Friday Apr 24, 2009
POLLICA, Italy – The Italian town of Pollica will soon offer Web cam services that enable people worldwide to check on the graves of their loved ones, Mayor Angelo Vassallo said.
Vassallo said because of numerous requests from tourists to be buried in the southern Italian town, the decision was made to sell tombs equipped with video and audio equipment, the Italian news agency, ANSA, reported Thursday.
The mayor said the technology will include a camera that pans the town’s graveyard while offering glimpses into the area’s scenery. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kiran | Under Extravagance and Luxury, Society and People, Spirituality and Religion
Friday Mar 27, 2009
Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.”
Perhaps de Gray is way too optimistic, but plenty of others have joined the search for a virtual fountain of youth. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kiran | Under Health, Science
Wednesday Nov 19, 2008
A South Carolina teenager said she felt like a “fake person” living for 118 days without a heart beating in her chest in-between heart transplants.
D’Zhana Simmons, 14, was released Wednesday from a Miami hospital after being kept alive on a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device.
“You never knew when it would malfunction,” Simmons said, her voice barely above a whisper, at a news conference at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center.
“It was like I was a fake person, like I didn’t really exist. I was just here,” she said, referring to the time without a heart. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kiran | Under Health, Science
Tuesday Nov 11, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian woman who fell into a pit of boiling water after parking her car died Tuesday from burns, a hospital official said.
The hole was caused by a ruptured underground heating pipe.
“She parked her car, left it, and immediately found herself in boiling water,” said an official at the Military Medical Academy in Russia’s second city of St. Petersburg.
A man who tried to rescue the 57-year-old woman also suffered burns but was in stable condition, the official said. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Ali | Under Society and People, Weirdness