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What Shaped me
My Journey: From Europe to South Africa, and Meeting Aisha Setting the Scene: The Flight Recently, I embarked on a journey that marked several firsts in my life. It was my first solo flight, my first long-haul flight, and my first adventure outside Europe. My name is Paul, and I was about to experience a new world—a 13-night stay in South Africa, with an apartment booked and a Somali girlfriend whom I had only met online.
By Paul Aeschlimann2 years ago in Chapters
The Science of Aging
While many people search for the elusive fountain of youth, you might wonder why we age in the first place. What biological factors within our bodies or cells contribute to aging? Various internal and external factors, including diet, exercise, and environmental stress, all impact cell damage, repair, and the rate of aging. However, an intriguing fact is that, aside from these influences, we also have a biological clock embedded in our genetic code. This clock has a limited lifespan, meaning we are essentially programmed to age and die.
By Iyokho Osaretin2 years ago in Chapters
What Causes Dwarfism? | Growth Disorder
Foreign Veggies, little kitty, your height doesn't seem to be growing lately. If someone doesn't grow taller according to their age, it could lead to a condition called dwarfism. I'll explain this by answering a crucial question: what causes dwarfism?
By Iyokho Osaretin2 years ago in Chapters
How Depression Affects The Brain - Yale Medicine Explains
The prevailing standard for treating depression is based on the monoamine deficiency hypothesis, which suggests that a deficiency or underactivity of one of three brain neurotransmitters is responsible for the condition. - Neurotransmitters act as the brain's chemical messengers, facilitating communication between brain cells. However, there are over a hundred neurotransmitters in the brain and billions of neuronal connections, indicating that this hypothesis is somewhat limited.
By Iyokho Osaretin2 years ago in Chapters
Scientists Made A Stunning New Discovery About the Immune System
Think scientists have anatomy and physiology all figured out? Think again! Hi everyone! talking about how the more scientists learn about the body, the less we seem to know. What am I talking about? A recent discovery by scientists at the University of Virginia revealed a previously unnoticed connection between the central nervous system (CNS) and the immune system. This discovery challenges current theories about basic brain-body interactions and could completely upend our understanding of some neurological diseases. One scientist even remarked, “they’ll have to rewrite the textbooks.”
By Iyokho Osaretin2 years ago in Chapters
SmartyStan
The chip to be inserted in the brain to offer anatomical, biological, and neurological statistics among other functions, had been a thought in Belinda’s head while she built her company. Her learned machines fared well with the experiment. This was after thousands of hours of practice and failure and restarting and finally getting it right. This took fifteen years. As the machines could check their own battery capacity and have in their wheelhouse data that would be able to be relayed back to humans at computers, Belinda rejoiced at the idea of her creations keeping them. Then, she felt the twinge of ideation. She wondered if these can be implanted in humans.
By Skyler Saunders2 years ago in Chapters
Battle on The Home Front
As soon as I walked in the camp store, Mrs. Godfrey greeted me with an order to follow her to the office. The girls headed into the community room behind Mr. Godfrey to begin morning activities with their personal entertainment director. The girls adored Gordy and he felt the same about them. Today he would have them put together all the puzzles in the back room that had been tossed from their boxes.
By Tina D'Angelo2 years ago in Chapters
Mom
Motherhood brings about many changes for every woman, many unexpected things happen, some predictable and some not, it feels impossible to describe in detail, only a mother knows for sure how she feels. Every mother has her own experiences, her own challenges and problems, different mothers have different solutions, and they are all great to get to this stage. There are many lessons to be learned when becoming a new mother, support from the husband is something that every mother hopes for, not just soothing words but small actions like helping to change the baby's diaper or helping to make baby formula is already very pleasing to the mother's heart. Unfortunately, many fathers are not yet aware of this, there are not a few who demand that everything be done, because they assume that they are already tired from work all day, when in fact they do not realize that mothers even work overtime, and even more than they are capable of. Mothers are demanded to take care of the house, love their children, and serve their husbands well, sometimes they forget to take care of themselves, there are not a few mothers who are depressed because they cannot control themselves, they give up on the situation, they are tired but no one cares , even for the difficult times they face, they often want to stop time, to take a break in the midst of chaos.
By Misa Febriani2 years ago in Chapters
