justi4jesu: Wonders shall never end.

It's really crazy!

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Just a day after a male school teacher was gunned down by a 12-year-old student after he tried to stop a shooting rampage at Sparks Middle School in Nevada, another student has been charged with killing a teacher.

A Massachusetts high school student was charged today with beating his teacher to death then allegedly dragging her body from a blood-splatted bathroom in the school to the woods nearby.

Authorities say surveillance camera footage shows Philip Chism, 14, pulling Colleen Ritzer's body in a recycling bin through the halls of Danvers High School Tuesday night, ABC News reports.

The Daily Mail reports that the beloved 24-year-old math teacher had been reported missing when she didn't come home after classes ended. When police went to her school, they found a second-floor bathroom covered in her blood.

Chism had been reported missing Tuesday after he failed to return home from school. He was found Tuesday night in a neighboring community. He appeared in court Wednesday afternoon, where he was charged as an adult and formally accused of beating Ritzer to death Tuesday night.

Arrest records say Chism stands 6-foot-2 and is 140 pounds. A police report indicated that he and Ritzer knew each other from school.

Ritzer lived with her mother and father in nearby Andover.

Her family issued a statement saying: 'At this time we are mourning the tragic death of our amazing daughter and sister. Everyone that knew and loved Colleen knew of her passion, her teaching and how she mentored each and every one of her students.'

No motive for the gruesome killing is yet known.

This is so sad!

http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/14-year-old-boy-beats-teacher-to-death.html

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tnature: I can count at least 5 people who would be delighted at this

I can count 10

This isn't peculiar to Nigeria. See this post about a county in Louisiana, US that levies a fine on anyone caught sagging.

http://www.infonubia.com/2013/04/saggy-pants-in-louisiana-thatll-be-50.html

strangest: "Sporty Hair style". Like those won by Christ Embassy? Na wa o... Make dey no arrest church people o

I sure hope they aren't.

bloggernaija: The north has already declared independence based on their many of their actions.
Make the conference soveriegn

Interesting...

albacete:

Good news for the young and bald

albacete: Insightful post!

Thanks bro!

Don't be shy to read this...no one is looking. Whether you're bald or not, this research is educational and helpful.

Researchers have discovered the cure to baldness - a new hair transplantation method. How does it work? researchers created new hair follicles by using a human skin cell called dermal papilla cells. Thus, rather than shifting hair from one part of the body to another or chugging hair treatment pills, this method simply regenerates the structures underneath the skin's surface that sprout hair to make new hair follicles.

Unfortunately, this technique probably won't work effectively in patients "who already have a limited number of hair follicles, such as women with hair loss, or patients with burns," the researchers said.

The dermal papilla cells were obtain from seven people with pattern baldness. Pattern baldness in males is influenced by genetics ( possibly related to more than one gene, and not necessarily from the maternal side) and hormonal changes in adulthood. Male baldness has been linked to the male hormone Dihydrotestosterone, which causes old hairs on the scalp to be replaced by progressively shorter and thinner hairs in a predictable pattern: it begin at the temples and crown of the head.

These cells were cultured and grown in a three-dimensional space, unlike a lab Petri dish. Once they grew into spherical droplets, they were transplanted onto the backs of mice where human skin had been grafted. "In five of the seven samples, the transplanted dermal papilla cells induced new hair follicles to grow in the skin graft. A DNA test confirmed that these hair follicles were, indeed, a genetic match with the donors' follicles," the researchers noted.

This remarkable study is the first technique to discover a method of creating new hair follicles in the lab. However, it still needs improvement because the hair follicles did not sprout hair that grows all the way to the skin's surface.

In contrast, the new method requires very few existing hairs in order to work, and could make hair transplantation available to more patients, said study researcher Angela M. Christiano, a professor of dermatology at Columbia University Medical Center.

Leave your comments below.

http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/new-hair-transplatation-method-cure-to.html

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https://www.nairaland.com/1488938/kano-police-arrested-150-people

Kano Police Force have begun to strictly enforce Islamic law. Last week, over 150 people were arrested for indecent dressing. Some people in Nigeria's second city were picked up "sagging their pants too low," or "sporting hair styles inspired by prominent international football players," a spokesman for Kano's Sharia Police, Mohammed Yusuf Yola, noted to the Associated Press.

