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Nany Rocha

Gender Focus | The History of Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys - 1 views

  • But did you know that pink hasn’t always been a colour for girls, or blue for boys? In Michael Kimmel’s outstanding Manhood in America: A Cultural History, he points out that clothing wasn’t colour-coded in America until the early twentieth century, before which little boys and girls were dressed pretty much identically. Even when people started pushing for more gender-specific children’s clothing, there was a huge debate over which colour to assign to which gender. It started out with boys wearing pink or red because the colours were seen to indicate strength, while girls wore blue because they were “flighty” like the sky. From a 1918 editorial called “Pink or Blue” cited by Kimmel:
    • Nany Rocha
       
      Michael Kimmel pointed out that color coding wasn't used in the vintage america.In fact little boys and little girls used to dress up the same way.But then people wanted to make little kids use specific colored clothes.It started with boys wearing pink or red stuff because the colors where supposed to symbolize strength,while girls used blue because it was soft and dainty (Delicate).
  • So basically the colours changed based on which colour was seen to denote the strength of boys and delicacy of girls, but the idea that those traits are inborn and inalienable did not. It’s not just clothes: walk through the girls’ section of any Toys R Us and you’ll see shelf after shelf of pink, pink, pink. While little girls enjoy some leeway to play with blue toys, many boys get mocked if they want to play with pink “girls’ toys” and sometimes their parents and relatives start panicking that they might even grow up to be (gasp) gay. The fact that parents worry about the sexuality of their kids at all is crazy enough in itself, but that’s for another time. Back to colour-coding.
  • If you think boys and girls just forget about coding gender based on colour once they hit puberty, you’d be wrong. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made headlines when he started forcing male inmates to wear pink underwear to humiliate them. He says it’s a deterrent to reoffending because inmates don’t want to come back and be forced to wear pink again. How screwed up is it that we’ve given a colour so much meaning in less than 100 years that it would make grown male criminals tremble just to think about wearing it?
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  • his is about more than policing convicts, it’s about policing the boundaries of masculinity and reinforcing homophobia. Kimmel states: “Homophobia is more than the irrational fear of homosexuals…[it] is the fear of other men – that other men will unmask us, emasculate us, reveal to us and the world that we do not measure up, are not real men.” The pink and blue shoe keychains might not seem like a big deal, and indeed most people don’t think twice about them. But imagine how much harder it could be for some trans and intersex people to negotiate a restroom ritual like this. Gender-neutral washrooms are a big step towards fixing this issue, but so is realizing that blue-pink colour coding is just the tip of the iceberg of things we use to arbitrarily divide “masculine” from “feminine”.
    • Nany Rocha
       
      Gender stereotypes are something that might not seem important,but actually it is a bit important because it kind of symbolizes what a girl or boy will or would use as clothes or other things.I really think that all this stereotypes are dum because it actually doesn't make sense.
marino5856

Curious About Astronomy: Why is a day divided into 24 hours? - 0 views

  • December 2003 answer: It appears that the Egyptians were responsible for the 24 hour day. The Eqyptians were fond of counting in base twelve (instead of base 10 which is commonly used today). This is thought to be because they counted finger joints instead of fingers. Each of your fingers has three joints, so if you count by pointing to finger joints with your thumb you can count to twelve on each hand. This might seem arbitrary, but is actually just a strange as counting in base ten simply because we have ten digits.
    • marino5856
       
      The egyptians were the ones that were in charge of the 24 hours in a day because they had a system so they found  a counting base in twelve.
  • The Egyptians divided the clock into 12 hours of daytime and 12 hours of night-time (or alternatively 10 hours between sunrise and sunset, an hour for each twilight period and 12 hours of darkness). This is known because of various sundials from the period which have been found to be marked with hours. Interestingly this means that hours started out changing in length with the seasons (as the amount of daylight vs. darkness changes).
    • marino5856
       
      they divided the clock in 12 hours because 12 in the night and about 10 in the sunrise that it became 12hours so that it is equal.
    • marino5856
       
