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He’s known as ‘The Ice Man.”
Submerged In IceScientists can’t really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average person.
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In January of 1999 he traveled 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle to run a half-marathon in his bare feet. Three years later, dressed only in a swimsuit, he dove under the ice at the North Pole and earned a Guinness World Record for the longest amount of time swimming under the ice: 80 meters, almost twice the length of an Olympic-sized pool.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4393377&page=1

And here’s a video of the Ice Man in action:

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Chinese company Golden Dragon Group, Ltd plans to market their eCiggarette, a new smoking technology with an old internet technology name, outside of China later this year.

These electronic ciggies are battery powered, look like real cigarettes, deliver nicotine to the lungs in 7-10 seconds, and supposedly deliver none of the bad carcinogens that smokers love to hate.

The electronic cigarette has been around in China since 2003, and sales have been climbing steadily since. They currently cost about $200, but there is not word on what they might cost when they reach the States.

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An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.

Benjamin Houghton, 47, was to have had his left testicle removed June 14 at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center because there was a chance it could harbor cancer cells. It also was atrophied and painful.

But doctors mistakenly removed the right testicle, according to medical records and the claim, which seeks $200,000 for future care and unspecified damages. He still hasn’t had the other testicle removed.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” Houghton told the Los Angeles Times. “Then I was shocked. I told them, ‘What do I do now?’”

Houghton, his wife, Monica, and their attorney, Dr. Susan Friery, said they hoped to get the VA’s attention by going public with the situation.

Dr. Dean Norman, chief of staff for the Greater Los Angeles VA system, has formally apologized to Houghton and his wife.

“We are making every attempt that we can to care for Mr. Houghton, but it’s in litigation, and that’s all we can tell you,” he said. The hospital changed practices as a result of the case, he added.

via DailyPress.com

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For most people talking on a mobile phone, cooking dinner in the microwave or driving in a car is simply part of modern living in 21st century Britain.

But completing any such tasks is impossible for Debbie Bird - because she is allergic to modern technology.

The 39-year-old is so sensitive to the electromagnetic field (emf) or ’smog’ created by computers, mobile phones, microwave ovens and even some cars, that she develops a painful skin rash and her eyelids swell to three times their size if she goes near them.

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Dr. Carla Pugh seems an unlikely patron of porn shops.

But that’s exactly where Pugh, an assistant professor of surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, procured some of the male body parts she uses to train medical students about human anatomy.

Pugh, 41, has patented technology that combines portions of fully formed anatomical mannequins with computers to teach medical students to do exams on the body’s most private and sensitive areas — pee-pees, boobies and bungs.

via MSNBC

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Prayers have been answered and much rejoicing was heard today from the basement apartments occupied by foot fetishists across the globe. A well formed nipple was found to have grown on the sole of a 22 year old woman’s foot. Some of the rejoicing was considerable subdues when it was revealed that the nipple is surrounded by hair.

full story via Dermatology Online Journal

A summary of the best and most immature comments from Digg:

And the pictures below (possibly NSFW):
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Childhood obesity in the United States appears to be causing girls to reach puberty at an earlier age, for reasons that are not clear, a study said on Monday.

The report from the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital said a multiyear study following a group of 354 girls found that those who were fatter at age 3 and who gained weight during the next three years reached puberty, as defined by breast development, by age 9.

“Our finding that increased body fatness is associated with the earlier onset of puberty provides additional evidence that growing rates of obesity among children in this country may be contributing to the trend of early maturation in girls,” said Dr. Joyce Lee, the lead author.

via Reuters

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From ‘alpha females’ to roommates, women say their cycles match. No matter what the doctors say, women insist that they really do synchronize their menstrual cycles when they spend a lot of time together.

A number of women credit the “alpha female” of a group for controlling everyone else’s cycle, with one joking that she is the “dominant uterus” among her friends. Women in the military and co-workers experience it. A nurse in a hospital department calls it “very dangerous” when they all get into sync.

via MSNBC

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