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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / do microwaves kill bacteria?
« on: 14/09/2007 23:30:58 »
Yes, but it makes you sleep better.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is erection of the penis under voluntary or involuntary control?
« on: 27/07/2007 23:58:56 »
I can voluntarily control mine (at least raise it) by thinking of stuff I'd like to pork. However, it can involuntarily raise even when you're not thinking of that stuff. It gets hard because blood has flooded the capillaries, which happens when you wake up or when you eat eggs or red meat, which give you higher blood pressure.
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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Human Animals?
« on: 27/07/2007 22:55:08 »
I think they did this in Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Nick Nolte had to show the dog how to be a dog.
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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Total material replacement?
« on: 27/07/2007 22:40:44 »
I think I read somewhere long ago that people are a form of wave (not speaking in the quantum mechanics sense). The example was that you can remember stuff that happened to you when you were a kid, but no part of you remains from when you were that age, because all of your tissues have been replaced.
Is this really true? Obviously many tissues are replaced (skin, intestinal walls, blood), but are they all replaced? I find it hard to believe that my femur has totally different tissue than it used to have, for example.
Obvously it's likely that a molecule or two has stuck around, but I'm just speaking in the general sense.
Is this really true? Obviously many tissues are replaced (skin, intestinal walls, blood), but are they all replaced? I find it hard to believe that my femur has totally different tissue than it used to have, for example.
Obvously it's likely that a molecule or two has stuck around, but I'm just speaking in the general sense.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Poo questions
« on: 10/03/2006 19:43:55 »
At my house, there's also a two-pass digestive process. First, my cat craps in the litter box. Then, my dog comes and eats the crap. I'm not sure what vitamins are extracted through this process.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Wise saying or limiting concept?
« on: 06/03/2006 18:50:46 »
I think the saying is correct, it just needs to be fixed up a bit. For instance, you could say that if your product will be surpassed by a competitor soon, it is broken. Therefore, you should improve (fix) your product. I'm no biologist, but like if your liver is going to die in 3 years from eating too much butter, it's broken, so you should take steps to fix that one too.
The real spirit of the saying is that if it doesn't matter whether it's improved or not, and it's not really malfunctioning, there's no point in messing with it. Mostly because it costs resources (time, money, pain) to fix things, and it could potentially cause more problems if fixed incorrectly.
The real spirit of the saying is that if it doesn't matter whether it's improved or not, and it's not really malfunctioning, there's no point in messing with it. Mostly because it costs resources (time, money, pain) to fix things, and it could potentially cause more problems if fixed incorrectly.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What's the earliest memory you can recall ?
« on: 09/02/2006 22:16:47 »
My earliest memory is of yesterday when I banged my head against a truck. I was pretty pissed at the truck so I must have tried to hurt it with my head. I guess that wasn't very nice of me, but I was pretty young at the time. I can even remember the color of the truck: blood red. It was all trying to run away from me after that, so I just went to sleep for a while.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is causing new hair to grow on my shoulder?
« on: 08/02/2006 00:11:17 »
Contrary to popular belief, plucking, shaving, trimming, etc does not in itself make more hair grow. Some people think that this produces rougher hair, but this stems from the fact that short (think stubble) hair feels rougher than long hair. Your hair folicles don't give a crap about what happens to your hair after the folicle is done with that part of it. It's just dead cells.
To specifically answer your question, you're turning into an ape. You'd better stock up on bananas before the grocery store stops letting you in.
To specifically answer your question, you're turning into an ape. You'd better stock up on bananas before the grocery store stops letting you in.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What do Blind People Dream Of ?
« on: 02/02/2006 16:27:56 »
From what I can tell, dreaming is supposed to happen during REM sleep, which is the most "awake" we are while "sleeping."
http://apu.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/rem_sleep.html
http://apu.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/rem_sleep.html
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What do Blind People Dream Of ?