This strict enforcement of the Sharia law is a part of the government's discipline method and curbing immorality. Other civilians were jailed and fined for sagging their pants too low; the law sees this act as an influence of some American hip hop artists, which is unacceptable.

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Kano state Governor gave this 'anti-crime' order to the police department, in his effort to purge the city of immoral acts and practices. The Sharia Police (Hisbah) Director, General Abba Sufi noted that this patrol or order will continue in the weeks ahead.

"We have arrested 150 men and women in the past week, including prostitutes and their boyfriends, transvestites, alcoholics and those engaged in indecent dressing in contravention of the sharia legal code," Yola told AFP.

Given that the governor is viewed as a moderate leader who has failed to impose the Sharia rules, some politicians see this order as his response. However, Yola, the police spokesman insisted that the operation was launched "to reverse disturbing trends in the city of some five million people and is targeting people of various faiths. Those arrested include Muslims and non-Muslims and we treat them equally because this is about morality," he said.

Some of the arrested civilians were released after paying fines ranging from 10,000-15,000 Naira ($60-$70). The spokesman also added that the people who could not afford the fine remains in jail . He would not specify how many people are currently detained.

I won't be surprise if several states follow Kano's trend and impose Sharia laws even on its Christian minorities. Today, it targets is immorality. Tomorrow, who knows? While other terrible crimes like murder, rape, theft, or fraud exist, Kano is more concerned about 'sagging pants'. What do you think...is jailing people necessarily an effective means of curtailing immorality? Is sagging pants immoral?

Please leave your comments below. I would like to know what you guys think.

http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/kano-police-arrested-150-people-for.html

twogood: From the dentist i was lost in the maze, thank God i finally made it out.
My dear, you have a lot to say and would probably do more if you were to replace Jonathan but Rome was not built in a day. Let's channel our strength and hope and affect people around us +vely in wteva lil' way we can, while we continue to pray for a better day.

Glad you made it out of the maze. The write-up might be long but its no longer than any editorial on a newspaper page. The writer simply used the tooth extraction metaphor to paint a clear picture of some of the issues Nigerians face on a daily basis.

While you were in the maze, you would have noticed the writer was trying to hold on to hope of a better Nigeria but situations keep dashing such hope.

How does speaking up about an issue negate affecting people around us positively? Tell that to the brother whose mother got rejected at 5 hospitals. Tell that to the desolated families who are victims of the Boko Haram menace. Tell it to the politicians who care more about winning the next election than the people who will elect them.

We have been praying and will continue to pray. However, prayer without works amounts to nothing! We are quick to "hand everything over to God" when He has given us all that we need to turn our society around and create a future where everyone will be proud of the "Green, White, Green."

Thanks for your comments though. It's a conversation starter

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Whoever has gone through the surgical procedure of tooth extraction will be familiar with one of the basic explanations the dentist give to you before the tooth extraction process begins. The dentist will likely explain thus, "You will be given a local anesthetic around the region of tooth to be extracted. However, the usual traumatic pains associated with the process may be gone you will still be able to sense pressure." I have a feeling pressure has to do with our sense of touch, I am no physician I can’t give further details. This means you can circumvent the immediate agony but the pains may soon resurface once the drugs wear off if you do not take another drug before the local anesthesia wears off.

This mode which I call the “pressure but no pain” mode is what a lot of Nigerians switch to, by default, once they are bombarded with daily myriads of problems that confront the nation. People mentally change to the “pressure but no pain” mode as a temporary panacea to the deluge of heart-rending and traumatic problems struggling to snuff life out of the country and will not let go off her strangulation by the jugulars. They hold on to the “ pressure but no pain” mode so long as it affects none of theirs. Once they do not feel the pain they can manage the pressure.

When Boko-Haram strikes in the north and you live in southern part of Nigeria, you are not budged because you feel the pressure but not the pain. When 40 students are killed in Damaturu by modern day, inexplicable, barbaric savages, and none of the victims happen to be a sibling or either close or distant relative, you hesitate for a while then move on because you feel the pressure and not the pain. When ASUU goes on strike for a quarter of a year, you feign concern albeit momentarily and move on since you can afford to send your kids abroad for a decent education. You feel the pressure but not the pain.

