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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:06:30 GMT

clipped by: cosmic_kitten1
clipper's remarks: I only found this the other day and mostly I'm clipping it for my own uses; however, it's a great resource and I thought I'd share. The site itself has pretty cool info too. 'Hope you guys like the clip.

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Why do humans kiss?

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:56:48 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: "...They formally study the anatomy and evolutionary history of kissing and call themselves philematologists."

Clip Source: scienceline.org

Why do humans kiss?

Her eyes are wide as they stare into yours. You wrap your arm around her waist and pull her in close. She touches your face and you lean in, tilt your head – to the right, of course – and your lips connect. The rushing sensation leaves you little room to wonder, “Why the hell am I doing this anyway?”

Of course, the simplest answer is that humans kiss because it just feels good. But there are people for whom this explanation isn’t quite sufficient. They formally study the anatomy and evolutionary history of kissing and call themselves philematologists.

So far, these kiss scientists haven’t conclusively explained how human smooching originated, but they’ve come up with a few theories, and they’ve mapped out how our biology is affected by a passionate lip-lock.

A big question is whether kissing is learned or instinctual. Some say it is a learned behavior, dating back to the days of our early human ancestors. Back then, mothers may have chewed food and passed it from their mouths into those of their toothless infants. Even after babies cut their teeth, mothers would continue to press their lips against their toddlers’ cheeks to comfort them.

Supporting the idea that kissing is learned rather than instinctual is the fact that not all humans kiss. Certain tribes around the world just don’t make out, anthropologists say. While 90 percent of humans actually do kiss, 10 percent have no idea what they’re missing.

Today, the most widely accepted theory of kissing is that humans do it because it helps us sniff out a quality mate. When our faces are close together, our pheromones “talk” – exchanging biological information about whether or not two people will make strong offspring. Women, for example, subconsciously prefer the scent of men whose genes for certain immune system proteins are different from their own. This kind of match could yield offspring with stronger immune systems, and better chances for survival.

Tags: science, research, kissing, evolution

The tale of Winter, the dolphin without a tail

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:33:09 GMT

clipped by: michellezm

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

She's got a sparkle in her eye and a distinctive dolphin grin.

But Winter, the year-old dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida, is missing a very significant part of her anatomy: a tail.

The young bottlenosed dolphin lost her tail and joint when she was caught in a crab trap near Indian River Lagoon, along Florida's east coast. She was just a baby of three months.

The rope wrapped around her tail and cut off the blood supply. "It looked like paper," said Dana Zucker, chief operating officer of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. "Bit by bit over the weeks it just fell off."

The lack of a tail did not slow the bright dolphin down, however. Instead, Winter simply learned how to swim without — using a startling combination of moves that resemble an alligator's undulating swimming style and a shark's side-to-side tail swipes.

Though flippers are normally employed for steering and braking, Winter uses them to work up momentum.

Tags: dolphins, marine life, the sea, marine animals

Beautiful eyes

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:37:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sorry, some of the pictures didn't come through and I'm too lazy to reclip.

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Tags: eyes, physiology, anatomy

Anatomy of a false memory

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:48:45 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

We believe that memory provides us with a faithful record of past events. But in fact, it is well established that memory is reconstructive, and not reproductive, in nature. In retrieval, a memory is pieced together from fragments, but during the reconstruction errors creep in due to our own biases and expectations.

Generally, these errors are small, so despite not being completely accurate, our memories are usually reliable. Occasionally, there are too many errors, and the memory becomes unreliable. In extreme cases, memories can be completely false.

False memory, or confabulation, is completely unintentional, and can occur spontaneously due, for example, to the suggestive power of a leading question or a doctored photograph. It can also following frontal lobe damage due to tumours, head injuries, or ruptured arteries.

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Men stare at crotches

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:09:51 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: Hmm.

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

The Online Journalism Review reports on Jakob Nielsen's use of an eye-tracker to look at how different people read the Web -- particularly news. There are lots of interesting findings, but the best is the revelation that men fixate on any visible genital areas in photos -- even animals' crotches come in for a good eyeballing.

Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.

This image of George Brett was part of a larger page with his biographical information. All users tested looked the image, but there was a distinct difference in focus between men and women.

Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.

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Wearing your anatomy on your skin

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:16:24 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: streetanatomy.com

Wearing your anatomy on your skin: the anatomy tattoo gallery

I personally don’t have any tattoos. I just haven’t found that one piece of art that I can live with for the rest of my life. I do appreciate them however. So I decided to look for people who were passionate enough about anatomy to actually have a piece tattooed on themselves. Here are some of the interesting specimens I found.

Declawing - What You Need To Know

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:35:24 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Of all the "well-intentioned" things people do to their pets, this has always been the worst IMO. I have seen cats suffer tremendous lifelong chronic pain, after this barbaric surgery. Some even having to be put down after botched surgery. Another side effect is, that if a cat is "a scratcher", amputating their toes often turns them into biters instead. (Please don't pull all their teeth either!! *LOL*)

Anyway...the whole problem here lies not in that cats have claws, it lies in people not providing the appropriate environment for the cat . A simple scratching post and a bit of education is all you need, to have a happy healthy non-destructive cat WITH all it's toes (and teeth).

