Heads or Tails

[lovewiki]

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Whenever we ask, “What is love?” it’s usually because a) we’re unsure if a certain special someone really loves us, or b) because a certain special someone just accused us of not really loving them.

When we are truly engaged in giving and receiving love, we don’t ponder such philosophical questions. It’s only when something is lacking that we begin to analyze and contemplate what that thing actually is. For example, nobody sits down to a full meal and asks, “What is a pastrami sandwich?”

So, if we’re even asking the question, “What is love?” it probably means that we don’t feel completely loved, or that someone doesn’t feel completely loved by us.

From: http://m.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1577531/jewish/What-Is-Love.htm

[77kdub]

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True story from Humboldt County

A woman got pulled over for speeding by a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer. When he walked up to her window and opened his ticket book she said, "I bet you're going to sell me tickets to the Highway Patrol Ball."

He replied, "No, Ma'am, highway patrolmen don't have balls." There followed a moment of silence while she smiled and he realized what he had said. Without saying another word, he closed his book, got back on his motorcycle and left.

[Mauser]

Is this thread still being checked?

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The Greenland shark is an apex predator mostly eating fish. It has never been observed hunting.[10] Recorded fish prey have included smaller sharks, skates, eels, herring, capelin, Arctic char, cod, redfish, sculpins, lumpfish, wolffish and flounder.[7] It also preys on seals.[10] As an ectotherm, the Greenland shark is slow, cruising at 0.76 mph (1.22 km/h) with a top speed of 1.6 mph (2.6 km/h).[11] It is among the slowest-swimming sharks, with a maximum swimming speed about half that of a typical seal. Therefore, biologists have wondered how the sharks are able to prey on the seals. It is thought that they may ambush them while they sleep.[12] Greenland sharks have also been found with remains of polar bear, horses, moose,[13] and reindeer (in one case an entire reindeer body) in their stomachs.[7][14] The Greenland shark is known to be a scavenger, and is attracted by the smell of rotting meat in the water. The sharks have frequently been observed gathering around fishing boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

[mnightwaffle]

Is this thread still being checked?

Not daily, maybe once or twice a week.

[Mauser]

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Azaria Chamberlain (11 June 1980 – 17 August 1980) was an Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 on a family camping trip to Uluru (aka Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory. Her body was never found. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. Lindy Chamberlain was, however, tried for murder and spent more than three years in prison. She was released when a piece of Azaria's clothing was found near a dingo lair, and new inquests were opened. In 2012, some 32 years after Azaria's death, the Chamberlains' version of events was officially confirmed by a coroner.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain

[JesusHadAegis]

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Psalm 118:14-16
14 The LORD is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation. 15 Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The LORD’s right hand has done mighty things! 16 The LORD’s right hand is lifted high; the LORD’s right hand has done mighty things!”

[Xanidas]

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For the first 22 years of its history Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. Founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a "pest and scourge of mankind".

[77kdub]

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10 Signs You’re Probably Reading This Article Right Now
09/22/2014 02:02 pm ET | Updated Nov 22, 2014
Kerry O’Brien
Comedy writer in New York City

Reading articles is something people do on the Internet. In fact, you’re
probably reading this article right now. But how can you be certain that you’re
reading this article right now? If you’re not entirely sure you’re reading this
article right now, check out these signs:

1. You’re pretty sure you’re reading this article right now. Being pretty sure you’re reading this article right now is a good sign that you may actually be reading this article right now.
2. You’re very sure you’re reading this article right now. Being very sure you’re reading this article right now is a good sign that you may actually be reading this article right    now.
3. You see these words right now. This is also a strong sign.
4. The last word you read was Again, very strong sign.
5. And now it’s Yup. That’s a big sign right there.
6. You’re still pretty sure you’re reading this article right now Another strong sign.
7. You’re still very sure you’re reading this article right now Oh yes. Big sign.
8. When you ask another person in the room with you if you are reading this article right now and they respond, “yes” They’re probably not lyin’
9. You remember clicking the link to this article Not only a big sign, but a great life memory to have.
10. You are reading this article right now. A great sign that you’re probably reading this article right now. So, are you reading this article right now? Let me know in the comments below!

