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Mermaids
It was 2015, and I used to chill with my friends. Most of them were boys. I was one of the guys. At that time, I had more male friends than female friends. I still don’t really know why. I guess I was different from most females that I knew. Girls can be quite competitive, dress to impress each other, gossip, and whatnot. Those types of behavior didn’t fancy me much. I felt confident in my body and my being. Such social dogmas in relation to body image didn’t have an impact on me.
By Marzi Banilohi5 years ago in FYI
Murder, He Wrote
It was when someone told me about a crash of rhinos that I hit the wall. It was one of those things that come up in casual conversation, when going down the road the of fact-finding factoids inevitably brings you to the weird and wacky anomalies of the English language, and how there’s a word for everything — even when there isn’t.
By Hamish Alexander5 years ago in FYI
The Slippery Issue of Palm Oil
Forget the adage that you never more than 6ft away from a rat. In all likelihood, you are never more than 6ft away from palm oil in some shape or form, which may in fact be a scarier thought than those rodent residents. Palm oil is the most popular edible oil in the world. Check the back of the nearest packet of biscuits, your tube of shampoo or your daily makeup and in all likelihood you’ll see it there - PKO or Palm Kernel Oil. It may even sneak in under disguise, with around 500 different processed forms, or ‘derivatives’, that make up about 60% of global palm oil use.
By Georgia Melodie Hole5 years ago in FYI
Navigating the Pain Game
“Candidate One-Zero-Eight, out of the van,” the unseen driver barked. I disembarked hastily from the back of a blacked-out moving van and hustled towards the silhouette in the adjacent clearing. The tacticool ball cap rattled off two series of numbers before dismissing himself. On bended knee I raced through a few calculations and scratched a few figures on my laminated map.
By Nom de Guerre5 years ago in FYI
Golden Blood
Blood. A substance that carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells and carries away carbon dioxide and other waste products. A transport liquid that is pumped by the heart to all corners of your body, before returning to the heart to repeat the process.
By Kayleigh Taylor5 years ago in FYI
Spring 2021 starts on March 20th, unless it started on March 1st.
“Happy first day of Spring!” A coworker said to me, and she wasn’t the first one to say it. I looked outside, it was snowing. It had snowed almost everyday since November. What were these people thinking? This was not Spring.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in FYI
I Used Math To Make the Highschool Football Team
The title probably has you thinking about the movie Moneyball. Or maybe you thought about the girl who used math to win a figure skating competition. She was so smart, she could calculate trajectories and figure out the best angles and timing or something.
By Alex Tucker5 years ago in FYI
Vampires are real!
Forget Edward Cullen—the first time I felt the seductive lure of the undead was when I saw Tom Cruise on the movie poster for “Interview with the Vampire.” It was 1994, and I was not quite nine years old. Cruise starred in the film as the vampire Lestat, the dark anti-hero of Anne Rice’s classic horror novels. Lestat’s electric blue eyes seemed to stare out at me and pierce my soul, the same way his fangs pierced a succession of necks in the movie. Edward Cullen, the brooding young hero of the “Twilight” vampire sagas, didn’t come along until later. Cullen captivated my little sister’s generation, while I stayed stuck on Tom Cruise’s Lestat and his blood-sucking protégé, Louis, played by Brad Pitt in “Interview.”
By Ashley Herzog5 years ago in FYI
Curiosity for Systems of the Human Body
Those of us interested in the medical field aren't the only types of people who enjoy knowing a variety of medical facts. Personally, my intrigue with the human body began with a passion for the Saw films. As a lover of horror, you can often find reference to the human body in a variety of sub-genres that aren't restricted to so-called "torture porn". Perhaps I'm the only one who enjoys making these connections, but they are my two biggest passions. For this informal essay (really an informative stream of consciousness) I will point out a few facts I find fun, revolving around systems of the body I enjoy learning about the most.
By Natalie Kaia Christiansen5 years ago in FYI