      The egyptians divided the clock into 12 hours. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 a.m and 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12 p.m so that all the p.m could see the stars and the a.m the sunrise. Like there are 12 a.m and 12 p.m so 12 plus 12 equals24 thats why we have 24 hours in a day.
morales5853

Why do certain animals only live in certain parts of the world? - 1 views

  • you cannot derive a polar bear of its cold climate because they are animals who have adapted to their surroundings. Their fur is a significant trait that enables them to survive the winter climate, & if they are placed in a desert for example, they will die from the heat & the inability to adapt to the weather.
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      Animals have their own way to be because it will help them survive where they live, for example, a scorpion wont be born with lots of fur, because he lives in the desert, were there's lots of heat.
    • morales5853
       
      A animal is born the way he can survive in its habitat, because if a animal that lives in the north pole has only skin and not fur he may probably die because of the coldnes the day he is born
guzman5860

Why is the Sky Blue - Space Black - Sunset Red? - 0 views

  • In space, there is no air. Because there is nothing for the light to bounce off, it just goes straight. None of the light gets scattered, and the "sky" looks dark and black.
    • guzman5860
       
      In the space there is no air because there is no particles or molecules for it to bounce and scattered so it has no color so it is just dark. And the sky looks dark,black in the night. Because there is no sun and the sun gives light to the molecules and particles.
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    In space, there is no air. Because there is nothing for the light to bounce off, it just goes straight. None of the light gets scattered, and the "sky" looks dark and black.
Nany Rocha

Stanford research: The meaningful life is a road worth traveling - 2 views

  • One can find meaning in life and be unhappy at the same time. Aaker points out that this type of life has received less attention in the media, which has recently focused on how to cultivate the happy life.  Examples of highly meaningful, but not necessarily happy, lives may include nursing, social work or even activism. The unhappy but meaningful life involves difficult undertakings and can be characterized by stress, struggle and challenges. However, while sometimes unhappy in the moment, these people – connected to a larger sense of purpose and value – make positive contributions to society. Happiness without meaning is characterized by a relatively shallow and often self-oriented life, in which things go well, needs and desires are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements are avoided, the report noted. And so, the meaningful life guides actions from the past through the present to the future, giving one a sense of direction. It offers ways to value good and bad alike, and gives us justifications for our aspirations. From achieving our goals to regarding ourselves in a positive light, a life of meaningfulness is considerably different than mere happiness. "People have strong inner desires that shape their lives with purpose and focus – qualities that ultimately make for a uniquely human experience," said Aaker.
    • Nany Rocha
       
      Happiness comes from having stuff only if you think about happiness like that. Happiness actually comes from not being stressed and trying to be with your family.
    • Nany Rocha
       
      People think that happiness comes from having phones,toys,etc.but thats the problem,Thanks to other peoples blogs and myths people think that the only way to be happy is from having stuff,and from having the "Happiness stuff" comes being "Buried alive".
    • Nany Rocha
       
      Being happy is not about having stuff,its about being with your family,Happiness is the best thing that can happen to anybody.Happiness is kind of the meaning of life,it gives us a meaning of what to do and when to do it.Happiness gives us a path to life,happiness is when you are with your family,happiness helps us understand that we can do better than what we already do.Happiness as you know doesn't come from having stuff,
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      no
    • Nany Rocha
       
      Happiness is also known as a goal of life.It represents us as who we are. Happiness shows on our face.It makes other people see our pride sometimes other people feel our pride so much that they show their pride,and the happiness influence goes and goes until at some point it stops.nI clearly think that if it wasn't for happiness,pride and making our goals (Not soccer goals) we would still be cavemen and cavewomen because without them we would be terrible we would feel stupid we would feel so dum that not even Benjamin Franklin would've created the light because he probably would've felt stupid. So thats why being happy is important because without happiness we wouldn't have accomplished anything.And look at us now we already went to the moon we made a tv we made a telephone and now we have iphones.it all happened thanks to our 1 and greatest feeling:Happiness.
    • Nany Rocha
       
