Smiling infants.

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Chellah Padmanathan	11:22 PM (6 hours ago)

Were you smiling like any one of them when you were born?

Olivia Munn - 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards

When I (Sandi Ford) first started doing Newborn Photography, I noticed that when I was doing a normal newborn session, the baby would occasionally let out these huge grins – so infectious and heart melting! Nowadays, I have learned to recognize the little signs that a baby is about to let out a smile and I sit there ready with the camera to catch it!

I have found that some babies are more smiley than others, and sometimes a little tickle on the lips or nose can bring out the big smile if I think one is lurking! Some people might pass these off as ‘just a bit of wind’ and in some cases that’s true. But having seen hundreds of newborns in my studio, I can tell it’s not always like that!

I once read that there are two types of people in this world – those that see a newborn smile as wind, and those that don’t – I see it as a rare treat that I am lucky enough to capture :)

Alien genes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2994187/Mystery-alien-genes-Scientists-discover-DNA-NOT-ancestors-say-change-think-evolution.html

A major milestone in Sri Lankan Genomics Research: Sri Lankan Scientists Sequence the Entire Genome of Goda Wee - an indigenous rice variety

https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14c25fa4a91fe8ad

Teaching doctors how to engage more and lecture less.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/teaching-doctors-how-to-engage-more-and-lecture-less/2015/03/09/95a98508-ae30-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html 

UA researchers unlock the mysteries of wound healing

 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/uoa-uru031315.php

email from Buddy.

Hello Duru,
Not very well.
I have to undergo  an internal fixation of the lower end of the left radius and the ulnar styloid and repositioning of the triangular fibrocartilage on Friday 20th March. If there are no complications, healing and consolidation will take to mid June. I am running on a knife edge.
 I'll still go ahead with the concert preparations and at the least, will prepare a CD accompaniment for  Travis and Lucien for a vocal duet. 
I'll speak to you again after the operation. 
( To those whom I have not been able to write to up to now, I had a fall last week and sustained a comminuted Colles fracture of the left wrist involving the joint )
Buddy

The Pompei disaster.

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This is (was) one of the biggest natural disasters of our time.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dY_3ggKg0Bc