The contest is called “Miss Sister 2008″ and the Nun’s will fill out a profile and provide a picture so people can vote for their favorite one. Priest Rungi said, “This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible.” So I guess this is a pretty exciting time for the Nun’s since they probably don’t get to do interesting activities in the convent. Hopefully they will get some votes, so I will keep you posted on when this site is live and you can vote for your favorite Nun!

Source: sfgate.com

You can purchase the 12V In-Car Microwave Here for 89 Euros, but what a small price to pay for cooking in your car right?

This could be a nice concept for “pimp-your-ride-ers”, maybe that is the perfect market for the portable microwave. With gaming systems, flat tv’s, mini-bars, being put in cars today why not have a portable microwave in your ride? People may not ever leave their cars again, especially since you can get a portable toilet as well. Read more about that at BBC News

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Alright, I know why these aren’t featured at the Olympic games, although I think they would get a lot of attention. Don’t get me wrong I love the Olympics, but sometimes you have to poke fun a little! Go USA!

A Spanish tradition dating back from 1620, baby jumping is a practice that take place every year in a small town called Castrillo de Murcia.

During the Colacho festival, people dressed as the devil (Colacho in spanish), jump over babies born in the last 12 months to cleanse them of the original sin and protect them against evil spirits and illness.

It’s considered the most dangerous festival from around the world. This year, it took place on May 22, but you can catch it in 2009, when it takes place on June 11.

Her name is Velma Thomas and it all begun with a cardiac arrest that she had at home, after which medics took 8 minutes of CPR to get a faint pulse from her again. After she was brought to the hospital, her heart stopped twice more, so she was put on life support.

In the next 17 hours, doctors couldn’t detect any kind of brain activity in the woman, even as they tried some new treatments in their attempts to revive her, lowering her body temperature to stimulate her brain.

Here’s what Tim Thomas her son declared to the Charleston Daily Mail about the decision to pull the plug:

I came to the conclusion she wasn’t going to make it. Her skin had already started hardening, her hands and toes were curling up, they were already drawn. There was no life there.

And with the doctors telling him that there was no pulse, measurable brain activity or blood pressure, the decision came to turn off the life support.

Soon after they left the hospital, the doctors called him and said that his mother came back to life. She had begun moving her limbs and then suddenly, her heart restarted.

When he got back to the hospital, she was conscious and asking where her son was.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Apparently the fact that someone was living in his home wasn’t enough to tip him off. It took the fact that food was missing from his house to give him a hint that something was wrong. Since he lived alone, and didn’t have any rats, he installed security cameras in his rooms and set them up to transmit to his mobile phone.

Shortly after, he saw something in those images, and thinking that there was a burglar in the house, he called the police. When the police arrived, they found the house locked, but when they entered the house they found something they didn’t expect.

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”

It was a homeless woman, 58 years old, that entered the house when the owner left without locking the door. She lived for one year in a small closet, on a futon she moved in it, taking showers and eating the man’s food when he was out of the house.

The Voronja cave, which is currently considered the deepest cave in the world, has a depth of 2191 meters (7188 feet), and it’s also the first cave to be explored at a depth of more than 2km.

In 2007 an expedition of 56 people explored it, but they say that it could be even deeper than it’s currently known.

The name is translated as Crow’s Cave and it’s located in Georgia, near the Black Sea.

With clinical trials starting soon for this miracle gel, we can hope that we’ll see it in use eventually during surgery (stopping bleeding instantly instead of looking for vessels to cauterize), by paramedics or field medics during combat. The possibilities are so many for something like this.

The material consists of naturally occurring amino acids that have been engineered to form peptides that spontaneously cluster together to create long fibers when exposed to salty, aqueous environments, such as those found in the body. The fibers form a mesh that serves as a physical barrier to blood and other fluids.

And, since the body eventually assimilates it, you don’t have to remove it after using it. Sounds great!

Here’s to hoping it will be cheap when mass produced, so everyone can have it.