      Sometimes people feel sad and depressed so they go to the mall and go buy clothes and other items,then they claim to be relaxed and happy but Jennifer Aaker proved that its not true.In fact she proved that there are lots of ways to be happy but only 1 way is the most true hearted : Social work and also being with your family.But you cant be happy by just standing besides your family,you would have to be social with them.
  • A Stanford research project explored the key differences between lives of happiness and meaningfulness. While the two are similar, dramatic differences exist – and one should not underestimate the power of meaningfulness. "The quest for meaning is a key part of what makes us human," the researchers concluded.
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      A Stanford research project explored the key differences between lives of happiness and meaningfulness. While the two are similar, dramatic differences exist - and one should not underestimate the power of meaningfulness. "The quest for meaning is a key part of what makes us human," the researchers concluded. BY CLIFTON B. PARKER Social psychologist Jennifer Aaker studies happiness and meaningfulness in life. While lives of meaningfulness and happiness overlap, they are distinctly different, according to Stanford research. But not everybody understands that happiness comes from within not from having or buying stuff. 50% of the world population (Not counting the babies) thinks that the more stuff they got or get the happier they'll be!But of course that we the "smart" population think otherwise. Social psychologist Jennifer Aaker has studied her whole life everything about happiness and she taught us that happiness comes from within happiness comes from smiling everyday from being social with friends or family.Happiness doesn't come from having stuff not at all!! Happiness is the greatest gift of all,happiness isnt just a feeling,happiness is a friendly shadow that follows you everywhere only if you let it.
    • Nany Rocha
       
      The Stanford research project of Jennifer Aaker explains how to get happiness and why it is important.But now I realize that not everybody understands that happiness comes from within not from having or buying stuff. 50% of the world population (Not counting the babies) thinks that the more stuff they got or get the happier they'll be!But of course that we the "smart" population think otherwise. Social psychologist Jennifer Aaker has studied her whole life everything about happiness and she taught us that happiness comes from within happiness comes from smiling everyday from being social with friends or family.Happiness doesn't come from having stuff not at all!! Happiness is the greatest gift of all,happiness isn't just a feeling,happiness is a friendly shadow that follows you everywhere only if you let it.When I say that happiness is a shadow following you only if you let it its because this days happiness is a complete shadow.Not everybody is happy and someday we might never feel happiness ever again,But while I get off topic you should think : "Wow,I should listen to her.I should be grateful for what I already have, instead of getting more stuff." Because the more you think about it the more you understand that happiness is our path to life.that happiness is our friend happiness is our heart that keeps us alive.Thats why we smile thats why we cry thats why we love laugh and live. Without happiness we would be grumpier than the grumpiest cat.We should think more about being grateful than thinking of what to buy to be happy.
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Diego Hinojosa

What Causes Teens Not to Do Homework? | Everyday Life - Global Post - 0 views

  • Teens who do their homework without complaining might do it because they want to get good grades, and some teens don’t want their parents to get mad at them for not doing their homework. As for those teens who fail to do their homework, child behavioral therapist James Lehman believes it’s not that kids aren’t motivated, it’s just that they're motivated to do the things they want to do. What they want to do might not involve doing homework.
    • Diego Hinojosa
       
      Some teens do their homework because they want to have good grades on academics. Or in other cases they do it because they don't want their parents to get mad.But on almost all of the cases they don't do homework.Because they don't have things social things to do.
guzman5860

Why is the sky blue? :: NASA's The Space Place - 0 views

  • Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time
    • guzman5860
       
      The blue light is sometimes scattered more than the other colors because all the molecules or particles that are in the atmosphere go in all directions and the wavelength is shorter and it has smaller waves so thats why the sky is blue most of the time.
    • guzman5860
       
