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Wednesday, November 20

A blind possum's joyride on a robo vacuum cleaner


Sputnik has the Instagram video. That possum was having a whale of a time. Priceless. 

In more riveting news from Sputnik, they feature video of a cat stopping a human baby from falling down a flight of stairs.  The video, obviously from a security camera, does not look fake to me. Note how the cat sprang into action. Amazing -- or maybe not; maybe cats are as good at guarding children as dogs, but when you consider the cat's size, it had to do some serious punching to block the baby's progress.

And there's this blockbuster from Sputnik: Siberian Scientists Discover New Danger of Dental Implants.  Companies keep rushing new technologies into production without adequate testing, and the public keeps uncritically buying the 'breakthroughs' So now we have a disease called -- 

... peri-implantitis, an infection when soft tissues of the oral cavity inflame, the bone tissue in the prosthesis area is irreversibly destroyed and gum swelling, bleeding and suppuration occur.
Effective treatment for this infection is laser therapy, which cleans the surfaces of an implant of any foreign substances and organisms. Surfaces, however, vary greatly in cleanliness, which largely depends on their manufacturer. ...

I'd be lost without Sputnik.  

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