Finch Brothers Survive Horrific Car Crash

Two brothers from Enniskerry, Country Wicklow on a road trip of a lifetime to Kerry, were stopped in their heels as their car toppled over from an icy patch on the bend of a small road. Cathal, the older of two brothers, had just started driving, when the atrocity struck. He spoke after the crash saying to our very own editor the Owl "I was going slow enough so I was pretty lucky in all - not sure about the car though." Somehow all he sustained were scratches, while his brother on Facebook a few hours after the tragedy posted "More importantly he got blood on my jacket !!!" He had not lost his humour,it is rumoured this will not stop them from getting to Kerry life or death.

Here is a piece Cathal wrote for us about his experience in the crash:

Without thinking, I started to climb from my car, then sat quietly behind the steering wheel. Niall turned and glanced at the bonnet of my car, clearly not recognizing the vehicle had nearly massacred us. As he raised his head he saw me through the empty windshield, sitting behind the deformed steering wheel among the dried bloodstains of his jacket. His strong eyes barely changed their focus, but one hand rose involuntarily to his cheek. He took in the damage to my car, his attention moving from the impacted radiator grille to the high-rising steering wheel in my hands. He moved away from the overturned car. What struck me again was his unusual leg-stance, the inner surface of his thighs, set in a broad pelvis, turned outwards as if exposed to the line of crashed vehicles- pity, eroticism, even a strange jealousy of his innocence. He came back as I waited on the oil-stained asphalt in front of my car. He pointed to the damaged vehicles. ‘After this sort of thing, how do people manage to look at a car, let alone drive one?’
When I made no reply he said flady, ‘Bummer man’

Bad Taste - Jackson's First Feature Length on Youtube

Finally youtube have started to put some good full length films on their site. The following cult film is from legendary director Peter Jackson and gives a unique insight into his horror origins. This film  has a low budget charm that leaves you yearning for the olden days, when buckets of homemade blood, some basic special effects and a whole lot of imagination was enough to quench your appetite for gore. So why not sit back and legally stream a horror gem that a lot of people missed out on.

Worst Sporting Tackles, Injuries and a Few Fights

There is some overlap in some of the videos so please excuse but it is usually the best stuff, enjoy the broken, legs, broken arms and spilling blood. 

Whatever you do watch the video below!!

Valentine's Day: Re-inventing symbols the love heart

What does love actually have to do with the human heart, what is the hearts role. In fact it doesn't really have a role, perhaps at times our heart beats faster due to emotional arousal that is caused by love but fear and pain can do this too. The heart also pumps blood to the brain where we think about love, but the heart also pumps blood everywhere else in the body and this generally has nothing to do with love. So where is love and  had our ancestors known where to look what shape would the love heart have actually taken. 

Research has shown that emotions are embedded in the brain, we all know that. Fear is housed in a region of the brain known as the amygdala, dopamine is produced in the brain to produce feels of euphoria and joy, and chemical imbalances in the brain can lead to depression. So what about romantic love? Research has shown that there indeed are areas of the brain involved with romantic love process, for example the ventral tegmental area of the brain, located in the midbrain. Interestingly, this area of the brain is associated with motivation and reward circuitry both naturally induced reward and drug induced reward. Plato referred to love as a need and it is little wonder that love neural mechanisms have been located in areas of the brain associated with needs and wants. This overall area of the brain is actually known as the reptilian brain or core, it is one of the oldest areas of the brain and has been passed down through evolution since the time of the dinosaurs lived. This is not to say that dinosaurs experienced romantic love. Our complex volt which contains different flavours of love is molded by our higher cognitive functions. 

However, that is enough neuroanatomy and neuropsychology, let's now return to the idea of a symbol. Now let us go back in time maybe two to three-hundred years ago. In the morgue a budding physiologist is working on a cadaver. The cadaver in question was a man who could not love, trying to deduce if there was any observable cause for this in the man's heart the physiologist dissected the mans heart. It was normal a perfect specimen. He then put the heart to one side and began to dissect the rest of his body, as he examined the man's brain he noticed many strange abnormalities, could these abberations have had something to do with this man's incapacity to have the capacity for love. This pioneering physiologist changed the shape of medicine, biology and psychology forever. Furthermore Valentine's day was changed before the love heart began to beat for this first time. 

Happy Valentine's day, I had an MRI scan of my brain done for you I hope you like it!!