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Thought of the day: Synaesthesia

Posted in Insanity, Life, tagged , , , , on March 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »

As some of you may or may not have heard, there are people in the world who have the ability to smell sounds, see smells or even hear colours. The ability is called Synaesthesia – from the Greek “syn” and “aisthesis” meaning with sensation.
…consists of the pairing of two bodily senses by which the perception [...]

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Today’s funky science: smart pills

Posted in Biology, Biotech, Human body, Science, Techno, tagged , , on November 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Philips–you know, the guys that make TVs–also happen to make hospital electronics, so it’s not just entertainment and lightbulbs. They’ve managed to invent a smart pill that is designed to not only release medication in certain parts of the body, but also monitor patients from the inside. The pill is still a prototype, but it [...]

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Today’s insanity: human electricity! (well, almost)

Posted in Biology, Biotech, Cool, Human body, Insanity, Latest world news, Science, TV, tagged , , , , , , on October 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Scientists have found a way to create bio-batteries, similar to the electrocytic cells of electric eels and other such electric animals. The idea behind this is to power artificial limbs and internal machinery, but of course, the idea could be taken a step further and into the creation of “wetware”, or cybernetic implants. Mind you, [...]

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Something’s afoot …

Posted in Human body, Insanity, Latest world news, tagged , , on June 17, 2008 | 11 Comments »

And it’s smelly: Fifth human foot found in Canada.
A human foot has been found on a beach near the west-coast city of Vancouver, Canadian police say.
It is the fifth human foot to wash up on beaches in the area in the past year. The latest find is a left foot, whereas the other four were [...]

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A natural prevention for HIV–estrogen???

Posted in Biology, Human body, Latest world news, Sex, tagged , , on June 5, 2008 | 11 Comments »

An Australian zoologist, Dr Andrew Pask, has found that by rubbing oestrogen on the tip of a human penis, a thickened layer of skin keratin can be formed that might help prevent the spread of HIV. The thinking behind this is that skin keratin helps prevent viral infections.
The epithelium of the human penis is richly [...]

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Today’s insanity: strange diseases

Posted in Biology, Human body, Insanity, tagged , , on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Askmen.com has an entertaining, though frightening, article about the strange kinds of diseases that can be obtained if you try hard enough (and maybe one or two that you’d have difficulty contracting at all). Mind you, these diseases are very rare, very frightening, and very insane. Some of the diseases, such as reflex sympathetic dystrophy [...]

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