New start with new blog
SO, I've decided to start a new blog. I will write in swedish only in the hope of getting a broader audience. I know, that sounds like a contradiction.. It would sound easier to get more readers if you write in english, which more people can understand. However, I think my blog doesn't stand out enough to get more readers. My guess is that my blog will get more attention if it is written for a more specifik kind of people (and perhaps if it's written in a more "commercial" way). People can relate to me better, since we live closer. I'm not just a stranger writing somewhere in the world. Also I've noticed that many alternative bloggers whom I've followed for many years have shut down their blogs. So alternative blogs are perhaps just what many are looking for right now. Since the world have many of this, but Sweden do not, I think the smart way is to keep it more simple and more close to home.
So I hope many of you aren't disappointed that I move over to swedish now. I know some of you are swedish or scandinavian at least.
Meet you on my new blog:
http://thekraken.blogg.se/
So I hope many of you aren't disappointed that I move over to swedish now. I know some of you are swedish or scandinavian at least.
Meet you on my new blog:
http://thekraken.blogg.se/
Meet The Healthy, Functioning Man Who Survived With Almost No Brain
When it comes to our brains, does size really matter? One of the biggest myths about the brain is that bigger is always better. But what about those who sit on the extreme end of that scale? How much of our brain do we actually need to survive? Looking through the archives of medical history, there are a number of people with tiny brains, or brains with huge chunks missing entirely, which defy all odds.
In a 2007 Lancet study, doctors described an incredible medical oddity – the 44-year-old civil servant who had lived a normal life despite having an incredibly tiny brain. The French man went into hospital after he experienced weakness in his left leg for two weeks. Doctors were quite surprised when they took scans of his brain and found a huge fluid-filled chamber.
The scans showed that the man had a “massive enlargement of the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles, a very thin cortical mantle and a posterior fossa cyst,” researchers noted in the study. In short, while fluid normally circulates throughout the brain, it’s regularly drained. But instead of draining the fluid into the circulatory system, the fluid in this man’s brain built up. Eventually, the accumulation of fluid resulted in only a tiny amount of actual brain material.
The man’s medical history showed that he had to get a shunt inserted into his head as an infant to get rid of the buildup of fluid on the brain, known as hydrocephalus. The shunt was eventually removed when at age 14, he complained of left leg weakness and some unsteadiness. The man went on to live a normal life and he got married and had two children. Tests showed that he had an IQ of 75 which, though below the average of 100, is not considered a mental disability.
“What I find amazing to this day is how the brain can deal with something which you think should not be compatible with life,” Dr. Max Muenke, from the National Human Genome Research Institute, told Reuters.
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