When Jason Padgett was attacked by muggers outside a karaoke club in Tacoma, Wash., a decade ago, he thought he was going to die.
The attackers, who he said were after his leather jacket, kicked him in the head repeatedly. Miraculously, he not only survived the attack, but developed a mysterious mathematical gift as a result of it, ABC News reports.
Everywhere he looks, he sees complex mathematical formulas — like the Pythagorean theorem, for example. “Every single little curve, every single spiral, every tree is part of that equation,” he told ABC News. Padgett turns these formulas into intricate diagrams called fractals. He says that fractals are “shape(s) that when you take the shape a part into pieces, the pieces are the same or similar to the whole.”
For instance, he can produce a visual representation of Pi, the infinite mathematical constant which begins with 3.14.
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Man Becomes Math Genius After Violent Mugging That Left Him In A Coma
Nepal, Home To The Worlds Tallest Mountains & The Worlds Shortest Person
World, a new World Record has been set.
Official Keepers of all Records Worldly – Guiness, specifically, Guiness measurement scientists, measured Chandra Bahadur Dangi at 54.60 centimeters (21.5 inches). This is also the oldest one human has been declared as Chandra is but 72-year-young & even shorter then the previous world record holder, Junrey Balawing; hailing from the Philippines, who stood 23.5 inches at the age of 18 last year.
“The good news is that Chandra Bahadur Dangi is the world’s shortest living man,” Guiness Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday told reporters after measurements were taken.
“If he is really 72 years old he is the oldest person to be awarded the shortest-man record,” Glenday said, adding Dangi was also the shortest person ever measured by the Guiness World Records.
“I am good. I feel happy,” Dangi [above right] said holding two framed certificates. “I want to travel around the world and spread the name of my country.”
His family has no idea when he stopped growing as many Nepali villages still lack basic health care. Dangi has never seen a doctor in his life. Five of his brothers and two sisters are of normal size.
Dangi mostly stays at home, needing assistance to move around, preparing head straps used by villagers to carry loads.
source : http://ca.news.yahoo.com/
Massive 15.5 Pound Baby Born In China, Dad Calls Him Dragon Baby
The baby was born just after Chinese New Years, and this is the year of the Dragon on the Chinese calendar.
The baby boy, named Chun Chun, which probably translated to Chub Chub, was born in central China on Saturday, with state media reporting the birth could be breaking a new record for the country’s heaviest baby.
Baby Chun Chun & Mother were both in excellent condition in a local hospital in Xinxiang City, Henan Province.
Chun Chun was born just after the start of the Lunar New Year, with the Year of the Dragon considered a particularly auspicious time to have a child.
Han Jingang, Chun Chun’s Father explains it all,”My wife was no different from other pregnant women. She ate and drank normally as she should. But she’s given birth to such a big, fat son. Today is the first day of spring in the Chinese calendar and he’s a ‘dragon baby’.”
Giant Foot Print Found In South Africa
This amazing footprint in granite was discovered in 1912 by a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee, while hunting in the remote Transvaal Jungle. At the time this was a deeply remote part of South Africa known as the Eastern Transvaal, teeming with wild life, including antelope and lions. It could be just erosion of a rock and a human brain interprets it as a giant foot or is this evidence for a giant big foot species, pun intended.
Georgian Kickboxer Displays Magnetic Powers At Press Conference
39-year-old kick-boxing trainer, Etibar Elchyev of Georgia, explains that he is magnetic and attracts metal to his body. He first wowed the crowd by sticking 50 spoons to his chest and back, but this is a simple parlor trick that can be done by any sweaty, greasy person. Next he stuck a 14 kilo car hood to his chest with a 100 kilo man sitting on top. That is a little better but still does not prove he is magnetic, except, maybe his personality.