When hundreds die daily on our terrible roads while travelling on long distance routes along the length and breadth of the country, you scream that why should they travel such long distances on Nigerian roads thereby taking avoidable risks. You are not really bothered because you can afford to fly. You feel the pressure not the pain. And when breadwinners and scions of notable families die in plane crash, you mutter to yourself , “Na rich people dey die for aeroplane, I no even get money for flight ticket sef. ” You feel the pressure not the pain.

When people that are not fellow adherents of your beliefs are besieged with ailments that ordinarily would have been treated if the health system worked perfectly, you blame them for lack of faith in your God who cures all diseases. You feel the pressure not the pain.

In the midst of all these happenings, one thing isn’t readily clear to you. Pain isn’t entirely a bad thing. It is one of the signals the body use to inform you that something is wrong with a part of the body. No true physician treats symptoms of a disease without finding a way to deal with the disease causing pathogen or try to tackle the source of the ailment, be it pathological or psychosomatic. Pain may be a warning of a greater doom to come if urgent concrete and reasonable steps are not taken. Pain relief drugs or analgesic are stop gap measures to the threat we face in the body system. It is the same with the nation, “No pain but pressure” is just a way to make your sanity thrive in the midst of the chaos. It is far from a permanent solution. That ephemeral defense will disappear when misfortunes that are avoidable if we had a working government, comes knocking on your door. Did I hear you say ‘God Forbid ?'

Time it was, that I believed so much in the lofty heights this nation could achieve. In fact I once blogged about childhood dreams for my nation here. But If i must be frank with you, lately, I have been having second thoughts about these dreams. In retrospect, I sometimes believe I suffered from what the character called Saleem referred to as ‘the disease called optimism’ in Salman Rushdie’s book titled Midnight’s children. I have been affected with that ailment for so long, I think I am just recuperating. I am taking the healing process seriously.

I must balance this overdose of optimism with a healthy dose of realism. I have given myself a target time , where there will be signs that it will be well with the nation. I have shifted that target more than the number of times Vision 2000 that later became vision 2010 and have had other versions of disguised pseudonyms thereafter. It takes almost eternity to develop courage to hope in the country. Just when you think you have developed a healthy dose of optimism to battle what it has to offer, it comes up either with a scary story of wanton cold blood killings or witch-hunting of a whistle blower who leaked the story of a minister that approved N255 million for the purchase of 2 bulletproof BMW cars while her ministry was responsible for the death of precious souls and narrowly escaped two air mishaps recently.

Some of the heartrending events it shoves down your throat are from the downright unimaginable to the absolutely incredible. I am not even done with what people go through daily in the country that sits on where the trigger stays if you consider the African map as a deformed pistol. Probably that is why it is such a politically charged country. I don't know.

A few months ago, I walked into one of the Federal Medical Centers in Lagos to see a young boy, possibly in his late twenties, pleading with a nurse in the Accident and Emergency ward to accept his mum for admission. His eyes were deep red, face looked weary, trousers were folded a little above the ankle, he kept begging, “Madam I beg of you, just give her a space, I do not mind getting a bed from anywhere else …”. The nurse looked at him with empathy and explained to him that the hospital had exceeded the number of patients they are supposed to take into the ward and tried to further explain the health implications of not keeping to the recommended space between patients. The boy explained to her that if they were sent back home that would be the fifth hospital they will be rejected from due to lack of bed space to admit the mum. The faucet that held his tears back suddenly gave way and they obeyed gravity as they strolled down his cheeks. He turned and faced no one in particular as he screamed "God why? Why? Where should we go to now?", he asked rhetorically.

I wondered silently where I stood, the implication of coming to the hospital with an ailment only to return few days later for a treatment of another that was contracted within the hospital premises. It also occurred to me that I once discussed with a Pakistani friend of mine who believes Nigeria shares similar problems with his home country. He gave me an example of a working country that his in-law once had liver transplant in the United Kingdom and the cost was borne by the NHS at no extra cost. In fact, before he was discharged, an advance team was sent to his home to ensure that the sanitary conditions of the home were satisfactory before he was sent home. The Pakistani guy concluded that democracy run in both countries have succeeded in making a small percentage of the country richer while the greater percentage lives in abject poverty.

