Aimee Mullins – athlete, model, and actress – lets us into her world with this interesting talk at TED.

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Born without fibular bones, Aimee had both legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant and learned to walk and then run on prosthetics. The running led to competing as a sprinter and resulted in her becoming a world record breaking runner at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta.

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Prothestics are not just for humans. Seems that even the animal kingdom needs a little help every so often. Here’s a fascinating collection of animals that have benefited from science. There’s a dolphin with a rubber tail, an American Bald Eagle with a nylon-composite beak, a Belgian Shepard with a carbon paw, and a kangaroo, a parrot, a kiwi, and an elephant with a prosthetic leg.

What’s on your cat’s mind? If you don’t know and are worried about their behavoir help is at hand in the form of animal communicators, aka ‘Pet Whisperers’. They even have their own magazine “Species Link: The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication”.

Why rabbits love liquorice (and elephants can’t jump). Bet you didn’t know that ’slugs have four noses’, ‘the sperm of a MOUSE is longer than the sperm of an elephant’, and ‘dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed’. Fascinating trivia for the next time you run out of conversation.

And finally…

The Monkey with a Robotic Arm

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