I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

An amazing story if true.

https://twitter.com/stethospeaks/status/1404408453246820352

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/53/399/medium_1930_0635__0001_.jpg

Canary resuscitator Siebe Gorman and Company Limited
The circular door is open while you explore the mine. If the canary keels over you shut the door and turn on the oxygen supply. While you run for safety, of course.

This type of cage allows one to re-use the canary.

Dunno. Buying a replacement canary would be a lot cheeper.

mikhail wrote: »

It's a nice story, but I find it strange that people always stop there with the little just-so story of the lady who is kind of magic.

If she can smell it, then there is a chemical marker secreted by Parkinson's Disease patients.

That means that we can figure out what it is and build a machine to detect that chemical marker, and even maybe learn something about what PD changes in the body.

There are clever people doing exactly that:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21669-4

She's heavily involved in Parkinson's research and activism herself, first discovered the smell thing when her husband got Parkinson's, and is a nurse etc. Her Twitter account is very active too, so it's possible to go beyond the Ripley's believe it or not part as well.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Human bodies are basically squishy sacks of goopy grease and water emulsions held together by hydrogen bonds and disulphide bridges between protein molecules and glommed onto some big lumps of high-grade chalk.

New Home wrote: »

Let me guess... Terry Pratchett? Or Douglas Adams?

I've never heard it before, but it does sound a bit like Adams, like the quote below.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

On the lesser known Canary island of La Gomera, residents still speak a whistled version of Spanish called Silbo Gomera, which was used to communicate with each other across deep valleys and ravines

Evade wrote: »

QI had a segment on the Spanish one a few years ago and from what I remember it's a substitution for whatever the spoken language is, a bit like sign language was originally, and once you knew what the phrase was in Spanish you could hear that in the whistles.

Is that a bit like in The Clangers?

There were two brothers who used to work with me who used to communicate with whistles and gestures in work, because they were both in the same noisy area. Nobody could really break the code. They weren't even too close age-wise, maybe 8 or 9 years between them, so it wouldn't have been a childhood thing.

New Home wrote: »

I think they do that in a few parts of the world, across valleys. It would be interesting to know if different "languages" can still understand one another.

For some reason I'm reminded of the NowWhatian Boghog.

fvp4 wrote: »

A quick check on Wikipedia and it says that Michael Jackson did in fact do a CPR course and did incorporate the "Annie are you ok" into Smooth criminal because of that. Rather than post the wiki here is the site it references.

https://www.eonline.com/news/367450/new-michael-jackson-documentary-spike-lee-s-bad-25-is-a-funky-gem-you-can-watch-online

In the same vein: to keep proper time while performing chest compressions in CPR, work to the beat of the Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive".

Why don't they include breaths any more? Surely emergency service response times haven't gotten to below four minutes in every case.

On the subject of CPR it's very easy to break someone's ribs doing it. I learned when I was 10 or 12 and even then could hit the you've broken a rib indicator on Ambu Andy.

Cordell wrote: »

Chest compressions will also pump the lungs.

Do you have a source on that? When googling earlier said it was circulating residual oxygen hence the four minute remark.

cdeb wrote: »

"The mechanism of chest compression is often explained by the lung pump theory, in which the heart works as a part of the larger pumping system with the lungs"

https://icm-experimental.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40635-019-0275-9

It seems logical though that compressing the lungs' space will in turn compress the lungs, albeit not as effectively as breathing obviously

I might be misreading that portion of the article, and its citations, but it seems to me isn't lung pump theory is about how chest compressions create blood flow and not really anything to do with getting oxygen into the blood.


But reading the part about rats reminded me of this scene in the Abyss

On the set the rat is breathing the liquid, there's enough oxygen dissolved in it for it to survive.

Most of us know what Michael Collins sounded like.

No, not that Michael Collins. Newsreel footage in those days was silent.
Or the astronaut Michael Collins, most of the famous quotes from the moon landings were Armstrong & Aldrin.

But most of us have probably seen this fella in films:




And no, he's not Michael Collins - that's Gert Fröbe who played Goldfinger. But the German actor spoke very little English, learned his lines phonetically and delivered them with such a strong accent that they had to dub him. And the actor they chose as the voice of Goldfinger was named Michael Collins.

(He was also Fröbe's 'voice' as Baron Bomhurst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in many other films)