Follow Kerry O’Brien on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kerryohbrien

[WyatteLikesCrypto]

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Pope Leo XIII Advertised Cocaine-Laced Drinks


Pope Leo XIII was the first pope of the mass-communication era -- he was the first to have his voice recorded and his image captured on video. He served from February 20, 1878 to July 20, 1903.

Vin Mariani was a cocaine-laced wine and a predecessor to Coca-Cola, developed by a French chemist who struck it rich after realizing there might be some money in the coca business. The surprisingly addictive drink attracted admirers/junkies such as Ulysses S. Grant, Queen Victoria, William McKinley, Jules Verne, Thomas Edison, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson and a not-so-shocking-in-hindsight Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

As for Pope "Hollywood" Leo XIII, his addiction was so complete that he awarded the Mariani Company a Vatican gold medal "in recognition of benefits received from the use of Mariani's tonic" (i.e., for getting His Holiness coked out of his mind for a spiritual high not even found in faith).

Adress in profile!

[Kabul]

Building and Programming a Quadcopter/multicopter introduction
https://pythonprogramming.net/building-quadcopter-tutorial-intro/

To start, why might you want to custom build a quadcopter or drone as opposed to simply going to the store and buying one. First, when tinkering with things, you're more likely to break it, fry it, or, in our case: crash it! The issue here is that commercially available drones tend to come with a lot of proprietary parts. What this really means usually is that the company has a monopoly on those specific parts and they charge as such. Also, as you decide to change things, if you have custom built your quadcopter, you can switch out motors, propellers, a frame, and all sorts of things easily with a custom build.

Despite it likely being a better choice to build a quadcopter, it can be quite the hurdle to figure out all of the things you need and how to put one together. If you're like me when I first started, you don't know that not all motors spin in the same direction, for example.

The first choice you have to make is what size of quadcopter / drone you want to make. There are various sizes, but the most popular size is the 250 for custom quadcopters, and then 500ish for the commercial drones. The number corresponds to the distance, diagonally between the motors. At first, I chose to go with a 525, but the 525 is quite large, and not as much fun to fly in my opinion. It does more damage if it does crash, and requires a bit more space to safely fly around. The 250 size is a total blast to fly, much easier to do very quick maneuvers with, and doesn't need as much space to fly safely. A 500 is not double the size of a 250, it is more like 4x the size, so keep this in mind. In this tutorial, we'll wind up building a 250, but feel free to build whatever size you want. The actual needed materials and build process is the same. Costs are also ~ the same, so it really does not matter beyond personal preference.

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[erikalui]

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Why everyone is addicted to Pokemon Go
http://www.looper.com/18330/everyone-addicted-pokemon-go/

Since the release of Pokémon Go in early July 2016, the app has outperformed all expectations. At the time of this writing, over 7.5 million users had downloaded the game in the United States alone, sending Nintendo's stock climbing by 10% in the first week. What makes Pokémon Go so massively appealing? Let's take a look at some of the factors behind the game's success.

As previously mentioned, millions of people joined up as Pokémon trainers within the first week—according to some estimates, the game has been installed on 1 in every 20 Android devices in the U.S. That huge and immediate fanbase means the app is not just a game, but a social experience. Players have organized huge Pokémon Go outings, including a Poké-walk in Australia that drew over 2,000 people for a day of catching and camaraderie. Trainers marched single-file through the park like leaf-cutter ants, only pausing to hit up Pokéstops or pursue a Pikachu.
Pokémon Go has an element of competitive gameplay adding to the fun. Gyms in the game are not held by fictional characters, but by other trainers. Join one of three teams, and use your Pokémon to attack a Gym in a hostile takeover, or defend it on behalf of your team. Gyms in populated areas may change hands multiple times per day, and everyone understands that's the way things are. Battles are conducted between trainers and the game's AI, and there's no in-game communication system—which means there's very little chance to have hard feelings if your Pokémon is defeated.

[newinbtc]

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Credit Link - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-20/solar-energy-and-panels-explained/7763474

Solar cell technology: How it works and the future of sunshine

How do solar cells work?

