Clark Kent update

Good news and bad news:

We have good news and bad news about our friend Clark Kent. First, the bad news: following his dental surgery to remove some teeth, a biopsy revealed that Clark has a rare, slow-growing bone cancer in his mouth (calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor). The consulting pathologist from UPenn gave him a "fair" prognosis. Given his many other medical issues, we decided not to put Clark through another surgery and/or radiation. Instead (and here comes the good news!), Clark found an amazing home where he can live out the rest of his days in peace and comfort--however long that may be.

The rest of the story here.

Poor kitty. He has other medical conditions that preclude vigorous treatment of his cancer. I hope he beats the odds and lives a long, full life.

Update: Last year, the vets estimated CK's age maybe 2 years, but it appears he could be as old as 10. Still. Without his issues, he could have had another 5-8 more years, and I can't help but think that mistreatment damaged his health. Poor thing.

Cornell Lab Prints Food

There are printers that can spit out 3-D model cars and others that can make paper solar panels. Next up: technology that can print food for restaurants and homes.

Engineers envision printed breakfasts synced with alarm clocks and gourmet spreads downloaded from high-end restaurants but served at the dinner table. Printers could to linked to digital food logs and programmed to churn out meals that fill in the day’s nutritional blanks.

So instead of not being able to get a table at an exclusive restaurants, will there be a waiting list for licenses for a particular dish?

It occurs to me how this could revolutionize food manufacturing–anything you eat could be plumped full of nutrients/fat-free/tuned to your individual metabolism. Could kick world hunger in the slats as well, depending on the price of the starting materials.

UPDATE: added link to the Cornell website, which I forgot to do before.

Link to the Cornell website here.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.