Mr Eagleman came up with a cunning device: the "perceptual chronometer", a wristwatch-like device which flicked blindingly fast between two LED screens.
Normally the flicker would be so fast Jesse could only see a blur. But if time slowed down for him, he might be able to discern the two different screens and read a random number on one of them.
"There's no way to fake this test," says Dr Eagleman, "because if time is not running more slowly, they can't see the sequence."
All Jesse had to do was jump, and read. As he ascended the 33ft metal cage no-one seemed to believe this curious experiment might work.
When Jesse landed, he noted he had seen "98". Dr Eagleman checked. In fact the number was 96. Not quite spot-on, but the two numbers look very similar on a digital screen.
Further jumps got similar results - all suggesting that time did seem to slow down for Jesse during the jump.
Remsbecker said many people are surprised to learn that K-State has a roller hockey club. He called his team "the best-kept secret on campus" and said his goal is to get the secret out.
From March-June 1916 the United States mounted an armed expedition to Mexico to quell raids initiated by prominent Mexican leader Pancho Villa into the U.S.
Allegedly sponsored by the German government Villa launched a raid into the State of Chihuahua on 11 January 1916, capturing and killing 19 U.S. citizens. This was followed on 9 March with a raid upon Columbus in New Mexico, killing 11 citizens.
Wearing leather chaps and vests covered in military patches, a band of motorcyclists rolls from one soldier's funeral to another in hopes their respectful cheers and revving engines will drown out the insults of protesters.
The motorcycle club members calling themselves Patriot Guard Riders are trying to shield mourners from cruel jeers by adherents of a tiny fundamentalist church who picket military funerals to reflect their belief that U.S. combat deaths are a sign God is punishing the United States for harboring homosexuals. Some protesters' signs said, "Thank God for IEDs," the improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, that kill many U.S. soldiers.
"The most important thing we can do is let families know that the nation cares," said Don Woodrick, the biker group's Kentucky captain. "When a total stranger gets on a motorcycle in the middle of winter and drives 300 miles to hold a flag, that makes a powerful statement."
Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.
"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.
Cussler and Gettelfinger took more than 300 kilograms of guar gum, an edible thickening agent found in salad dressings, ice cream and shampoo, and dumped it into a 25-metre swimming pool, creating a gloopy liquid twice as thick as water. "It looked like snot," says Cussler.
The pair then asked 16 volunteers, a mix of both competitive and recreational swimmers, to swim in a regular pool and in the guar syrup. Whatever strokes they used, the swimmers' times differed by no more than 4%, with neither water nor syrup producing consistently faster times, the researchers report in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal.
Toxoplasma gondii may be the most prevalent human parasite. As many as 50% of humans worldwide, and up to 80% in urban areas, have been infected with it at some time in their lives.
There are some interesting studies showing striking behavior differences between rats that have been infected with Toxoplasma and those that haven't. Normal rats are very reactive to the smell of cat urine - an unsurprising survival instinct. If they encounter cat urine in their environment they have an extreme fear reaction, and they will avoid that spot thereafter. Rats infected with Toxoplasma don't do this. They have no fear reaction to the smell of cat pee; they don't avoid the areas where they smell it. In fact some of the studied rats preferentially returned to the sites where they had smelled the urine. It's hard to see how this could benefit the rat, but easy to see how it could benefit Toxoplasma, which could return to its preferred host to complete its life cycle if the rat gets eaten.
E. Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute has found evidence of some that may be more drastic. Toxoplasma is associated with damage to the brain's astrocytes - glial cells that function as an interface between neuronal and non-neuronal tissues. Astrocyte damage has also been associated with schizophrenia. Now add in that pregnant women with high levels of Toxoplasma antibodies are more likely to have children who later develop schizophrenia, and you have something to give most people pause.
(Yellow 40, D Red 10, Black 10, D Red 30, Yellow 10, D Red 10)
(Blue 30, L Blue 30, White 10, Blue 5, L Blue 10, Blue 5)
(White 10, D Red 30, Black 5, D Red 20, Black 30, D Red 5)
(Red 40, White 5, Red 30, White 15, Red 5, White 5)
(Yellow 10, Blue 20, White 5, Blue 20, White 20, Blue 5, White 5)
(Black 30, Purple 30, White 10, L Grey 5, Black 10 , Purple 10)
(Black 40, D Red 40, Black 20, Red 20, Black 10, White 10)
(Black 40, White 10, Yellow 20, White 10, Purple 40)
(White 40, L Grey 30, D Grey 10, L Grey 20, White 40, L Grey 10)
(Blue 40, Red 30, Blue 30, White 20, Blue 10, Black 10. Sorry, they didn't have orange)
(Green 20, White 5, D Green 30, White 5, Green 30, D Green 20)
(Purple 50, White 20, Purple 10, Black 10, White 10, Black 50)
(Red 40, D Red 20, White 5, Black 20, Yellow 5, Black 20, White 30, D Red 20)
(D Blue 20, Blue, 10, Green 10, Blue 10, D Blue 20)
(Black 30, Green 30, White 10, Green 20, Black 10, Green 5, White 20, Green 20)
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
Red 5 4 -1 21 29
Black 34 4 9 -10 37
Pos Player Pts NFL Team
QB M. Hasselbeck 6 Sea Kilters
RB [Empty]
WR1 H. Ward 7 Pit Vampirates
WR2 J. Jurevicius 3 Sea Picklers
WR3 A. Randle El 5 Pit Pillagers
TE H. Miller 0 Pit Red Burns
K J. Reed 0 Pit Pillagers
DEF Pittsburgh -3 Pit Vampirates
DB [Empty]
DL1 L. Tatupu 0 Sea Picklers
DL2 [Empty]
Coach Davin Pillagers
Pos Player Pts NFL Team
QB [Empty]
RB S. Alexander 6 Sea &'s
WR1 D. Jackson 1 Sea Rebels
WR2 B. Engram 2 Sea Rebels
WR3 [Empty]
TE [Empty]
K [Empty]
DEF Seattle -19 Sea Steepers
DB T. Polamalu 0 Pit Rebels
DL1 B. Fisher 0 Sea Rebels
DL2 [Empty]
Coach Aaron Rebels
BREMERTON, WA—During breakfast at the International House of Pancakes Monday, vegetarian Erica Legrand said she could not eat her Funny Face pancakes. "Not with those big maraschino eyes staring up at me," Legrand said. Upon further questioning, Legrand explained that she did not want break her "never eat anything with a face" rule.
While some may have butterflies in their stomachs on the first day of work, Linda Mead said that she was excited on that day - it was the act of deciding to get back into the workforce that made her nervous. She said she questioned going back to work outside of the farm because she wasn't sure if she was employable after being out of the daily grind for so long.
