Kansas high-school girl used to shoot baskets while in coma. Updated Feb 24, 2012 7:40 PM ET OVERLAND PARK, Kan.
Maggie Meier would cradle the beach ball in her hands and, with perfect form, shoot it through her the arms of her sister, who had formed a makeshift hoop. Swish. The only thing out of the ordinary? Maggie Meier was in a coma. “I have never seen anything like it,” said Dr. Sometimes the family would transfer her into a chair where she would shoot a ball into a mini hoop. In the fall of 2008, Meier, now a senior at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kan., complained to her parents about feeling ill. Doctors eventually discovered Meier was suffering from mycoplasma meningoencephalitis, a type of meningitis that caused swelling in her brain. She ended up in the hospital for 100 days. The moments when she was awake are just tales to Meier, not memories. “Coming back to normal, I hear stories like that, like shooting the beach ball,” she said.
What Meier called “normal” was a complete restart of her life. How Meetings Make You Stupid. Research indicates that people in groups struggle to solve the same kind of problems they are able to solve alone.
By Cassie Shortsleeve, Men’s Health Here's a new line for your boss: I'm not going to be in today's meeting -- meetings make me stupid. OK, that will get you fired. But according to a new Virginia Tech study, it's true: Comparing yourself to others alters the way your brain processes information and decreases your ability to problem solve. Researchers assessed 70 students' IQs individually, and again while in a group where they were shown their ranking in relation to others. While your every day meeting isn't going to broadcast your IQ to the group, being surrounded by people who you perceive as smarter than you inhibits your problem solving, researcher explain. More from Men's Health:Free Yourself from Awkward Social Situations So what's stopping the flow of brain juices? So how can you step up your game in a meeting? Slow-moving fireballs light up February skies - Technology & science - Space - Space.com.
A strange breed of fireball is streaking through the skies this month, and NASA is urging folks on the ground to take notice.
February's fireballs — a term that describes meteors that appear brighter in the sky than Venus — aren't more numerous than normal, but their appearance and trajectory are odd, experts say. "These fireballs are particularly slow and penetrating," meteor expert Peter Brown, a physics professor at the University of Western Ontario, said in a statement. "They hit the top of the atmosphere moving slower than 15 kilometers per second (33,500 mph), decelerate rapidly and make it to within 50 kilometers (31 miles) of Earth’s surface. " Beginning February with a bang The month's fireball action began on Feb. 1, when a meteor lit up the skies over central Texas, putting on a dazzling show for people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. "It was brighter and long-lasting than anything I've seen before," said witness Daryn Morran.
And the meteors have kept coming, well into February. MSN.com. Make your Downton Abbey faves do something naughty. The Fabulous Polar Bear Tube Show. Polar Bear Plays Hockey On Ice, VERY FUNNY!!!! Girl Tempts Lion. Tiger Wants My Slippers.