We’ve got all sorts of good new gutsy stuff in our online store, including the Spill Your Guts journal and supa-cute stationery set with stickers. We also have a few Grab Your Gonads laminated cards (you can also download a free digital copy and print it out yourself!) and a handful of laminated kiddie placemats with all your gutsy glandy friends.
Archive for April, 2010
Good New Guts
Posted: Monday, April 12th, 2010Give My Kidney Back!
Posted: Monday, April 12th, 2010
Thought you donated your liver, but somehow ended up giving your left eye? Oops. Organ donations in the UK have taken a kidney punch after the wrong organs may have been taken from donors. “I decided I was happy to donate my liver, lungs, pancreas and kidneys,” student Stephen Banks told the BBC. “But a few days later… I received a letter from the NHS (National Health Service) thanking me for donating and telling me I had also donated my eyes. I feel a bit embarrassed to call up and say, ‘I want my eyes back.’” Most of the 17 million donors agree to give any and all of their organs, but having the option to pick what organs you’d like to give sure beats the US system, where it’s all-in or nothing. {Thanks, Codi!}
Sexy Cycles
Posted: Friday, April 9th, 2010
Best scientific paper name ever: “Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?” Published in Evolution and Human Behavior in 2007, the article studied the menstrual cycles of 18 dancers (is that a statistically significant number, really?), and of course the results are fascinating. “A mixed-model analysis of 296 work shifts (representing about 5300 lap dances) showed an interaction between cycle phase and hormonal contraception use. Normally cycling participants earned about US$335 per 5-h shift during estrus, US$260 per shift during the luteal phase, and US$185 per shift during menstruation.” Pretty fun research, we imagine.
Carpet of Guts
Posted: Friday, April 9th, 2010
The human body serves as inspiration for the organization of French designer Mathieu Lehanneur‘s new rug collection, called Flat Surgery and produced as a limited edition for the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London. The brains go in the office, the digestive system brightens up the dining room, and what bedroom would be complete without genitals? {via Street Anatomy}
Thyroid Speaks Out
Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Film critic Roger Ebert has been given a new voice after surgery for thyroid cancer went horribly wrong four years ago now that he’s had his voice rebuilt by a robot. For a man who made his career on talking, having his voice back is obviously a big deal, so he connected with Cereproc, a speech synthesis company that is able to rebuild the tone and timber of an individual voice based on recordings. Ebert recently tried out his new pipes on Oprah, to the delight of fans missing his voice. Read more about it in this touching profile in Esquire magazine.
Testicles on the Tube
Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010
It must have been a slow news day because somehow I ended up on the local news as the poster girl for — of all things — examining one’s scrotum for testicular cancer. Very weird, I know. It was a fun and surreal experience and I did get to fondle our testicle plush sample live on the air and anchor Mekahlo Medina wore a testicle pin on his lapel in honor of Testicular Cancer Awareness Week! In other testicular news, we just put the Grab Your Gonads artwork up on the site, it’s free to download and print out yourself, and we have a limited number of laminated cards for sale as well!
The Wonder of It All
Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010
A few views from the good times we had at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco, where the people-watching was at its best. Chuva took these beautiful photos of some of our favorite sights from the show, giving me some major telecommunications envy with her fake-Holga iPhone app, Hipstamatic. A little girl in costume, not sure what character she was supposed to be, a fabulous uterus tattoo and some weird scary nurse character from the video game Silent Hill.
We were stuck behind the Just Dance booth, where they were pimping some Dance Dance Revolution type game. They played Spice Girls and MC Hammer a few times too many, but made up for it when a crowd of storm troopers danced in unison to “Eye of the Tiger.” We caught Captain America busting moves onstage, met Boba Fett, and yes, the aforementioned storm trooper, plus eye-patch boob girl, another character I should know but do not — but maybe you know who she is? also known-as Molotov Cocktease from Adult Swim — thanks for illuminating us, Linda! Needless to say we had a fun time and met some great people. More pix on the I Heart Guts Flickr page.