At the heart of a solar cell is a tiny electric field that splits negative charges from positive charges using the energy of sunlight.

What will solar cells look like in 20 years' time?

In 20 years' time the solar panels on your roof will probably look the same as now with their aluminium frame and glass front, but they will likely be a whole lot cheaper and at least half again as efficient thanks to smart engineering.
A range of new technologies being researched now in labs across Australia and the world may overcome the efficiency limits of silicon-only solar cells.
One of the exciting developments in the field is a new semiconductor called "methyl ammonium lead iodide perovskite".
Solar cells made out of this cheap and easy to produce material have already achieved 20 per cent efficiency in the lab — matching the efficiency of today's silicon cells.
In the future, perovskites may either replace silicon solar cells or be used as a companion material to help them move beyond 26 per cent efficiency — the upper limit of silicon-only cells.
The research team I am part of at Monash University and CSIRO is experimenting using perovskites as the top layer in double-decker "tandem" solar cells that absorb different colours of sunlight in each layer.
In a tandem solar cell, high-energy photons (green, blue and UV) are absorbed in the top layer, and low-energy photons (red, orange and yellow) are absorbed in the bottom layer. This allows the solar cell to squeeze more energy out of sunlight — we are aiming for double the efficiency of rooftop solar cells at super low cost.

Other ideas being pursued around Australia and the world include reflected-tandems (double-decker solar cells placed side by side), quantum-dot solar cells (using tiny nanocrystals as the energy absorber material), up-conversion of light (converting two low-energy photons, that would otherwise be wasted, to make one high-energy photon) and hot-carrier cells (collecting charge from solar cells before they have the chance to lose any voltage).

It is not too hard to imagine a future with thin, efficient, lightweight and flexible solar cells on mobile phone cases, laptop bags, backpacks, suitcases, hats, tents, you name it…
How 'green' are solar cells?

It takes about two to five years for a solar panel to "pay back" the energy that went into making them (depending on how sunny it is where you live). This includes the energy needed to mine the silicon and process it into a solar cell, and also make the aluminium frame and glass in the panel module housing.

Solar panels usually come with a guarantee of 80 per cent output for 25 years (and there is no reason why they should not last longer), which means energy-wise solar panels are a good thing, by a factor of at least four.

Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (second to oxygen in the silicon dioxide that makes up sand and quartz), so there will not be any material shortages in the foreseeable future.

Solar panel recycling stations are starting to be set up all over the world — like aluminium recycling, silicon is an excellent candidate for cradle-to-grave-to-cradle material management.

And sunshine itself is the most sustainable resource we have — the sun should be around for a few more billion years at least.

[gamerfan]

We Happy Few takes its cues from the novels like 1984 and Brave New World. This isn’t a criticism; both books are wonderful reads and you owe it to yourself to sit down and begin turning those pages. Currently in Early Access you step into the shoes of Arthur, a man who works in a building where they censor articles to ensure that nothing bad seems to be happening. You see, sometime during World War II the Germans successfully invaded Britain, and to repel those invaders something so horrible was done that the entire population ended up taking a drug called Joy which makes everything seem…wonderful. It also has the rather lovely effect of making them forget things. People wear strange white masks with permanent smiles, and while on Joy they have a spring in their step and a friendly greeting for everyone. Joy alters their perception of the world, as evidenced when Arthur is pressured into hitting what a group of people see as a pinata, but is actually the corpse of a rat which they proceed to consume, believing it to be delicious candy. IN reality Britain is a mess, with huge swathes of it eating horrid, rotten food and barely surviving. It’s a fascinating world with a heavy atmosphere that feels unique within the world of videgames, although I’m sure someone will hastily correct me. People amble around with creepy white masks on, jumping up and down in puddles and going about their lives with such eery cheerfulness. Damn it, people, this is the UK. People aren’t cheerful here.

Thanks to a flashback caused by a newspaper article Arthur stops taking his Joy, becoming what others refer to as a Downer, something which is very much frowned upon by the rest of society. He begins to see the world for what it is before getting chased by the creepy police force and whacked on the head. Somehow he awakens to find himself in the slums rather than dead, without any Joy pills and with little hope of surviving among the other riff-raff. He has a goal, though; escape. To do that he has to work his way out of the slums, blend in with the rest of society and eventually get his freedom.

