Simple eye closure improves the small and cramped handwriting of patients with Parkinson's.

Prof Blundell says: “the Telegraph article was a complete distortion of the facts of our investigation, which showed that exercise is very effective for weight loss. They completely reversed the outcome of our study.”

12,295 died in Egypt in 2007 in traffic accidents and 154,000 were injured.

So why did they resort to extraordinary rendition if they were able to do all that? Or did they genuinely think that Egyptian interrogators were better at extracting info?

A PTSD only bibliographic database.

People living in Cairo work the most number of hours in the world! Follow the link to the UBS site and download the PDF: lots of data. You will find that despite the greatest number of hours, this really buys us nothing. The data was collected via questionnaires administered to people from 14 different professions. The questions is: do people in Cairo report a higher number of working hours or is it true we work more than anyone else?

Impressive. Notice the strange grip. Early evidence of the current obsession with handsets.

like wearing green Crocks.

WTF is this?

It is criminal to claim that it can cure HIV, malaria or TB. If refrigerated it can help with thirst though.

(careful graphic video) Marks on the mans right side look authentic or done by someone with forensic knowledge.

This is one big free trash dive. Interesting. Watch the video.

Vodafone explains why they changed the FUP.

10 out of 13 experienced visual hallucinations after 1 day of blindfolding. (I don't have access to full-text, if you do please send it to me.)

''Maybe [the kid is] blindfolded for him not to see the base and how we're working... But I believe maybe we put the blindfold because we don't want to see his eyes. You don't want him to look at us - you know, beg us to stop, or cry in front of us. It's a lot easier if we don't see his eyes.

عمال الحديد والصلب فكان مطلبهم رفع الحوافز الشهرية ومن أجله قام العمال باعتصامين شهيرين في يوليو وأغسطس 1989. على أثر الثاني تم اقتحام الشركة والتنكيل بالعمال ما بين قتيل واحد وعشرات من المصابين ومئات المعتقلين. ولكي نتعرف على الحدث عن قرب ونتعلم خبراته، علينا أن نرى الصورة في كليتها ونعود سويًا لأصل الموضوع لتتضح لنا الرؤية أكثر.

Alcoholism had cost him his career as a software engineer, his marriage, and the goodwill of his siblings. Now it was threatening to cut his life short. He'd been sober for nearly 6 months and might qualify for placement on the transplant list. But no, Mr. D. told his medical team. Someone else should get the liver, somebody who deserved it more.

The Public Prosecutor eventually approved the lawyers’ demands to transfer all the suspects to the forensic medical center after the defense had proven the existence of injuries and effects of torture on at least one of the suspects.

There was a similar site somewhere with the same function.

African civil society against AU decision to withdraw cooperation with the ICC arrest warrant.

Andre the giant.

A photograph of Phineas Gage identified on Flickr!!

What about books? .. I feel attached to the imaginary characters in novels more than the tv or film ones. They are more memorable to me, as if they and their stories were real old friends with real life situations that did happen.

A very long peer-reviewed article about Sha3abi music. Will read it later I suppose.

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