Li Fu, a 37-year-old Chinese man from Yunnan Province, fought through 4 years of chronic migraines and other debilitating neurological symptoms after he was stabbed in the head during a robbery in 2006. Only 4 years later did doctors perform an X-ray and realize that he had a 4 inch knife embedded in his skull.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110217-264042.html
After falling asleep at the wheel of his car in November, Andrew Linn crashed into a chain link fence and a metal pole went through his face and came out the back side of his head.
He was awake and alert, trying to use his cell phone when emergency crews arrived.
http://therandomforest.com/miracle-as-man-survives-pole-through-face/#axzz1M9Vrm8oJ
Read about it in this article, which also includes videos describing the work: http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57941/
Ever wonder what the interior of a giant ant hill looks like? Wonder no more, as a group of researchers filled a giant ant hill with 10-tons of concrete and then conducted an excavation.
Beneath the surface, the megalopolis spans 50-square-meters and goes 8-meters into the earth.
And here’s the full show on Ants. Pretty incredibly stuff.
Thanks to Kebmodee for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.
Maternal major depression is an established risk factor for childhood pyschopathology. It has now been established that children whose mothers are successfully treated for depression show progressive and marked improvement in their own behaviors, in terms of depressive symptoms and social functioning, even a year after their moms discontinue treatment.
This effect was seen without any form of treatment being given to the children.
Additionally, the faster mothers got better, the faster their kids improved – and the greater the degree of improvement experienced.
This work was recently published by Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas, Texas.
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept353744/files/638731.html
The unprecedented 2010 flooding in Pakistan resulted in more than a fifth of the country becoming submerged. As a result, millions of spiders climbed into trees to escape the rising floodwaters. The water took so long to recede that all the vegetation became covered in a thick mass of webbing.
On the bright side, these areas have seen far fewer malaria-spreading mosquitos than would normally be present in areas with so much stagnant water.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/pakistan-tree-spiders/#
Johan Huibers is building a full-sized replica of Noah’s Ark in Dordrecht, located on the Maas river. In 2012 he plans to take it around the world.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2011-02-12-netherlands-ark_N.htm
He earlier built a smaller version, that’s on display:
Scientists have made Pac-Man using paramecium, in which movement of the microorganisms is controlled with a joystick while a digital microscope relays images to a computer screen. The joystick is connected to a controller that controls the polarity of a mild electrical field applied across the fluid chamber, which influences the direction in which the paramecia move.
Read more here:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/play-pacman-pinball-and-pong-with-a-paramecium.html
Back in April, Internet service in all of Armenia was cut off for several hours when a 75-year old Georgian woman inadvertently cut the main service line between the two countries. She was scavenging for scrap metal and hacked into primary fiber-optic cable that runs through the two countries.
“She found the cable while collecting scrap metal and cut it with a view to stealing it,” Georgian interior ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze told AFP.
90% of Armenian users lost access for nearly 12 hours while neighboring Georgia and some areas of Azerbajian were also affected.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/07/granny-cuts-armenian-internet/
CRASH!!!!
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