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Men can do the most stupid things to look taller, from silly high hairdos to horrible heeled shoes. Now they have an alternative: the two-inch (5 cm) silicon head implant. This technique has been developed by a cosmetic surgeon in Spain, as signaled by the 'Daily Mail'. Dr Luis de la Cruz, 47, of the Clinic... |
31 March 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Head hunting was a common practice in many Indigenous societies, from the Jivaro of the Amazon basin to the Dayaks of Borneo and many other Malay-Polynesian groups in Indonesia and Pacific islands. One of the most feared head hunter populations inhabits the island of New Guinea. The Asmat tribe is famous for its bloo... |
12 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The Jivaro are amongst the most famous tribes of the Amazon area, due to their habits of shrinking the heads of the enemies killed in war. The Jivaro tribes inhabit an area larger than Switzerland on the eastern slopes of the Andes, in Ecuador, Brazil and Peru, in one of the densest rain forests. The Jivaro villages ... |
29 February 2008
16:31 GMT |
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The Olmecs preceded the Maya culture by about a millennium and represent the oldest complex civilization in the Americas. They were the first to invent a writing system, as revealed by stone (serpentine) blocks, the so-called Cascajal blocks, found in 2006 in Southern Veracruz, Mexico. Their civilization is regarded ... |
28 February 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Hitachi announced the successful testing of a new key technology that will be used to manufacture hard disk drives which will offer very high storage capacities, effectively pumping at least four times the currently high end storage systems. Researchers from Hitachi expect to have a commercially viable storage soluti... |
15 October 2007
12:12 GMT |
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Two-headed reptiles appear from time to time. But this two-headed turtle discovered by a turtle collector is an extremely rare example of a conjoined-twin birth. "The turtle would have likely died in the wild because it swims awkwardly and would be an easy target for predators," said Jay Jacoby, manager of Big Al... |
8 October 2007
15:36 GMT |
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It may sound less familiar to you than the Down syndrome, but it is a birth defect much more common than the latter. One in 500 newborn children experience hydrocephalus ("water in the head" in Old Greek), more commonly known as "water in the brain". Over 700,000 children and adults in the US suffer from this condit... |
3 October 2007
15:41 GMT |
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These tiny people once spread horror among the visitors of their island. Besides their fearsome habit of cutting off heads, their origins, the carved stones inside the villages and the habit of hanging pig jaws on the girder of their houses are still mysteries. Their ancestors, called Nihas ("people") believed they d... |
4 September 2007
11:23 GMT |
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We've just received word from D3Publisher of America that Dead Head Fred for the PSP has shipped to retailers. The company assures the game which many PSP gamers have been anxiously waiting for was created specifically for the handheld's specs. Inserting the UMD in your PSP, you'll be plunged into an o... |
30 August 2007
09:30 GMT |
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They have not created a 3-headed dragon yet, but by now scientists have managed to make a jellyfish with a dozen heads by carefully monkeying with a few genes. This experiment could explain how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first emerged, like that of the reef building corals. Researchers focused o... |
1 August 2007
03:15 GMT |
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In the western world, people are used mostly with parasites located in their guts. That's why when doctors looked at the weird, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head, they believed it could have been from gnat bites or shingles. But when the bumps started moving, it appeared that there were five active bot ... |
23 July 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Being light-headed was brought to the extremes by ancient Peruvians. A decapitated skeleton discovered in a tomb of Nasca, the ancient civilization that bloomed in southern Peru from A.D. 1 till 750, offers more explanations about this civilization of head hunters.People belonging to this civilization are famous for ... |
7 June 2007
02:46 GMT |
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Two heads think more than one. But it is better for them to be located in two distinct bodies. When more than one head grows from one body, this is called polycephaly, an impairment that occurs during the embryonic stage of development. These tortoises show that the two-headed monsters are not just something depicted... |
5 June 2007
15:26 GMT |
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