Bacha bazi, an ancient tradition which literally means "playing with boys" involves a wide variety of activities that involves homosexual child sexual abuse and pederasty.
Woman Interrogates A Mouse For Stealing Her Bananas
A man and woman from China tied up a defenseless mouse and ‘interrogated it’ on camera for allegedly stealing bananas. The rodent was bound by its legs while the woman, thought to be from Chengdu, southwest China, asked if it enjoyed eating bananas and has any accomplices, reports the People’s Daily Online.
According to the report, the woman caught the mouse in her home, strapped it to a bottle and began the interrogation.
The 90-second video shows the tiny mouse tied with white rope to what looks like a bottle filled with water.
Its legs are spread tightly around the bottle. Its back legs look almost dislocated, and its front legs are tied above its head, again tightly around the bottle.
Completely helpless and unable to escape, the mouse is then whipped and shouted at by the unidentified woman together with another male voice.
The woman shouts at the mouse in her local dialect: ‘Are the bananas tasty?’ and ‘Do you have any accomplices.’
Harvard Student Develops Technique To Diagnose Cancer From A SingleDrop Of Blood
Harvard student Neil Davey, A.B. ’18, has developed a technique that pushes the possibility of non-invasive cancer diagnosis one step closer to reality.
His technique involves injecting a tiny amount of blood into a microfluidic device to encapsulate single cells from the blood stream in individual microfluidic drops. Once the cells have been encapsulated, Davey uses a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a common technique in molecular biology, to target and amplify fragments of cancer DNA within the drops.
“The advantage of this technology is that it is ultra-sensitive, so I can detect as few as one cancer cell from a billion normal cells in the blood,” he said. “The process is also very specific. One can uniquely detect a wide range of cancers using this DNA amplification technology.”
The technique could hold huge implications in the world of cancer diagnostics, which currently relies primarily on invasive and dangerous tumor biopsies. Microfluidics is much easier and cheaper than traditional methods, since the test uses only tiny amounts of reagents and takes 30 to 60 minutes to complete. The technology is currently about 90 percent accurate, but that accuracy can be improved if the test is refined to target more genes of the cancer cell, Davey said.
For Davey, who recently declared an economics concentration with a secondary field in statistics, the opportunity to use his knowledge to potentially improve the lives of cancer patients has been extremely rewarding.
Twitters Plans To Expand Tweets' Character Limit To 10,000
Sources familiar with the plan said the new feature, which is currently being called "Beyond 140," is slated to launch by the end of the first quarter of 2016. The new character limit — which would be the same as Twitter's Direct Messages— could fluctuate by the time it launches, according to Re/code's sources. Last year, Twitter introduced "Moments" and replaced "Favorites" with "Likes" and heart icons.
CEO Jack Dorsey addressed the 10,000 character limit rumors with a screenshot tweet a few hours after the news broke. He said Twitter will not lose its feeling of being brief and fast. However, they company is looking into new ways to expand upon that.
Virus That Shrinks Babies' Skulls Is Rapidly Spreading Through The Americas
The Zika virus, belonging to the Flaviviridae family, it is nowhere near as well-known as many other familial viruses, including those that cause yellow, dengue, and West Nile fevers. However, the Zika virus is certain to make headlines this week: it is beginning to spread rapidly across South America, according to The Independent. The virus is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which among other things causes babies to be born with abnormally small brains.
It was first isolated in a rhesus monkey in 1947 in the Zika Forest of Uganda, and was isolated for the first time from humans in 1968 in Nigeria. Symptoms associated with a Zika virus infection includes headaches, a body rash, fever, and joint pain. Mothers infected with the virus can give birth to babies that suffer from incurable microcephalic – those with dramatically shrunken craniums.
The global spread of the disease outside of Uganda has been continuing for some time, but the virus has recently experienced a surge in successful infections, particularly in South America. In terms of babies born with associated microcephaly, there were only 147 new cases documented in Brazil last year, there were 2,782 cases, 40 of which are dead. All surviving babies are likely to suffer from impaired intellectual development in adulthood, and will require lifelong care.
Researchers speculate that the disease may have arrived with World Cup travelers last year. Brazilian researchers are concerned that Zika is infecting those with no experience of it, and therefore no immune system response to it. In addition, the warm, humid environments of Brazil may be helping the transmitting mosquito to flourish.
As with any outbreak, fear and confusion is spreading along with the virus itself. Although the Brazilian government isn’t quite telling women not to get pregnant – the evidence connecting the virus to microcephaly is not completely clear just yet – some scientists are advising women to delay pregnancy if they can until the outbreak can be stemmed. The Ministry of Health of Brazil has declared a national public health emergency, giving authorities and medical agencies greater flexibility to the investigations.
“The situation is incredibly frightening,” said Andreza Mireli Silva to The New York Times. She is a 22-year-old worker in a shoe factory in Sergipe State in northeast Brazil who is seven months pregnant, and as such she is considered in the highest risk group. She is applying insect repellant every three hours and is wearing long pants despite the searing summer heat, all to avoid any mosquito bites.
