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.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
New Post
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.
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.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Post 3
10 More Things:
1. Procrastination is the absolute worst tactic to deal with stress. I suppose there are more dangerous ways to do so, but this can be pretty overwhelming.
2. The drive from Oswego to Georgia is approximately 11 hours and 59 minutes. I don't understand why Mapquest won't schedule in 'break time to their estimations. I don't know anyone with a car that can drive that long without having to fill up their gas tank, not to mention other break reasons.
3. Lots of people enjoy watching movies a second time through just to spot things they may have missed the first time.
4. If you ask a specific UPS driver to leave the large package on your patio in the backyard, they will leave it about 10 feet from the patio, leaving you to fend for yourself with something that weighs about the same size as you. Or maybe that's only if you're lucky.
5. Superpowers can be/are classified as disabilities.
6. Only 7% of deaf children have deaf parents.
7. Cinch works very well to clean all aspects of the interior of my car, from the windows to the gauges.
8. Car brakes have a sensor that will squeal when you have worn your brakes down 50% to let you know that you should have them looked at soon.
9. Antifreeze comes in a couple of colors, one of them is bright green. Antifreeze is what makes your engine not get too hot or too cold, it is a very handy liquid.
10. Stress hormones are released in your tears when you cry.
1. Procrastination is the absolute worst tactic to deal with stress. I suppose there are more dangerous ways to do so, but this can be pretty overwhelming.
2. The drive from Oswego to Georgia is approximately 11 hours and 59 minutes. I don't understand why Mapquest won't schedule in 'break time to their estimations. I don't know anyone with a car that can drive that long without having to fill up their gas tank, not to mention other break reasons.
3. Lots of people enjoy watching movies a second time through just to spot things they may have missed the first time.
4. If you ask a specific UPS driver to leave the large package on your patio in the backyard, they will leave it about 10 feet from the patio, leaving you to fend for yourself with something that weighs about the same size as you. Or maybe that's only if you're lucky.
5. Superpowers can be/are classified as disabilities.
6. Only 7% of deaf children have deaf parents.
7. Cinch works very well to clean all aspects of the interior of my car, from the windows to the gauges.
8. Car brakes have a sensor that will squeal when you have worn your brakes down 50% to let you know that you should have them looked at soon.
9. Antifreeze comes in a couple of colors, one of them is bright green. Antifreeze is what makes your engine not get too hot or too cold, it is a very handy liquid.
10. Stress hormones are released in your tears when you cry.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Post Number 2
10 Interesting Things I Learned This Week
1. Chinchillas have an average life span of 20 years and cost between $125-150 at the All Animal Expo.
2. The All Animal Expo is held at the Dupage County Fairgrounds every first Saturday and third Sunday of the month.
3. Geckos are very cute, but besides that they have bands (different colored stripes) while they are young and as they mature they loose their bands and then have spots.
4. Shingles, also known as the adult version of chicken pox, can be in your eye. Also if you do have shingles in your eye, it can be very dangerous to have in your cornea, potentially leading to blindness.
5. Sugar Gliders are tiny little animals, very similar to a small squirrel that can 'fly' across the room. They have sharp tiny claws that easily scratch your arm as they climb up you and cost between $100-950. Their average life span is 15-16 years.
6. Crocodiles have powerful jaw pressure to bite down on prey but do not have the strength to open their jaws if their is slight resistance such as being held by hand or tape. Crocodiles catch their prey by using a 'death roll' which knocks a large animal off balance to easily be dragged into the water. Crocks also use a 'death roll' to tear large animals into pieces once they are dead. Most prey are killed by being bitten by a crocodile but some drown from being pulled underwater.
7. The human body has 206 bones or 208 if the sternum is counted as 3 separate bones.
8. A typical dog skeleton has an average of 319 bones.
9. To prevent knife wounds you should point your knives in the dishwasher pointing downward, handles up.
10. In the United States your mailbox must be 6-8 inches from the curb and 41-45 inches above the road surface.
1. Chinchillas have an average life span of 20 years and cost between $125-150 at the All Animal Expo.
2. The All Animal Expo is held at the Dupage County Fairgrounds every first Saturday and third Sunday of the month.
3. Geckos are very cute, but besides that they have bands (different colored stripes) while they are young and as they mature they loose their bands and then have spots.