      The blue light is scattered the more than the other colors Because all the particles and molecules  that are in the atmosphere go in all directions and it spreads and the blue wavelength is shorter and the waves are smaller and it has lots of energy thats why the sky is blue
Regina Cantu

Why Do People Get Bullied - 0 views

  • One of the most common reasons for bullying is image. Anyone who looks the least bit different from what is considered to be normal will likely face bullying at some point in his life. Kids with freckles, acne, moles, buck teeth and other physical differences will be targeted by bullies.
  • Kids who go out of their way to sit in the front of the class, answer the teacher’s questions and do well on exams are also convenient targets because they are considered to be “nerds”.
  • Kids who don’t have the same style of clothing as their peers are often the targets of bullies.
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  • Students from families that can’t afford to buy the latest fashions (or even high quality clothes) might endure bullying.
  • Those are are picked on for their lack of trendy clothing will often come home in tears and ask mom and dad, “Why do people get bullied?”.
  • This is a big reason why many parents choose to enroll their kids in private schools that have a strictly enforced dress code.
  • The private school’s required uniform makes life much easier for students from families without the economic means to purchase the latest fashions.
  • . It is usually the kids from wealthier families and neighborhoods that gang up on the kids from poor backgrounds.
  • Kids from wealthy families sometimes look down upon those from lesser means. The media socializes young people to act this way. Having money and possessions is considered to be “cool”.
  • Bullies pick on kids with disabilities because they are considered to be weak and inferior.
  • This is one of the more brutal forms of bullying because children with disabilities are often completely defenseless against aggressors.
  • Even kids with learning disabilities are targeted by bullies for being different.
  • If their fellow students see them getting extra time to complete exams or getting more attention from the teacher, they’ll be viewed as different and be targeted.
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guzman5862

The Healing Properties of Tears: 7 Good Reasons to Cry Your Eyes Out - Beyond Blue - 0 views

  • 1. Tears help us see. Starting with the most basic function of tears, they enable us to see. Literally. Tears not only lubricate our eyeballs and eyelids, they also prevent dehydration of our various mucous membranes. No lubrication, no eyesight. Writes Bergman: “Without tears, life would be drastically different for humans–in the short run enormously uncomfortable, and in the long run eyesight would be blocked out altogether.”
  • 2. Tears kill bacteria. No need for Clorox wipes. We’ve got tears! Our own antibacterial and antiviral agent working for us, fighting off all the germs we pick up on community computers, shopping carts, public sinks, and all those places the nasty little guys make their homes and procreate. Tears contain lysozyme, a fluid that the germ-a-phobic dreams about in her sleep, because it can kill 90 to 95 percent of all bacteria in just five to 10 minutes! Which translates, I’m guessing, to three months’ worth of colds and stomach viruses.
  • 3. Tears remove toxins. Biochemist William Frey, who has been researching tears for as long as I’ve been searching for sanity, found in one
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  • study that emotional tears–those formed in distress or grief–contained more toxic byproducts than tears of irritation (think onion peeling). Are tears toxic then? No! They actually remove toxins from our body that build up courtesy of stress. They are like a natural therapy or massage session, but they cost a lot less!
  • 4. Crying can elevate mood. Do you know what your manganese level is? No, neither do I. But chances are that you will feel better if it’s lower because overexposure to manganese can cause bad stuff: anxiety, nervousness, irritability, fatigue, aggression, emotional disturbance and the rest of the feelings that live inside my happy head rent-free. The act of crying can lower a person’s manganese level. And just like with the toxins I mentioned in my last point, emotional tears contain 24 percent higher albumin protein concentration–responsible for transporting many small molecules (which has to be a good thing, right?)–than irritation tears.
  • 5. Crying lowers stress. Tears really are like perspiration in that exercising and crying both relieve stress. For real. In his article, Bergman explains that tears remove some of the chemicals built up in the body from stress, like the endorphin leucine-enkaphalin and prolactin, the hormone I overproduce because of my pituitary tumor that affects my mood and stress tolerance. The opposite is true too. Bergman writes, “Suppressing tears increases stress levels, and contributes to diseases aggravated by stress, such as high blood pressure, heart problems, and peptic ulcers.
  • 6. Tears build community. In her “Science Digest” article, writer Ashley Montagu argued that crying not only contributes to good health, but it also builds community. I know what you’re thinking: “Well, yeah, but not the right kind of community. I mean, I might ask the woman bawling her eyes out behind me in church what’s wrong or if I can help her, but I’m certainly not going to invite her to dinner.” I beg to differ. As a prolific crier, especially on video, I always come away astounded by the comments … the resounding support of people I know all that well, and the level of intimacy exchanged among them. Read for yourselves some of the comments on both my self-esteem video and my recent death and dying video and you’ll appreciate my point. Tears help communication and foster community.
  • 7. Tears release feelings. Even if you haven’t just been through something traumatic or are severely depressed, the average Jo goes through his day accumulating conflicts and resentments. Sometimes they gather inside the limbic system of the brain and in certain corners of the heart. Crying is cathartic. It lets the devils out. Before they wreak all kind of havoc with the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Writes John Bradshaw in his bestseller “Home Coming”: “All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.” Amen, Brother Bradford!
jaime5789

