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Health
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Shrien Dewani Arrested After “Heated Discussion” With Fellow Mental Hospital Patient
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shrien Dewani’s multi-week tenure at Priory Hospital for treatment following a suicide attempt, has come to an end. Dewani has been moved to a “stricter” mental health facility, after he engaged in a “heated discussion” with a female patient.
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Level Five Becomes Level Seven – The Reality Of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis [VIDEO]
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As reported in morning spice headlines this morning, Japan has decided to raise its assessment of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst rating on an international scale: from a level five to a level seven, putting the disaster on par with the 1986 Chernobyl explosion in the former Soviet Union.
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Scared Of Heights? Take This Pill
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s safe to say that tests are still in their early stages but it’s also safe to say that scientists are quite a bit closer to helping people overcome their fear of heights. They have discovered that by giving people a tablet of the stress hormone cortisol, they can help reduce their phobia.
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A Philosophical Treatise On Man Flu – Sipho Hlongwane
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“It’s called summer flu,” my friend said. I’d never heard of it. Summer flu? Sounded serious. Dangerous, even. My lower lip quivered. “It’s like normal flu, only it happens in the summer when it’s hot so it seems much, much worse,” my friend said. Oh. So I wasn’t dying after all. I must remember to put my doctor on speed dial, though. You can’t be too careful with this sort of thing.
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French Vegan Couple On Trial Over Baby’s Death
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two vegans who fed their 11 month old daughter only on her mother’s breast milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday. They have been charged with neglect after their baby died as a result of suffering from vitamin deficiencies and could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
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Tanzanian Shaman Takes Break, 26km Queue Too Long
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Tanzanian “miracle” pastor, Reverend Ambilikile “Babu” Mwasapile has called for a break. He has temporarily asked people to stop going to his remote home for a “miracle cure” after thousands flocked there, resulting in chaos in the surrounding area.
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Peta Holds Naked Shower Protest, Causes Car Accident
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I know we did this last week, but this is unfortunately the reality of the hour that one officially applies the Cape Town Friday Rule. It’s called habit, and there’s no better way to form a habit other than through repetition. Essentially you should now start embracing everything non work-like, so let’s celebrate with a naked shower protest.
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Sex Will Kill You
23 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Now, now, before you panic, you just need to ask yourself whether you exercise regularly or not. You don’t? Well then I am sorry to inform you that you will die the next time you engage in sexual intercourse.
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This Is What A 60 Kilogram Baby Looks Like
23 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Remember Britain’s first quarter-of-a-ton teen? She had better watch her back because this three year-old boy is gunning for her title. Lu Hao weighed just 2.6kg at birth. However, from the time he was three months old he began to gain weight rapidly.
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Water Soon To Be Subjected To Eskom-esque Tariff Hikes
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A report about a month ago attributed that South Africa indeed stared a water crisis directly in the eye. Experts told the inaugural South African Water and Energy Forum in Johannesburg that we even face the possibility of chronic water shortages as early as 2020. Now Eskom-esque tariff hikes loom too.
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Facebook Causes 20% Of American Divorces
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I mean not totally – it’s the evidence found on Facebook as grounds for the dissolution of marriage which causes 20% of all divorce cases in the US, but still. Big number. Increasingly, social networking sites form the primary source of evidence in custody battles and divorce proceedings, so heads up.
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Top Ten Blacklisted Websites Revealed
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You’d be surprised at how many businesses are fond of censoring free speech in their workplaces. Following last year’s banning of the 2oceansvibe site in Virgin Active gyms, a recent study completed by OpenDNS has uncovered the ten most blacklisted websites by businesses around the world. You may or may not be surprised by the list.
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Camel Milk: In Fridges Soon
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right, camel milk demand is on the up and the word is getting out. Demand from diabetic patients, parents of autistic children and sufferers of Crohn’s disease has resulted in them becoming their own powerful lobbyists. Internationally that is. So when will camel milk sail into the mainstream market here at home I wonder?
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Kidney Transplant Scam, Criminal Case Gaining Momentum
01 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
South Africa’s very own surgery tourism trade has boomed for a while. We’ve been well-known as a great destination for the industry because we’re inexpensive. Now the smoke around the kidney transplant scam has finally begun to bellow. Over the weekend Netcare decided it was no longer going to comment on the scandal.
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Google Unveils Recipe Search Function – Google Recipes
25 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The giant has realised a gap in the market with this new feature it’s adding to the existing structural layout of the site. Like you’d click on the left toolbar to access news or images, soon you’ll search for a recipe based on quite specific criteria. Even real chefs are amped.
