Rock Balancing
Give it at least the first minute . . .
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12 Greek Words You Should Know
Along with Latin, Greek is probably the language that most influenced other languages around the world. Many English words derive directly from Greek ones, and knowing their origin and meaning is important.
Below you will find 12 Greek words that are commonly used in our society. The next time you hear someone saying “Kudos to you,†you will know where it comes from.
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Man sues Md. doctor, says butt stapled shut
BALTIMORE – A man alleging a Maryland doctor stapled his rectum shut during an operation — causing him to go without defecating for 17 days — took his federal lawsuit to trial Monday in Baltimore.
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Bambi?
A tiny baby Muntjac deer which was delivered three weeks early by Caesarean section at a wildlife hospital in Buckinghamshire after his mother was hit by a car.
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Project Bueller
On October 31st, we are recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the Village Halloween Parade. This will involve tens of thousands of people breaking out into the world’s largest Beatles sing-a-long.
We want the streets to erupt in joy and for it to be one of the greatest experiences of everyone’s lives.
We will need thousands of secret audience agents to get the ball rolling by imitating the extras in the scene and inspiring your neighbors in the audience to do the same.
We believe first and foremost in the power of joy and hope to celebrate this principle with you everyday for the rest of our collective lives.
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Bear Walks in Subway
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Laser Portraits
You begged your mom to pay the extra $4. A tribute to the greatest school photo backdrop there ever was.
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Injured by Bible
Manurewa MP George Hawkins has been left nursing a bruised hand after a 5kg bible was hurled at him during a church-run election meeting on Sunday night.
Mr Hawkins today said he intended making a formal complaint to police today over the incident at the Manurewa Baptist Church.
He said the incident happened after candidates had spoken and a microphone was opened for questions from the floor.
He said the man in his 60s started moving towards the microphone carrying a large bible.
“He didn’t stop at the microphone, he kept on coming… He put it above his head and slammed it down on us.”
Mr Hawkins said he blocked the fall of the 1860s edition bible, which he estimated weighed about 5kg, leaving him with a bruised hand.
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The Atlas of the Real World
The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps.
For instance, Tourist Destinations:
The size of each country indicates the proportion of international tourist trips made there.
Western Europe receives 46 per cent of world tourist trips, while just 0.1 per cent of trips are made to Central Africa.
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How a $2 toy ball saved a little girl’s life
It costs as little as $2 and until now has been considered little more than a toy, but a simple ping-pong ball is keeping liver transplant patient Mackenzie Argaet alive.
In a world first, a Sydney surgeon has used the radical method in a transplant operation, which has won him international accolades.
Dr Albert Shun, from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, used the unorthodox approach when confronted with a medical problem while operating on the two-year-old.
Born with biliary artresia, Mackenzie, from Canberra, needed the life-saving operation earlier this year.
But after inserting a portion of the adult-size liver in the little girl, Dr Shun discovered it was too big and was placing pressure on her blood vessels which could have been fatal.
Having heard about the use of ping-pong balls in operations overseas, he decided to test their suitability in transplant surgery.
“I rang my wife and asked her to go to Big W and buy me some ping-pong balls,” he said.
“I was using a sponge as a back-up purpose but there was no way I could close her up the way it was.
“She is the first (transplant patient) in the world that the ping-pongs have been used for these purposes.”
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Magnetic Air Car
The Magnetic Air Car uses three on-board substations to harness compressed air. The resulting airflow is channeled, modulated, and converted to torque that propels the car.
According to company representative Paul Donovan, the car uses a silicon salt battery that has 30% more mass power than a lead acid storage battery and can charge completely within an hour. The 95 percent recyclable battery can also can be used in a temperature range from -40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius.
Though the Magnetic Air Car has not yet been tested, Donovan hopes to have it ready for production by 2010. The company plans on building its first prototype at Club Auto Sport in San Jose in the near future.
Of course the concept car always looks cooler.
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