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Chinese Card Thrower Wants to Break World Record for Cucumber Slicing

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:00:09 +0000

This isn’t a still from the newest X-Men movie, it’s the handiwork of a man who hopes to slice a record number of veggies using only a handful of everyday playing cards. Glory comes in many forms. Someone can be a three-time World Series champion or a Super Bowl MVP; they can invent a vaccine [...]

Mind Reading Isn't Just for 'X-Men' Anymore – Science Might Make It a Reality

Mike Adams — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:50:49 +0000

While mind reading has long since been a novelty among magicians, circus sideshows and Professor Xavier from the ‘X-Men’ franchise, a new study suggests that this once thought fictional ability is actually possible. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University inserted tiny electrodes into the brains of epilepsy patients awaiting brain surgery [...]

Blind Man Stuns With Amazing Ability To Fix Cars [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:01:04 +0000

They say if you lose one of your senses, another becomes heightened to compensate.

That certainly seems to be the case for 50-year-old Bart Hickey. Legally blind, he can’t drive a car — but he can take one apart and put it back together. He even owns his own successful repair shop in the Chicago suburb of Alsip, Illinois.