Daily Archive: February 12, 2012

Feb 12 2012

3D Printing used to replace woman’s jaw

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Geekery, Medicine, Science

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Images of the titanium jaw and surgical procedure

This is damned cool. An 83 year old woman had an infected mandible, and needed it to be removed. Hell of a way to finish out your life, with no jaw, so doctors used a 3D printer to build a titanium and organic ceramic jaw to replace her old one. The 3D printer prints titanium …

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Feb 12 2012

Rape survivor campaign in UK: Must we say “real men?”

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Gender, Privilege

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Rugby ad: ball pierced by a nail with text, "Real men get raped, talking about it takes real strength"

I’m of two minds about this UK rape survivors campaign highlighted over at Copyranter.

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