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Heart Surgeon Takes Notes from da Vinci

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the next-we'll-be-using-mayan-farming-techniques dept.

vivekg writes "Leonardo da Vinci probably never thought he had the proverbial Holy Grail to a revolution in heart surgery. Almost 500 years after da Vinci's death, intricate diagrams of the human heart made by him have inspired a British surgeon to pioneer a new way to repair damaged hearts."

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  1. New way to repair damaged hearts... by Brent+Spiner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop eating McDonalds you fatasses!

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  2. Aha! by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    But we do know he had the literal Holy Grail, hidden as part of the Priory of Sion. Or at least, he would have had, if it hadn't been made up by a delusional Frenchman in the 1950s

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