We Happy Few Preview – Snug as a Bug on a Drug: https://wolfsgamingblog.com/2016/08/14/we-happy-few-preview-snug-as-a-bug-on-a-drug/

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[ie007cheung]

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Happiness is when your life fulfills your needs.

In other words, happiness comes when you feel satisfied and fulfilled. Happiness is a feeling of contentment, that life is just as it should be. Perfect happiness, enlightenment, comes when you have all of your needs satisfied.

While the perfect happiness of enlightenment may be hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, happiness is not an either /or case. There are nearly limitless degrees of happiness between the bliss of enlightenment and the despair of depression. Most of us fall somewhere between, closer to the middle than the edges.

http://happinessinternational.org/what-is-happiness/

[Mike8]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra

Late 20th century: World Heritage Site designation

The Bidoul/ Bidul or Petra Bedouin were forcibly resettled from their cave dwellings in Petra to Umm Sayhoun/ Um Seihun by the Jordanian government in 1985, prior to the UNESCO designation process. Here, they were provided with block-built housing with some infrastructure including in particular a sewage and drainage system. Among the six communities in the Petra Region, Umm Sayhoun is one of the smaller communities. The village of Wadi Musa is the largest in the area, inhabited largely by the Layathnah Bedouin, and is now the closest settlement to the visitor centre, the main entrance via the Siq and the archaeological site generally. Umm Sayhoun gives access to the 'back route' into the site, the Wadi Turkmaniyeh pedestrian route.[21]

On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.

The Bidouls belong to one of the Bedu tribes whose cultural heritage and traditional skills was proclaimed by UNESCO on the Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2005 and inscribed[22] in 2008.

In 2011, following an 11-month project planning phase, the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority in Association with DesignWorkshop and JCP s.r.l published a Strategic Master Plan that guides planned development of the Petra Region. This is intended to guide planned development of the Petra Region in an efficient, balanced and sustainable way over the next 20 years for the benefit of the local population and of Jordan in general. As part of this, a Strategic Plan was developed for Umm Sayhoun and surrounding areas.[23]

The process of developing the Strategy considered the area's needs from five points of view:

a socio-economic perspective;
the perspective of Petra Archaeological Park;
the perspective of Petra’s tourism product;
a land use perspective;
an environmental perspective
Petra today[edit]
27 sites in Petra are now available on Google Street View.[24]

In 2016 archaeologists discovered a large, previously unknown monumental structure buried beneath the sands of Petra using satellite imagery.[25][26][27]

[gamerfan]

How to Hack Wi-Fi: http://ultimatepeter.com/how-to-hack-wi-fi-evading-an-authentication-proxy-using-icmptx/

n previous Wi-Fi hacking tutorials, I have shown you ways to create an Evil Twin, to DoS a wireless AP, and to crack WEP and WPA2 passwords, but in this tutorial, I will show you something a little bit different.

In many restaurants, hotels, airports, airplanes, and cafes, they have open authentication on the wireless AP, but once you connect to the AP, you are sent to a proxy that asks you for your credentials. This is very common in many commercial establishments around the world. To obtain the necessary credentials, there is usually charge associated with it.

What if you didn’t have a credit card, or forgot your credit card, and needed to access the internet? You still may be able to, if the server accepts ICMP (ping) and you are patient.

In addition, imagine a scenario where you need to stealthily retrieve a file, send a message, or retrieve a message, in say, a cyber espionage or cyber warfare situation, while barely leaving a trace of your activity. This may be your method of choice.

Note: This is a more advanced technique, so if you are new to hacking, work on some of the more basic techniques before trying this.
ICMP: The Internet Control Message Protocol

As you know, ICMP is a protocol that is used detect the presence of a active host. We can determine if a host is active (pay attention, newbies) by simply typing:

kali > ping

There are multiple types of ICMP messages, but this one is echo request (Type 0) and echo reply (Type . Although nearly all of us use ping one time or another, keep in mind that there are other types of ICMP that can come in handy when scanning or hacking systems that may block or drop ICMP Type 0.

