Saturday, August 3, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Sleepless Man.
There was once a Hungarian man who was shot through the frontal lobe of his brain in the First World War. His name was Paul Kern and the amazing thing about him is that after he sustained his injury he never slept again. Never. Ever. And he didn't just live for one more year - Paul Kern went on to live for another forty years in good health. I know this sounds improbable but it's true. He was a medical mystery; a misfit. Instead of sleeping, he would just lie down and close his eyes and rest and nothing would make him sleep: not sedatives, not hypnosis and not drugs.
Highest human IQ ever Recorded: William James Sidis
Born in America in 1898, William James Sidis was a wunderkind extraordinaire, gifted with an astounding IQ estimated between 250 and 300. This polyglot went to a grammar school when he was only 6 years old and graduated just within 7 months.
As if that wasn’t impressive enough, at the age of 9, he was already a Harvard student, but since he was too young, he was advised to take a couple of years off just to give his personality some time to catch up and be on a par with his intellect. At the age of 11, he became the youngest student to have ever enrolled at the Harvard University. He graduated cum laude at the age of 16, and entered Harvard Law School at 18. As an adult, was claimed to be conversant in over forty languages and dialects.
In early 1910, Sidis' mastery of higher mathematics was such that he lectured the Harvard Mathematical Club on four-dimensional bodies. MIT professor Daniel F. Comstock predicted that Sidis would become a great mathematician and a leader in that field in the future. Sidis began taking a full-time course load in 1910 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, on June 18, 1914, at age 16.
Shortly after graduation, he told reporters that he wanted to live the perfect life, which to him meant living in seclusion. He granted an interview to a reporter from the Boston Herald. The paper reported Sidis' vows to remain celibate and never to marry, as he said women did not appeal to him. Later he developed a strong affection for a young woman named Martha Foley. He later enrolled at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Politics and arrest: In 1919, shortly after his withdrawal from law school, Sidis was arrested for participating in a socialist May Day parade in Boston that turned violent. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison under the Sedition Act of 1918. Sidis' arrest featured prominently in newspapers, as his early graduation from Harvard had garnered considerable local celebrity status.
Sidis died in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston at the age of 46. His father had died of the same malady in 1923 at age 56
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Crashed
Dramatic visuals of Spain train crash that killed 78
Train took the curve at 190 kilometres when the speed
limit was 80km/hr
Team WORK :
Dozens of Japanese train passengers pushed a 32-ton
train carriage away from the platform to free a woman
who had fallen into the 20-centimeter (eight-inch) gap
between the train and platform during the busy
morning rush hour on Monday.
The act of heroism was captured by a newspaper
photographer, whose photo of the rescue ran in the
Yomiuri daily's evening edition.
A public announcement that a passenger was trapped
prompted about 40 people to join train officials to push
the carriage, whose suspension system allows it to lean
to either side, according to the Yomiuri newspaper,
Japan's largest daily.
The unnamed woman in her 30s was then pulled out
uninjured to applause from onlookers at JR Minami-
Urawa station, just north of Tokyo.
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