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So I normally try to stay away from topics that can create awkward moments in conversation, but today my anatomy teacher raised an interesting question, so I thought I'd share that.


1. Women can be allergic to semen, a condition called seminal plasma hypersensitivity.


2. Doctors have created a type of 'vaccine' for this. It involves getting a shot of dilute semen twice a week for two weeks and then once a week. Although it doesn't work for everyone and if it does work the couple must keep exposing the woman or the vaccine will wear off after 72 hours.


3. The first aquarium opened in Chicago in 1893.


4. Illinois has the most personalized license plates out of all states.


5. I really believe if Gunther von Hagens was not a famous anatomist he would be an insane serial killer (or something of the sort). He is the anatomist that made the Body Worlds Exhibits, which I highly recommend everyone to go and see, it is really neat and interesting. But today I watched a film of him at work (in school), like literally cutting and hacking into people's dead bodies and it was really creepy how into it he was. He's really really good at what he does, but it's just so weird. I recommend going to the exhibit whenever it comes to an area near you, but I do not recommend watching the process of making the people ready for the exhibit. I think it may creep almost everyone out and make you not want to donate your body to science.

6. Asperger's Disorder differs from highly functioning people with Autism in the sense that the onset of Asperger's is normally later, clumsiness is seen more often, social and communication processes are less severe, and that verbal IQ is generally higher than performance IQ.

7. Body Dismorphic Disorder is a disorder where someone picks out an imagined or perceived visual flaw and obsesses over it. For some individuals it can become so stressful and agonizing that their obsession intrudes their thoughts and are unable to focus or concentrate on other things.

8. Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome is diagnosed with a certain abnormality in the heart's conduction system. This change is that the heart has an extra conduction pathway, so the impulse for the bottom half of the heart to contract arrives too soon. People with WPW can experience dizziness, fainting, fast heart beats, and chest palpitations.

9. To correct Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome surgeons make small incisions on the upper leg/groin area and use what is called a catheter to work their way through the entire abdomen to kill the extra conduction pathway. This process is called a catheter ablation. It's pretty neat that heart surgery can be done through the leg so quickly and effectively.

10. Heat stroke, also called hyperthermia, has symptoms of red flushed skin but not sweating, high body temperature, fast pulse, hallucinations, confusion, agitation, and coma. It is a very serious medical condition, a good way of prevention is listening to your body and staying hydrated.

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10 More Interesting Concepts Learned This Week:

1. Movies take a lot more time and effort to be good. I never realized every small detail that goes into one scene of a movie, the color scheme, the tones of voices, the small details.

2. Teeth have the ability to repair themselves using body fluora. Although, a main ingredient in many toothpastes, Glycerin, inhibits some of the fluora to get to the areas that need repair. I hear it could potentially have great benefit to brush your teeth with Ivory Soap, but that doesn't sound very cleansing to me.

3. Excess Carbon Dioxide lowers the blood pH; the lungs rid the body of excess Carbon Dioxide. It is thought that people may yawn as a reaction to the pH lowering too much, an effort of the body to stabilize the pH back to a normal level. Although it is unknown why yawns are contagious.

4. Scientists divide people into one of two categories based on specific traits. Right-brained people are more intuitive and more creative and artistic.

5. Left-brained people are more logical and use sequence of events to think and make decisions.

6. In the 7th century royal courts in the Middle East began using forks at the dining table. Previously, forks were only used to carve meat.

7. Harry Chandler, a former real estate agent, had the Hollywood sign built in 1923. He had hoped it would be a major advertisement for him and his agency, it cost him $21,000 to have built. It originally said 'Hollywood Land' but 'Land' was removed in 1949.

8. The game of Chess originated in India.

9. The coldest place on Earth is Vastok, Antartica which reached -129 degrees Fahrenheit.

10. 5.7% of white women diagnosed with pancreatic cancer have a chance to live past 5 years of diagnosis.