I remember, it was about the same time that Asari Dokubo was threatening fire and brimstone in the north. He said that war will be ineluctable if President Jonathan does not return to Aso Rock by 2015. Professor Ango Abdullahi was firing salvos from the north that presidency is must come to the north by the same year and President Goodluck should be ready to leave the Aso Rock or the nation should brace up for full scale war. Such times, I sit down and wonder what exactly it means to be in war. I mean we are all surrounded by tell tale signals of war.

What do you tell the parents of about 40 students that were hurriedly dispatched to the great beyond due to no fault of theirs? What do you tell the family of approximately 10,000 that have lost their family members to the menace called Boko-Haram between 2001 and 2013 according to Wikipedia estimates? What logical explanation can we give to console those whose loved ones were massacred in Ombatse, Nassarawa and Benni-Sheikh killings. Truth is we are not at war but to some of these bereaved families they have not only experienced some of the things those in full scale war experience. A lot of them have even suffered more than what some lucky ones may suffer in the advent of war. Families gone, house razed, source of livelihood gone with the wind, future generations wiped out of the surface of the earth.

If you think all the cities on the surface of the earth were bombarded during the World wars, then you need to think again. The whole of Nigerian geographical landmass does not need to be boiling before we know we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder. Our skies are not safe and our roads aren't any better either. I recently spent 2 hours on a particular spot on Benin-Ore road . The road pavement had failed and the gully on the road was almost becoming a crater. The other lane was totally condemned. That was a journey that was supposed to last four hours from Benin to Lagos.

I will conclude by referring to Salman Rushdie's novel again, I mean Midnight’s Children. Towards the end of the book, the lead character coined a word to add to the list of the possible surgical excision that can be done to the human body. To the list of hysterectomy, lubectomy, vasectomy , adenectomy, bursectomy, cystectomy and many others he added another word he called “Sperectomy”, which he referred to as the draining out of hope. If I still have an iota of hope in this project called Nigeria becoming better in my lifetime , it is fast draining out. This country is fast taking it out from me without any form of anesthesia.

I am off to buy fuel for my generator , I have not seen electricity from PHCN in this house for four days.


~ Shimoshi Adebayo is an Engineer who enjoys writing about socio-economic issues/challenges that the average Nigerian confronts. Visit his blog for more engaging posts.

http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/nigeria-pressure-pain-and-sperectomy.html

prymesolution: Who says it's too late to marry? What took them so long though?

It seem like their children and grandchildren talked them into getting married

lacicrips: This is how it starts. Soon they'll take over.

Nice innovation though. It's only a matter of time; all the sci-fis they show us in holywood will eventually turn to reality.

You are so right.

tpia@:
Data from startrek.

hmm....

Check out this video by an iNubian, introducing God. The word play is "off da chain!" It was recorded a while back but I just saw it a few days ago and decided to post it up on a Sunday.

Even though it was murder she wrote, it was salvation He spoke.

Watch, enjoy, and share the video here

Hello Admins,

Please check out this post. It is highly recommended for front page. Thanks!

https://www.nairaland.com/1484030/worlds-first-robotic-man-heart

Hi HumbledbYGrace,

Please review this post and recommend for front page at your earliest convenience. Thanks

https://www.nairaland.com/1483917/thank-god-unanswered-prayers

bad meat: They didn't give him a joystick,Any way we can send him to mars to check if there is water and methane n sexy aliens

The mars project will be a good use of such robots.

At least 15 people are reported dead today due to a suicide attack in a restaurant of the central Somali town of Beledweyne. "The death toll we have so far is 15 and the injured are more than that number," Isaq Ali Abdi, police chief of the Hiraan region, told AFP.

Mohamed Ibrahim Ali, a Hirran deputy governor, said seven government soldiers died and top Somali military commanders were injured and hospitalized. He said at least 33 people were injured. Witnesses said that they had counted 12 bodies earlier after the blast.

The attack had targeted a restaurant said to be popular with the military. Ethiopian soldiers, as well as Djiboutians from an African Union force and Somali soldiers are all stationed in Beledweyne. Men from all three forces had gathered there to drink tea when the attacker struck, local people said. “Some people were killed while drinking tea and others as they were walking past. It was an incident that terrorised the town's inhabitants,” said Ahmed Mohamud, another resident.

