Sometimes science just melts your brain and gives hope to thousands of people at a time.

A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting for eligible donors.

“We finally beat the ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ record for domino transplants,” Montgomery joked at a news conference hours after the last in a series of surgeries was completed Monday night. “We hope this creates a movement that encourages other transplant centers to adopt the model we used

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D tour just won Best Music Doc at the 2nd annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival!  We’re listed here along with some other winners…

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Jason Molina recently spoke to Pitchfork about his band’s new album, Josephine, and how it loosely is a tribute to Evan Farrell.

Pitchfork: The press material describes Josephine as sort of a concept album about the death of Evan Farrell.

JM: That’s how we loosely have been describing it, mostly because people need a reference point. It’s not really a tribute record. A lot of the ideas in that record were things that I had worked with Evan on a lot, and he was going to be of course a major part of the new record.

Read the whole story here.

Wowzers.  Jim just called to let me know that we won the BEST BAY AREA DOCUMENTARY FEATURE award. I think this means we get to put the first of those leafy festival insignias on our poster!

Congratulations to everyone who has been involved in the film and all the folks who came out to watch it on that rainy Friday.

UPDATE:  Click for a video from the Awards Ceremony (Jim looks completely awestruck, but awesomely so)