If a server accepts ICMP (many won’t as a security precaution), you can use ICMP to bypass the need for authentication via the proxy (that webpage that asks you for credentials). Because it is very slow, I don’t recommend this for daily use, but in a pinch, this can be a very innovative way to get your email when you don’t want to buy access to the service, or—you want to access the web without leaving a trace.

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[hermesesus]

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Why Mulholland Drive deserves to be named the best film of the 21st century

If the blue box, Club Silencio and the face behind Winkie’s flummoxed you the first time around, it may be time to give Mulholland Drive another go. A BBC Culture poll has just named David Lynch’s fractured, seductive film noir the greatest film of the 21st century to date – and you’re unlikely to find a dissenting voice around here, given both Tim Robey and myself, the Telegraph’s two resident film experts, each placed it at the top of our lists without conferring (promise).

Often the only thing harder than voting for greatest-film lists is reading the results, but the BBC survey, which polled 177 critics from 36 countries, makes for unusually valuable reading. Though some of the usual movie-ballot blind spots are present and correct – few comedies, even fewer documentaries, almost no purebred action – it’s otherwise a supple, exciting selection.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/08/22/why-mulholland-drive-deserves-to-be-named-the-best-film-of-the-2/

[salek11111]

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Plutonium (Pu) is an artificial element, except for trace quantities of primordial 244Pu, and thus a standard atomic mass cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has no stable isotopes. It was synthesized long before being found in nature, the first isotope synthesized being 238Pu in 1940. Twenty plutonium radioisotopes have been characterized. The most stable are Pu-244, with a half-life of 80.8 million years, Pu-242, with a half-life of 373,300 years, and Pu-239, with a half-life of 24,110 years. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 7,000 years. This element also has eight meta states, though none is very stable; all meta states have half-lives of less than one second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_plutonium#Plutonium-236

[gamerfan]

How to Crack an Email Password: http://www.gohacking.com/hack-email-account-password/

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On a regular basis, a lot of people contact me about suspecting their partner of cheating and ask me how to hack email password of their account, so as to find out the truth.

If you are in a similar situation or simply want to hack into someone’s email account, this article can surely help you out. Here in this article I will try to uncover some of the real and working methods to hack the password of any email account!
Possible Ways to Hack an Email Account:

While there exists many nasty websites on the Internet that mislead people with fake methods and false promises to obtain passwords, some often present readers with obsolete methods that can no longer be used. However, on this website you will find all the information clear, simple and easy to implement. With my experience of over 10 years in the field of ethical hacking and information security, I can tell you that the following are the only 2 foolproof methods to hack emails:
1. Keylogging: The Easiest Way!

Keylogging simply refers to the process of recording each and every keystroke that a user types on a specific computer’s keyboard. This can be done using a small software program called keylogger (also referred to as spy program).

    How does a Keylogger Work?

    A Keylogger is small software program that can easily be installed by any novice computer user. Once installed, it records all the keystrokes typed on the computer including passwords. It does not require any special knowledge or skill to use keyloggers.
    Can a Keylogger be Detected?

    No! Once installed, it operates in a complete stealth mode and hence remains undetected to the computer user.
    What if I do not have Physical Access to the Target Computer?

    Not to Worry! Some of the best keyloggers on the market support “remote installation” that makes it possible to install it even if the target computer is hundreds of miles away.
    How can a Keylogger Help Me in Hacking Email Password?

    Once installed, the keylogger simply records all the keystrokes typed (including passwords) and uploads the logs to a secret server. You can access these logs anytime by logging into your online account that comes with the keylogger program.

