TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. More: The best reads from every previous Sitdown Sunday> Standing beside a staircase and wondering if the crash had come from upstairs, he stood in the dark, listening. Jumping to his feet and grabbing the bedside flashlight, he rushed from his room in the rear of the house to the main hall. This time, though, it wasn’t his thoughts that woke him, but a sound: A crash that shook the three-story brick structure. The what-ifs of his relationship with his wife, his son facing life without a father, the lost earning potential and career. Since moving in, there had been no shortage of things on his mind to keep him awake. In his second week there, he was jarred out of a dead sleep. ( Truly Adventurous, approx 35 mins reading time) When a man realises his new house is haunted, he opens it to the public. Whenever Livie twitched her biceps or her triceps, even just a tiny bit, a favorite song, such as “Baby Shark,” would play a little louder. With the help of a graduate student, he attached electrodes to her limbs and neck, to pick up even feeble spurts of muscle activation then he linked them to a music playlist.

So he came up with a way for Livie to exercise her neurons while her body remained still. He knew that Livie’s brain could still send signals to her muscles, even if those signals weren’t strong enough-or clear enough-to make her muscles work. Now that logic had flipped around as James sat beside his daughter. Whom exactly the device is for and what sorts of injuries it can help address are secondary concerns. Working in an engineering lab, one tends to fixate on the engineering challenge: building the device. ( The Atlantic, approx 32 mins reading time) Then their own daughter was injured in a freak accident, which changed their lives forever. Lindsay and James Sulzer developed technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. (Johnson would memorialize the moment in the name of his film company, Seven Bucks Productions.) As he was being driven back to live with his parents, he searched through his pockets to find all the money he had in the world: a five, a one, and some change. The second occurred much later, when-in the final indignity of his failed football career-he was cut from the Canadian Football League at the age of 22. There are two particular moments in Johnson’s life that he often refers to as low points from which he derives motivation. Dwayne was born 49 years ago in Hayward, near San Francisco, but the family frequently moved wherever a sustained period of wrestling work could be found. This was wrestling before the large national audiences and big paydays. His Black Canadian father, Rocky Johnson, was a successful wrestler, as was his Samoan maternal grandfather, Peter Maivia.

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