The outbreak hasn’t just spread within Brazil: Puerto Rico is the most recent country to detect the Zika virus, according to CNN.
Since October of last year, the infection has been diagnosed in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Suriname and Venezuela. Nevertheless, Brazil, for now, appears to be bearing the brunt of the associated microcephaly outbreaks, most of which are occurring in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
There is no vaccine or preventive drug for Zika virus, and only treatment of symptoms is possible. Usually non-steroid anti-inflammatories and/or non-salicylic analgetics are used.
Dolce & Gabbana Just Made Fashion More Inclusive for Muslim Women
Dolce & Gabbana debuted a line of hijabs and abayas on Style.com/Arabia. The Italian fashion house's debut collection includes both hijabs and the flowing garments known as abayas. The pieces incorporate sheer georgette and charmeuse fabrics in both neutral tones, like black and beige, and prints, like daisies, lemons, and red roses. "They also appear to feature a lightweight and dramatic drape," Style.com/Arabia's Caterina Minthe writes, "which makes this debut collection rife with special occasion overlays to be worn to celebrate the inimitable dolce vita that is distinct to us in the Arab world."
This collection means Dolce & Gabbana joins a growing list of fashion designers who are branching out to Muslim women, which includes Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, and Monique Lhuillier. And it's trickling down to the high street, too: H&M just recently hired its first hijab-wearing model, Mariah Idrissi, and Uniqlo launched a line of hijabs last summer.
Not only is this a big step forward for Dolce & Gabbana, it's major news for Muslim women who have long wished to be included in the fashion conversation. With visible high fashion brands like Dolce & Gabbana leading the way, let's hope this movement only continues to grow.
The 33-Year Coma That Can't Stop Love
Jean-Pierre and Bernadette were born in Senegal and France respectively, but their lives started to converge in the mid-1950s, when Jean-Pierre's grandmother took him to Europe on a religious pilgrimage. In late 1960s, Jean-Pierre, then an amateur footballer, met Bernadette at a dance.
"I can't hide the fact that it was very difficult for my family at the beginning," Bernadette recalls, reflecting on the challenges they faced as a mixed race couple.
"At the time, a black man and a white woman being together wasn't well-regarded.
"But we began to live together and then decided to marry. I wrote to my parents giving the news, the wedding date and an invitation, and my mother invited us to dinner.
"After that, everything was fine and he was seen in a better light than me: 'Jean-Pierre, Jean-Pierre' -- they only spoke of Jean-Pierre!"
The couple first lived just south of Paris -- in Fontainebleu -- where Adams was helping the local side win its amateur championship, but shortly after their 1969 marriage, they moved to Nîmes as Jean-Pierre signed for the city's then first division side. Within two years, not only had Nîmes finished runners-up but Jean-Pierre was playing for France -- one of the first black players to do so.
"He was a force of nature, very strong physically, and he had great determination and willingness," Henri Michel, who played in Adams' first competitive France international in 1972, told CNN.
Meet 'Nadine' A Human-Like Robot Who Has a 'Personality, Mood andEmotions'
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have unveiled "Nadine," the world's most human-like robot who is socially intelligent, with "her own personality, mood and emotions". Nadine has begun work as a university receptionist as scientists predict the new technology will eventually provide childcare and offer friendship to lonely elderly people.
Nadine was created to be a doppelganger of Professor Thalmann, according to NTU's news release, which said the "humanoid" has "soft skin and flowing brunette hair. She smiles when greeting you and also shake hands with you, and looks at you in the eye when talking." Unlike conventional robots, Nadine has her own personality, mood and emotions, "she can be happy or sad, depending on the conversation" and she can even "recognize past guests and spark up conversation based on previous chat." The university added that "Nadine is powered by intelligent software similar to Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana."
Prof Thalmann, the director of the Institute for Media Innovation who led the development of said robots such as Nadine are poised to become more visible in offices and homes in future. “Robotics technologies have advanced significantly over the past few decades and are already being used in manufacturing and logistics,” she said.
“As countries worldwide face challenges of an aging population, social robots can be one solution to address the shrinking workforce, become personal companions for children and the elderly at home, and even serve as a platform for healthcare services in future.
Blind Bulgarian Mystic Who "Predicted" The Rise Of Isis, Says They'llInvade Europe In 2016
A blind Bulgarian mystic whose followers claim she correctly predicted major world events such as 9/11, global warming, the 2004 tsunami and the rise of Isis has made some chilling vision for 2016. Those who believe the mystical Baba Vanga has paranormal abilities say that before she died at 85 in 1996 she prophesied the end of Europe as we know it. It is said she foresaw "a 2016 invasion by Muslim extremists" involving chemical weapons, after which Europe would "cease to exist".
According to local legend, Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova who was clairvoyant and a herbalist first gained the ability to see the future when she was blinded in a terrible tornado at age 12. Believers say that since then she has correctly predicted:
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