Evolution has primed us to avoid anything icky to ward off disease. But science also shows that disgust can be a double-edged sword.
Fatal Attraction: Why Russia Is Drawn to Dictators with Blood on Their HandsON SUNDAY, the Russian people voted Vladimir Putin in to a third term as president. He was first elected in 2000 for a period of four years, then again in 2004 for a second term. The Russian constitution was ...
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” Nrenzah says, something she has honored in her own life. “The same stories I heard as a kid are the same stories I tell my children.” They are cautionary tales carrying moral lessons about the necessity to respect the land.
This is a female of breeding age. She is regulating her body temperature by entering the water, and gaping her mouth to the wind. There are many blood vessels in the roof of the mouth and this cools the blood going to her brain. ...
Dr. B. Greg Brown answers the question: 'Routine Blood Draws For Cholesterol?' ByABC News December 24, 2008, 6:05 AM -- Question: Ever since I started taking cholesterol medication, I have to get my blood drawn every time I go to the clinic? Why is that? Answer: So, you ...
Although eight tests are run during a BMP, only one to two vials or test tubes of blood are drawn. The whole thing takes only a few minutes. Afterward, the blood sample is sent to a lab where scientists can study it. The results should be ready in a day or two. ...
When I became convinced that the universe was natural, that all the ghosts and gods were myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with...
Indeed, in severely injured patients, blood loss and tissue injuries enhance the onset of the “bloody vicious circle”, triggered by the triad of acidosis-hypothermia-coagulopathy. Abbreviated laparotomy is a surgical strategy that forgoes the completeness of operation in favor of a physiological ...
“The world is fast catching up what Japan has been mastering for a very long time," says Tokyo-based Chris Gurney, group creative director of Virtue APAC. "Anime and manga are beginning to break out of their subculture status; there’s so much more to Japanese anime than cultures outside...