Somalia's president and prime minister both condemned the attack. “This cowardly act was perpetrated by the violent elements who have no basis in Islamic ideology," President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said. "This proves that the Shebab opted solely for extremism after losing in battle.”

Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said "I am deeply saddened by the death of innocent people in Beledweyne. Terrorists defeat only themselves when they commit these atrocities. They long ago lost all popular support as Somalis have discovered for themselves how poisonous the ideology of extremism is.” he said. Death toll continues to rise.

Do you agree with Prime Minister Shirdon's statement: "Terrorists defeat only themselves when they commit these atrocities" OR is it mission accomplished, especially when the victims are 'enemies'?

Source

Based on Neuropsychologist and teacher Rick Hanson’s latest book, Hardwiring Happiness

Every day, most of us don’t stick with our positive experiences long enough for them to be embedded into our brain (that is, there's not enough wiring and firing going on in our neural structure). However, we naturally tend to fixate on negative experiences. "Positive and negative emotions use different memory systems in the brain," according to Rick Hanson, and "positive emotions don’t transfer as easily to long-term memory."

Hanson argues that the problem is that we're wired to hunt for the bad stuff; as he puts it, the brain is like velcro for negative experience and teflon for positive ones. This "negativity bias" causes the brain to react very intensely to bad news, compared to how it responds to good news. Study has even shown that strong, long-lasting relationships require a five to one ratio of positive to negative interactions in order to thrive; this is due to the fact that the negative interactions affect us so much more strongly. The brain has evolved to be constantly scanning for threats, and when it finds one, to isolate it and lose sight of the big picture.

The way to "hardwire happiness" into the brain, then, is to take in the good -being present to life's tiny, joyful moments. “[Lingering on the positive] improves the encoding of passing mental states into lasting neural traits," says Hanson. "That’s the key here: we’re trying to get the good stuff into us. And that means turning our passing positive experiences into lasting emotional memories."

How to overcome your negativity bias and hardwire happiness into the brain

1) Take in the good.
We all encounter positive moments each day, and no matter how small or seemingly insignificant they are, they can be instrumental in changing our perspective. But in order to do so, we must take the time to appreciate these moments of joy and increase their intensity and duration by lingering on them for longer, effectively "wiring" them into our brains.
"People don't recognize the hidden power of everyday experiences," says Hanson. "We're surrounded by opportunities --10 seconds here or 20 seconds there -- to just register useful experiences and learn from them. People don't do that when they could." When you appreciate and maximize the small, positive experiences, insecurity falls away because you’ve got the good stuff inside of yourself.

2) Focus on the positive experiences with the greatest positive effect.
Certain experiences will have a greater positive impact. We have three fundamental needs for safety, satisfaction and connection, he explains. So if you have a safety-related issue like a health scare, you'd want to seek positive experiences that boost your feelings in that sector.

If the issue is connection-related, you should focus on small moments of positive interaction with others. And if you're anxious and feeling threatened, it would help to feel stronger and more protected inside. "You want experiences that are matched to your problem, like matching the medicine to the illness," Hanson says.

3) Be on your own side.
One of the key recipe to happiness is setting an intention for joy and then insisting upon it. We have to be on our own side - that is, stand up for ourselves. It's vital and it's one of the major steps towards happiness. The same way we tried to cheer up a friend who is upset is the way she strive to build and help ourselves. In the stead of staying anxious, unsettled, and worried, find healthy ways to keep your mind healthy.
"There's a joke in the therapy world: 'How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change,'" Hanson noted. Changing the state of mind is another way to hardwire our brains to happiness.

4) Maintain a sense of wonder.
Einstein once said, "He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle." And when it comes to taking in the good, a sense of wonder is key. Experiencing moments as fresh and new, with a childlike awe, allows them to stick in the brain for longer, potentially becoming part of our lasting emotional memory.

“The more that things seem fresh and new, the more that you’re looking at them with beginner’s mind or child’s mind, that’s going to increase brain structure because the brain is always looking for what’s new,” Hanson says.

5) Open your eyes and look around.
The secret to bliss could be as simple (and extraordinarily difficult) as paying attention. Mindfulness -- the cultivation of a focused awareness on the present moment, developed through practices like meditation and deep breathing -- is perhaps our greatest tool when it comes to increasing our capacity for happiness.

