Brenda Allison of North London, England, has magnetism. No, it’s not that she has a personality that draws people to her (thought she might), it’s that she has a biochemical makeup that makes metal objects stick to her. Ms. Allison not only can stick change, safety pins, and spoons to her body, but also can ...
Praying for the healing of others, especially if they are right next to you, might just produce a real healing effect. A scientific study, led by Professor Candy Gunther Brown of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, of the effects of praying for the healing of a person nearby will be published ...
Foreign Accent Syndrome is not what happened when Madonna moved to England. It’s a peculiar change in the way someone’s voice sounds, making it sound like they have suddenly developed a foreign accent. Unfortunately, it seems to only happen as the result of some injury to the brain. Wait. Maybe that IS what happened to ...
Parrots in Palmerston, Australia, are acting like drunken fools, but veterinarians aren’t sure why. In the wild, the red-collared lorikeets fly clumsily, fall out of trees, pass out, and appear to have hangovers the next day. The cause could be a dietary or a virus, and the vets suspect it is fermented nectar. The parrots ...
An Australian woman says her illness was cured when she drank from a holy tap in Hermannsburg. The tap is located next to a former Lutheran church, and aboriginal people believe the tap is therefore on holy ground. Lutheran officials are uneasy about the whole thing and hope to avoid a mass influx of people ...
Robin Vanderlip, of Fairfax County, Virginia, fell down the stairs three years ago, knocking herself out. When she woke up, she spoke with a Russian-like accent and has done so ever since. Scientists call this Foreign Accent Syndrome (creative!) and postulate that the change in accent is due to brain injury that causes slight changes ...
Angel Burton is one lucky and medically amazing kid. Her kidneys were failing, so doctors began to operate on her to repair her kidney valves. To their surprise, they found two healthy kidneys had grown on top of her failing kidneys. None of the many scans or x-rays done of Amber’s kidneys picked up the ...