrella. Seems like good advice, but don’t let these cliches fool you. They are all examples of surface acting – hiding feelings of annoyance behind a mask of forced pleasantness – and they’re not really good for you. At least not if you work with the public and are required to be nice.
Investigators at Penn State University and the University at Buffalo looked at survey data from nurses, teachers, and people in food service and found that they were more likely to drink after work than those who did not interact with the public on a regular basis. “In these jobs, there’s also often money tied to showing positive emotions and holding back negative feelings. Money gives you a motivation to override your natural tendencies, but doing it all day can be wearing,” lead investigator Alicia Grandey said in a written statement.
Personality also plays a part. The risk of increased drinking is greater for surface actors who are more impulsive. And it is stronger still for impulsive people who “also worked in jobs where employees have one-time service encounters with customers, like a call center or coffee shop, rather than relationships, like health care or education,” the investigators said.
They suggested that businesses could give their employees more autonomy, but we’ve got another idea. There are lots of awards for real actors, so how about one for surface actors? They could call it the Oscar … Mayer. Best performance in serving a drive-thru customer who smoked a little too much marijuana. Creative achievement while helping a credit card applicant who still doesn’t understand after being told the same thing five times. Stunt coordination while helping a patient use a bedpan (the “turn the other cheek” award). Choreography to get out of bed every day to face the blank stares of sullen teenagers (the “Lord, give me strength” award). The “okay, we get the picture, you can stop with the awards” award.
That’s not the ice cream truck
Any story that starts with strange men in white, unmarked vans is never going to end well. Especially when that strange man is offering $20 in exchange for DNA samples.
However, this is the situation that Louisville, Ky., finds itself in. According to WAVE3 News, the aforementioned men have been cruising the poorer neighborhoods of the city for a couple of months, offering money to anyone who belongs to Passport Health. Cheek swabs are collected, no questions are asked, and the person walks out with 20 extra dollars.
This is already shady territory, but to make things worse, Passport Health has denied any affiliation. And when asked by one of their customers, the men reported being with Freedom Health. The number the customer was given? Of course it didn’t work.
The cherry on top of the shady cake? According to a professor from the University of Louisville interviewed by WAVE3, the swabs can be used to test for only certain kinds of cancer, and those tests aren’t even commercially available yet. What, you mean this was all a scam? We’re shocked! SHOCKED!