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Peng Shulin was cut in half after getting run over by a truck in 1995, and lost the lower half of his body. Doctors did skin grafts to seal up his torso, but he has been bed-ridden for years — until now. Scientists at the Chinese Rehabilitation Research Center created a kind of plastic housing [...]
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From the blog Dark Roasted Blend comes word of a bizarre, high-voltage electrical installation in Russia, which were apparently discovered by a Russian photographer who goes by the name Master, and happened to be wandering around in the bush about 50 kilometres from Moscow when he saw a series of gigantic, rusting towers with strange [...]
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I just love Metafilter — I’m always coming across something I have never heard of before, which is one of my favourite things to do, and there are always lots of links to find out more about whatever it is. This time it was Sokushinbutsu, the mummified monks of Japan. Apparently hundreds of years ago, [...]
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I think I may have linked to Jeff de Boer’s incredible artistic creations before, way back when I had a blog called A Complete Waste of Time, but it’s definitely worth linking again — these tiny suits of armor for cats and mice are incredibly detailed works of art, made from steel and copper and [...]
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