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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

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Posted: 31 Aug 2014 10:00 PM PDT
As the temperature rises in the body, thousands of sweat glands begin to bead up, preparing to cool the body down. The average person possesses about 2.6 millions sweat glands -- a built in thermostat. This system is made up of eccrine glands and apocrine glands.

Eccrine glands are the most numerous, harbored in places like the forehead, hands, and feet. These glands are activated at birth and do not secrete proteins or fatty acids. Apocrine glands, on the other hand, do secrete proteins and fatty acids and are found in the genital area and armpits. These become active during puberty and usually end in hair follicles.

The sweat coming from both types of glands does not have an odor. Body odor comes from bacteria living on the skin. The bacteria metabolize the proteins and fatty acids secreted from the eccrine glands, ultimately producing an odor. That odor can be influenced by the type of bacteria living on the skin and the kind of food a person eats.


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Posted: 31 Aug 2014 09:00 PM PDT
Recently, neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered that emotional ties to memories are facilitated by brain circuitry and these pathways can be “cut” to remove any ability to feel about what we recall from our past.

Funding for this study was provided by the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the JPB Foundation (JPBF).

Emotional associations to past events can also be “reversed… by manipulating brain cells with optogenetics”; using light to direct neuron activity.

Because memories are stored in many areas of the brain, emotional originate in the amygdala which means that associations to them are “malleable”.


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Posted: 31 Aug 2014 08:00 PM PDT
Here’s one for your “Forbidden Archaeology” file. Scientists are remaining stubbornly silent about a lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin, in May 1912.

The dig site at Lake Delavan was overseen by Beloit College and it included more than 200 effigy mounds that proved to be classic examples of 8th century Woodland Culture.

But the enormous size of the skeletons and elongated skulls found in May 1912 did not fit very neatly into anyone’s concept of a textbook standard. They were enormous. These were not average human beings.

Strange Skulls


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Posted: 31 Aug 2014 07:00 PM PDT
Studies suggest that there are definitely alien life forms in outer space. Earthlings, such as yourself, have pondered for decades on the existence of extraterrestrial life, using a model that has been immortalized ever since.

Area 51 has drawn teems of tourists with wide eyed wonder, looking for the bug-eyed big-headed alien man. No one is really sure where this image originated, but it has no real standing with the discovery of alien life.

Is there life in the universe that excludes our own? Studies say there is definitely enough proof to verify that theory. The form of life is what has now left us astounded.


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