It can be very difficult to pull our attention away from the negative, which can take the form of rumination, self-criticism, obsession and anxiety, according to Hanson. But one way to change this, and to create more lasting positive memories in the brain, is to make a concerted effort to notice those little, everyday pleasant encounters: A smile from a stranger, a small gesture of caring from a friend or a little personal victory.

http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/how-to-train-your-brain-to-be-happy.html

tpia@:
Yay

Its like the one that happened in 2011

I suspect this wouldn't be the last we hear about the shutdown. The battle just got postponed till February next year.

tpia@:
What we want is different from what we need.

That's right. Sometimes it's good to have what we want and not just our needs.

Alwaystrue: @OP,
Thanks for this beautiful message. I saw this message and smiled. It is deep.
I can so relate with this message. Have we desired something so much that we later thank God for not answering because we might have botched the gift if He had answered earlier due to poor understanding or non-readiness or because He gave us much better and you start laughing in better understanding because you know He gave you exceedingly abundantly above your expectation and Infact we were the ones that were unrighteous or asked for too little? I have lots of such cases.
Yes I thank God for the 'seemingly' unanswered prayers because He does answer but atimes it is not in line with our expectations.

It may have been planned for evil but God plans it for good...Genesis 50:20 for He makes all things beautiful in its time...Eccl.3:11; because ALL things work together for good to us that love God, to us who are the called according to his purpose....Romans 8:28 and all this is for HIM to be GLORIFIED...John 14:13. Amen.

Thank you Lord!

Thanks for the overwhelmingly encouraging response.

While I didn't write the article, I can definitely relate with it. It isn't just in complex situations, it is experienced even in matters as simple as missing a flight. I remember there was a time i desperately needed a car and I didn't have enough money so I opted to get a loan. I prayed about it and at the time I believed that was the best route. somehow, a simple loan process got so complicated and the banks tried to stick me with a high interest rate. I got so uncomfortable and backed out. I wasn't happy with the whole situation but I eventually settled to buy a cheaper car with the money I saved up. Looking back now, I thank God for the wisdom to back out of the loan cos I'd be saddled with paying notes on a car I wanted out of desperation.

Thanks again for your comment. Much appreciated!

albacete: Does 'he' have a soul? Or conscience?

God is great!

Man will always come short in our attempt at creating a fellow man. We may come close but it will always fall short.

Nonso23: Great! Humans are making progress towards their doom advancement in cyborg tech.
But are those organs biologically active?

They are artificial organs that are biologically active.

satellitedaisy: Odikwa okay!

Congratulations!

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Meet Frank, a robot made of prosthetic limbs and body parts. He has a beating heart and complete circulatory system. He's the world's first full Bionic Man to be introduced at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum at Washington, D.C.

It's not fake. He's real...and he's the first! Frank, the 'bionic man' is 6 feet and weighs 170 lbs. His face is made of synthetic parts and modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologists from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Meyer thought it was awkward when he first saw his replica. Meyer will also be hosting the documentary created to show the making of Frank and shed insight on the bionic man.

Frank's voice is similar to Siri on an Apple iPhone, and his personality is programmed to mimic a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. This robot cost a whopping $1 million. Not bad at all, in comparison to many expensive projects that scientists attempt which eats up taxpayers' money. Frank has over 2/3rd of the human body. He has an artificial heart, a programmed, legs, pancreas, head, see-through chest, and some body parts you probably didn't know existed. These artificial organs were actually donated from laboratories around the world. So, it's a joint effort of several global scientists.

Frank, however, does not have a liver, stomach, and intestines because they are too complicated to generate in a lab. Frank's assembly took 3 months and was directed by roboticists Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co. in England. This is a ground-breaking scientific development. Scientist and roboticists never cease to amaze me.

I don't know if Frank is worth the cost of a flight to Washington. Nevertheless, I'm willing to check out the documentary premiering on October 20. I'm interested in knowing how these scientists replicated Frank's prosthetic body parts.

The creation of this bionic man raises some ethical questions: "Does creating something so life-like threaten notions of what it means to be human? What amount of body enhancement should be allowed or acceptable? And is it wrong that only some people have access to these life-extending technologies?


http://www.livescience.com/40535-show-unveils-worlds-first-bionic-man.html
http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/the-worlds-first-robotic-man-with-heart.html