[hermesesus]

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bagpipe-lung-announced-as-cause-of-mans-death-two-years-later-a7206021.html

'Bagpipe lung' announced as cause of man's death - two years later

By the time the man arrived at the lung disease clinic in Manchester, England, it was almost too late.
It was April 2014 and the 61-year-old had spent the past seven years finding it harder and harder to breathe.
Once able to run 10 kilometers, he could now barely walk 20 meters.
His lungs were operating at a third their proper capacity.
Doctors were stumped.
Five years earlier, the man had been diagnosed with a serious inflammation of the lungs, known as hypersensitivity pneumonitis, or HP.
HP has a variety of other names, each one of which offered a possible solution to the medical mystery: farmer’s lung, hot tub lung, humidifier lung and, perhaps oddest of all, pigeon fancier’s lung.
When doctors tried to pin down the cause of the man’s malady, however, it eluded them.
He didn’t smoke. His home wasn’t hiding any mold. He didn’t have connective tissue disease, which can cause breathing problems.
And he did not fancy pigeons.
The only clue physicians at the University Hospital of South Manchester could see was that the man’s symptoms had rapidly improved when he moved to Australia for three months, only for his breathing to deteriorate once again as soon as he returned to the United Kingdom.
In September 2014, five months after first arriving at the clinic, the man returned — in worse shape than ever.
He was breathing rapidly but suffering from hypoxia, or a lack of oxygen in his blood. When doctors listened to his lungs, they heard crackling like an old vinyl record.
An X-ray suggested pneumonia, a blood clot in the lungs or an exacerbation of the still mysterious HP. A CT scan ruled out a clot but showed that the lung scarring that had started seven years earlier had gotten worse.
Doctors gave him a cocktail of drugs to treat what they thought was bacterial pneumonia. When those didn’t work, they added Posaconazole therapy, used to treat pneumonia caused by fungi.
Despite their efforts, the man died on Oct. 10, 2014.
An autopsy didn’t explain much. It merely showed that his lungs were badly scarred, which was attributed to the years of inexplicable HP. The medical examiner chalked the cause of death up to “acute exacerbation of ILD,” or interstitial lung disease, a broad category.
Now, however, nearly two years after the man’s death, doctors say they have solved the medical mystery.
In a report published Monday in the medical journal Thorax, a team of five UHSM researchers coined a new term for the man’s condition.
“Bagpipe lung.”
According to the paper, when doctors initially tried diagnosing the man’s illness, they overlooked his daily hobby: playing the bagpipes.
Tests conducted on the man’s bagpipes found a slew of fungi and yeast living inside the musical instrument.
Inside the air bag was a mixture of Paecilomyces variotti, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, and Penicillium species. In a petri dish, they formed a psychedelic swirl of green, orange and red mold.
There was pink yeast on the instrument’s mouthpiece as well as fungi on the neck, chanter, chanter reed, chanter reed protector, bass drome and tenor drome, researchers found. Even the bagpipe carrying case had mold inside.
The moist, airtight bagpipes made an ideal home for the spores.
Unknown to the piper, who was not named in the study, every time he played his instrument, he was inhaling a mixture of mold that caused his illness.
His brief recovery in Australia had coincided with him leaving his bagpipes home in the U.K.
“It sounds like a Monty Python skit or an Agatha Christie story gone wrong,” William Schaffner, a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, told USA Today.
This mystery, however, had been all too real.
“If that had been identified earlier, and he had stopped playing the bagpipes or cleaned them regularly, he may well have just gotten better,” Jenny King, the study’s lead author, told the newspaper.
The study noted similar illnesses befalling saxophone and trombone players, although they were fortunate enough for their instruments to be identified as the cause before it was too late.
According to the Guardian, however, it wasn’t the first time that bagpipes have been identified as a health hazard.
In 2013, professional piper John Shone fell seriously ill with similar symptoms of breathlessness and weakness. Doctors discovered the fungus lurking inside his instrument just in time.
“It was very much life-threatening,” Shone told the Guardian. “I was near death.”
Part of the problem may stem from the use of modern materials in bagpipes, as old-fashioned leather pipes were often used along with a “seasoning” bag that had antiseptic properties, Shone said. Although airtight, leather bagpipes are also porous enough to let moisture escape, normally preventing mold growth, added Ian Clabburn, chairman of the Bagpipe Society, in an interview with the Telegraph.
The “bagpipe lung” case hold lessons for both doctors and musicians, according to the study.
“This case highlights the importance of a careful clinical history including hobbies,” researchers wrote. “Thorough clinical history exploring occupation, environmental triggers and pastimes is very important in cases of HP.”
Wind instrument players, meanwhile, need to regularly clean their instruments.

Copyright: Washington Post