




If you were ever curious as to how much body parts can fetch on the black market, Medical Transcription created a snazzy infographic to show you. Some parts are shockingly cheap! Like would you want a new shoulder or a new iPad? Both cost 500 bucks.Other organs are prohibitively expensive, like a kidney. That little sucker costs $262,000 in the US (other countries have it for cheaper)! Here's the full list of body parts and their cost:Pair of Eyeballs: $1,525Scalp: $607Skull with Teeth: $1,200Shoulder: $500Coronary Artery: $1,525Heart: $119,000Liver: $157,000Hand and Forearm: $385Pint of Bloo...
Self-Help: the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else.Luckily for us, there is a large selection of self-help literature written by truly remarkable authors. These authors share personal experiences from their own successful careers or interview others who have unlocked secrets of happiness and achievement. Stopping by your local bookstore or Amazon for a self-help title can be a bit intimidating! So we’ve handpicked five great reads to jump start your journey to the richer life:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your...
New scientific research offers surprising ways to shower yourself with tranquility, creativity, longevity and more.1. OptimismNever mind if you don't have hours a day—even a few minutes spent in quiet contemplation once in a while yields noticeable benefits. A group of adults who meditated an average of six hours and 13 minutes over the course of five weeks developed patterns of brain activity typically associated with positive moods.2. SerenityWhen mice were fed a strain of probiotics found in some yogurt, they became calmer under stress, Irish and Canadian scientists observed. The wer...
A child laughs 40 times a day for no reason, while the average adult laughs 20 times a day. The school, the job and the social conventions lead us gradually to get serious and to lose the ability to laugh spontaneously. It’s a real loss, because it has been shown scientifically that the sense of humor and laughter are excellent for your health and among other things, it is a very effective antidote against stress.Fun is a nice feeling for each and also a means of protection and treatment. Laughter and smile is a good means of relaxation and also relieves inner tension.The laughter enhanc...
The consequences of unhappy, negative emotions can invade your professional and personal relationships, and erode your self-esteem. Learn to neutralize negativity by focusing on what makes you happy.Week 1: Keep a Daily DiaryCan you easily identify the daily activities, interactions and occurrences that make you happiest? Keeping a daily diary will help you identify the situations and people that make you happiest. Take note of these occurrences, which can be as small as listening to music while working, talking to a good friend, or spending time with your family - and slowly begin to increase...
First came the hubbub about Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo, inflating his resume to include a computer science degree he did not actually receive. According to Mr. Thompson someone at a recruiting firm
Next time you are on your regular stroll engrossed in your phone, make sure you are nowhere near the Fort Lee area in New Jersey. In case you do, you have a chance of losing some bucks as a penalty in
Crazy as it sounds to American mothers, in Great Britain women can take up to a year off work, partially paid, after having a baby.Such generous benefits are designed to give moms and babies time to b
If you're trying to watch what you eat, or your doctor's put you on a diet, you know what it's like to struggle with gnawing hunger even though you're all out of calories for the day. Sure, chugging a
This week Republicans will attempt to move the national political conversation back to a familiar theme with a series of attacks on President Obama over the national debt. The GOP released a web video
Middle-aged and elderly people can now swap their daily glass of red wine with a cold beer without worrying about their health.Beer makes you fat and unhealthy.That’s a common conception of the
There has been a lot of rumors about the upcoming edition of iPhone later this year. There are always some extra ordinary and unique features we get to see in iPhone, so does we get to see in iPhone 5
Weight loss doesn’t have to be a slow process that takes months on end of bland foods and long, boring workouts. You can safely lose a significant amount of weight in less than a month. This art
Losing weight and getting healthy is a huge commitment and if you don’t take the time and energy to track your progress and your goals, the chances of you falling off the “health bandwagon
Sometimes what helps us to be successful in our professional lives is not such a great idea in our personal lives — competition is a quality that comes to mind. At the same time, we all have a l
Krishna Kantha, Thailand’s living saint, gently placed his hands on top of my head. I could feel an icy coldness penetrating my skull.A lovely golden ball of liquid energy soon formed in the cen
When Indiana woman Kara Mellick made the difficult decision to donate her deceased baby's organs, she knew she would be helping another child heal. This week, three years after the death of her daugh
Cancer is a scourge on our society and, while scientists continue to work on treatments, many people view it as an inevitable truth. New research, however, suggests that as many as one in six cases of
British-born celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 84.A police spokesman said officers went to the stylist's home on Wednesday morning to confirm the death. He
I’m a green tea drinker.Not for the love of the taste — no way! I drink it because I’m told it’s good for me…or, to be honest, the real reason I drink it is because I be
Question: “What do you do?”Really Short Answer: “I am a blogger.”Blank look. After about 2 seconds — question: “What is that?”Answer: “I am a web writer
I once knew a small company CEO who controversially brought three former accountants onto his management team. “It’s accountant overload,” one employee complained. “And what do
It's widely known that billionaire Warren Buffett and millionaire President Obama pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries, who make much less.This "inequality" led them to devise a plan to h
This story was updated May 9 at 6:37 p.m. ET.Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in what astronomers are ca
Cooking up delicious spicy food can come at a price... a price many of us have paid! If you've ever cut up some jalapeños and scraped out the seeds with your bare hands, you know the symptoms:
Dubai is the place to go if you want to build outrageous or crazy architecture, like buildings as tall as mountains, manmade islands in the shape of the world or, if neither of those is wacky enough f
Most employers will tell you that job seekers routinely make obvious, painful errors on their resumes that cost them the job. And while there are online tools that will help you avoid making some of t
POLICE in Changzhou, eastern Jiangsu Province busted four organ-trafficking rings and seized 16 suspects, the provincial public security bureau said today.Police also saved 20 young men who were lured
Chinese Authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and an iPad.Chinese Xinhua News Agency