« on: 31/01/2006 19:11:11 »quote:So how do you account for wet dreams? Certainly this is a phenomenon that can be measured by an outside observer as happening while you're asleep. Also, many people talk in their sleep, and then can wake up and tell people about their dreams, and they match up.
Sometimes the data has enough information to read like a script or story and other times not enough to make sense (Which accounts for the weird dreams?)
When I was in college learning about assembly language for the first time, I dreamt about it quite a bit. One night while having an assembly language dream, my then girlfriend woke me up because she was feeling frisky. I had drowsy sex with her in assembly language (from my perspective). It went something like this: load, store, load, store, load, store, move from low, move from hi, shift left, *yawn* return from exception.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: ASD..Please dont look this up beforehand
« on: 13/01/2006 17:26:12 »
Autism: Kind in a helmet trying to bang his head on everything and screaming a lot. Did I get it right?
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: can humans eat grass ?
« on: 12/01/2006 17:12:53 »
I've heard that dogs and cats eat grass when they're sick. Is that because they need vitamins or something?
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: can humans eat grass ?
« on: 09/01/2006 17:49:21 »
I think they put wheat grass in some smoothies, but I don't know why.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Stuttering ?..what's that all about ?
« on: 06/01/2006 00:13:48 »
So maybe it's something like a less severe form of Tourette's Syndrome. People with Tourette's Syndrome have tics which can sometimes make them twitch, and other times make them say exactly what they don't want to say. Many people with these tics can catch what they're about to do and deal with it. For example, this one guy always starts to say, "Nigger" when he sees a black person. Of course, that's exactly what he's trying not to say at the time, so he catches mid-word and says, "Ni-ckels pennies dimes quarters," so he sounds crazy instead of like a jerk. Maybe people who stutter also catch themselves doing something similar, but they just catch themselves sooner. This would also relate to what Freud was saying about "wanting" to act out against authority but fearing the consequences.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: THROWING UP
« on: 08/12/2005 17:28:55 »
I've eaten really long peices of candy, like taffy and stuff, and continuously swallowed it without breaking it. I was even able to pull it back up a little bit. None of that made me gag, though I do have a pretty strong gag reflex. I usually gag while brushing my teeth.
ukmicky, my wife did need training to get rid of her gag reflex. As to why she would need that skill, I guess you'll have to ask someone who's better hung than you.
ukmicky, my wife did need training to get rid of her gag reflex. As to why she would need that skill, I guess you'll have to ask someone who's better hung than you.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: THROWING UP
« on: 08/12/2005 00:20:11 »
My wife has been conditioned to be able to control her gag reflex. I think it's an extremely useful skill for women to acquire.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Why do I ' stand to attention ' in the mornings ?
« on: 16/11/2005 00:35:29 »
The way boners work is that blood fills the capillaries in your dick. When you deeply relax, blood flows to the center of your body, and you pop wood. When you wake up, it may be that you were relaxing recently, because you were sleeping, and therefore have a hardon. It usually goes away soon because you stop relaxing.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Hearing range
« on: 19/10/2005 18:41:09 »
Don't listen to the mice, they're just trying to take your frisbee.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Dyslexic Typing: why do I sometimes mistype words?
« on: 14/10/2005 17:49:31 »
Have your stepson read the word, "dyslexia." If he says, "Di sex Leia," or, "Di sucks Leia," you have a problem. If your stepson does have a problem, then either he has dyslexia, or he has a fetish for lesbians. This is exactly why dyslexia is spelled the way it is.
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: How can some people eat such hot chillis ?
« on: 13/10/2005 21:18:08 »
Yes, I use crushed red peppers when I feed my chickens so the mice won't eat their food. The same trick can be done for any birds if you have an outdoor bird feeder or something.
However, if that's the only source of food for the mice, they'll probably eat it even though it's spicy, and become spicy mice. This is good if you like a little kick in your mouseburger.
However, if that's the only source of food for the mice, they'll probably eat it even though it's spicy, and become spicy mice. This is good if you like a little kick in your mouseburger.