I Shangai, a baby called Jie Jie was born… with three arms! I’d have called him Zaphod, if you ask me… although he is lacking a head. What is most incredible is that both arms are very well developed, so much so, the doctors don’t know which arm they should take out.

Sadly, Jie Jie seems to have some other medical problems, including a missing kidney.

The boy, identified only as “Jie-jie,” also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine, according to local media reports.

Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli, the reports said. - More

It was all over my RSS feeds yesterday. Scientists have the theoretical basis to create cloaking devices that can make an object invisible, using the laws of electromagnetic waves and refractions, and a lot of nanotecnology to create metamaterials that should be able to bend these waves around the object, making it invisible to the eye.

Visible light normally bounces off an object’s surface making it visible to the human eye. But John Pendry and colleagues at Imperial College London, UK, have calculated that materials engineered to have abnormal optical properties, known as metamaterials, could make light pass around an object as so it appears as if it were not there at all.

Metamaterials are metal and electronic composites that can be engineered to precisely control the way light travels through them. They do this by influencing the relationship between an electric field, a magnetic field and the direction of light. - more

For now, they have only been able to make metamaterials that work with radar and microwaves. But they’re working on the visible spectrum. The problem is the materials needed seem to be too nano for it to be profitable.

Metamaterials that control visible light are particularly elusive in large part because the required matrix of metal loops and wires must be “nanosize,” or exceptionally small. - more

So far, they are looking for practical application for warcraft airplanes, and specifially for radar invisibility. But they seem hopeful that they can actually create a cloak for a person to sue and hide, much like Harry Potter does in the books.

Science Fiction? Not any more it seems.

Well, yes folks, because today May 25th is the official Towel Day. You may be asking, what, in the world, is Towel Day? Well, I think some of you who have read a certain book already know.

You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there’s a frood who knew where his towel was. You are invited to join your fellow hitchhikers in mourning the loss of the late great one. Join in on towel day to show your appreciation for the humor and insight that Douglas Adams brought to all our lives.

Because, you see, Douglas Adams died in 2001. Yes, that came as somewhat of a shock to me, since I was not aware that this incredible author was no longer producing hilariously profound stories to delight us with. So Towel Day has been created as a memorial for him.

And what do you do on towel day? Well, you carry around your trusty towel all day long, as is expected of any respectable hitchhiker of course! And hopefully take some pictures to share off at the end of the day ^^. Be assured that I will be uploading my own pictures XD