Do you think we are living in uncertain times now? Well, at least it’s no Cold War. In a plot that resembles one that an evil villain in a James Bond movie might love, the United States’ government once planned to blow up the moon with a bomb.
The time period was the 1950s and the Soviet Union had just humiliated the United States with their launch of Sputnik 1, the first satellite orbiting in space. The United States’ Air Force approached physicist Leonard Reiffel in 1958 asking him to develop a plot that would show a mushroom cloud explosion from the moon.
The United States’ government has never officially confirmed its involvement with this plan, and the plot would have remained secret, if not for Carl Sagan. The renowned astronomer, then a graduate school student, provided mathematical calculations for the experiment.
A 46-year-old woman lost nearly 100 pounds after being hypnotized into believing she had been fitted with a gastric band.
Janice Rogers had weighed an overwhelming 255 pounds and became desperate to find a solution.
She had trawled the Internet looking for a solution to her problem, and when she looked up weight loss surgery she stumbled upon a website about a “virtual band” treatment that hypnotizes people into believing their stomach has shrunk in size.
A gang of “Sweeney Todd” cannibals murdered their victims and stuffed and baked their remains into pies to sell on the streets.
Jorge Negromonte, his wife Isabel and his mistress are believed to have lured at least three women to their house with the promise of employing them as nannies before beheading, dismembering, quartering and stuffing their parts into pastries.
The trio had originally told police that they were part of a sect called Cartel which aimed to purify the world and reduce the population, and after searching the house investigators found a 50-page handwritten handbook with detailed writings and drawings on cannibalism.
![Italian Court Charges Scientists for Manslaughter Over 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake
An Italian court has sentenced six Italian seismologists to six years in prison for manslaughter over the deadly 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila.
The decision is already unpopular in the scientific community, since seismologists say that it is impossible to determine when an earthquake will hit, or how big it will be when it does. Erik Klemetti, an assistant professor at Dennison University and a contributor for the blog Wired, tweeted, “I hope the Italians realize how backwards they are in this L’Aquila trial and its verdict. I know [it’s] not everyone, but terrible precedent.”
Read more](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcb27yXzx21rwibjgo1_500.jpg)
An Italian court has sentenced six Italian seismologists to six years in prison for manslaughter over the deadly 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila.
The decision is already unpopular in the scientific community, since seismologists say that it is impossible to determine when an earthquake will hit, or how big it will be when it does. Erik Klemetti, an assistant professor at Dennison University and a contributor for the blog Wired, tweeted, “I hope the Italians realize how backwards they are in this L’Aquila trial and its verdict. I know [it’s] not everyone, but terrible precedent.”
A teenage girl who had been stuck in a coma after a catastrophic car crash miraculously woke up just as doctors were about to declare her brain dead and harvest her organs.
Doctors had assessed Carina Melchior’s chances of recovery as being very low and asked her family whether they would consider organ donation. Her parents agreed and the 19-year-old was taken off of her respirator.
However, after a few days when doctors were preparing her for organ donation, to the astonishment of the staff at the Aarhus University Hospital, in Denmark, Carina suddenly opened her eyes and started moving her legs.
Police say that a 62-year-old employee was cooked to death in an industrial accident at a Southern California Bumble Bee Foods seafood plant.
Authorities say that it is still unclear how Jose Melena ended up in the plant’s cooking device, which was referred to in coroner documents as a “steamer machine”.
A Missouri obstetrician is accused of severing a baby’s head from his body during delivery and then trying to hide it by shoving the newborn back into the mother’s birth canal.
Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette, of Florissant, MO, filed a 10-count complaint in St. Louis County Circuit Court last month claiming that doctors Gilbert Webb and Susan Moore coerced them to have a vaginal delivery against their wishes, beheaded their son and then tried to cover it up.
At this point, greenhouse gas emissions, and humans’ culpability for them, are as close to a fact as science can get. Researchers had assumed that humans’ role in creating greenhouse gases began in during the Industrial Revolution. But Celia Sapart, from the Netherlands’ Utrecht University, and her colleagues have found evidence that humans have played a role in the creation of greenhouse gas emissions since the time of the Roman Empire.
What’s more, they believe that their findings may mean that scientists should rethink climate change models that did not take human involvement into consideration before the nineteenth century.
Dracula Dinosaur Newly Described, “Would Be Nice Pet”
The newly discovered dinosaur is a herbivorous species with a parrot-like beak and, strangely, sharp canines sitting in front of tall teeth meant to cut up plants.
A strange and tiny dinosaur has just been documented for the first time in scientific literature. Almost as strange as its physical appearance, was its journey to being described.
Fossils of the family of this dinosaur, called Pegomastax africanus or “thick jaw from Africa,” have appeared everywhere from China to England. It was first discovered 50 years ago in South Africa but was soon scooped up by Harvard University. The fossils were never described and then, when it was shipped back to Cape Town’s South African Museum, the true nature of the fossils remained undiscovered.
Police Launch Probe After Farmer Is Eaten by His Own Pigs
A family member of an Oregon pig farmer found pieces of his relative’s body and dentures scattered across a pig pen, leading investigators to believe that the farmer was eaten by his own hogs.
About Medical Daily
