A sampler of items of interest from various internet sites. Click on the links provided to access the items for a more detailed look . . .
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30 Times Hospital Food Was So Bad, People Just Had To Shame It Online
From the Bored Panda article:
If hospitals are supposed to help you get well, then they ought to be doing this in every single way possible. From making the surroundings warm and welcoming to providing you nutritious, wholesome, and homely meals so you can get your strength back as fast as possible. Unfortunately, you Pandas and I all know that this isn't the case. Hospital food is absolutely horrid in a huge number of hospitals. And, frankly, we deserve better.We wanted to show you just how bad hospital food can get all over the world, so our hard-working team at Bored Panda compiled this list that's bound to make you angry like professional chef Gordon Ramsay.The reason why hospital food is so bad and so banal it hurts is because of money. Or rather, the lack of it. And let's not forget the fact that often hospitals don't even make the food that they serve to patients and the staff members themselves; they outsource it. As you're about to find out, there are quite a few things that look as lonely on a plate as two tiny sausages with some parsley.
Sample pics and comment:
This Is The Meal My Wife’s Hospital Had The Audacity To Serve For Nurses Appreciation Week. I Live In Phoenix
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What You Get For Breakfast In A Hungarian Hospital
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Hospital Administration Told Us They'd Be Treating Us To Dinner During Our Shift. "Dinner" Is One Individual, Frozen, Uncooked Meatloaf Per Person. This Is Georgia/
(One commenter wrote “It looks like something they removed from a patient.”)
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Hospital Food In Italy
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You get the idea, click on the link below for more horror images.
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Source:
Bored Panda
July 6, 2021
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Meth Pollution in Waterways Turns Trout Into Junkies
From the Smithsonian Magazine article:
Meth use has skyrocketed in the United States and Europe in recent years, especially during the pandemic. But meth isn’t completely absorbed when consumed, eventually exiting the body in excrement. In their current state, wastewater treatment plants aren’t equipped to remove this kind of contaminant. As a result, meth-laced sewage water released back into the environment still contains high levels of the substance.Researchers studied the effects of the drug on brown trout by replicating meth-polluted wastewater conditions in the lab. The trout were forced to quit cold turkey after two months of swimming in meth-y waters and were seen to exhibit symptoms of withdrawal. Traces of meth were also found in the trout’s brains up to ten days after the exposure.The researchers also gave meth-doped trout and clean trout the option of entering either a stream contaminated with meth or another without. Compared to the clean trout, meth-exposed trout preferred to return to the stream with the drug, which the researchers inferred as a sign of addiction.The observed change in trout behavior due to meth consumption could be detrimental for trout in the wild. Torpid trout could have difficulties finding food, adhering to their usual migration patterns and finding mates. They may even be sitting ducks for predators. Trout addicts could also deliberately seek out sources of the drug, which may encourage them to congregate around wastewater treatment areas. The shift in trout distribution in their natural habitats will ripple across the food web and affect the broad range of predators that feed on them. Trout are important food sources to birds, other fish and even humans.
Source:
Smithsonian Magazine
July 9, 2021
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Embroidered Landscapes Capture the Stillness of Pastoral Life through Dense Knots and Stitches
From the article:
French knots, chain stitches, and straight lines become peaceful countrysides and abandoned shacks overrun by moss and vines in Katrin Vates’s embroideries. Using bleached canvas as a base, Vates works with thread in natural color palettes of greens or autumnal hues that she lays in variable lengths and thicknesses: she conveys a glistening ocean through flat, even stitches in blues and white, while tufts of neutral tones become cropped fields and dried bushes. Vates rarely sketches a preliminary design and never attaches a hoop, which allows more freedom to adjust both the image and the ways weather and sunlight impact the scenes.
Some pics:
Source:
Colossal
July 9, 2021
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50 Times People Showed How They Remade Things Instead Of Throwing Them Away And The Internet Applauded Them
This Kind Man Is Recycling Old Camp Coolers To Make Warm Kitty Shelters For Winter! How Cool Is This?!
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The School Security Guard Decided To Save The Discarded Benches And Gave Them A Second Life
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Earrings Who Lost Their Mates Turned Into A Charm Bracelet
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Made A Bag For My Mom's Yarn From Old Window Screen
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Old Handmade Writing Desk Turned Into A Changing Table For The New Nursery
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Source:
Bored Panda
July 6, 2021