4. Shingles, also known as the adult version of chicken pox, can be in your eye. Also if you do have shingles in your eye, it can be very dangerous to have in your cornea, potentially leading to blindness.
5. Sugar Gliders are tiny little animals, very similar to a small squirrel that can 'fly' across the room. They have sharp tiny claws that easily scratch your arm as they climb up you and cost between $100-950. Their average life span is 15-16 years.
6. Crocodiles have powerful jaw pressure to bite down on prey but do not have the strength to open their jaws if their is slight resistance such as being held by hand or tape. Crocodiles catch their prey by using a 'death roll' which knocks a large animal off balance to easily be dragged into the water. Crocks also use a 'death roll' to tear large animals into pieces once they are dead. Most prey are killed by being bitten by a crocodile but some drown from being pulled underwater.
7. The human body has 206 bones or 208 if the sternum is counted as 3 separate bones.
8. A typical dog skeleton has an average of 319 bones.
9. To prevent knife wounds you should point your knives in the dishwasher pointing downward, handles up.
10. In the United States your mailbox must be 6-8 inches from the curb and 41-45 inches above the road surface.
Monday, June 14, 2010
First Post
1. The longest living person was Jeanne Calment. She lived for 122 years and 164 days. Interestingly, she smoked cigarettes until she was 117 years old.
2. The consumption of dairy products in America is one of the highest in the world, but so is the occurence of osteoporosis and fractures. Many studies have been conducted to determine the real relationship between milk (and other dairy products) and bone health.
3. On average people spend 6 years of their life dreaming.
4. A tumor of the pituitary gland can cause excess secretion of growth hormone, making people incredibly tall, medically known as gigantism or acromegalic gigantism.
5. Children who grow up in homes without pets are more likely to have allergies as well as asthma compared to hildren who grow up in homes with pets.
6. Unintentional injuries were the 5th leading cause of death in 2006 in America.
7. A man in Oklahoma has been struck by lightning 6 times in the past 30 years and is still cognitively and physically capable of doing everyday activities.
8. Certain drugs can lower blood pressure in hypertensive people although they can't lower high blood pressure induced by stress and tension. A study on hypertensive New York stockbrokers discovered that the stockbrokers that owned either a cact or dog had lower blood pressures and heart rates than the ones that didn't own a pet.
9. Tongue piercings have a higher rate of infection and possible risks following the piercing than other areas of the body. This is due to the fact that the mouth is a moist environment that bacteria easily grow in. Also the tongue has major blood vessels that go to the brain, making spread of an infection relatively easy to infect the brain as well as other vital organs.
10. Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) is secreted by the posterior pituitary gland; the secretion of this hormone stimulates the kidneys to conserve more water by preventing water loss from excessive urine output. The consumption of alcohol inhibits ADH from being secreted, thus making one who is drinking need to urinate more, despite the volume of alcohol that is consumed.
2. The consumption of dairy products in America is one of the highest in the world, but so is the occurence of osteoporosis and fractures. Many studies have been conducted to determine the real relationship between milk (and other dairy products) and bone health.
3. On average people spend 6 years of their life dreaming.
4. A tumor of the pituitary gland can cause excess secretion of growth hormone, making people incredibly tall, medically known as gigantism or acromegalic gigantism.
5. Children who grow up in homes without pets are more likely to have allergies as well as asthma compared to hildren who grow up in homes with pets.
6. Unintentional injuries were the 5th leading cause of death in 2006 in America.
7. A man in Oklahoma has been struck by lightning 6 times in the past 30 years and is still cognitively and physically capable of doing everyday activities.
8. Certain drugs can lower blood pressure in hypertensive people although they can't lower high blood pressure induced by stress and tension. A study on hypertensive New York stockbrokers discovered that the stockbrokers that owned either a cact or dog had lower blood pressures and heart rates than the ones that didn't own a pet.
9. Tongue piercings have a higher rate of infection and possible risks following the piercing than other areas of the body. This is due to the fact that the mouth is a moist environment that bacteria easily grow in. Also the tongue has major blood vessels that go to the brain, making spread of an infection relatively easy to infect the brain as well as other vital organs.
10. Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) is secreted by the posterior pituitary gland; the secretion of this hormone stimulates the kidneys to conserve more water by preventing water loss from excessive urine output. The consumption of alcohol inhibits ADH from being secreted, thus making one who is drinking need to urinate more, despite the volume of alcohol that is consumed.
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