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Meet Mathew Rudes, a 21 year old college student due to graduate with honors from the University of California Los Angeles this spring and will attend law school in the Fall.
But Mathew is not your average college student. He wrote a book before he was 11 years old and was valedictorian of his law and […]
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Liz -- 0 comments
Phantom pain felt by amputees in their missing limbs is nothing new. This bizarre phenomenon has been around since at least the Civil War era. But as the U.S. marks its fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, we are finally seeing the emergence of a new and very unlikely source of phantom pain therapy: […]
By Liberty -- 2 comments
Rehabilitation therapy is an integral part of recovery for those suffering from accident injuries, combat wounds, and medical conditions such as strokes. But it involves routine, repetitive, and boring exercises such as stretching, lifting, and balancing - physical tasks that many patients find stressful and tedious.
Nintendo’s Wii video game system is changing all that. Using […]
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Meet Lakshmi Tatma, a two year old Indian girl born with an extra four limbs.
The people of her rural Indian village did not see this as a deformity. They believed that she was a ‘gift from God’, christened her ‘Lakshmi‘ after the four-armed Hindu Goddess of wealth, and queued outside the house to be blessed […]
By Liz -- 1 comment
Deep brain stimulation.
Imagine being born with a genetic abnormality that compels you to swear uncontrollably, to hurt those you love, and to compulsively destroy yourself.
This tragic syndrome predominantly affects males, and most of these boys never live beyond their thirties (most die of renal failure). It’s a rare genetic disease called Lesch-Nyhan.
There are no […]
By Sara -- 6 comments
Is Obesity a Virus?
It’s making for lots of buzz, but it’s unlikely. Though stem cells infected with adenovirus have been shown to convert to fat cells (in the lab), this hasn’t been proven in humans and the chance that this would play a legitimate role in skyrocketing obesity rates is, um, slim. (Adenovirus-36 causes the […]
By Sara -- 5 comments
- via Mental Floss, yo
Here are some human height statistics:
Something in the water? Plains Native Americans and North American descendants of Europeans were a lot taller than their 18th and 19th century Continental compadres.
But not anymore: Scandinavians are tall, but not as tall as people from the Dinaric Alps. The average Dinaric dude is […]
By Sara -- 4 comments
Derek Paravicini is blind and autistic. He is also one for the world’s most talented pianists. Derek has memorized thousands and thousands of songs, after hearing them once or twice. He has given concerts all over the world, and his first CD is now available for purchase.
The video above is part 1 of a five […]
By Wade Meredith -- 1 comment
“Thinking” by Don Shank
Temple Grandin is an assistant professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She wrote Thinking in Pictures and has made numerous TV appearances. She is mildly autistic, which has given her a unique insight into the way autistics think. She contends it is very similar to the way that prey animals, […]
By Wade Meredith -- 0 comments
If I saw one of these in real life, I’m not sure if I’d laugh out loud or run away screaming because I got the creepy-crawlies. I do think the addition of the tennis shoes make it the former. Maybe.
This is a seeing-eye pony. Miniature horses have many advantages over seeing eye dogs, the primary […]
By Wade Meredith -- 2 comments
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