April 30, 2004
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Shock and Awe
For decades, men have been improving organ transplant surgery. We now not only type and crossmatch ABO blood types, and Rh factors, but also HLA-antigens. We have databases around the country (in the U.S. anyway) for bone marrow and other organ donors. Universities are always having blood donation days, and people actually do sign up to give blood to total strangers (even if that stranger may be the next person who goes postal in a McDonald’s and kills you).
But nothing can beat the success rate of a placenta. How does the maternal uterus not reject foreign tissue that shares her bloodstream? Fascinating stuff!
Even a woman with a Stanford-Binet IQ < 50 can, without even thinking, find a way to join two non-HLA matched tissues together without graft-versus-host rejection!
Take that, all you Nobel Prize Winners!
If anyone’s looking for a 27′ Catalina, passion84sailing is selling her sailboat. I can’t afford a $19,000+ boat, but her pictures were worth looking at, if only to dream of my next sailing vacation. It’s clear from her pictures that she’s taken very good care of the teak trim. . . . I hope she finds a worthy buyer.
She writes: I am a woman sailor and have actually learned how to sail my 27′ Catalina by myself. Since I have moved to a lake that is too small for my boat, I am putting her up for sale. She is a beautiful boat and has treated me well. Please help spread the word so I can re-invest in a smaller boat for the lake. Here is my information page:
http://users.adelphia.net/~passion84sailing/index.html
Comments (3)
Hey you. Just wanted to say thanks for creating the ‘Wind n Water’ blogring. Too bad no one there skydives…Does that even count as wind? *snicker* Oh well. I like your site…even if it is overwhelmingly feminine.
Sad….I miss sailing
I sail. I sailed to the Caribbean from the UK and chartered for years. I live there now and have a little bookshop, but I’m looking for a skipper and boat (preferably a catamaran) to sail around the world with. Know anyone?
If you like sailing that much, you should come and live in the Caribbean. Its not difficult to do and there is plenty of work.