Deadly jellyfish
Written by TheNark admin on December 5th, 2009 | 0 CommentsIn a case of extraordinary bad luck, a man sailing off the coast of north-eastern Australia dived into the ocean and face first into a tiny, but deadly, Irukandji jellyfish with a sting said to be as painful as childbirth.
The 29-year-old, who has not been named, was wearing a full-length protective stinger suit (a lightweight [...]
Elephant under police investigation for throwing stones
Written by TheNark admin on September 17th, 2009 | 0 CommentsBewildered Korean police, for the first time, are to investigate an elephant on charges of assault on a person.
The unprecedented case was reported to the Gwangjin Police Station on Monday in which a 48-year-old woman surnamed Kim claimed to have been hit with large stones, thrown by an elephant, according to police officials yesterday.
Kim was [...]
Radioactive toothpaste
Written by TheNark admin on September 9th, 2009 | 1 CommentDoramad radioactive toothpaste:
Agamma spectroscopy analysis did reveal trace quantities of thorium, but the levels are too low to be detected with a simple hand-held survey meter.
This story is adapted from the book Alsos, written by Samuel Goudsmit, H. Schuman Inc., New York, 1947. It appeared in the December 1996 issue of the Health Physics Society [...]
Porphyria – a disease of vampires
Written by TheNark admin on February 10th, 2009 | 7 CommentsPorphyria is not one disease, but a group of at least eight different diseases that are significantly different. The common feature for all porphyria is accumulation of porphyria. We can find porphyria in our body, but it is not good when porphyria start to accumulation in body. Treatment and symptoms of different types [...]
Car in Church Roof
Written by TheNark admin on February 3rd, 2009 | 0 CommentsForget the “Dukes of Hazard.” In the eastern German town of Limbach-Oberfrohna on Sunday night, a 23-year-old driver speeding through the town center lost control of his vehicle, launched off an embankment and ended up smashed into the roof of the village church some seven meters (23 feet) up. And far from driving a 1969 [...]
Make it in sky
Written by TheNark admin on January 27th, 2009 | 0 CommentsMarriage in the Sky
# is a marriage celebrated in heaven for couples who want to bring their chapel a little closer to angels on their wedding day by raising it 50 metres up in the air.
# is a unique event meant for couples who wish to transform an ordinary marriage into a magical moment [...]
Zombie walk
Written by TheNark admin on January 27th, 2009 | 0 CommentsA zombie walk (also known as a zombie mob, zombie march, zombie horde, zombie lurch, zombie shuffle or zombie pub crawl) is an organized public gathering of people who wears zombie costumes. Usually taking place in an urban centre, the participants make their way around the city streets and through shopping malls in a somewhat [...]
Tiny doll made of living cells
Written by TheNark admin on January 24th, 2009 | 0 CommentsTo demonstrate a new method for fabricating three-dimensional living biological structures, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) have created a 5-millimeter tall doll composed of living cells.
According to an announcement made on January 22, the researchers created the tiny figurine by cultivating 100,000 cell capsules — 0.1-millimeter balls of collagen, [...]
