God Can't Heal Amputees, But Science Can

LA Times - April 19, 2011 by Karen Kaplan

Meet Emily Fennell, the 26-year-old California woman who became the first person in the western United States to receive a hand transplant.

Fennell’s surgery and rehabilitation at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center were detailed in the Los Angeles Times Tuesday by health writer Shari Roan. Now UCLA has posted a video featuring the single mother from Yuba City and her unusual medical journey.

As Roan describes, Emily lost her right hand nearly five years ago in a automobile accident: “Fennell was a passenger in the front seat of a car that was clipped by another vehicle and rolled over. The sunroof was open. Fennell's hand went through the space and was caught between the car and the road. The mangled hand had to be amputated.”

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The End is Near...Or is It?

Human beings seem to be fascinated with the idea of the wold ending. What does that even mean, anyway? The end of the world. Is the "world" like a movie, ending when the screen goes black and the credits begin to roll?

I assume people are referring to the end of civilization as we know it, the near-total if not total extinction of the human species. This could be accomplished by the complete obliteration of this planet (assuming it occurs before we spread to other worlds), but does not necessarily require it.

Anyway, we've almost always had the idea that the end is near, but the exact means by which the end takes place has taken different forms at different times.

Here's a website that tells you how people thought the world would end at different times in our history. Check it out.

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Brian Greene and "The Hidden Reality" on Colbert

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