15-year-old invents new method to detect pancreatic cancer

Not only did he create a new method to detect pancreatic cancer, it costs three cents, takes five minutes to run, and is 100% accurate.

The best part is he says, "When I started this, I didn't even know I had a pancreas. Most of my research I did on the internet. There are millions more out there like me."

Every kind of joy. (All the feels?)

What the Bodhisattva vow can do for you.

Almost every morning these days I do my little morning practice. It's very simple. And honestly, I confess I do it half asleep because I'm sooooooo not a morning person.

I recite the Bodhisattva vow, and then if I have time, I do a little mantra recitation and stuff. (Stuff these days being something called ngundro.)

One morning about, I dunno, a month ago, I didn't do it. I had time but I went straight to the computer and got on with my day. Probably rebelling against routine.

That day at work, I watched myself get pissy about little shit. Someone misfiled some binders! Oh, heavens!

Normally I'd just put them in the right place, but I watched as old habits reared their ugly snake-heads (well, I like snakes, but I was hissy-mad, irritated, "How could they be so lazy as to just stick the binders on the shelf without even bothering? It takes three seconds...." crank-crank-cranky-crank). I left a nasty little notes for the alphabetically incompetent.

Hunh.

I used to be like that all the time. Getting on people's cases about petty crap that doesn't matter.

I went back and removed one of the two notes (couldn't find the other) and decided to do my practice every morning, without fail. Even half asleep, that little bit makes a difference.

Anyways, I had some fandom wankiness come up today, and I didn't bite. Four years ago, I would've gone berserk.