In June 2013, Emma Carey and her lifelong best friend, Jemma Mrdak, were 20-year-olds traveling through Europe after graduating from their Australian high school. Part of the experience was tandem skydiving in Switzerland, jumping out of a helicopter 14,000 feet up with skydiving instructors strapped to their backs. Keep reading One week after turning 52, Tom Scocca fell while trying to catch a train at a New York City subway station, his legs having simply given out, he explains in an essay at New York. Soon he was experiencing a number of mysterious symptoms: tingling and numbness in his extremities, swollen hands and feet, finger stiffness, chest tightness, shortness of breath. Keep reading
"Oh my God, I hit the mother lode." That's what Doug Arbittier recalls thinking in 2013 when he saw an exquisitely carved antique woodblock on eBay, writes Christopher Kuo for the New York Times. Keep reading From babies with mysterious gastrointestinal issues to adults with unexplained chronic pain, an increasing number of people are turning to unregulated home health tests for answers they're not getting from doctors. The Washington Post delves into the phenomenon with the story of Annika Sharma, who, at 6 months old, responded to such seemingly innocuous foods as bananas and sweet potatoes with uncontrollable vomiting so severe that she was once hospitalized with dehydration. Keep reading One of the most high profile cases of an airplane colliding with a bird in the air was 2009's Miracle on the Hudson, when pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed a passenger plane in the river after Canada geese flew into both its engines. The story was a media sensation, eventually becoming a film that starred Tom Hanks, but one detail of the ordeal never made it to primetime. Keep reading
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