How a single comma saved a life .....Read on this True and short incident and keep smiling :)

How a single comma saved a life .....Read on this True and short incident and keep smiling :)
Maria Feodorovna, the empress of Russia and wife of Czar Alexander III, was known for her philanthropy. She once saved a prisoner from exile in Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander. The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia." After Maria's intervention, the note read: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia." The prisoner was eventually released.
NOTE : This is the painting of Maria Feodorovna in 1912 by artist Wladimir Jegorowitsch Makowskij

Edison Proposed Marriage ...… by Morse Code!!!! - Read on this true interesting fact/story about Edison .

Edison Proposed Marriage ...… by Morse Code!!!! - Read on this true interesting fact/story about Edison .

On Christmas Day in 1871, at the age of 24, Edison married his 16-year old employee Mary Stilwell, after meeting her just two months earlier. By February, Edison was exasperated at his wife’s inability to invent that he wrote in his diary "Mrs Mary Edison My wife Dearly Beloved Cannot invent worth a Damn!!" and "My Wife Popsy Wopsy Can’t Invent." Mary gave birth to 3 children, the first two Edison nicknamed "Dot" and "Dash."

Two years after Mary died, Edison met and married 20-year-old Mina Miller. The story of how the two met is quite interesting: After Mary’s death, Edison regularly went to Boston and stayed with his friends Mr. and Mrs. Gilliard. The Gilliards made sure that some eligible young lady was "visiting" at the same time. Edison, who was half-deaf, bug-eyed, plagued with halitosis and bad dandruff, would stick his face very close to the girl’s in order to hear her words. This naturally creeped them all out!

One day, the Gilliards introduced Edison to Mina Miller, to whom Edison was immediately smitten:

Edison found his own version of paradise in Fort Myers, then a small village, and apparently decided that he must do three things: build a winter home in Florida, marry Mina, and bring her to his tropical Eden. Once back in New York, Edison–normally a workaholic–was obsessed with his new love. He wrote in his diary at this time: "Saw a lady who looked like Mina. Got thinking about Mina and came near being run over by a streetcar. If Mina interferes much more will have to take out an accident policy."

Edison taught Mina Morse code so they could communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around. One day, Edison asked .– — ..- .-.. -.. -.– — ..- — .- .-. .-. -.– — . and Mina replied -.– . …

Sensory touches at the bottom of feet and more

Sensory touches at the bottom of feet and more....Quite interesting!!! Keep Walking ........Check this out...
The Organs of our body have their sensory touches at the bottom of our foot, if we massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains as you can see the heart is on the left foot.Typically they are shown as points and arrows to show which organ it connects to.It is indeed correct since the nerves connected to these organs terminate here.This is covered in great details in Acupressure studies or textbooks.

God created our body so well that he thought of even this. He made us walk so that we will always be pressing these pressure points and thus keeping these organs activated at all times.

Check out this interesting document with more details on both the touchpoints in palms and feet and other interesting facts and tips. http://www.4sight-tech.com/ppt/health.pdf

God and brain - Michelangelo’s Secret message in the Sistine Chapel

God and brain - Michelangelo’s Secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".I love Art and paintings,but n'r new about this coincidence and interpretation before. Some call it fascinating,others 'brainy' and yet others describe it as, 'cooler than the DaVinci Code.'.Read on and have a beautiful Sunday...

The Creation of Adam (1508-1512) on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has long been recognized as one of the world’s great art treasures. In 1990 Dr Frank Lynn Meshberger, M.D from St John's Medical Center in Anderson, described what millions had overlooked for centuries — an anatomically accurate image of the human brain was portrayed behind God. He argues that Michelangelo used his knowledge of Neuroanatomy to portray the brain symbolically in his ''Creation of Adam''.
In the famous fresco, Adam and God face each other, arms outstretched, index fingers almost touching, while a crowd of angels and an apprehensive Eve peer from God's side.

On close examination, borders in the painting correlate with sulci in the inner and outer surface of the brain, the
brain stem, the basilar artery, the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm. God’s hand does not touch Adam, yet Adam is already alive as if the spark of life is being transmitted across a synaptic cleft. Below the right arm of God is a sad angel in an area of the brain that is sometimes activated on PET scans when someone experiences a sad thought. God is superimposed over the limbic system, the emotional center of the brain and possibly the anatomical counterpart of the human soul. God’s right arm extends to the prefrontal cortex, the most creative and most uniquely human region of the brain.

The painting depicts God bestowing intellect on man, arguing that Adam’s eyes are open in the painting, God and the angels take on the distinct shape of a brain, and that Michelangelo was well aware of human anatomy from the many cadavers he dissected in his study of the human form for his art.

Dr. Meshberger's theory appears in The Journal of the American Medical Association and here is the Wellcorps article by him.If you can comprehend medical terms have a look at the article.It has lot more info.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_26xUByFu4-Nzg2ZmI0NDYtZGUxMi00M2E2LWJiMjEtYTJjNmRmYjg2NDBj&hl=en_US

Pic Credit - Pic from Paluzzi et al.,Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2007 to which i added some greens.

Jackie Chan was in womb for 12 months ??

Jackie Chan was in womb for 12 months ?? I just happened to read this and couldn't believe it, but seems to be true !!!!
He is quoted as saying:- "Most babies are born in 9 months. I, on the other hand, stuck around an extra 3 months, until my mother was forced to go to a surgeon to bring me into the world, kicking & screaming, by Cesarean section"!! This is taken from his Biography, I am Jackie Chan - My Life in Action. You forget all the things, you just do it!
The pic here is that of Jackie Chan and his parents.

Who's on the picture?

Who's on the picture?
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How you perceive the image depends on the distance from which you are viewing it.

This is one of a series of hybrid images created by Aude Oliva of the Computational Visual Cognition Lab at MIT.Here's an explanation of how these images work.

The work carried out by Oliva's group shows that the brain extracts large-scale features slightly earlier than fine-grained features. Large scale features are processed within 50 milliseconds, giving an overall impression of the visual scene. The processing of fine-grained details begins slightly later, at around 100 milliseconds. The fine- and coarse-grained features are extracted separately, and processed in parallel through different channels, in successively higher order areas of the visual cortex. In a process called perceptual grouping, the information from the channels is then seamlessly recombined at visual cortical areas of the highest order to produce a coherent, and usually unambiguous, image.

Nature's Heart

Nature's Heart - This heart-shaped island looks man-made but actually is a work of nature and was highlighted by Google Earth. This cute Croatian island, lined on every side with golden sands, is located in Zadarski Kanal (Zadar Channel) between Zadar and Island of Pasman.