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“You’ll Throw Away Your Gumboots And Relax” – Trevor Manuel
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This was one of the remarks made by Trevor when he addressed a press briefing relating to the acid mine water drainage situation around jozi. We should take cognisance as it comes from the man who spent many years in charge of our country’s finances and who is also arguably the most trustworthy politician around. If that exists.
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Heart Pacemakers Are So Yesterday, Brain Pacemakers Are Very Now
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you lived during the middle ages and suffered from Tourette’s, they called it possession by demons and burned you at the stake. Or made you the village idiot. But we’ve come a long way since then – thanks to a single pill taken daily, most people with psychiatric diseases like Parkinsons, OCD or even depression lead normal lives. Here’s humanity’s next step forward.
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Had An Out-Of-Body Experience Lately? Well, You Couldn’t Have
21 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And that’s because scientists have proven, with a rather deceitful method, that you were merely mistaken all along and that there’s no possible way you could actually have had an out-of-body experience. Why? Because your senses were just confused and they tricked you into believing it happened.
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Cyanide Fishing – Because Who Needs Bait
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Our friends from the eastern side of the world have long been known to be rather enterprising with the way that they decimate the ocean to sustain their fish needs. A photographer has been able to reveal their latest shocking technique: cyanide poisoning free-divers.
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Woman Arrested For Eating Out Of Tesco Bin
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eating out of dust bins has been all the rage here in South Africa for quite a while now and our rubbish is sorted by bergies long before it even reaches the recycling area back at the depot. Now, a certain Sasha Hall has been arrested in the UK for “theft by finding.”
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“Force Field” Insect Repellent Myth Solved
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As you’re all well aware by now, it’s just not our prerogative here at 2oceansvibe to support brands that don’t follow the ethics and values that we uphold. Once again something unnecessary has been brought to our attention that we need to tell you about – “force field” insect repelling plugs for your home or flat.
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Fatal First Kiss
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This story is a couple of days old, but I really feel it’s worth telling.
In April 2009 a girl called Jemma Benjamin collapsed and died mere moments after kissing her new boyfriend, Daniel Ross. Follow link for more.
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Boston Gyms Fine People For Not Working Out
10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well that seems reasonable. Harvard graduate Yifan Zhang has started up the Gym Pact program, which offers participants free or reduced rates for gym memberships, provided they stick to pre-arranged workout plans; skipping sessions leads to higher rates, with the thought that this would motivate cheap gym-goers.
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Woman Dies From Silicon Bum Injection
09 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a bizarre story a young woman has died hours after undergoing a cosmetic procedure to enhance her bums appearance. This is the first time the procedure has come to my attention but apparently bumplants are nothing new in the world of very very good looking (Zoolander voice) people.
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Two McDonald’s Execs Set To Launch Healthy Restaurant – No Spice
08 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a great example of irony, two McDonald’s executives have decided to throw the concept of fast food on its head and launch a chain of healthy restaurants. However, more ironic is the name that has been given to the chain: Lyfe. You are not going to believe this.
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App To Measure A Brand’s Ethics
07 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Feeling bad about buying, say, “Ass” products for example, and the related ethical practices involved in their manufacture? Well, you no longer need to worry my friends, because as usual, there is now an app available to clear up any confusion you may have had prior to deciding on your now, ethical purchase.
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Free Farting A Thing Of The Past In Malawi
07 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Malawian government has had enough of people farting wherever they want. Malawian lawmakers will next week debate a law change that will make letting one rip in public a criminal offence. They’re not trying to be funny – they just want people to fart in toilets. They’ll get around to delivering those toilets when they’ve sorted out the farting.
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Plastic Bottle Cancer – Let’s Have That Chat
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With the Radlantic continuing its game of lake-lake as far as Windguru will forecast (7 days ahead, actually), rumours of your plastic water bottle causing cancer are bound to peak. No doubt reaching for a sun exposed bottle of warm water will be met with upturned noses and precautionary words. So, hit them with the truth.
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Some Finnish Dudes Have Abducted A Ronald McDonald Statue.
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Wow. I’m not sure what the appropriate response is here. Finnish folk referring to themselves as the ‘Food Liberation Army’ have ‘kidnapped’ a statue of Ronald McDonald, and are threatening to execute within a week if their questions concerning the quality of McDonald’s food production are not answered.
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Church Peddles Religion As A Cure For Aids
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In November ’09, Aids activist group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) launched a campaign to remove an ad on ETV by the Christ Embassy church. In the ad the church claims they cure Aids. This week, finally, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) managed to force ETV to pull the ad. A little too late as it turns out.
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