In Bangladesh, they have like markets just like this on the train tracks. The one I swung by was a fish market. I’m not sure how but the fishies were on the baskets on the trackers, and when the whistled blew the people would just cover the fish and move away.
At the very least it shows how far people are willing to go to make some money to eat.
Pushing Daisies
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Shakuntala Devi: Why she kicks ass
- She is a mathematician.
- She is known as a ‘human computer’ and a ‘calculating prodigy’ for her extraordinary talent of solving complex mathematical calculations very quickly.
- She competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won (1977).
- At university of USA she was asked to give the 23rd root of 9167486769200391580986609275853801624831066801443086224071265164279346570408670965932792057674808067900227830163549248523803357453169351119035965775473400756818688305620821016129132845564895780158806771, which she answered in 50 seconds; It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer a full one minute to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instructions.
- She demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers (7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779) picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question correctly in 28 seconds. This event is mentioned on page 26 of the 1995 Guinness Book of Records.
- In 2006 she released a book called In the Wonderland of Numbers with Orient Paperbacks which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers. She has also previously released 9 other books (including Puzzles to Puzzle You, Figuring: The Joy of Numbers andSuper Memory: It Can Be Yours)
9gag:
Hot curry tub.
I don’t know what this is but I wish my mom would give me these everyday
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A man from Nanjing, China, has recently made headlines after it was discovered he built his own dialysis machine, and managed to keep himself alive for 13 years, after he couldn’t afford to receive proper hospital care.
A research from 2008, shows only one in ten Chinese people can afford regular dialysis treatment, but one man refused to give in to his illness simply because he couldn’t pay the high hospital costs.
Inspiring Pokemon quotes?
Exactly what I need a healthy dose of. I just figured out how PFK1 is regulated via F2,6BP which is via PFK2/F26BPase and there is so much more of that tonight.
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Research shows gamers are better virtual surgeons than residents
Gamers have demonstrated that collective reasoning enables them to crack the code of an Aids-like virus, and display incredible hand-eye coordination. Now, scientists gave game-playing students virtual surgery tools and measured their skills against resident doctors.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston study used machines that replicate surgical procedures — suturing, passing off needles and other tasks. The participants’ competency was based on such things as how much tension was placed on the instruments and hand eye coordination.
In addition to the gamer group doing better, there was an interesting finding among their subset. This group had been composed of high school students who played two hours a day and college students who played four. It turns out the high school students did the best.
Now, can videogames also make better architects?
I’m waiting for my Urgent Care job to make more use of my Left 4 Dead and Batman: Arkham City gaming skills. This article gives me hope.
Woman Grows a New Ear on Her Arm, Has It Attached to Her Head
Sherrie Walters had an aggressive form of basal cell cancer, which required her to have a part of her ear, skull, and ear canal removed. Doctors at John Hopkins were able to use rib cartilage to build an entire new ear. She had to grow her new ear under the skin of her arm for a few months.
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