Alia Sabur is now the world's youngest professor at 18 years old according to the Guinness World Record, breaking a 300-year-old record set by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin, who set the mark in 1717.
Sabur was three days shy of her 19th birthday in February when she became a professor at Konkuk University, in Seoul. The previous record was held by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin, who set the mark in 1717.
"He's in every calculus textbook there is," she said. "When I found out about it, I thought, 'I can't replace him.' But it's been 300 years and someone had to replace him, so why not me?"
Surgeons managed to remove the 125-pound belly of a Russian woman name Natalya M. Her belly fat was 36 inches long and weighed 125 pounds. It hinders her from walking normally.
Natalya was overweight since 13, when she had hormonal disturbance. She tried all the existing diets, visited hundreds of doctors, but with no result. Years passed as her belly was growing larger and larger. Finally it became so huge that the woman literally had to stump it to make a step.
Oleg Strigin, the head of the department of surgery of the hospital, where the woman was rushed, said they don’t do such complicated surgeries often. He said there are 4 levels of the belly-growth: the inch of more than 4-inch length belongs to the 4th level. We’ve never seen the growth of 36 inches!
The growth-removing surgery lasted for many hours. The surgeons removed fat the weight of a grown-up woman.
This Day & Night watch is for the rich and not time conscious as this is the $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time - only whether it’s day or night.
As the company’s Web site boasts: “With no display for the hours, minutes or seconds, the Day&Night offers a new way of measuring time, splitting the universe of time into two fundamentally opposing sections: day versus night.”
What’s most impressive about the Day&Night is its complexity, given its absolute uselessness. The watch features two tourbillons — devices that overcome the ill effects of earth’s gravity on a watch’s accuracy — connected by a differential mechanism. Instead of hands, the watch has a “contemplative tourbillon operation whereby the ‘Day’ tourbillon operates for 12 hours to symbolize working life, while the ‘Night’ tourbillon takes over afterward to represent an individual’s private time.”
A recent experiment showed that gene therapy may improve vision in nearly blind people. This is a major advance for the experimental technique as this is the first time scientists used the gene therapy to improve the sight of people with a rare form of blindness.
"It's a phenomenal breakthrough," said Stephen Rose, chief research officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which helped pay for one study done at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
If successful in larger numbers, experts said, the technique has the potential to reverse blindness from other kinds of inherited eye diseases.
"I think this is incredibly exciting," said Dr. Jean Bennett, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania and a leader of the Philadelphia study. "It's the beginning of a whole new phase of studies."
The Spanish government's domain names is being held to ransom over water supply by a cybersquatter. The Spanish prime minister announced the creation of four new ministries but they failed to register the internet addresses and some was bought by someone else. The root cause - inequality of water supply to the autonomous regions of Spain.
An unnamed blogger from Alicante, south-east Spain, has said he will only return the four domain names, which follow the same format as all government ministries, if his demands are met.
He is calling for Mr Zapatero to introduce a nationwide system of transferring water from the River Ebro, which runs from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean, to all of those regions in Spain that suffer water shortages.
Earlier this month a deal was struck to exclusively supply drought-stricken Barcelona with water from the river, a move that angered other regions who said it gave special concessions to Catalonia.
Vanya Maryin was born with five-chamber heart, instead of four. The "Bee-boy", as doctors call him, have right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle and an extra left atrium. Wondering why he was called the "Bee-boy"? Because only bees have five-chamber heart. What's more extraordinary is that he comes from the beekeeper’s family.
Vanya was born not with 2 atriums like all the people on the Earth, but with an additional - third one. He could die anytime from a sudden push, fright or even happiness. But the body, adjusting to an unusual 5-chamber ‘bee-heart’, suggested the boy a saving, optimal ‘pose for life’.
Doctor Elena Nufer explains: ‘The boy’s heart had 5 chambers instead of 4. Usually the heart consists of the right atrium and the right ventricle, the left atrium and the left ventricle. Vanya had 2 left atriums with a thin, like polyethylene, but firm and impenetrable interseptum. This interseptum was noticed only during the cardiogram. At first nobody believed.
After your websites, Google wants to index your DNA too. Google's investment in Navigenics suggests so. Navigenics, Inc., a company based in Redwood Shores, California offers personalized genetics-based consumer health and wellness services by providing clinically based knowledge to help it's clients take positive steps to live healthily.
Your DNA falls into the realm of "the world's information," and it seems that Google (GOOG), as part of its corporate mission, is making a play to organize that, too. The Internet giant received heavy press in 2007 when it invested at least $4.4 million (BusinessWeek.com, 11/29/07) in a genetic screening company, 23andMe, that was started by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and her business partner.
This 3-minute video shows the Philippine surgeons cheer after removing 6 inch body spray canister from patient's rectum during an operation. This has angered the patient who plans to press charges. The surgery took place at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in the central city of Cebu, Philippines.
