How do you get the seeds out of these things?

I love pomegranates.  When I lived two blocks from the best grocery store in the world (well maybe that's an exaggeration, but Berkeley Bowl is pretty amazing), I ate a pomegranate a day during that season. I always sat down with my pomegranate for about a half hour while I pulled it apart and ate each seed separately.  I always kinda felt like a weird bird.  But the other day I found this video (on thekitchn), and it is revolutionary (at least for people who spend 45 minutes a day eating one piece of fruit)!  I have since eaten a few pomegranates, but it's hard to find good ones in Texas, I bought a California pomegranate yesterday and it was delicious and the seeds came out so easily it only took me about 5 minutes to eat a pomegranate ... well at least 5 minutes to get the seeds out, I still enjoyed every seed individually.

S

Everyone is donating organs now

In Wales, they have made a new system where, by default, everyone donates organs when they die.  You can opt out easily, but this will make more organs available to the community in need.  This article states that 67% or organ donors last year were not on the organ donor list, meaning most people who support organ donation are just too lazy or for some other reason have not gotten on the list (for me I know if it wasn't so easy when you apply for a driver's license I would not have done it).  This will not only make more organs more readily available, but it will also force people to think about whether or not they want to be off of the organ donor list, as opposed to the other way around.  Making the decision to not donate is too easy now.  

The need for organs has provided great motivation for research (with 3D printing and other tissue engineering techniques, which I have mentioned here before) but this is slow and has a ways to go before any of these can be implemented with larger organs.  By putting everyone on the donor list and only removing them if they ask, doctors will be able to quickly transfer organs.  The Welch government says patients' families will still be allowed to refuse the removal of their organs, but this will give a more full list of donors, as people who actually do not want to donate will remove their names. 

S 

I have to pee!

I remember back in high school when they started closing all of our bathrooms. Now I can't imagine not having access to a bathroom in every building on campus (because I do pretty much know which buildings have the good bathrooms on campus at UIC now) and I shudder at the fact that they made about 200 girls use the same 3-stall bathroom. But this article brings up the same point, from another school that did basically the same thing!  They started closing the bathrooms because of smoking..not that it stopped anything because the smokers would just wait in the only bathroom that was opened. I even remember getting glared at because I used the last open stall, which happened to be their ash tray, once. I agree that something needs to be done to stop vandalism, illegal activities, and harassment in the bathrooms, but there must be a better way than forcing people to wait for the only, DIRTY, bathroom available. That obviously isn't stopping anything. 

R