You went from breathing liquid to air at birth. Why did you not die? Answer? Your heart’s plumbing significantly changed with your first breath. AWESOME huh? Babies do “inhale” and “exhale” amniotic fluid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniotic_fluid#Functions_of_amniotic_fluid Babies do defecate in the womb: http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(02)71437-3/abstract
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How many galaxies are in the Universe? How do we know? Take a tour of the most distant galaxies ever photographed in the Universe, as seen through the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope! Explanation and narration by theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, of http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/ Full sources of images and videos used in the creation of this [...]
New research reinforces the claim that resveratrol—a compound found in plants and food groups, notably red wine—prolongs lifespan and health-span by boosting the activity of mitochondria, the cell’s energy supplier. “The results were surprisingly clear,” said David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the study’s senior author. “Without the mitochondria-boosting gene [...]
Slacker or go-getter? Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by a new brain imaging study that has found an individual’s willingness to work hard to earn money [...]
Alan Alda talks to scientist Dan Lieberman about why the human ability to run could be an important prerequisite for the evolution of our bigger brains — and the emergence of our human spark.
It’s the gold standard of ratios! A golden ratio, also known as a golden section, golden mean, and divine proportion is related to fibonacci’s sequence of numbers.
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