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In a surgical first, Philadelphia doctors have transplanted donor hands and forearms onto an 8-year-old boy whose own hands were amputated when he was a toddler.

Zion Harvey told NBC News that the groundbreaking 10-hour operation performed earlier this month at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was a dream come true. He can’t wait for the day he holds his little sister with his new hands.

“My favorite thing [will be to] wait for her to run into my hands as I pick her up and spin her around,” he said.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/boy-8-gets-double-hand-transplant-surgical-first-n399811

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Three astronauts have successfully completed a trip aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station in order to reinforce the crew.

NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Russia’s Oleg Kononenko and Japan’s Kimiya Yui blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:02 a.m. local time (5:02 p.m. ET Wednesday).

It was a textbook launch, with Kononenko declaring everything “nominal,” meaning normal, about 20 minutes after liftoff. The Expedition 44 crew arrived less than six hours later.

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The Soyuz TMA-17M rocket blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, 23 July 2015, carrying members of the expedition 44/45 NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko to the International Space Station (ISS). EPA

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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/three-new-astronauts-blast-space-station-n396766

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Every summer, Selecta opens up a ‘Pop-Up’ shop for design-your-own Magnum ice creams, called Magnum Pleasure Store.

They usually last only for a couple of months.
Last year (2014), they opened their pop-up store in Selfridges in Oxford Circus, and by the time I knew about it, they were already gone… 😦
So now, I am so glad I managed to experience ‘designing’ my own Magnum.
Honestly, I am not a major fan of Magnum ice cream.


I like Ben and Jerry’s more.

I recently had Gelato from Amorino in Paris, and that tasted way better than all my other ice cream experiences.
I remember years ago when Magnum became such a huge trend in the Philippines.
During that time, I hopped on to the bandwagon just because of all the hype and tried a Magnum for the first time…

and I wasn’t WOWED by it.

Here are a few tips on how to reduce your impact on our planet 3-5 times a day just by stuffing your face with deliciousness.

1. Buy Organic. Organic food is higher in nutrients, free of neurotoxins, free of pesticides, hasn’t been gas ripened, supports biodiversity and generally just tastes better. If you can’t afford to do a full organic shop start with what you can afford and make sure to always wash non-organic food in a mixture of water and apple cider vinegar to remove the majority of the pesticides.

2. Buy Local. Reduce your food miles.Food miles refer to the number of miles between the farm your food came from and the place you bought it. For example if you bought a delicious mango from your local supermarket that has come from Mexico that’s roughly 5551 miles as the crow flies! Find your local farmers market and see…

Fantasy movies have rocked the screen this summer.  While Self / less is not about a super hero, it touches on a subject that we’ve explored forever, immortality.  I’m going to critique this movie in two parts.  The first part for those who have not seen Self / less and the second part those who have.  So part two not only will give away the story but basically be huge spoiler.

Ben Kinsley plays a wealthy business tycoon named Damian Hayes who is dying of terminal cancer at the ripe old age of 68.  A business card discreetly leads him to a contact named Professor Albright (Matthew Goode) and company offering a procedure called Shedding that transfers your consciousness into a genetically engineered healthy body.  In Damian’s case, $250M will give him a second chance at life.  He must say good bye to his current life, friends and family and…

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Joanne Jones, an occupational therapist from Warwick, Rhode Island, has made an unlikely foe in the past year: Securus Technologies, a billion-dollar prison technology company based in Dallas.

Sitting at her kitchen table one recent afternoon in front of a stack of Securus bills, Jones explained that her 29-year-old son, Nate Jones, had been arrested on an aggravated robbery charge in January 2014. Her son’s life may have taken a negative turn, but Jones tries to keep in touch with him as often as possible.

They speak roughly once a week in a 15-minute phone call, and speak for another 25 minutes on a video chat. Jones says she’d travel to Texas to visit her son in person, but Hays County Jail, where he is locked up, banned visitations in November 2013. That happened shortly after the county jail entered into a contract with Securus.

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Detention Officer Rene Ansley looks on as…