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Just to be straight–most people have two kidneys, or even one, depending on the circumstances. But not Jaswant, a photographer from a small village located in Punjab, India. He’s got five. Since 2004, Jaswant has undergone three separate kidney transplants, receiving new kidneys from family members, while the non-functioning...
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While doing this at speed would certainly not be recommended, this novel method of staying connected on the daily commute might just work when traffic slows to a very slow crawl....
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Eric Skopec demonstrates that global warming did not destroy the Ancestral Puebloan civilization. Although some authors bolster their warnings with historical references, many misrepresent the archeological record. According to Dr. Skopec, “much of what popular authors say about the Ancestral Puebloans is incomplete, misleading, and just plain wrong. They...
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The cassette tape skeleton is the work of artist Brian Dettmer, who displayed it at the International Museum of Surgical Science. There is a lot more to this cassette tape skeleton than meets the eye. A closer inspection reveals some highly appropriate tape choices making it so much more...
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If you read the title of this piece thinking that we’ve gone right off the deep end, just remember that old adage–truth is stranger than fiction. Huang Yijung, a resident of southern China, recently gave birth to a lithopedion (or “Stone Baby”). Lithopedion is an extremely rare medical phenomenon...
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Peter Terren, a backyard Tesla coil tinkerer has combined Tesla coils and photography to create some truly impressive photographs in the past, but his latest piece, The Thinker is truly a sight to behold....
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Aquarium staff at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall, England were left scratching their heads after some coral reef and fish were left devastated, with no known cause. The display was staked out for several weeks, but the cause of the devastation was never revealed. Not until the staff...
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When 28-year-old Russian man Artyom Sidorkin presented with extreme chest pain and hemoptysis (coughing up blood), doctors feared that their patient had cancer. What they were to find when they performed surgery was enough to make surgeon Vladimir Kamashev question what he was seeing....
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A toxic fungicide used by Chinese sofa manufacturers is being blamed for a dramatic increase of chronic dermatitis, skin burns, eye irritation and breathing difficulties around the world, which have left some victims requiring hospitilization and possibly caused one fatality....
