These days, most of us hold office jobs, which means we spend at least eight hours a day sitting down in front of a computer, with little to no time to straighten ourselves up by standing and moving around. 80 percent of Americans suffer from back pain at one point in their life, while back injuries are the number-on... |
24 August 2009
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There are women who do not even know what an orgasm feels like. Others must 'squeeze' a stud, like a lemon, to get one. And, let's face it, how many males are real studs?... The solution is found in the invention of Dr. Stuart Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in Winston-Salem.4 years ago,... |
27 February 2008
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When this girl was born in a poor village in Bihar (northern India), the locals regarded her as the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. That's why the girl was named Lakshmi. Lakshmi had attracted the attention of people eager to gain money from her deformity: a circus even tried to... |
26 February 2008
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1.There are over 2,000 species of cacti, with various shapes and forms. Caldera cacti in southwestern US can overcome 20 m (66 ft) on height, while Rebutia cacti from Bolivia and Argentina are just several centimeters tall. Some cacti look like chandeliers or columns, others are flattened or oval, looking like ears (... |
8 February 2008
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You may wonder how pregnant women, with those continuously growing bellies, don't lose balance, toppling over. A new Harvard research published in "Nature" has found some evolutionary tricks: slight differences from men in the lower backs and hip joints enable women to cope with pregnancy. And the adaptive patte... |
13 December 2007
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The oldest ancestor of the hedgehogs could be an 80 million years old mammal found in Mongolia (which lived during the dinosaur era). The oldest known hedgehogs lived in Europe, 45 million years ago. In Africa, the oldest hedgehogs remains are 30 million years old. 10 million years ago, there were hedgehogs in North ... |
15 November 2007
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It's less dangerous walking through the jungle than driving a car in a big city. The city traffic clearly produces much more victims. A new study could improve the state of victims of the most severe spinal injuries caused by car crashes.A collaboration between the University of Leeds and Queen's University... |
30 October 2007
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We look at a chimp and we imagine this is how our ancestors looked like and walked. But many researches show that the common chimp-human ancestor was more human-like. And now it appears that this ancestor was bipedal (it walked on two feet), not being a knuckle dragger. The concept of the humans as "upright apes" is ... |
10 October 2007
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80 % people experience back pains along their life. And in 90 % of the cases, this takes long to treat, over 6 weeks. The most frequent causes are diseases like arthrosis, muscular contracture, trauma, osteoporosis and inflammatory processes, the majority linked to back muscles and bones. Now a spine specialist has c... |
16 July 2007
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