Fighting Cancer the Nerdy Way
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Brazilian hospitals don’t just come up with giant, friendly nutsack mascots – they have good ideas too. One of which has been to pair with Warner Bros. to make kids with cancer think their chemotherapy drugs are a superhero formula. Branding the IV bags with the Bat-symbol, S-shield, Green Lantern and Wonder Wings, they also hand out special comics in which the heroes themselves face cancer-like symptoms, take a formula from a similar bag, and regain their powers. It’s a bit like how I learned to eat spinach because it made Popeye stronger, but with larger stakes. Probably more nausea, too.
If you tried this on adults, I think they’d say, “Nah, just gimme a weed card.”
h/t Laraneia
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist