May 4th is International Respect for Chickens day: some chicken-related links to help you celebrate

Whether you raise your own or not, you may be interested to know that May 4th is International Respect for Chickens Day.  In celebration, a few chicken related links:

Take a look at this, even if you don't read the whole thing: the famous (and definitive!) Chicken scientific study.

Glamour portraits of chickens from Chickens:

More at the artist's web site, and here's a mini documentary on the poultry portraiture project.

Epic Chick Fight: 2 women reenact Family Guy’s famed chicken fight:

And the original: 

Related posts and links:

Here's an excellent (and cheap!) chicken hat - I have one of these, and it actually quite warm!

This Chinese "Chick Chick" music video is the weirdest thing you'll watch all day.

A 500 lb chicken from hell: large feathered dinosaur species discovered in North America.

Scientists engineer flu-stopping superchicken.

The history of chickens and eggs: When and why did they get domesticated?

Got more? Leave them in the comments, and I'll update later.

W. E. B. Du Bois’s hand-drawn infographics describing black life In 1900

Via Flashbak:

In 1900 civil rights activist, author and intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois (wiki) presented a series of 58 hand-drawn infographics for The Exhibit of American Negroes exhibition at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Curated by Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Thomas J. Calloway, the visualized statistics would become objects of knowledge and reveal the state of black life in the United States.

Many of the statistics are from the state of Georgia, which had the largest black population at the time. Others are from the U.S as a whole (as it was configured at that time):

More at Flashbak, which has links to much more.

How to blow a cow

If you're easily grossed out, go away. Now.

Cow blowing, per Wikipedia:

Kuhblasen, phooka, or doom dev, is a process used in many countries according to ethnographers, in which forceful blowing of air into a cow's vagina (or sometimes anus) is applied to induce her to produce more milk.

Cow blowing was the reason why Gandhi abjured cow milk, saying that "since I had come to know that the cow and the buffalo were subjected to the process of phooka, I had conceived a strong disgust for milk."

There is, of course, a video that shows how it's done - for those with delicate sensibilities (and if this is true of you, what the hell are you doing here?) it's below the break.

Previously in the "disgusting things having to do with cattle" department, there's this: 

Urine-drinking Hindu cult believes a warm cup before sunrise straight from virgin cow cures cancer, baldness.

Toys from the past - Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit with Uranium (1950)

Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit with Uranium (1950)

The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source, a pure beta source, a gamma source, a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber, an electroscope, a geiger counter, and a manual. The set also came with a comic book featuring Dagwood from the popular Blondie comic strip. It was titled "Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom" and written in conjunction with General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project.

Here's an Atlas Obscura video with more:

 

Study Result

Impression

IMPRESSION:
1. Stable postoperative changes of the stomach and bowel without evidence of obstruction.
2. Hepatic lesions appear slightly increased in size and are again concerning for metastatic disease.
3. Interval decreased ascites and resolved pneumoperitoneum. Resolved bilateral pleural effusions.
4. Mild wall thickening of the bladder with punctate foci of intraluminal gas may reflect recent instrumentation versus cystitis.
5. Mild ascending aortic aneurysm measuring 4.1 cm.

Images and interpretation personally reviewed by: Sudeep Soni, MD

Narrative

EXAM: CT CHEST/ABDOMEN/PELVIS W/ IV CONTRAST

INDICATION: Primary colon cancer, also with history of renal cell and prostate cancer.

TECHNIQUE: CT of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis with intravenous contrast was performed. Multiplanar reconstructions were performed.

COMPARISON: CT abdomen and pelvis 9/10/2022, CT chest abdomen pelvis 8/31/2022

FINDINGS:

CHEST:
Lung/Airways: Central airways are patent. No consolidation. No suspicious lung nodule.

Pleura: No pleural effusion or pneumothorax.

Thyroid: Stable subcentimeter right thyroid nodule.

Mediastinum: No mediastinal mass. Esophagus is normal.

Lymph nodes: No thoracic adenopathy.

Heart: Heart size is normal. Coronary artery calcifications. No pericardial effusion.

Vasculature: Mildly dilated ascending thoracic aorta measuring 4.1 cm, previously 3.9 cm. Normal caliber pulmonary trunk. Right IJ chest port with catheter tip at the superior cavoatrial junction.

Subcutaneous Tissues/Chest Wall: No concerning soft tissue mass.

ABDOMEN:
Liver: Redemonstrated multiple hepatic lesions. Reference posterior right hepatic lobe lesion measures 2.5 x 2.9 cm (2/92), previously 2.7 x 2.2 cm. Segment 8 lesion measures 1.8 x 1.7 cm (2/89), previously 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
Hepatic vein(s): Patent.
Portal vein(s): Patent.

Gallbladder/Bile Ducts: Cholelithiasis with nonspecific pericholecystic fluid and setting of ascites. No biliary ductal dilatation.

Spleen: Normal size.

Pancreas: No pancreatic mass or pancreatitis. Pancreatic duct normal in caliber.

Adrenal Glands: No adrenal nodule.

Kidneys: Stable small renal hypodensities. No hydronephrosis or nephrolithiasis.

Bowel: Stable postoperative changes of the stomach and bowel without evidence of obstruction. Redemonstrated fluid-filled bowel loops with air-fluid levels.

Peritoneum/Retroperitoneum: Interval decreased ascites. Previously seen pneumoperitoneum has resolved.

Lymph Nodes: No abdominal adenopathy.

Vasculature: Normal caliber abdominal aorta and iliac arteries. Mild scattered atherosclerotic disease.

PELVIS:
Reproductive Organs: Status post prostatectomy.

Bladder: Mild circumferential wall thickening with foci of intraluminal gas.

Lymph Nodes: No pelvic lymphadenopathy.

Vasculature: Unremarkable.

Subcutaneous Tissues/Abdominal Wall: No hernia.

SKELETAL STRUCTURES: No acute fracture or suspicious osseous lesion. Partially imaged left hip arthroplasty. Bilateral glenohumeral osteoarthritis, right greater than left.

Component Results

There is no component information for this result.

General Information

Ordered by Shruti Murali

Collected on 01/27/2023 9:08 AM

Resulted on 01/27/2023 9:42 AM

Result Status: Final result

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