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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Up to half of teens and young women who give birth are pregnant again within a year — but a new study suggests giving new moms a contraceptive implant before they leave the hospital the first time around can help prevent those repeat pregnancies. Add Commentfeedproxy.google.com … Read On
Camping for some is a tortuous experience of sweat, hard work and primitive inconvenience.
But for others, the thought of gathering firewood, pitching an uncooperative tent, and sleeping an inch off of the cold hard ground sparks stars in their eyes rivalling the stars they’ll see in the otherwise pitch-black night.
Hard to fathom, but there it is.
The idea of roughing it strikes the more pragmatic among us as being … well, rough. For the idealistic pioneer wannabes, it’s just a great big gorgeous challenge.
The more it hurts, the greater the award. At least, I guess that’s how it works.
The non-campers have already abandoned reading this article, so camper spirits, this is for you.
Nature is all well and good but you don’t want to sleep out in it exposed to the bugs if you can help it. Trueblood campers scoff at RVs, revelling in pitching their own tent, and sleeping with only a pad and a sleeping bag between them and Mother Nature’s dirt.
Campgrounds usually are equiped with bathrooms (with or without showers) and fire pits. Just bring your tent, find yourself a patch of ground, and pitch it.
Whether it rains or not, put a tarp down before you put your tent up. The morning dew is just as disconcerting as rain, when you are too close to the ground.
Think about bringing along a tent which has a floor that is made in one piece. Fewer seams means fewer places for leaks.
You can lay out a sleeping bag, or if you’d like a little more comfort and a little less muscle pain and stiffness, lay yourself to rest on an air mattress or an egg crate foam pad.
Simply putting a second sleeping bag under the one you’ll sleep in can make your night’s sleep more comfortable. A thick exercise mat is another way to buffer your nest for the night.
Some people hate food cooked over an open fire. If you on the other hand salivate at the thought of a blackened hot dog and charred marshmallows, let’s consider the fire pit.
Bring your own wood supply, matches and newspaper for kindling. Keep your menu simple.
Just basic cooking will be tricky enough. Think canned goods to heat up, or meals cooked in one pot.
Make sure to use a cooler with ice blocks or bags of ice for anything that needs to kept refrigerated.
Bring a plentiful supply of water, for washing up and drinking. Pack the mundane but essential toilet paper, baby wipes, toothpaste and other personal care items.
To keep bugs at bay, bring along candles and bug repellent. To keep from moving around blind at night, bring a couple of flashlights and spare batteries.
Sound enticing? I’ll bet this makes you want to hit the road and start sweating right now.
Sources:
Camping for beginners. Roadandtravel.com. Retrieved on May 9, 2012.
I do not hold to the strange belief that all discoveries of things useful to humans were discovered only in the last 100 years.
You’re talking about physiological effects that even now we don’t have the hardware to fully detect. It beggars belief to suggest that ancient peoples could be capable of detection.
You’re suggesting that cavemen discovered the top quark. It’s an absurdity. You must realize that.
I do really know and understand how it seems to you, and also that nothing I could say will convince you
Untrue. Evidence would convince me. I’m a skeptic, not a disbeliever. Consider me a resident of Missouri – the Show Me State. Show me the “observable” energy fields in the body.
What I observe are physical symptoms, but they map along certain pathways
What pathways? How do you observe these “pathways”?
I should hasten to add that the actual explanation for acupuncture matters very little to the people who seek me out
Well of course not. That’s why it’s so important for skeptics to expose peddlers of pseudoscience like yourself.
In the meantime, I do what I do conscientiously, I await physical confirmation, and I do not rip people off.
Unfortunately, and perhaps unknowingly, you do. I’m sorry but that’s the plain truth. There’s no legitimate support for what you do, it never holds up in placebo studies, and the relief your patients may find comes from their own minds, not from your treatment. I accept that you’ve convinced even yourself that it works, which is probably in part why it seems to work so well for your patients, too.
But you’re ripping them off.www.daylightatheism.org … Read On
Researchers managed to arouse a chicken embryo inside an egg by exposing it to a sound that would have meaning after its birth, such as the sound of a chicken warning others of danger. However, the study demonstrated that the animal does not have the same reaction when it is exposed to a sound that is similar, but that has no special meaning for the chick. The image above is an X-ray computed tomography scan of a chicken embryo skeleton inside its egg (in grayscale), together with the functional image of positrons representing, in color, the capture of glucose in the spinal cord, in the brain stem and in the embryo’s brain.
This technique combining sub millimeter-resolution brain positron emission tomography (PET) and structural X-ray computed tomography (CT) was used to study the brains of chicken embryos. The scientists created a non-invasive technique that provides three-dimensional images of brain function in animal models, with sub-millimetric resolution.
At the youngest ages, the chicken embryos showed a lot of spontaneous behavioral movements, but their higher-brain regions were completely inactive. At about 80% of the way between conception and birth, activity in higher-brain regions appears, showing states resembling sleep. At this stage, the scientists say it becomes possible to “wake up” the chicken embryo brains by playing loud, meaningful sounds to them. The researchers say their work “shows embryo brains can function in a waking-like manner earlier than previously thought, and, like adult brains, have neural circuitry that monitors the environment to selectively wake the brain up during important events.” Take a look:
Participants in the study included Evan Balaban (McGill University, Montreal), Manuel Desco (Gregorio Marampmn General University Hospital of Madrid and UC3M) and Juan Jose Vaquero (UC3M). The research was published here in Current Biology.
