1940′s Russian Experiment – Dog Living without a body!
Russian scientists detach a dogs head for the purpose of testing and research artificial life support in pre-soviet republic. The dog is awakened in this video after having it’s head surgically severed and is experimented on to determine if the animal is lucid, and to document the technology in this film reel.
WARNING: Some viewers may find this rather disturbing.
Having a low IQ is a heart risk – Dr Batty
Having a lower than average IQ is in itself a risk factor for heart disease, say UK researchers. Given the findings, public health messages on things like exercise and diet could be simplified, the authors say in the European Heart Journal.
In the study of over 4,000 people, IQ alone explained more than 20% of the difference in mortality between high and low socioeconomic groups. This applied even when known heart disease risk factors were considered.
Dr David Batty, who led the research for the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, said: “We already know that socio-economically disadvantaged people have worse health and tend to die earlier from conditions such as heart disease, cancer and accidents.
British people are bored with life
The average Briton will spend more than two years of their lives bored to tears, a study has shown. Experts found the typical adult will waste almost six hours a week feeling completely and utterly bored with life.
It is the equivalent of 13 days a year, or 786.5 days over the average adult lifetime of 60.5 years. The main reason for the boredom was ‘having no money or access to the Derren Brown Blog at work”. ”This survey is quite depressing, as it shows that most people are dissatisfied with the humdrum of daily life,” said Scott O’Donnell of www.triviala.com,which commissioned the survey. ”It comes as no surprise to learn that a percentage of us are bored with work at times, and deciding what to eat on a daily basis can be tedious. ”But it’s easy to avoid the dullness of television adverts, Big Brother and reality television as there are other simpler ways to enjoy life.”
The study also revealed 55 per cent of us are bored of having to watch the pennies and budget to get through the month. Another 47 per cent of people said they quickly became bored waiting in queues for people to serve them and 45 per cent said listening to people whine about feeling ill bored them. Other things which bore people include reality television, work, their social life and eating the same food day in and day out. Also on the list of top 50 things which bore people on a daily basis were feeling ill, Paris Hilton and golf on television.
Peter Mandelson tops Independent pink list.
Here is this year’s roster of the 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain today.
And look who came in at 51.
Human Meat – Japan’s New Delicacy
The country that introduced raw fish, ramen noodles and pocky to the world has a new taste sensation. Cannibalism is the newest trend to sweep across Japan. But they aren’t killing anyone to get the meat. They are getting it from hospitals.
Chef Hitoshi Ueda of the restaurant named Long Pig said, “We use human fat from liposuction clinics to make simple dishes, like fried rice. Then I might add a few small pieces of meat, like the kind that might come from a nose job or a finger amputation. That is served with vegetables. That costs about 100,000 yen.” He said. “If I can get a large piece, like a whole leg, I might cure it to make ham or grill it to make a steak. That might cost as much as much as a million yen.” When asked about the taste he said, “It varies from person to person.”
A representative of the Japanese Ministry of Food Purity and Safety said, “The meat is closely regulated and inspected. No diseased meat is used. Inspectors also insure that all the pieces of meat come from medically necessary surgeries. No one is allowed to just cut off an arm or leg and sell it for profit. We also don’t allow imports or the use of meat from dead people. We must be certain that no tainted meat is served.”
Teenager convinces airline bosses that he is an aviation tycoon
In a scam that recalls the Steven Spielberg movie, Catch Me If You Can, a teenage boy has tricked British aviation executives into believing that he was a tycoon about to launch his own airline, it has emerged. The 17-year-old, from Yorkshire, posed as a businesman in his twenties, claiming to have a fleet of jets and a team of colleagues.
Using the pseudonym Adam Tait, he flew to Jersey to hold a meeting with the director of its airport and dealt with industry bosses over his proposals for a cut-price Channel Islands-based airline servicing most of Europe. Tait’s performance was so convincing that he persuaded the executive to meet with him again the following week.
His exploits echo the schemes of the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film Catch Me If You Can. The film, in turn, was based on the real life escapades of Frank Abagnale Jr, who posed as an airline pilot from the age of 16 and 21. To give his talks credibility, Tait bought up websites in the name of American Global Group and Island Airways, and said that an American parent company had a readily available fleet of 12 jets.
Tait then approached various established airlines to ask whether they wanted to give him a franchise agreement. A number of different names were used, such as David Rich and Anita Dash, in telephone conversations and e-mail exchanges with senior airline executives to give the impression that he was part of a team.
