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Horror as man, 62, dies after he falls into a grinder chute at an Ohio meat processing plant

A worker caught in a machine at a meat processing plant has died in Ohio, according to local authorities. Samuel Martinez, 62, was killed by the machine on Saturday afternoon at the Fresh Mark plant in Canton, Ohio. The Guatemalan national died at the scene. read more

Illinois Man's Arm Pulled From Supermarket Meat Grinder

Once the meat grinder was removed, the patient was whisked away to surgery. "His arm was OK," Schofield said, "but I'm not sure the extent of the injuries to the hand. I would think they were significant." There were no updates on the man's condition or ... read more

Dark Meat

Last year, the state produced 561 million pounds of turkey meat ... arm of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researches workplace injuries and ways to prevent them. The last time NIOSH looked at repetitive cutting motions in turkey ... read more

Advanced Robotic Arm Controlled by Monkey’s Thoughts (w/ Video)

In this demonstration researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have taught a monkey to use its thoughts to control an advanced robotic arm and perform elaborate maneuvers with it. Credit: University of Pittsburgh (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the ... read more

Form Follows Function: Prosthetics and Artificial Organs that Break the Human Mold

Dean Kamen’s DEKA arm, aka the “Luke arm,” is a robotic prosthesis that ... Elective amputations due to non-amputating injury are the start of the process of recognizing that we might be able to build a better grabber. However, given enough time ... read more

All fruit diet lands Ashton Kutcher in the hospital

Ashton Kutcher might think twice before trying method acting again. While preparing to play Steve Jobs in Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic, “Jobs,” the actor said he adopted the late Apple co-founder’s fruit-only diet. “First of all, the fruitarian ... read more

Feet first into the meat grinder: Gruesome death for sausage factory worker chewed up in front of his horrified colleagues

A 26-year-old sausage factory worker suffered a grisly end when he slipped and fell feet first into a meat grinder which ... auger at the Bar S Foods plant in Lawton, Oklahoma. Amid gruesome scenes co-workers watched in horror before frantic emergency ... read more

Gun Control Failures Allowed a Criminal to Carry Out the Texas Church Shooting

Devin Patrick Kelley—who killed 26 people and wounded another 20 at a Sutherland Springs church on Sunday—was legally prohibited from owning a firearm. While he was serving in the Air Force in 2012, a military court convicted him of assault for ... read more

Cut the Penis, Cut the Risk: Why Circumcision Is A Good Choice

Jesse Bering, PhD, is regular contributor to Scientific American, Slate, and other publications. He is the author of the recently released book, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human and The Belief Instinct, which ... read more

Human hybrids: a closer look at the theory and evidence

There was considerable fallout, both positive and negative, from our first story covering the radical pig-chimp hybrid theory put forth by Dr. Eugene McCarthy, a geneticist who's proposing that humans first arose from an ancient hybrid cross between pigs ... read more