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The Lazarus Reflex

Monday, June 22, 2009

Lazarus sign is a reflex movement in brain-dead patients, where they briefly raise their arms and drop them crossed on their chests (in a position similar to egyptian mummy).
“Lazarus’ Sign in Brain-Dead Patients” - Journal of Neurosurgery, Nov 1992, Vol. 77, No. 5:
At 11:15 am on February 20, brain death was declared and consent for [...]

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Total number of stars in the universe

Thursday, June 18, 2009

By volume our Sun is 1000000 timers bigger than the Earth…The sun in turn is 2100 times smaller than VY Canis Majoris - the largest star in the universe. Or to put in differently…It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion) Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris.

The Sun with its 8 circling planets [...]

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Cameo - “Word up”

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Cameo - Word Upby Cameo-official
Recognize the guy with the megaphone in the beginning of the vid?…It’s LeVar Burton…who played Kunta Kinte in the tv miniseries “Roots” (1977)…which I clearly remember watching although I was only 6 years old back in 1977.
Roots:

KICK ASS song by the way!
Enjoy…

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Useless knowledge - Pt. 1

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan (Hi-res)
New category…useless knowledge or…”things that make you go hmmm”…
“Most neutrinos passing through the Earth emanate from the Sun, and more than 50 trillion solar electron neutrinos pass through the human body every second.”

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