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There was once a time when writers were trusted, respected members of the community. Movie critics used to attend glamorous Premieres alongside the stars, their opinions lauded by the masses. Authors were revered, journalists were celebrated and not a single footballer’s wife was published. Those days are gone. The net has killed the dream with crap writing that is so gut wrenchingly disgusting that you need an osteopath to help you recover from the convulsions.
I’m feeling a little bit guilty as my last blog was warm with praise for the brilliance of scientific advancement. Man when equipped with great tools can achieve incredible things. Or so I thought. The world is hypocritical. Whilst one man is learning how to regrow a human limb another is not being allowed to purchase a coffee at a global coffee chain because they have run out of lids. Yes that’s right. That is the world we live in.  A typical Coffee aficionado. Fervent in the pursuit of 'proper coffee' I set this category up on my blog with the intention of criticising everything wrong with modern times: knife crime, ready meals, starbucks coffee, dizzee rascall, x factor, etc etc. But today is a historic day. I have just finished watching BBC’s ‘fix me’ a horizons show about stem cell research. Wait! Before you fall asleep with boredom… they showed how scientists have found ways to grow hearts, fix spinal chord injuries and enable people to grow new limbs. Yes… grow new limbs. Bloody brilliant.
The show followed the story of three people that have ailments that are currently incurable. The first was a girl that had suffered a spinal chord injury in a car crash and she was, as a result, wheelchair bound. She went to meet doctors and scientists in America who were working toward curing something that currently has no cure. Science has found a way of isolating regenerative cells and sending them to the areas that need them. This will hold the key to curing spinal chord injuries.
The show also followed a guy that had lost his leg after a rugby challenge and a bad operation. He met up with the military research centre in the US where they had been looking into ways of enabling people to regrow limbs. Yes RE GROW LOST LIMBS! They had taken the Mexican salamander as their inspiration. When the little amphibian loses a limb it is able to grow a new one. Closer scientific research made scientists believe that humans could do the same. The scientists found that when humans lose a limb their body reacts by creating scar tissue and covering the wound. The salamander reacts differently and sends regenerative cells to the wound instead. Scientists have isolated the regenerative cells in humans and are able to send these to a wound and the cells will in turn create a new limb. Yes seriously. They have tried it on a soldier that lost a finger and he has seen growth of a new digit!
I set this category up on my blog with the intention of criticising everything wrong with modern times: knife crime, ready meals, starbucks coffee, dizzee rascall, x factor, etc etc. But today is a historic day. I have just finished watching BBC’s ‘fix me’ a horizons show about stem cell research. Wait! Before you fall asleep with boredom… they showed how scientists have found ways to grow hearts, fix spinal chord injuries and enable people to grow new limbs. Yes… grow new limbs! Bloody brilliant. A wise sage once said that to err is human but to really cock things up requires a computer. No truer a phrase has e’er been uttered. There was a time when I could live without online backup but those days have gone. I should not know how to organise my files and back them up but sadly I do. Necessity has turned me into a geek and I resent it.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, when ogres lived under bridges, when no one had heard of swine flu, when dyslexic people were just thick and when a power cut didn’t mean that the family would go hungry people were happier. They were harder working and they got on with their neighbours. The question is are we now so socially retarded that we’ve forgotten how to work together as a team? Well unfortunately it appears that we have. Out is the community camaraderie: In is selfish apathy.  Spice up your team building Battle Royale style! Childrens Toys used to be simple; the abacus; Lego; a rocking horse; a skipping rope; a ball! Good honest fun. Recently these gems have been replaced by modern monstrosities; Wiis; Tamagotchi’s; iPods; iPhones; remote control helicopters; rock star guitars and keyboards; pink sizzling kitchens with accessories for 3 to 6 year olds etc etc. Is it me or has the world has become unnecessarily complicated?
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