Buddhist monks mummified themselves
In the early 1800s Buddhist monks practiced a long and turturous process of self mummification. Very few monks actually succeeded in the process and i…
View ArticleCan Alcohol Be Absorbed Through The Feet ?
A Danish urban myth alleges that it is possible to get drunk by submerging one’s feet in alcohol. Three physicians at Hillerød Hospital in Denmark tested this hypothesis on themselves in their office....
View ArticleMake Your Wild Self
The New York Zoo and Aquarium has a generator in which you can design yourself as a fantastic wild animal! On the left is my basic although deceptively youthful self, and on the right I have Fennec...
View ArticleCelebrities Write Letters to Their 16-Year-Old Selves
These letters were part of Dear Me: a Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, a 2009 project to raise money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Some of them are funny (love the one from Jonathan Ross),...
View ArticleSelf Defense Fashion From The US Patent Office
The US Patent Office sees the a lot of strange inventions coming through their submission process, hoping to get a patent. However who knew that there was a whole category of “Self Defense Fashion?”...
View ArticleSelf Portraits Of Photographer Bathing In Awkward Places
This series of self portraits by Japanese photographer Mariko Sakaguchi finds her bathing in some most unusual, and quite awkward, places such as: a restaurant, cluttered apartments, a deserted...
View ArticleThe Self Stirring Pot
(YouTube Link) Are you tired of having to stir while cooking dinner, but you don’t want your food to burn? Wouldn’t you like to let those pesky stirring muscles wither and degenerate? Well, then you...
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