still so much we don't know about the human body

Ok, they added a bit of explosion effect, but a human body attached to an airliner seat coming right at a fighter would cause severe damage to the airplane

Well, most cultures aren't as fucked up as Americans when it comes to the human body.

Twerking, however, should be a crime in -any- civilized society.

Will it kill you? No. Is it even bad for you? No. Does it taste good? Yes. So who gives a shit. The stuff they use to keep its shape is probably not worse for you than the sugar they sweeten the product with. And that is a natural product. It is the same thing with the "Organic Food" trend. The naturalistic fallacy abounds in this day and age, even with all of the science that shows that GMOs are treated exactly the same in the human body as non-GMOs. People still believe that just because something has an unpronounceable name, it is immediately bad for you, when nature itself is the thing we have to fight against.

He has surprisingly skinny wrists and forearms.

"The human body is amazing."

That was cool!

My inner mom worries about the state of their bodies in 20 years, if not sooner. That joint work... that can't be good for the human body.

From the article:
For Barnes, the device needed to be able to take cues from the human body. The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles. By tensing his biceps, Barnes controls a small motor that changes how tightly the prosthetic arm grips the drumstick and how quickly it moves, vital skills for a drummer.

The researchers then added another layer of complexity: a second, autonomous drumstick on the robot arm (see photo). This second stick, controlled via its own motor, uses a microphone and an accelerometer to sense the rhythm Barnes is playing, as well as music from any nearby musicians. An algorithm then produces a new beat with a complementary rhythm and melody, modelled on the music of jazz greats like John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.

With this extra artificial intelligence, human and machine combine to make Barnes a kind of "superhuman drummer", Weinberg says.

Objects in motion yadda yadda. His 18mph is going the wrong direction once he starts up the ramp. And it requires a lot of strength to force his body mass to alter direction through a 360° turn. A car is long and compresses on a wheel. A human body is tall and compresses on the mechanism moving it forward, negating it's own ability to move "forward".

I always thought Fahrenheit makes much more sense, on a day to day basis then Centigrade. 100 ~ the hottest day of the year, 0 ~ the coldest, also 100 ~ human body temperature.

But yeah, for everything else the metric system works better.

Do I detect a subtle commentary on the ill effects of fast food on the human body in this video?

Had to read up on it: http://www.skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia105.html

A response to the article mentions this insight:
"He has some kind of odd skin deformation - his skin sample was clinically tested at VMA (Military Medical Center) in Belgrade and was found to have two skin layers less than a normal person. He also has no sweat glands (as you noted in your article) and also no hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, and so on.

His skin is very dry and its electrical resistance is extremely high, which enables him to hold wires under high voltage with practically no current flowing through his body. [Note: current = voltage/resistance. "Under dry conditions, the resistance offered by the human body may be as high as 100,000 Ohms."* ]

There are also some side effects of lacking sweat glands: when it is hot outside, he can not go for a walk without a wet t-shirt or some other cooling tool, otherwise his life would be threatened.

I also saw the video demonstration linked in your article, and I have to say that it is more sensational than truthful - the current is NOT coming "straight through his body" but through the electric wires straight from the electrical outlet, clearly visible on the video. His body is just a good insulator which mechanically holds conductors (forks) and nothing more than that. The reason for this misunderstanding is certainly the ignorance of Ohm's law and the relation between electrical current and voltage. Everybody can do the same thing if he has rubber gloves - or Biba's skin, which is the same.

There are also claims that he can direct electrical current through his body as he wishes, generate electrical current, switch on and off a nearby electrical appliance by his mind, and so on, but there is no evidence for those claims. "

*related=http://videosift.com/video/The-multilight-scans-behind-the-new-Oculus-human-body-demo

The multilight scans behind the new Oculus human body demo has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow.

I love the human body (though admittedly, primarily the female one), and I don't think the US should have such a stigma about nudity, but I'd be damned irritated if I were eating dinner and someone decided to do their bullshit photo-shoot in the middle of it.

I wasn't being literal. I just meant they know candy holds no virtue or health for the human body. It's a vice, something to be avoided, as it negatively effects your blood sugars almost immediately which in turn can affect mood, and thus behavior. And yes, diabetes is something high sugar consumtion can lead to. You can get as technical as you want in describing every step down that road. I don't know all the details, and one doesn't need to know about a disease in order to avoid it.