Alien Hand Syndrome: When your own hand becomes your enemy
When they say idle hands are the devil’s playthings, they weren’t kidding. Imagine lying in bed sleeping peacefully and a strong grip suddenly envelopes your throat. It’s your hand, with…
When they say idle hands are the devil’s playthings, they weren’t kidding. Imagine lying in bed sleeping peacefully and a strong grip suddenly envelopes your throat. It’s your hand, with…
In the past, it was assumed that brain activity ceases when the heart stops. However, researchers have found that within thirty seconds after death, the brain releases protective chemicals that…
On February 19, 2013, a 21-year-old Canadian college student named Elisa Lam was found floating naked in a water tank at the notorious Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. She was…
A dream is a sequence of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur unintentionally in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are…
On the evening of February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old mother of two, was rushed to the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital in Riverside, California. Ramirez, a patient…
James Marion Sims ― A man of science of enormous controversy, since although he was an eminence in the field of medicine and more precisely in that of gynecology, for…
In 2002, two men attacked Jason Padgett — a furniture salesman from Tacoma, Washington, who had very little interest in academics — outside a karaoke bar, leaving him with a…