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This Beautiful Girl Paralyzed Every time Laughter

November 16, 2010 Leave a comment

Every time Kay Underwood laugh, the muscles of his body paralyzed instantly. In these conditions, women 22 years will be difficult to move his body, although his eyes could see and ears to hear.

As quoted from page Guardian, at the end of 2008, this architecture student was diagnosed with cataplexy. “I could fall limp 40 times a day thanks to laugh,” says Kay. New Paralysis lost when his emotions back stable.

Kay first got this sudden paralytic attacks during the beginning of semester. “When I was in the kitchen with a friend. Currently being laughed off, I suddenly fell to the floor. I could hear and see, but I could not move,” he said.

Not just when to laugh, Kay also be paralyzed for a moment when it felt emotions such as excessive crying, too excited, surprised, embarrassed, and frightened. In fact, Kay may fell when she heard men express love.

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The End of Ask.com

November 11, 2010 Leave a comment

Today (10/11) is last day of Ask.com as a search-engine services. Website search engine that used to be one of the largest in the world now allow their employees to move to Google and Microsoft.

Website Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, was formerly the site of the most well known search site. Launched in 1996 and quickly developed. In the era of peak popularity, Ask.com has answered two million searches per day. Mascot of this website, Jeeves the Butler, was known by many people. Similarly, as quoted by Mashable, Wednesday (11/10/2010).

In 1999, the company is doing an initial public offering (IPO) and everything looks pretty good, at a time when the dot com era of the Internet became popular. Then several years went by, Ask.com compete with Google. Their market share and technology stagnated until finally bought by Internet conglomerate InterActiveCorp (IAC) of USD1, 85 billion in
2005.
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Video Streaming “Suicide On Internet”

November 11, 2010 Leave a comment

Ever see the movie titled ‘Untraceable’? This one incident is almost similar to the film. The difference is, the perpetrator killed himself.

In the movie ‘Untraceable’ actors prepare equipment in such a way that will automatically kill the victim slowly by relying on a site visitor traffic streamed online. More and more visitors coming into the streaming site, the faster the victim dies.

The incident in Japan is almost similar to the film. But the difference, the perpetrator killed himself menstreaming process online. When his face started to broadcast on an online streaming site Ustream and he announced it will commit suicide, many visitors are urged to do so.

The call comes as most visitors to believe that this broadcast is just a joke. In fact, many visitors who doubted the actors will actually commit suicide.

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Google Employees Salary Increase 10 Percent

November 11, 2010 Leave a comment

Google shows that they know how to make employees feel special: Approximately 23 300 employees raised his salary by 10 percent starting next year.

Internet giants of the world is also changing its employees an annual bonus with regular pay check. This notice posted to all employees through an internal memo sent by the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt. Bonuses were also not included in the salary increase of 10 percent. Similarly, as quoted by USA Today on Thursday (11/11/2010).

This is a step ‘indulgence employees’ the umpteenth. Google has long been known to feed its employees for free and pamper them with additional bonuses that are categorized as a luxury for most employees in general.

However, the company began to attract a bonus, the bonus in late 2008 and early 2009 to have to lay off a few hundred employees, so the company can continue to run in times of recession the U.S. economy at that time.

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Strange Phenomena in Out of Science

November 10, 2010 Leave a comment

The science has evolved in such a way and modern humans believe science has the power to give an explanation the existence of all things on Earth, as well as in the universe.

However, it turns out not all things can be explained scientifically. For example, science could not give satisfactory answers about the process of formation of the universe, is also a matter of religion, let alone reach out to God.

Likewise, the supernatural and other mysterious things that can not be explained. This may be due, not the scientific method can be applied to study phenomena that. Here’s a sample of 10 Phenonema scientifically unanswered.

1. Placebo Effect

This is a puzzle in the medical world. Thoughts or suggestions on how to influence physical health and has healing power.

Patients can recover from an illness because he believed taking a panacea. Although the doctor is only giving sugar pills or vitamins.

However, over the years, Placebo effectiveness has not been measured. In the eyes of science, this method unreliable.

2. Sixth sense

Five senses, sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, helping people to explore the world. However, there is one sense the sixth sense, otherwise known as intuition or hunch.
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