Entropy is a concept that is usually utilized as a measure of disorder within a system. When looking into its definition more closely, it's revealed that it actually refers to the number of random ways a system can develop in, given enough time. The idea is widely used in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics... |
10 December 2009
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Social factors, such as peer pressure and the need to look like women in magazines and on the catwalk, have been held as the rooting causes of eating disorders, especially anorexia and bulimia. Yet, a new study comes to reveal that such diseases may be traced back to a poor wiring in the brain, which would thus overt... |
30 March 2009
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All matter in the universe is characterized by a number called entropy, which measures the disorder inside an object. Probabilistic calculations reveal that all the stars in the universe might contribute with about 1E+79 units of entropy, or 1 followed by 79 zeros, if you want. However, a recently published study sho... |
19 January 2008
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You look into the mirror and there are so many issues that you would like to change ... The desire of looking good is a normal and positive behavior, but in some cases, the determination to get it goes to extremes, resulting in a mental disease called Body Dysmorphic Disorder. The preoccupation for presenting any phy... |
22 November 2007
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Some may feel offended if called alcoholics. And for good reason, as a new research made at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) established a first classification of the alcoholic people in US, resulting five distinct subtypes of the condition. "Our findings should help dispel the popular n... |
2 July 2007
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All it would take to get a good night's sleep would be to flip the switch of a device, and let magnetic waves guide us to Dreamland. Most mammals, birds, fish, as well as invertebrates such as the fruitfly Drosophila sleep. The state is characterized by a reduction in voluntary body movement, temporary blindne... |
2 May 2007
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