January 28, 2015 Social Science
For a long time, I believed that the ego was something rather negative. To be described as having “a big ego” or needing the “ego massaged,” suggested a person full of their own importance who demanded to be given the…
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January 28, 2015 Social Science
Women’s perceptions and negative image results in our automatic devaluing ourselves and only thinking of ourselves in terms of our sexuality and attraction to men. What is it that makes male attention so much better than that from females? If…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
Capillary diffusion allows blood to deliver nutrients to cells. Human blood flows through blood vessels to deliver nutrients to cells. Blood is really liquid connective tissue. Like other tissues of the body it has cells, but cells in blood are…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
Lighting that cigarette and inhaling after morning coffee, an enjoyable meal, a drink with friends, sex – just about anything – clears the mind, eases breathing, calms nerves, and lightens the spirit. At the same time that all of these…
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If more people took the time to really understand probability, casinos would go out of business. Fortunately for those who operate games of chance, most customers do not have a great appreciation for how this function of Mathematics operates. It…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
Swallowing is the process in which the food taken via mouth is mechanically broken down, made into a bolus, passed on to the pharynx and send down the esophagus into the stomach. All these actions are taken by sealing off…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
If you were a fish, you’d have to work a lot harder at getting oxygen to your blood cells. The air around us contains 13 times more oxygen than water does. Fish and amphibians are able to use that oxygen…
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Polyhedrons are three dimensional shapes in geometry that can have any number of faces as long as it forms a solid enclosed space. Polyhedra can have any number of bases but the most common have either 1-pyramid or 2-prism. Additionally…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
The gastrointestinal system or the digestive system as it is sometimes referred to consists of the mouth, the esophagus, the stomach and the small and large intestine. The food is digested partially in the mouth by chewing and by the…
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January 28, 2015 Medical Science
The lower limb is a technical name of what is commonly known as the “leg”. Anatomists and doctors are very particular in naming structures in the body, thus they often having slightly different terms for common parts of the body….
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