Dede, a.k.a. 'Tree Man of Java' talks about his condition after undergoing surgery to remove some of his tree-like warts. He says, he now feels lighter and can eat on his own and even use a cellphone.
2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese straggler who lived in the Jungle of Lubang Island, Philippines for 29 years, from 1945 to 1972, after the Japanese forces was defeated by the Allied Forces in World War II.
Found by a Japanese student, Norio Suzuki, Onoda still refused to accept that the war was over unless he received orders to lay down his arms from his superior officer. Suzuki offered his help, and returned to Japan with photographs of himself and Onoda as proof of their encounter. In 1974 the Japanese government located Onoda's commanding officer, Major Taniguchi, who had since become a bookseller. He flew to Lubang and informed Onoda of the defeat of Japan in WWII and ordered him to lay down his arms. Lieutenant Onoda emerged from the jungle 29 years after the end of World War II, and accepted the commanding officer's order of surrender in his dress uniform and sword, with his Arisaka Type 99 rifle still in operating condition, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.
11 year old Tyler Hemmert survived after a butter knife was stuck in his head when another boy became angry with him and his friend and hurled the knife. He was lucky that the knife only grazed his skull. Doctors was able to remove and he was left with a five stitches and a story to tell.
“The CAT scan showed that indeed it was just under his scalp,” Dr. Andy Reed told NBC News reporter John Larson. “There were no fractures obvious to the skull.” Tyler, who equated the pain to a bee sting, left the hospital with just five stitches. “I’m feeling fine right now,” he said. “It doesn’t hurt right now at all.” With the scar has also come some notoriety for Tyler. Some friends, he says, have even called him “Butterhead.”
Caffe Raro is a coffee made from animal dung and thought to be the most expensive coffe in the world at £50 a cup. Coffe, anyone?
Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak bean are used to create Caffe Raro which is thought to be the most expensive cup of coffee in the world. Kopi Luwak beans are eaten, then passed, by the cat-like Asian palm civet, and sell for £324 a kilogram. All profits from sales of the coffee at Peter Jones in Sloane Square in April will go to Macmillan Cancer Support.
France rejected the right-to-die plea of Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old former schoolteacher who is suffering from Esthesioneuroblastoma, an extremely rare form of incurable cancer in the nasal cavity. This cancer gave her face tumour that disfigured her face.
She suffers from an extremely rare form of cancer in the nasal cavity known as an esthesioneuroblastoma. Only 200 cases of the disease have been recorded worldwide in the past two decades. Appealing on French television last month for the right to die, Ms Sebire said she could no longer see properly, taste or smell. She described how children ran away from her in the street. "One would not allow an animal to go through what I have endured," she said.
15 years old Indian Girl Jyoti Amge is the world's smallest girl at 1 feet 11 inches according to the Indian Book of Records. She weighs just 11 pounds. Her condition is due to a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia.
I am proud of being small. I love the attention I get," she told the Sunday Mirror. "I'm just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don't feel any different." Jyoti attends her local high school, in Nagpur, India, where she studies alongside classmates of her own age, though she sits at a specially made miniature desk.
Dede aka "Tree Man of Java" is now able to use his fingers and walk after four major surgery. He hopes to live a normal life and be able to marry.
He can see the outline of his toes for the first time in over a decade after medics cut more than 4lbs of warty horns from his legs and feet. He has also become a sudoko addict now medics have cut growths from his hands. Dede, 37, now hopes that he will resume a normal life after two more operations to graft undamaged skin onto his hands, feet and face.
A 15-metre (50-foot) Viking ship made from ice-cream stick sails from the Netherlands to England on April 8. Made by Robert McDonald, his son and more than 5,000 children, this ship was made from 15 million recycled ice-cream sticks and glue.
"If you can dream it you can do it ... I want to teach children that anything is possible," McDonald said. Badly injured as a child in a gas explosion that killed the rest of his family, he has loaded his ship with cuddly toys and plans to reach London and visit children in hospitals.
A collagen injection known as G-Shot, is now available for women who wants to increase sexual satisfaction. Given under local anaesthetic, a specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot. This procedure takes about half an hour and is designed to enhance women's pleasure around the G-spot which lasts around four months.
The £800 jab temporarily enlarges the G-spot to the size of a 10p in width and a quarter of an inch in height. This makes the G-spot easier to locate and highly sensitive, which it is claimed could enhance sexual arousal and gratification. The UK Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Centre in London's Harley Street says it is the first in the UK to offer the jab.
Dubai's crown prince Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum buys a camel for $2.7 million during a desert festival which included a camel beauty contest.
Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the son of Dubai's ruler, Sheik Mohammed, bought 16 camels for $4.5 million, including one female camel for $2.7 million, the state news agency WAM reported. The agency called the price tag "unprecedented" but it was not clear if it was an official record. There was no indication what Hamdan, Dubai's heir apparent, planned to do with the animal though female camels are often used for racing. Owning fine camels is also a mark of prestige for the ruling elite in the Persian Gulf.
