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Piranha have a well-earned reputation for being able and willing to eat just about anything in their path. One of the few exceptions is the Arapaima, a six-foot long, 300-pound Amazonian predator with bony scales capable of withstanding the toothy onslaught. Researchers are now working to adapt the Arapaima defenses to protect our own squishy bits. You ;d think a fish the size of an offensive lineman would be able to get by on bulk alone. But, during the dry season, Arapaima are forced to share dwindling pools with the voracious piranha. Its durable scales are what keep the Arapaima intact until the waters rise again. Its scales are composed of a hard, corrugated outer layer over a pliable layer of collagen. What more, the fibers that make up the outer layer are arranged in alternating directions鈥攍ike a parquet floor. This allows the scales to flex as the fish swims and spreads a piranha bite force out over a larger area, preventing the piranha teeth from penetrating. Researchers from UC San Diego, lead by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Marc Meyers, hope to replicate this hard on the outside, soft on the inside system to crea stanley cup te bendable ceramics. Conventional ceramics are very hard and quite durable but l stanley cup ose that strength when forced to curve around an object. Corrugation allows the plate to bend without crackin stanley canada g. The materials that nature has at its disposal are not very strong, said Meyers, Vtcw Who would win in a fight: Superman, or the Death Star
This morning, Facebook announced that it making organ donation social. From today, you ;ll be able to declare that you ;re an organ donor on your timeline鈥攕omething that Zuckerberg hopes will drive more people to sign up to donate. The Facebook initiative will provide links with every Timeline post which will enable friends and family to sign up to the program, reports The Next Web. stanley cup At the risk of using an inappropriate medical metaphor, organ donation could actually go viral. Facebook explains the feature: With the addition of organ donor to the Life Events section of timeline, you can state your intention to become an organ donor, and share your story about when, where or why you decided to become a donor. If you are not officially registered as an organ donor, sign up with the appropriate registry. To declare that you ;re a donor, you have to add a stanley trinkflaschen new life event to your timeline, then select the O stanley flask rgan Donor option from the Health 038; Wellness section. It currently available for US and UK residents, and more countries will be added soon. Even though this does feel like a slightly labored attempt to make yet another very personal aspect of our lives social, but with almost 114,000 people in need of donor organs any push to encourage people to sign up has to be seen as a very positive step. [The Next Web / Good Morning America] Image by Spirit-Fire under Creative Commons license
