Want to live to be 100?

The New York Times ran a set of pieces on a very cool Japanese monk, 100-year-old Rinzai Zen master (one of the oldest in the world) Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, who tells followers, “Excuse me for not dying.” - souljerky
… avoid alcohol, caffeine and tobacco … Scientists working for the U.S. National Institutes of Health [...]

Rock Musician 101 years old to run London Marathon

A 101-year-old man has his sights on the London Marathon in a bid to become the world’s oldest competitive runner. Working plumber Buster Martin ran Sunday’s Roding Valley half marathon in Essex in five hours 13 minutes, and is now focusing on London’s 26-mile event.
On finishing the run, the first words of the [...]

Cannibalism may have killed Neanderthals

Neanderthals who practiced cannibalism may have spread a mad cow-like disease that weakened and reduced populations, thereby contributing to their extinction, according to a new theory.
The theoretical model could resolve the longstanding mystery of what caused Neanderthals, which emerged about 250,000 years ago, to disappear about 30,000 years ago.
“The story of Neanderthal extinction is one [...]

Eur-eek-a! The moment a pupil jumps 40ft from crane with only helium balloons to keep her afloat

Being asked to leap off a 40ft high scaffold, suspended only by helium balloons, is not usually a requirement in science lessons. Neither is dangling from a crane, 60ft from the ground.
But a group of 13-year-olds experienced these spectacular activities as part of an attempt by leading British scientists to show that the subject can [...]

Pigs’ feet: the new superfood

As Britain’s spending on cosmetic surgery soars, Fiona MacDonald Smith suggests it’s time that we chopped and changed our diet instead.
The latest anti-ageing food? Pigs’ trotters. That’s right, you heard it here first. In New York, the most talked-about new opening of the past couple of months has been a Japanese restaurant called Hakata Tonton, [...]

Ring of fire

Probably not the smartest thing in the world to be doing this on a wood table.
from spluch.blogspot.com posted with vodpod

Spacecraft Photographs Mars Avalanche

A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet’s north pole, scientists said Monday.
The image, taken last month, reveals at least four avalanches of fine ice and dust breaking off from a steep cliff and settling on the slope below. The cascade kicked up massive [...]

A Six-Legged Hexapus

It would of course be technically nonsensical to describe this creature as a “six-legged octopus”.
“Octopus” meaning “eight-legged”, it would be similar to talking about a “three-wheeled bicycle”.
What this picture depicts, therefore, is a hexapus. Henry the Hexapus - as he has been christened by his keepers - is a resident of Blackpool Sea Life Centre [...]

MySpaceTV Videos: S4 interview Alien video by Who is he?

Here’s a mysterious interview with someone who claims to be revealing video of a real alien at Area 51. He seems to believe that they are somewhat supernatural and that, “They may fold in from another dimension, another reality.”
from vids.myspace.com posted with vodpod