🦷 👁️ Teeth in Our Eyes and Fossilized Poop 💩

What’s Good and New

🇨🇦 🦷 👁️ Canada is showing off their surgical prowess by implanting a TOOTH inside of an EYEBALL (yes, you read that correctly) to repair vision!! I mean, I’m psyched that there’s a new way to improve people’s eyesight, but the thought of the procedure is giving me major horror movie vibes. 😨 Following Australian 🇦🇺 surgeon Dr. Greg Maloney’s lead, this will be the first time the “tooth-in-eye” surgery (they couldn’t give it a more creative name?! BORING) will be conducted in Canada. I have no idea how Maloney discovered this, perhaps it came to him in an ayahuasca-fuelled fever dream?? Or maybe he was visited by the tooth fairy and they told him this was possible??? It sounds completely made-up and creepy, but I am all for restoring vision even if it means ripping out a canine tooth and embedding it into an eyeball. 🤷🏿

🇨🇦 In more Canadian news (we ROCK don’t we!), our emissions levels have dropped to a 27 year low!! 🌲🌲🌲 The Canadian government has very publicly shared their goals of reducing emissions in an effort to combat climate change, and recently Canada has managed to reduce 6 megatonnes (MEGA!) from the previous year. This equates to removing 1.8 MILLION CARS from Canadian roads for an entire year. ⛔🚗 YAY CANADA, let’s keep going, and maybe we can eventually curb these outrageous forest fires we fall victim to every summer? 🙅🏽🔥 Just an idea.

👪 🧠 Apparently parenthood has a new perk: it keeps the brain young! 👶🏽 Now, as a parent myself, I am not surprised. With the amount of art, crafting, cartoon watching, and engaging in silly voices I do, I feel like I’m 12 sometimes. According to scientist Edwina Orchard and her team at Yale University, studying MRI scans of 28,000 middle aged adults revealed that the connectivity in the area of the brain related to interpreting behaviour, caregiving and coordination was much more neuron-rich and complex in comparison to adults of the same age range who did not have children. I guess watching endless hours of Bluey is doing me some good? I mean, I ugly cry at every third episode, but, it’s like a GOOD cry. 😭😭😭

Weird Factoids of The Week

💩The largest piece of fossilized dinosaur poo ever discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume. In case you’re a visual person like me, this wondrous turd is roughly the size of a large soda bottle 👀. You know, those big ones you buy for parties. Yuck. Believed to be a turd from a 🦖 Tyrannosaurus rex, the dung (also christened a “coprolite”, ooh fancy) is helping scientists understand what T-rexes ate. Cool, but why do we need to know what they ate? 🤷🏻🤷🏻

🚰 Something to make you feel crazy: 💦 Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as “a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface”, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet. WTH. When I was gathering fun facts for this newsletter, I debated adding this one in here because it’s not really “fun”. It sent me into a spiral for 20 minutes. Anyways, enjoy this uncomfortable fact!! 🌀🌀🌀

Weird Factoids of The Week

Something Useful

🍎🍏🍒🍓🍑🍌🍐🍍🥝🥧 Apparently strawberries, rhubarb, apricots, cherries, pineapples, avocados, lemons, and radishes are in season, offering a welcome change from awful starchy winter produce. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of root vegetables (except you, my beloved potato, I love you, you are perfect in all forms 💋🥔. I’m probably going to get a tattoo of a potato on my body at some point.) Anyways, back to the in-season fruit: It’s time for FRESHNESS and JUICE and HEALTH and VITALITY and SMOOTHIES!! Hit up a farmer’s market, support local, and get healthy y’all.

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