Just what are they selling in Ebay these days? A 15 year old McDonalds French fry was sold at Ebay - for $10.50. This French fry has been in the seller's family car since 1993 to "christen" it.
The story begins in 1993 when I was just 15 years old. My father just bought a new SUV for the family. We never had a really nice car so he was proud of this. The day we drove it home we stopped at McDonalds for lunch. We went inside to eat because he did not want me to spill in the car. Obviously I was the kid that always did that. We finished up and I had a few fries left so I just brought them in the car with me. We all know what happed next. Of course I spilled the fries. Dad was not happy but hey who hasn't done that. What we decided to do (which is very weird I know) is to leave one fry under the seat to christen the car. That is where the story begins...
Abraham Lincoln's 1864 anti-slavery letter was auctioned at $3.4 Million at Sotheby's auction house on March 28, 2008. This letter was the president's response to children asking that he free "all the little slave children".
Lincoln's hand-written reply to a petition by children to free "all the little slave children in this country" surpassed the previous record for a Lincoln manuscript -- the $3.1 million for a document sold by Christie's in March 2002.
It was purchased by an American collector bidding by telephone, Sotheby's said.
"Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not that power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it," Lincoln wrote in the letter.
The Ashera is now the world's most expensive cat breed at $22,000 apiece. This specially-bred cat is the largest, rarest and most exotic domestic cat in the world. It is a result of breeding the African Surval and the Asian Leopard cat with a domestic cat. It stands more than 1m tall (3.3feet) on their hind legs and grow to a top weight of 30lb - the size of a small dog.
British businessman Simon Brodie is selling the designer kittens for £10,796 plus shipping costs – and already has a nine-month waiting list. The London-born businessman, who now runs his company Lifestyle Pets in San Diego, California, said: 'The Ashera is unique. It's a beautiful cat, created using our special recipe. 'They are expensive, but we've already sold a lot in the US, in Asia and even in Russia. People who love beautiful pets will spend £12,000 on a cat, others spend that much on jewellery or a big TV.'
Astronomers from the St Andrews University in the UK found a planetary system orbiting a distant star that Looks Like the Solar System. This finding suggests that systems like the Solar System could be more common than previously thought. They also found planets that closely matched Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun.
Dr Dominik told BBC News: "We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period.
"It looks like this may have formed in a similar way to our Solar System. And if this is the case, it looks like [our] Solar System cannot be unique in the Universe. There should be other similar systems out there which could host terrestrial planets."
Nokia 1100 is currently the world's best selling cellphone with more than 200 million units sold since its launch in late 2003. It is also the best selling consumer electronics devices in the world beating Sony's Playstation 2, Apple's iPod, Motorola's RAZR and LG's Chocolate.
The Nokia 1100 (and a closely-related variant, the Nokia 1101) is a durable ultrabasic GSM mobile phone produced by Nokia with a 96 x 65 monochrome screen. It is targeted towards developing countries and users who do not require advanced features beyond making calls and SMS text messages, alarm clock, reminders, etc.
The 1100 is similar to the now discontinued 5110/3210/3310 models that were among the most popular cell phones in the world a few years ago before handsets developed several new features such as cameras, polyphonic ringtones and colour screens.
The Indonesian frog named Barbourula Kalimantanensis is the first lungless frog discovered. It breath entirely through its skin and lacks lungs. This trait may have evolved because of the amphibian's habitat of oxygen-rich, fast-moving water—which might more easily carry away a frog with air-filled lungs.
"Nobody knew about the lunglessness before we accidentally discovered it doing routine dissections," study lead author David Bickford, a biologist at the National University of Singapore, said in an email. His colleague Djoko Iskandar at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia first discovered two specimens of the frog in 1978.
The Evolution of Dance video is current the most viewed video in YouTube of all time. It has been viewed 80,509,811 times as of this writing, and still counting. The video features comedian Judson Laipply doing the dancing.
Shoichi Yokoi spent 28 year in hiding in the jungle of Talofofo, Guam after American forces conquered the island in World War II. He went into hiding in 1944 and was discovered by two local men in 1972.
Born in Saori, Aichi Prefecture, he was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding. Yokoi hunted primarily at night and used much of the native plants to form clothes, bedding, and storage implements, which he carefully hid in his cave. Many of his items are on display at the public library in Hagåtña, Guam. Yokoi feared harsh reprisals if he fell into the hands of the residents of Guam, due to the cruel treatment that the occupational Japanese Army had meted out during the occupation of Guam. For twenty-eight years, he hid in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended.
Sabur was three days shy of her 19th birthday in February when she became a professor at Konkuk University, in Seoul. The previous record was held by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin, who set the mark in 1717.
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