Jan
Kid WAS deaf for NINE years, regains hearing after cotton bud pops out of his ear
Posted by Catfish as enviornment, science
This is one of those stories that is too funny to be true. I mean you got to be kidding me. How does the doctor not see the cotton in this kid’s ear? I guess when they say, Take the cotton out of your ears!, they actually mean it. Link below.
For nine years, Jerome Bartens had to cope with the handicap of being half deaf.
Ever since he was a toddler, the 11-year-old had been unable to hear anything on his right side and doctors said they were unable to help.
Then suddenly the reason for his problems became clear - when the end of a cotton bud popped out of his ear.
His family believe that he must have poked the bud in the ear at the age of two and the tip must have broken off the plastic stem.
The result was that he has always struggled at school, was constantly forced to turn up the volume of the television and music, and became used to everyone shouting at him.
But now he is waking up to a whole world of noise - while his father Carsten is demanding to know why medical experts failed to identify the problem for so long.
Yesterday Mr Bartens, 45, told how Jerome was playing with his friends in a church hall when he heard a popping sound in his right ear.
He put his finger in and found the tip of a cotton wool bud.
“It was just incredible - his hearing returned to normal in an instant.
“He was cured as suddenly as he became deaf. I had always suspected Jerome had stuck something in his ear when he was little and that was causing the problem.
“But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it.
“I am amazed they didn’t spot something as obvious as a cotton wool bud.”
Mr Bartens, an HGV driver from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, has now complained to his GP and hearing specialists who examined Jerome over the years.
just dont grow up to be this guy!
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Theo Jansen, Modern Day DaVinci
Posted by Catfish as art, science
For the past fifteen years, Theo Jansen has been envisioning and designing his beach animals out of mostly commonly available materials. Watch the video to see his wonderfully huge, centipede like machine creatures designed to roam the Dutch coastline, powered by gusts of wind.
These creations are totally amazing to me. Like something out of a dream. What amazes me most is the sense of possessing animation, and self locomotion. Its as if they are living things. If he made them in miniature as assemble yourself kits, I think they could replace kits as the cool thing to do at the beach. Id buy one.