1159 Across 1. Guiding light
(hyphenated) 12. Southeast
14. Negative drivers16. Blue
9. Worked one's way subtly and gradually
CLUES ACROSS 1. Maintains possession of 4. Other side
10. Comedienne Gasteyer 15. Type of swimsuit 11. Lawn buildup
16. Tom, Dick or Harry 17. Four-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle
15. Greek temple pillar 18. Palace figures 20. Greek lager beer 24. Where kids bathe
19. "-zoic" things 22. Complete
18. Pointless
22. "Aladdin" prince 23. "Baloney!" 24. A little lamb
23. Supervisor
25. Ticket info, maybe 28. Young woman (French)
26. Radio frequency
27. Cruel Roman emperor 26. Knocked off, in a
way 28. Acute30. Within
29. Taste, e.g. 30. Grassland 31. Embitters
33. Make quieter (var. spelling)
35. "That hurt!" 40. Boundary
37. It grows on heads 39. A Spanish river
36. Charles ___, Am. aviator
41. Contains music
39. Churchyard tree in 48. Used to restrain
42. Causes to feel sorrow "Romeo and Juliet" 42. Scalawag
44. Big loser's nick- 52. Devote resources to
name?
46. Em, to Dorothy 54. Everyone has one
53. Beginner
50. Fictional kids character 43. Unload, as stock
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47. Fastidious 48. Charlotte-to- Raleigh dir. 49. Away 50. Appetizer 52. "O, gie me the ___ that has acres o' charms": Burns 53. ___ McGee and Molly 55. Mexican Americans 57. Type of roller skates 58. Dreary 59. Operatives 60. Invested with royal authority
Down
31. Civil S rvice Commission 34. Sarongs 36. Father
CLUES DOWN 1. __and her sisters 2. Smear or rub with oil 3. Holy places 4. Indicates position 5. Drives around 6. Price 7. Semiaquatic mammal 8. With three uneven sides 9. Sacrifi ce hit
51. South American country
1. ___ Boothe, played Lamar Wyatt on Nashville 2. Hot, in Vegas (3 wds) 3. Heir 4. Epic poetry 5. Anger, e.g. 6. Abound 7. Glassy thermoplas- tic (2 wds) 8. Do museum work 9. Part of a train 10. ___ probandi
55. University worker (abbr.) 56. Resist an attack
58. Unifying Chinese dynasty 59. Blood-sucking African fl y 60. CNN’s founder
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11. Scandinavian shag rug 12. Glacier debris 13. Infinite 14. Covet 21. Designating a pic- tographic script 25. Moon of Saturn 27. Hard, dark brown wood used for furni- ture 28. Slap on 29. Amniotic ___ 32. Inlaid furniture decoration 34. "___ to Billie Joe" 36. Making quieter (var. spelling) 37. Base 38. Puts into appropri- ate form for publica- tion 40. Wife of Franklin Roosevelt 41. Sweetly charming 42. Basket material 45. Made disorderly or soiled 47. Shipping weights 50. Copper 51. Cork's country 52. Bringing up the rear 54. Coal container 56. Porcino
VR changing medical training Q. For almost a millennium, human body dissection has been a
cornerstone of medical education, but change is now on its way at a few U.S. medical schools. What change? A. Cadaverless anatomy curriculum, in which students “will probe the
human body using three-dimensional renderings in virtual reality combined with physical replicas of the organs and real patient medical images,” says Bahar Gholipour in “Scientific American” magazine. Traditional approaches have limitations, including the length of time it takes to dissect a cadaver, the inaccessibility of some body parts, and the mismatch between the textures and colors of an embalmed cadaver’s organs and those of a living body. Also, for new medical school programs, it costs several million dollars to build a cadaver laboratory and requires additional funds to care for the donated bodies. By donning VR headsets or augmented-reality goggles, students can
examine an organ from all angles, connecting structure with function by watching a beating heart, for example, and can also add the entire circulatory system to better see relations among structures. But in a virtual body, depth perception may be hard to develop and students will not see bodies’ natural anatomical variations. Also, they may “lose the emotional, even philosophical impact of working with a cadaver, commonly seen as a doctor’s first patient.” Thus, the question remains as to whether
from the American West, “foofaraw” is defined as “excessive or unnecessary ornamentation,” but its formation, too, is unknown. “Someone or something outstanding, remarkable or unusual” is a “humdinger,” perhaps a blend of “hummer” and “dinger,” both meaning someone or something exceptional. Also exceptional is “lollapalooza,” an exceptional person, thing or event, that gives its name to a popular music festival. Finally, “ripsnorter” refers to “someone or something remarkable in
excellence, intensity, strength, etc.,” perhaps a fanciful coinage from “rip” (to tear) and “snorter” (something extraordinary). How’s that for a ripsnorter of an item?
STRANGE BUT TRUE
By Bill Sones & Rich
Sones, PhD For the Sun Times
Q.What is SnotBot and how is it helping researchers monitor ocean health? A. A four-propeller drone about the size of a toaster oven, SnotBot is flown
just above a breaching whale to collect its exhaled breath condensate — a.k.a. snot. “Whale snot contains an enormous amount of biological information, including DNA, hormones, and microorganisms. Scientists can use that information to determine a whale’s health, sex, and pregnancy status, and details about its genetics and microbiome,” say Bryn Keller and Ted Willke in “IEEE Spectrum” magazine. Previously, to collect such information, researchers would “zoom past a surfacing whale in a boat and shoot it with a specially designed crossbow to capture a small core sample of skin and blubber.” SnotBot makes the process less stressful for both whales and researchers. The drone also has a high-resolution camera that reveals the whale’s
overall shape and size and often provides unique identifiers from tail fluke structure and markings. As apex predators with wide-ranging migration patterns, humpback whales are an excellent early-warning system for environmental threats to the ocean as a whole. “Thanks to Project SnotBot, we’ll be able to find out — accurately, efficiently, and at a reasonable cost-– just how the health and numbers of whales in our oceans are trending.” (Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at
sbtcolumn@gmail.com)
students learn as well using digital tools. But after nearly a millennium of human body dissection in medical education, a historic transition may be emerging.
Q.Word lovers, let’s have a little fun with
these “silly-sounding” Americanisms from Anu Garg’s website “
A.Word.A.Day.” How many can you define: “ballyhoo,” “foofaraw,” “humdinger,” “lollapalooza” and “ripsnorter”? A. “Ballyhoo,” of uncertain origin, can mean
“uproar” or “sensational or extravagant promotion,” first used in 1901. Originating
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