January 29, 2015 Social Science
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is pronounced para-skavi-deka-tria-foby-ah the basic stress pattern makes it sound like PAraSKAveDEkaTRIaPHObia. The word paraskavedkatriaphoiba is a combination of the greek word paraskevi meaning Friday and dekatreis meaning thirteen attached to phobia meaning fear. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of…
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January 29, 2015 Medical Science
The Hypothalamus Some behaviors are so automatic that they are almost reflexes. Automatic responses to stimuli are largely controlled by the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus sits behind eye orbits in a human skull. Looking at a side view of the skull,…
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January 28, 2015 Social Science
Occasionally we hear a theory, laugh a little and file it under bogus. Then slowly we begin to notice it seems to have some validity. Could it be that Louise Coffey-Webb is correct? This professor of fashion history teaches that…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
Introduction: Saliva is a secretion made from the salivary glands located around the oral cavity. There are three types of such glands and Submandibular glands contribute to at least 70% of the total salivary secretions whereas the Parotids only contribute…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
The heart distributes fresh oxygen to all parts of the body, in fact it has everything to do with circulation. Without it beating there would be no blood circulating, and without this there would be no live activity. Or, if…
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January 28, 2015 Social Science
World Crisis and Man’s Hierarchy of Needs Many of us are familiar with Abraham Maslow’s work on the hierarchy of human needs. This was not so much an original postulate, but more of an attempt to synthesize a large body…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
The human circulatory system has nearly 60,000 miles of blood vessels. These vessels provide a mode of transport for erythrocytes (red blood cells) leukocytes (white blood cells), platelets and plasma. It is the red blood cells that carry oxygen and…
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January 28, 2015 Social Science
Where does an alter ego come from? An alter ego is usually something that is created by people as something fun to do, or maybe your buddy decided that it would be funny to do some night when your thinking…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
Taste is the sensing of flavor in food and other material that is ingested. Taste is possible because chemicals stimulate receptors on the tongue, the taste buds. How something tastes can tell an individual whether that something is food or…
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From Algorithms and Archimedes to Equations and Einstein to Variables and Vedic, mathematicians have redefined the ways we measure and interpret our world. While there is no official Nobel Prize for the contributions of mathematicians, the international mathematical community holds its own…
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