Teen Boy Faces Lifetime Disability After Being Forced to Do 1,000 Squats by Teacher
A 13-year-old Chinese boy was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a life-threatening condition, after being asked to do 1,000 squats as punishment during summer camp. Ms. Lu, a mother-of-one from Jining, in China’s Shandong Province, recently revealed the tragic story of how her teenage son suffered a corporeal punishment that threatened to leave him disabled for life. […]
Tree Cut in Half in Neighborly Dispute Becomes Unlikely Tourist Attraction
A bizarre-looking fir tree sliced in half during a neighborly dispute over bird droppings has become a popular tourist attraction with its own Google reviews in the Waterthorpe suburb of Sheffield, England. Three years ago, the now-famous half-cut fir tree of Waterhope made international news headlines for the first time. Located on the edge of […]
Medical Student Eats 720 Eggs in 28 Days as Metabolic Experiment
A Harvard medical student recently completed an intriguing “eggxperiment” by eating a total of 720 chicken eggs over 28 days to test their effect on his bad cholesterol. Eggs have long had a bad reputation for raising LDL (low-density lipoprotein) or ‘bad’ cholesterol, and even though that perception of the protein-rich food has changed in […]