The teenager managed to carry off the ruse for six months until journalists at a publication that had reported on his proposed business venture became suspicious. According to the Sunday Times, he was questioned by Essex police while trying to gain access to a 93-seater jet at Southend airport, having convinced the plane’s marketing agent that his “company” wanted to lease it.
Christian doctor clashes with adoption authorities over same-sex family issue
A Christian doctor faces removal from a council adoption panel because she refuses to endorse homosexual couples seeking to adopt. Dr Sheila Matthews, a paediatrician, was told that her beliefs on gay adoption were incompatible with New Labour’s equality legislation and the council’s own policies.
The medic wanted to abstain from voting on Northamptonshire County Council’s adoption panels on the ‘rare’ occasions when cases involving same-sex couples were being considered. Yesterday she said to do otherwise would be to contradict her Christian beliefs.
The married mother-of-one, who qualified as a doctor 28 years ago, said she had been ‘made to pay for being honest and upholding my personal integrity’. Dr Matthews added: ‘I don’t feel that placing children for adoption with same-sex couples is the best place for them. ‘As a Christian, I don’t believe it’s an appropriate lifestyle and I don’t believe the outcomes for children would be as good as if they were placed with heterosexual couples.’ Dr Matthews said men and women brought ‘different skills’ to parenting, with mothers more nurturing and fathers more challenging. She said children of gay adoptive parents would be more likely to be bullied.
Couple create “foolproof” betting scam. Then lose
A married couple took almost £47,000 in cash to back every dog at a greyhound track but what they thought to be a foolproof strategy turned out to have a crucial flaw. The pair, in their 50s, were hoping to scoop a British record breaking greyhound jackpot of £101,110.39p at Sheffield’s Owlerton Stadium. They travelled hundreds of miles from the south coast of England with their stake money and what they believed to be a fail-safe plan.
The unnamed punters placed £46,656 in bets to cover every possible placing of six dogs in six races, using cash they brought in a Tesco carrier bag. But the couple had not bargained on two other ticketholders backing all six winners and the jackpot being split three ways. It meant that their share of £33,703.46 left them with a net loss of around £13,000.
John Gilburn, Owlerton’s managing director, said: “The couple arrived at the track before racing saying they wanted to play all the permutations on the jackpot and produced a Tesco carrier bag stuffed full of money. ”We took them into the cash room and it took us an hour to complete the count. I don’t know if they were part of a syndicate or what, but when they came for their money they were very, very philosophical about the situation.”
Barack Obama to be asked not to extradite UFO hacker Gary McKinnon
Barack Obama is to receive a personal plea from peers, MPs and mental health experts to halt the extradition of a British computer hacker who suffers from a form of autism.
Campaigners will call on the US president to let Gary McKinnon face trial in his home country for breaking into Nasa and Pentagon networks, rather than sending him to America where he could be jailed for up to 60 years in a high-security prison. They will say that the 43 year-old has Asperger syndrome – a type of autism that makes him shy and prone to obsessive behaviour – and warn that his condition would likely deteriorate were he to be taken away from his home and family then jailed abroad.
The letter is being written by the National Autistic Society, a leading charity, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism, a cross-party alliance of MPs and peers that lobbies for better support for sufferers. A spokesman for the society said: “The group are intending to write to Barack Obama. ”The letter hasn’t been drafted yet but it will be finalised in the next couple of days. It may involve asking MPs for signatures.”
David Burrowes, Mr McKinnon’s local MP in Enfield Southgate, said: “We need to take it further and call upon Barack Obama himself to take action as the pleas have fallen on deaf ears so far.” Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, added: “I think it would be a good idea. I hope that even if the UK authorities feel unable to look again at the case, if it was legally possible for the US to do so, that would be a sensible position to take.”
Mr McKinnon admits that he hacked into 97 US computers from a bedroom in north London between 2001 and 2002 and left a message on one machine saying: “I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.” He says he was looking for evidence to show that the authorities have covered up the existence of UFOs.
Derren Brown makes top 11 sexiest atheists.
Coming in at number 8 is Mr Brown. I’ll find out how he feels about this and let you all know later.
Career: English Psychological Illusionist and Mentalist
Claim to Atheism: Professed to being an atheist in his book Tricks of the Mind and described Bertrand Russell’s collection of essays Why I Am Not a Christian “an absolute joy.”
