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In an incident which appears to be perfect plot for any reality-based fiction work, American colleges drop out after being brutally attacked by group of street robbers, had turned to a mathematics genius. It happened after 41-year old Jason Padgett’s brain was damaged in brutal attack by muggers. He was left concussed after being ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in head.
Now, wherever Jason looks he sees mathematical formulae and turns them into stunning intricate diagrams he can draw with hand. He is only person in the world known to the skill, which experts say was caused by his head injury. They believe that the damage to Jason’s brain had left him with remarkable gift of figures.
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A Time magazine cover with L.A. mom Jamie Lynne Grumet breast-feeding her strapping, almost 4-year-old son promises to be the head-snapping checkout-stand stopper of the season, based on the fevered reaction provoked by the magazine’s pre-Mother’s Daylanding.
Grumet, 26, explains in a Q&A article how she herself nursed until she was 6 years old. She said her mom was not a hippie but her dad was a UC Berkeley-trained nutritional scientist. His training informed the family’s nursing imperative.
The newly famous mom regularly blogs about her parenting experiences (and posts to a Facebook page) at “Iamnotthebabysitter.com” — an apparent reference to her youthful appearance. The blog appeared to have crashed Thursday under the weight of her new fame.
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More than 100years after noted British historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase- “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It is as addictive as cocaine. The feeling of power has been found to have similar effect on brain like cocaine as it increases the level of testosterone and its by-product 3-androstanediol in both men and women. This in turn leads to raised level of dopamine in brain’s nucleus accumbens, which can be very addictive.
A report said that cocaine works in similar way, which can have varied effects from increasing alertness, confidence, feeling of wellness, energy and euphoria, but also anxiety, paranoia and restlessness. Power has almost identical effects to cocaine and too much of it can produce too much of dopamine, leading to more negative effects like arrogance and impatience. Continue reading Power is as addictive as cocaine
About 2900 years after he was mummified, scientists have uncovered that the ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, died of a rare, cancer-like disease that may also have left him with type of diabetes. A team of doctors who looked at mummy, which is now in Archaeological Museum in Zagreb in Croatia, found that while mummifying, the embalmers removed the man’s brain, may be through the nose, poured raisin like fluid into his head and pelvis, took out some of his organs and inserted four linen packets into his body.
His body showed telltale signs that he suffered from Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, an enigmatic condition in which Langerhans cells, a type of immune cells found in skin, multiply rapidly.
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Facts she share about this donation type-
- 21-40 years is the best age to donate. The lower age limit is there for the donor to understand what he is getting into. Post 40, while sperm count remains the same, problems like difficulty in ejaculating may occur.
- Once the sperm is donated is ascertained is disease-free, 10samples are posted with bank over three month period, fetching donor Rs.5000
- There are no laws regulating sperm donation, only guidelines from the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research).
- Continue reading Dr.Anjali Malpani, along with her husband started India’s first Sperm bank in 1990
Australian scientists have claimed that liver can help in treating obesity after they found that it plays a major role in regulating weight by communicating with brain. Researchers of University of Melbourne said that they believed that human bodies may have an innate system in place to limit excessive weight gain caused by eating fatty foods. However, the system only works in response to saturated fat in a normal diet and would not stop obesity in people who ate fat and sugar- laden diets.
Continue reading Liver tied to weight gain can, help find obesity cure
You may have been familiar with brain freeze or the excruciating headache after eating ice cream or something frozen. Now, scientists have explained that it’s caused by rapid increase in blood flow to major blood vessel in the brain. The findings could lead to develop a new treatment to migraine suffers who often get brain freeze.
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Most of us have been visited a Chinese eatery, and have been greeted with the customary Fortune Cookie at the end of the meal. While some look forward to words of wisdom typed on a paper that is encased in cookie, others simply ignore it as an ambiguous message that has no relevance to their current life. If you are curious to find out the history behind his practice, read on.
There are many stories surrounding the Fortune cookie, and according to some of them, the Fortune cookie made its debut in America. However, another story contradicts this idea and dates it back to 13th century, when China was occupied by Mongols. According to one of the legends, the Mongols do not like lotus nut paste. So, the Chinese used this aversion to their advantage. They went ahead and inscribed the date of their revolution insides the moon cakes where the yolk will typically reside. Under the disguise of the Taoist priest, patriotic revolutionary Chu Yuan Chang entered occupied walled cities to hand out moon cakes to other revolutionaries. These instructions co-ordinate the uprising that successfully allowed the Chinese people to form the basis of Ming Dynasty.
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Unsatisfactory jobs may give a headache to many, but a study says that they can also cause a cute back pain. Researchers at University of Western Australia have found that workers who resign themselves to work in unsatisfactory jobs are more likely to suffer from serious, persistent lower backpain than others with positive attitude.
In their study, they found that a third of the people studied with niggling non-specific back pain went on to develop daily back pain that severely affected their carrier and social life. Although the workers requires extended sick leaves and went to doctors complaining back pains, only few had suffered a physical change such as the slip-disc. An atomic test showed no reasons for their ongoing daily problem with pain.
Continue reading Pain in back could be caused by unsatisfactory job
Scientists have built“emotionally intelligent” electric cars that aim to keep people over 65 on the roads for longer. Fitted with a range of devices from hi-tracking googles, to bio-metric technology that monitors heart rate and cardio-vascular health, the modified Peugeot ion will monitor drivers concentration, stress level and driving habits. It is hope that the findings will pave the way for new technology that will instill confidence in drivers over 65 and keep them safely on the road for longer.
Continue reading New Hi-tech cars allow grannies to drive
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