Monday, July 5, 2010

The Big Kokulka: Heartbreak Hotel

In the 1924 book inspired, silent film, Les Mains d'Orlac (translated, “The Hands or Orlac”), concert pianist Paul Orlac loses his hands in a tragic railway accident only to have them replaced by the hands of a murderer. ... It would be terrifying to think that now in the golden age of science and medicine we may transform transplant patients into living Frankensteins. A Californian research organisation known as the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) has developed an entire ...