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| | Theives steal bike while biker lays dead on road. | | | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (3:21 AM)
(I'm feeling disappointed) | | Thieves steal bike from fatal-crash victim
May 27, 2009 11:15am
A man killed in a motorcycle crash in Clarkson yesterday had his bike stolen by passers-by as he lay dying on the road. A man killed in a motorcycle crash in Perth's north yesterday had his bike stolen by passers-by as he lay dying on the road.
The 37-year-old later died from his injuries after he was taken to Joondalup Health Campus by ambulance. Inspector Trevor Davis said the rider crashed his bike at Clarkson in outer northern Perth after he collided with a traffic island in the middle of the road about 3.10pm.
Before police arrived at the scene, Inspector Davis said "unknown persons" attended the crash scene in a ute and removed the bike. Major Crash Investigations did not wish to comment further on the matter.
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Another theft:
Bike stolen while injured rider airlifted
April 21, 2009 03:53pm
A TRAILBIKE rider is fuming after his motorcycle was stolen while he was being airlifted to hospital. Trevor Fuller punctured his lung and broke his collarbone, a rib and a ligament in his finger when he fell off his modified 2002 Yamaha 426 in forest near Woodford, north of Brisbane, on Good Friday.
It took a thief less than 10 minutes to make off with the bike as Mr Fuller’s two riding mates and ambulance officers moved him 500m away from the crash site to a clearing for the helicopter rescue, the Caboolture Shire Herald reports.
“I was certainly in no condition to make sure someone stayed with the bike,” Mr Fuller said.
“I can’t believe it.” Mr Fuller said
his bike had been parked on the side of a trail. To make matters worse, one of Mr Fuller’s friends – Steve Lintott – rode off to look for the bike but also fell and broke his collarbone. Mr Fuller is now recovering at home. | | | 97 Views | 2  Thumbs Up | 1 Comment |  |
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| | Wow.. Humans missing link to our evolution found! | | | Thursday, May 21, 2009 (11:09 PM)
(I'm feeling restless) | | Direct link to article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html
May 19, 2009—Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins. In a new book, documentary, and promotional Web site, paleontologist Jorn Hurum, who led the team that analyzed the 47-million-year-old fossil seen above, suggests Ida is a critical missing-link species in primate evolution (interactive guide to human evolution from National Geographic magazine). (Among the team members was University of Michigan paleontologist Philip Gingerich, a member of the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.)
The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs. "This is the first link to all humans," Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, said in a statement. Ida represents "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor." Ida, properly known as Darwinius masillae, has a unique anatomy. The lemur-like skeleton features primate-like characteristics, including grasping hands, opposable thumbs, clawless digits with nails, and relatively short limbs.
"This specimen looks like a really early fossil monkey that belongs to the group that includes us," said Brian Richmond, a biological anthropologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the study, published this week in the journal PLoS ONE. But there's a big gap in the fossil record from this time period, Richmond noted. Researchers are unsure when and where the primate group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans split from the other group of primates that includes lemurs.
"[Ida] is one of the important branching points on the evolutionary tree," Richmond said, "but it's not the only branching point." At least one aspect of Ida is unquestionably unique: her incredible preservation, unheard of in specimens from the Eocene era, when early primates underwent a period of rapid evolution. (Explore a prehistoric time line.) "From this time period there are very few fossils, and they tend to be an isolated tooth here or maybe a tailbone there," Richmond explained. "So you can't say a whole lot of what that [type of fossil] represents in terms of evolutionary history or biology."
In Ida's case, scientists were able to examine fossil evidence of fur and soft tissue and even picked through the remains of her last meal: fruits, seeds, and leaves. What's more, the newly described "missing link" was found in Germany's Messel Pit. Ida's European origins are intriguing, Richmond said, because they could suggest—contrary to common assumptions—that the continent was an important area for primate evolution. | | | | 48 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | Riding Motorcycles make you younger | | | Thursday, May 21, 2009 (11:10 PM)
(I'm feeling amused) | | Friday, 6 March 2009 Motorcycles make you healthier It must be true -
Dr Kawashima says so! TOKYO (AFP) — Riding motorcycles helps keep drivers young by invigorating their brains, the scientist behind popular "Brain Training" computer software said Wednesday, citing a new scientific study. "The driver's brain gets activated by riding motorbikes" in part because it requires heightened alertness, Ryuta Kawashima said after his research team and Yamaha Motor conducted a string of experiments involving middle-aged men. "In a convenient and easy environment, the human mind and body get used to setting the hurdle low," he warned. "Our final conclusion is that riding motorcycles can lead to smart ageing."
Kawashima is the designer of "Brain Training" software, which incorporates quizzes and other games and is available on the Nintendo DS game console under the name "Brain Age" in North America. A self-professed motorcycle fan, 49-year-old Kawashima cited a new study conducted jointly by Yamaha and Tohoku University, for which he works. One experiment involved 22 men, all in their 40s and 50s, who held motorcycle licences but had not taken a ride for at least a decade.
They were randomly split into two groups -- one asked to resume riding motorcycles in everyday life for two months, and another that kept using bicycles or cars. "The group that rode motorbikes posted higher marks in cognitive function tests," Kawashima said. In one test, which required the men to remember a set of numbers in reverse order, the riders' scores jumped by more than 50 percent in two months, while the non-riders' marks deteriorated slightly, he said.
The riders also said they made fewer mistakes at work and felt happier. "Mental care is a very big issue in modern society," said Kawashima. "I think we made an interesting stir here as data showed you can improve your mental condition simply by using motorbikes to commute." Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved Posted by Highwaylass at 10:36 PERMALINK Labels: mental health | | | | 75 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | 2CM FISH SWIMS UP GUYS PENIS!! | | | Sunday, April 19, 2009 (2:38 AM)
(I'm feeling shocked) | | (heres direct link to the article) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1704490.ece
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A FISH swam the wrong way when it leapt upstream into a boy's PENIS and ended up in his BLADDER. The 2cm daredevil caused all kinds of medical problems when it swam through the teenager's urethra.
The unfortunate lad was taken to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention. He claimed the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home in India.
Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, said: "While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine.
"When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his URETHRA and then he developed all these symptoms."
After finding the fish in the boy's BLADDER, the medics insert a special set of forceps down the patient's penis in a technique known as cystourethroscopy.
But the fish was too slippery, so the professors used a rigid ureteroscope with a tool attached – normally used for removing bladder stones.
The fish, which is thought to be a small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide. The patient was later offered counselling.
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This guys who talks about it is funny what his opinion..Lmao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_d49URTp2U
Yes i have to agree...He either was curious and shoved it up his own pee hole...or......he was stickin his willie in the tank cuz he likes fish nibblin on his big worm LMAO..thats sick!.. | | | | 106 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 1 Comment | |
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| | Tree grows in Mans LUNGS!! | | | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 (1:40 AM)
(I'm feeling indescribable) | | Tree grows in mans lungs!..
Anyone heard of the russian guy who ate a seed which ended up in his lung and it started to grow into a tree!!.. heres an article on it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1169861/Shocked-Russian-surgeons-open-man-thought-tumour--FIR-TREE-inside-lung.html
Plants are gonna dominate the world like that freaky movie..'The happening'... someone told me that plants actually scream in a certain pitch soundway when they are threatened or know they are about to died..or be cut etc.... man flowers must hate me >.> 'eee' | | | | 160 Views | 2 Thumbs Up | 3 Comments | |
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