Cats live 3-dimensional lives, as apposed to dogs, who live in two. Being able to climb is essential for the well-being of a cat. Cats have toes and claws for a reason!! Please don't mutilate your pet, but get smart instead. Your cat will thank you for it, and so will I.

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First, you should know that declawing is pretty much an American thing, it's something people do for their own convenience without realizing what actually happens to their beloved cat. In England declawing is termed "inhumane" and "unnecessary mutilation." I agree. In many European countries it is illegal. I applaud their attitude.

Declawing is actually an amputation of the last joint of your cat's "toes". When you envision that, it becomes clear why declawing is not a humane act.

This is not a surgery to be taken lightly.

Your cat's body is perfectly designed to give it the grace, agility and beauty that is unique to felines. Its claws are an important part of this design.

Amputating the important part of their anatomy that contains the claws drastically alters the conformation of their feet.

I have also had people tell me that their cat's personality changed after being declawed.

declawing is too drastic a solution

Is there an acceptable solution?

Happily, the answer is yes.

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The Science of Mysticism

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:07:57 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Well worth reading the article. Another example of how the popularised emphasis on 'intelligence' and AI is well off the mark when it comes to assessing the biological nature of the human organism: feelings (cortical representations and re-representations) are the basis of human experience including reason and language. The hundred years of suggestion in this area from James onwards are now being supplemented by modern neurobiological research. Such a key word as representation offers a potentially rich bridge between neuroscience and philosophy, linguistics and the humanities.

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A stunning new description of how the human body and brain communicate to produce emotional states -- including our feelings, cravings, and moods -- has all the elements needed to explain how the human brain might give rise to spiritual experiences, without the necessary involvement of a supernatural presence, according to Dr. Martin Paulus, a psychiatrist at the University of California in San Diego who is also a Zen practitioner.

Called interoception, it offers a radically new view of human anatomy and physiology based on how information from the body reaches the brain and how that information is processed uniquely in humans.

In this view, spirituality -- an emotional feeling from the body, a sense of timelessness, a suspension of self and dissolution of personal boundaries -- can be explained in terms of brain physiology, which means, of course, that it is subject to experimentation and manipulation.

Tags: neuroscience

Atlas of Human Anatomy

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:01:39 GMT

clipped by: dorine
clipper's remarks: Great resource.

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Pure Oxygen Is Bad for Your Brain

Wed, 23 May 2007 11:48:24 GMT

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Clip Source: physorg.com

It's a scenario straight out of "Grey's Anatomy"— a paramedic or doctor plops a mask over the face of a person struggling to breathe and begins dispensing pure oxygen.

Yet growing research suggests that inhaling straight oxygen can actually harm the brain. For the first time, a new UCLA brain-imaging study reveals why. Published in the May 22 edition of the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine, the findings fly in the face of national guidelines for medical practice and recommend a new approach that adds carbon dioxide to the mix to preserve brain function in patients.

For decades, the medical community has championed 100 percent oxygen as the gold standard for resuscitation. But no one has reported what happens inside our brains when we inhale pure oxygen,"

When the children inhaled pure oxygen, their breathing quickened, resulting in the rapid exhalation of carbon dioxide from their bodies

Pure oxygen kindles the match that fuels a forest fire of harm to the body,"

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free university lectures.. learning redefined.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:45:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this is fun and educative

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Free education on the Internet - Courses, tutorials, and skill-building

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:00:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Courses, tutorials, and skill-building activities for today's most important vocational and academic discipline

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The anatomy of sarcasm

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:02:06 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Very interesting article that gets into the various parts of the brain that play in a role in determining whether someone is being sarcastic.

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THE ANATOMY OF SARCASM: RESEARCHERS REVEAL HOW THE BRAIN HANDLES THIS COMPLEX COMMUNICATION

The Israeli psychologists who conducted the research explain that for sarcasm to score, listeners must grasp the speaker’s intentions in the context of the situation. This calls for sophisticated social thinking and “theory of mind,” or whether we understand that everyone thinks different thoughts. As an example of what happens when “theory of mind” is limited or missing, autistic children have problems interpreting irony, the more general category of social communication into which sarcasm falls.

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Projecting Pain on to Others

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:43 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: See also Fromm's 'The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness' Individuals with a deep hatred of themselves will project their loathing onto 'suitable targets of destruction'

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Making others suffer for the pain we feel, often choosing as our victim someone who wasn't even the original perpetrator. Biologists call it "displaced" or "redirected" aggression. It operates through the transfer of pain, sometimes physical, sometimes psychological. And it has been going on for a very long time.

When an individual suffers pain, he most often responds by passing it on to someone else.

Redirected aggression — the passing of pain from one victim to another — is not merely the stuff of literature and drama. Art reflects our world, and sadly, the urge to pass along pain lurks behind modern warfare no less than it did behind medieval pageantry, leaving its mark in the genocidal wars of the 20th century as well as those that threaten to overwhelm the 21st.

It haunts our criminal courts, our streets, our battlefields, our homes, our hearts.

"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. He served a dark and an angry god."

Tags: aggression, projection, pain