Tara Geraghty

Grateful ❤ Mom of a Miracle Kid 🎗Founder of @makingcancerfun & 💕#heygirlyoucan

[Tara Geraghty @tarasvoice]

My podcast just launched today. I’m excited but also nervous !! if you check it out, would you leave a review or help spread the word?

https://t.co/AUwYLoolrL

[Tara Geraghty @tarasvoice]

This is @JetBlue customer service and it’s almost midnight

[Raesetja @Raesetja123]

It’s so nice being a male. U can always choose if you want to raise your child or not. Depends how you feeling. Wow☺️

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

両親と手を繋ぐことで水が移動すると信じてやまない男の子が可愛すぎる

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

More of this please

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

NO. He raped an 11 year old girl!!!!

[C-Dot 📸 @cdotvisuals]

More of this needs to be done. Cover these kids in prayer. So much is going on these days

[Bulvar Medya @Bulvarpress]

Bir kadın, meyvelerin kolayca yıkanabilmesi için bir kase üretti:

[vision 360 IA @OJOVENE]

El pasado VS la actualidad.

[𝖗𝖊𝖉✞ @_redfeels]

me trying to fix my sleep schedule but the world is so nice and quiet from 12-5am

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

How to tell if there are alligators in the water in Louisiana 😂😂

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A fifth wheel was used to help parallel park in 1933.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

An IBM training manual from 1979.

[osama @0ba0sama]

The way this world works is beyond me.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[Tara Geraghty @tarasvoice]

@CollinRugg Lethal injection seems too nice. Look him in a room with all the members of this girls family.

[♰ @reeceollld]

god forbid you spent 20 minutes without digital stimulus

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Switzerland 🇨🇭

Solar panels on train tracks. A hell of a lot more logical than plastering over prime farmland.

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

Probably