Thread for things that blew your mind today.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: At least 20 people were killed during a Carnival parade in Haiti's capital early Tuesday when a music group's float hit a low-hanging power line, causing them to be electrocuted, officials said.

That's fucked up right there.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/w...w/46276753.cms

[Methais]

That's fucked up right there.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/w...w/46276753.cms

I can't help but notice that the PC sucks at voting for GS on topmudsites these days.

GS was at #4 a month or 2 ago and now it's down to #19.

[Atlanteax]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/golf/f...apy/index.html

The drafty drill sees Ireland's double British Open champion enter a TARDIS like chamber, which is cooled by liquid nitrogen to temperatures between -120 and -140 degrees Celsius.
He will then experience what's known as a "short exposure" which lasts for two to three minutes.
Cryotherapy was developed in 1978 by Toshima Yamauchi in Japan but is a relatively new treatment in professional sports medicine.

"Part of our investigations included taking serum and blood tests to monitor enzymes related to muscle damage," explains Hennessy, who ran a research program into cryotherapy.
"What we saw is that they returned to normal when players took part in cryotherapy compared to when they didn't. It improved the inflammatory response, which led to a better recovery.
"We've also seen heart rate variability -- which is a marker of stress -- returned to the baseline quicker if the athlete is exposed to cryotherapy.
"We noticed that sleep quality is also improved straight away by an exposure to cryotherapy.
"Individual athletes would report, 'I just had a good, deep sleep and I feel very good.' It's also possible to get a quality of sleep number by attaching a monitor to the wrist."
In a four-year study of 156 rugby players, 95% said cryotherapy had a positive effect on their recovery after training.
"Many of those that take it will tell you afterwards that they feel elated, they feel a rush of energy and a high as happy hormones are released," adds Hennessey.

"They were dragging the guys out of bed before breakfast sticking them through cryo, they'd do some gym work in the morning, then go in for another session before lunch, do some work on the pitch and then another treatment at the end of the day.
"The mobile unit is predominantly used to stimulate a quicker recovery after training or games."
It costs up to $1,500 to hire the six-meter long unit for a day in the deep freeze.
"We find our bookings come in around the Champions League fixtures," says Bridge. "It was in heavy use over the Christmas period because there was such a heavy football program."

Must be a biology thing, but I am lost as to how 3 minutes @ -120 degrees *help* the body? Does it effectively 'reset' the body?

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/golf/f...apy/index.html



Must be a biology thing, but I am lost as to how 3 minutes @ -120 degrees *help* the body? Does it effectively 'reset' the body?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...8.CD010789/pdf

That describes the therapy and its intended benefits, but doesn't seem to have the results back yet.

From how i've heard it described, it pulls all the blood away from your extremities, then as you warm up it floods back out to your limbs. This process is said to be very beneficial to the healing process of muscles.

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http://time.com/3722264/bionic-hand-amputation/

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A court sentenced a nurse to life in prison on Thursday for killing patients at a clinic with overdoses of heart medication that he confessed to administering because he enjoyed trying to revive them. The Oldenburg regional court found the 38-year-old nurse guilty of two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and another of serious bodily harm, said a court spokesman. Prosecutors had accused the man, identified only as Niels H., in line with German privacy rules, of three murders and two attempted murders at a clinic in the town of Delmenhorst. But he may have killed more. He said that he intentionally brought about cardiac crises in some 90 patients and that 30 had died. The police are investigating about 200 deaths that occurred at hospitals where he worked.

That's some evil shit right there.

[Latrinsorm]

Fucking nihilists, dude.

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Free Weed DC!

[Allereli]

Free Weed DC!

all forms of smoking need to be banned from sidewalks

[Fallen]

all forms of smoking need to be banned from sidewalks

In DC as far as I know it is. Well, non-weed cigarettes aside.

"... consume marijuana in public. You can have it on your person, but you cannot legally consume it publicly in any fashion."