Arm or Leg Goes to Sleep Ever get that dull feeling in your arm or leg like it’s asleep? This temporary and harmless sensation is caused by constant pressure on nerves, leaving them unable to transmit messages to your brain. The cure is simple: change positions. As feeling starts to com...
where they recognized it and everybody smiled and nodded, so I guess it's a Vietnamese fruit. In many ways it's similar to durian, with the weird lobey yellow items inside a frightening, huge, spiney pod, but it's a different pod, bright green instead of brown like durian, and the...
Liaoning Province in China is known for the substantial amount of dinosaur fossils that’ve turned up in the dirt there. Over the years everything from insects to fish to plants have been discovered in such detail that even skin textures have been left behind in the rock. Now it appears th...
As I picked it up, a tingling sensation went through me. I knew why when I saw the rock beneath it. It was shaped like a pyramid; it had steps going to the top. After all these years, grandma's rock came home. There was no trace of a gardenia in the house before; but now ...
feeling far more at home in that sphere than with chatting up her fellow humans. And yet, we both feel fundamentally different. Temple’s description of this sensation inspired the title of Oliver Sacks’s book profiling her and others with unusual neurological wiring:An Anthropologist on Mars....