By Alexbeckett_

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

megan lynne

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA ( 2006 ) dir. David Frankel

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan

Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand

The advance may help users feel a greater sense of human connection through touch

Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of human touch using their prosthetics are becoming closer to reality. Now, new technology is allowing them to feel temperature—even in limbs that are no longer part of their bodies. For the first time, a functional artificial limb has been fitted with fingertip sensors that allow an ordinary prosthetic hand to sense and respond to temperature just as a living hand does. The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand. The MiniTouch, described in a study published Friday in Med, was created with affordable off-the-shelf electronics, requires no surgery and can be fitted to existing commercial prosthetic hands in a matter of hours.

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so if #iobatw Bucky got a tattoo for Gale what and where would it be? 🤩 maybe he got tipsy one night in DC?

bucky: tattoo a b-17 on my shoulder and write “buck” on the plane

tattoo artist: ok

bucky: can you make it so a blonde pin-up girl is riding the b-17? but she’s got a really flat chest. like nonexistent basically

tattoo artist: …uh, ok…

“Normal” test results are not the relief people think they are. When you wake up in pain and continue to be in pain for hours every day and your tests come back normal you don’t stop being in pain.

The immediacy with which you know which twin is on the screen is CRAZY!! Michael’s acting is so nuanced that you can tell the difference between Smoke and Stack simply by the way their eyes glint…

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

i’ll find a new place to be from