
Sean Landers - Luck, Fear, Regret
2003
Oil on Linen
56 x 78 inches

Sean Landers - Luck, Fear, Regret
2003
Oil on Linen
56 x 78 inches

Click to see: Amusing ourselves to death

Over four hours, a team of 12 people in Sydney filled 5,200 cups with 780 litres of coffee and 680 litres of milk to create different shades of brown to make the world’s largest coffee mosaic. The picture measured 6.5m x 5.5m and depicted Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe (via coffeenotes)
Some like it hot.
Andrew Bird - Coney Island Shuffle
Researchers discovered gluten was an environmental cause of celiac disease 60 years ago.
“In the years since, the holy grail in celiac disease research has been to identify the toxic peptide components of gluten, and that’s what we’ve done,” Anderson said. “It changes the way that we understand celiac disease.”
In the study, 244 people with celiac disease in Australia and the United Kingdom ate bread, rye muffins or boiled barley over three days. About a week later, blood samples were taken to measure the strength of their immune responses.
The findings could be used to develop a treatment, known as peptide-based immunotherapy. It involves injecting people with celiac disease with the toxic peptides to gradually build up their tolerance.
It would be a “miracle” if people with celiac disease could stop worrying about accidentally eating gluten, said Geraldine Georgeou, a dietitian on the board of Australia’s Gut Foundation. “That could be quite a way off unfortunately,” said Georgeou, who has celiac disease herself.