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"was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches." https://t.co/TWCsWo5Z4f
" But for the next nine months he will be struggling just to walk. When he leaves the hospital he hopes to walk out a new man, or at least one that is over three inches taller."https://t.co/zVpIbQOrLq
Procrustes."The word "Procrustean" is thus used to describe situations where different lengths or sizes or properties are fitted to an arbitrary standard."https://t.co/s3MIvpsAk3
Polio -> leg growth issues."She wore leg braces round the clock for awhile and underwent a couple of corrective surgeries. In one surgery, doctors tried to lengthen the tendons in her legs in order to address the drop foot."https://t.co/JNgjEwEaY3
Frankenstien Radio Controls Be Like Part of Bone Removedhttps://t.co/2D2Pu1OSeN
Huh."So in 1908, Teddy Roosevelt appointed a handsome Ohio doctor with a handlebar mustache, Hamilton Wright, to be the nation’s first Opium Commissioner."https://t.co/WhNzhHeVdV
Oooh. I bet he was expressing associations between opium & communism. 'Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God' Ala "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"
The history of poppies.https://t.co/NkNBGIXIKb
An idea I captured from a song."When soon his majestySent soldiers and thievesTo India searching for goldInstead from the groundSome magic they foundSomething far better I'm toldYeah...poppies"https://t.co/p6JhYV9Zcr
Frankenstien Radio Controls.Is Dec talking about MIT's experiments from 60's on nerves and making the dead walk.Frog legs?https://t.co/qYYsRw7iKD
"Flying frogs are so graceful: they truly are a sight to behold"—Francis E Dechttps://t.co/QGTrg3lmEvWat.
Scry hard enough and thee shall find."Did ancient Mesopotamians get high? Near Eastern rituals may have included opium, cannabis"https://t.co/V3dvU5rU28
Grinding up flowers on a turning wheel.Smudging rituals could date back quite far indeed.https://t.co/7AM7cAh3TS
How old are pantographs? If the Antikythera was built in ancient Greek, could they have used a potters wheel (traced as far back as Mesopotamia) to carve duplications in marble?Even if this isn't how they did their sculpting, it's a fun idea.https://t.co/Ujn1fxuONv
"Now, the whole world can truly LOOK AT THE PICTURE and SEE THE SKULL (and the part of bone removed)" — FEDhttps://t.co/n2W97pvnGI