In Season 4, episode 8 of Torchwood: Miracle Day, a character is said to have prolonged their life (not much, but definitely longer) by keeping their core temperature two degrees lower than normal, maintaining a lower caloric intake, and keeping their blood pressure below 110 (I assume systolic p...
@Larian: You recently deleted an answer, saying that YouTube wasn't reliable. I'm worried that might be taken the wrong way. It isn't the medium itself that was the problem in that case. It was the anecdotal nature of the evidence.
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is currently in development and is anticipated to be tested on the International Space Station in 2015. I'm a huge fan of expanding space exploration and greatly enjoy the idea of this rocket. However, I would like to make sure I'm not h...
I wrote the following answer to the question: Derren Brown: Is it possible to do the things he does with just psychology or linguistic suggestion? . There is a 1999 video by Derren Brown posted on youtube, where he demonstrates both the hypnosis aspects of his act, and the sleight of hand aspects...
I have heard this story for years now, about how the US military paid $600 per hammer for everyday garden-variety hammers.
Today, for the first time, I saw an article debunking the story.
But that article is hardly on a credible site. So, did the US military paid $600 for a hammer?
IceNew online newspaper, in a recent news article, report that
a man "has been trapped in his car since 19th December [to 22th
February], surviving only by drinking melted snow."
"The man had only a sleeping bag to keep him warm as temperatures in the country dropped to -30°C" the news a...
I was surprised to see in advertisements for "miracle" natural / alternative / herbal etc. medicine that they contain "liquid chlorophyll" and that is really useful for our health.
I wondered how it can be, because chlorophyll is actually what plants use for photosynthesis, so humans could make ...