Yogi lives 70 years without food or water

A Yogi in India claims to have spent the last 70 years surviving without food or water. The holy man, 83 year old Prahlad Jani is under 24 hour observation by 30 doctors and is undergoing a series of tests. He's been sealed in a hospital in Ahmedabad.

India's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences spokesman said "The observation from this study may throw light on human survival without food and water". Jani says he meditates to get energy and since the experiment started on the 22nd April, he has not eaten or drunk anything and hasn't been to the toilet. Jani says the key to his survival is a mystical and unexplained process by which he receives drops of water through a hole in his pallet. Naturally, the doctors are keen to find out what energy supports his existence, and are hoping that body scans and a multitude of other tests will provide the answer. The experiment will take 15 to 20 days.

Interesting story but common sense tells me this cannot possibly be true and as much as I'd like to believe it, I think that someone is pulling our leg.

US group praying for the death of President Obama

There are over one million Facebook members in America praying for the death of their President. The group located in Marysville have uploaded pictures of the President against a communist flag, and cartoons associating him with Hitler. This is the prayer:

Dear Lord, this year you took my favorite actor Patrick Swayzie, you took my favorite actress Farah Fawcett, you took my favorite singer Michael Jackson. I just wanted to let you know my favorite President is Barack Obama. Amen.

Naturally there was an outcry and a Pro-Obama group was deeply offended and is asking for its removal. The question is - should Facebook remove offensive posts like this one or allow the people to fight it out amongst themselves? Facebook's 'terms of use' ban members from posting "content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic, nudity, or graphic or gratuitous violence."

I leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions.

It Pays to Advertise

They needed a job so three mates decided to stand by a busy road in the morning peak hour with signs asking for work. After only two days, they have had more job offers than 3 months through Centrelink. Stephen Graham, Liam Sharp and Adam Foxwell stood on the Central Coast Highway at West Gosford on Tuesday and Wednesday in suits and borrowed ties. The result? Their plight was picked up by the local radio station and they were overwhelmed with job offers.

Brainchild Adam Foxwell said "You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without a job". The 19 year old wants a job to help put him through a commerce degree at Newcastle University.

"On the first day, we had six or seven legitimate job offers and today (Wednesday), we've had that and more.

Nice one fellas, well done.

Cancer tumours vanish in ten days

Scottish scientists from Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities have discovered a way to make tumours vanish in ten days, without any side effects. A leading medical journal has decribed the results so far as remarkable. Dr Christine Dufes, leader of the research said "The tumours were completely gone in ten days. It's fantastic. When you talk about ten days, that is the time frame for curing a cold. Imagine if within ten days, you could completely make a tumour disappear". Researchers have been trying for years to find something that would attack the tumour without destroying healthy tissue and now they've done it.

Remember hearing about those grants made by our governments and other institutions for medical research, well this outcome came about from a grant supplied by a Scottish charity - Tenovus Scotland - which helps young scientists get their ideas off the ground. This news is so exciting, I can't understand why the world isn't jumping up and down - it was released on the 21st April. Thanks to our Scottish cousins, a cure for this terrible disease is getting closer.

Shortage of Suicide Bombers

I actually read some good news today. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is struggling to recruit suicide bombers. The deaths of two important men - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri - has put a dent in their leadership. Brigadier General Ralph Baker, a senior US officer in Baghdad said they are weaker now and it's getting harder for them to regenerate after the recent arrest of 404 Al-Qaeda members.

The General said "But it's just not the leadership that they will have trouble finding replacements for, we know they are having great difficulties recruiting scuide bombers because of better security on Iraq's border with Syria".

When we thought it was almost over, the innocent people of Iraq are still dying. While the Iraqi government and the US military were celebrating the death of Baghdadi and Masri, car bombs were being planted throughout Baghdad and on Friday last, 54 more people died and 201 were injured. The sooner Australia is out of this dirty war the better.

Stephen Hawking talks about aliens

Stephen Hawking warns not to make contact with visitors from out of space. The British scientist said "If aliens visit us, the outcome could be the same as when Columbus landed in America - which didn't turn out well for Native Americans". He's in a new television series which explores a fictitious world where aliens invade earth in huge spaceships looking for resources after depleting their own planet. It's called Into the Universe on the Discovery Channel which has just started in the US.

He suggests that these very advanced alien invaders could become nomads looking to conquer and colonise whatever planet they can reach. Does he really think there could be aliens out there? "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually look like" he said.

So far scientists haven't found any evidence that aliens exist but in 2008, NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris - also known as the North Star - in 2439.

The Formula

And thus, dear students, we have arrived at the formula for understanding women.