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Strange news archive: November-December 2008
Blind man navigates maze
(Dec 22, 2008)
Scientists have discovered that a blind person can navigate through
a maze of obstacles unaided using the power of sense alone. The man,
left blind by a stroke, was able to intuitively walk around chairs
and boxes without bumping into them using hidden pathways in the brain.
The study suggests we all use subconscious brain resources and can
do things we think we are unable to do.
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more. Source: BBC |
Drillers break into magma chamber
(Dec 17, 2008)
It has been described as a geologist's dream – a unique opportunity
to study up close the volcanic processes that built the Earth's continents.
Drillers looking for geothermal energy in Hawaii have inadvertently
put a well right into a magma chamber. Molten rock pushed back up
the borehole several metres before solidifying, making it perfectly
safe to study.
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more. Source: BBC |
Lebanese finds 'heaviest' potato
(Dec 8, 2008)
A farmer in southern Lebanon has dug up what might be the heaviest
potato in the world. "This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds),"
Khalil Semhat told the AFP news agency at his farm near Tyre, 85 kilometers
(50 miles) south of Beirut. "I've been working the land since I was
a boy, and it's the first time I've seen anything like it."
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more. Source: BBC |
Healthy mice cloned from frozen bodies
(Nov 4, 2008)
Healthy mice have been cloned for the first time from dead mice that
had been frozen for several years, raising the possibility, scientists
say, of "resurrecting" extinct animals such as mammoths from their
frozen carcasses. The clones were produced from dead mice kept at
-20C for up to 16 years by a group of scientists in Kobe, Japan.
Read
more. Source: Guardian |
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