"Missing Links" Found between Birds and Dinosaurs - Scientific American - 0 views

  • "Dinosaurs became ever more 'birdy' over time," Brusatte said, but there was no single missing link, he added. Birds and dinosaurs are like two colors in a rainbow, he said — you can recognize each, but they bleed into each other at their borders.
    • jaime5789
       
      Scientists think that dinosaurs and birds were connected, not only because they look alike, but because their blood is identical... 
  • The new pedigree of carnivorous dinosaur evolution is the most comprehensive one ever assembled, the researchers say. The findings show that birdlike features such as wings and feathers developed slowly over tens of millions of years.
    • jaime5789
       
      Dinosaurs evolved to birds, and it happened slowly, it took millions of years for dinosaurs to evolve into birds... Even though they were always changing, they grew feathers, then developed flying skills!
  • The label of "bird" is somewhat arbitrary, but scientists consider the feathered fossil Archaeopteryx to be the first of the group, Brusatte said. "What probably distinguishes birds is the ability to have powered flight," he said, though it's possible that other dinosaurs could fly too.
    • jaime5789
       
      We predict that  Archaeopteryx a very early bird, that looks like a dinosaur, and lives with the dinosaurs is what made the birds of today fly! 
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  • the earliest birds would have been indistinguishable from their closest relatives.
    • jaime5789
       
      The earliest birds such as Archaeopteryx were really hard identify because they were so different compared to the birds we have today!
guzman5862

How the Human Eye Works - 0 views

  • The cornea is a transparent structure found in the very front of the eye that helps to focus incoming light. Behind the cornea is a colored ring-shaped membrane called the iris. The iris has an adjustable circular opening called the pupil, which can expand or contract depending on the amount of light entering the eye. [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body]
    • guzman5862
       
      Here is how your eye works. There is a part of your eye named cornea and that is something that you can not see because it is transparent and that is located in the very front of your eye, and it is helpful because it makes stay in the thing your concentrated in. In the back of that there is a shaped important system in the eyes that it is named iris. The iris its very special and decorative but it also has another thing in it it is the pupil, and that its controlled by the light because when there is little light it is little and when there is more light it is more bigger.
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    The cornea is a transparent structure found in the very front of the eye that helps to focus incoming light. Behind the cornea is a colored ring-shaped membrane called the iris. The iris has an adjustable circular opening called the pupil, which can expand or contract depending on the amount of light entering the eye. [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body]
lopez5891

What do Dolphins Eat? - Dolphin Facts and Information - 0 views

  • While some dolphins eat fishes like herring, cod or mackerel, some others eat squids.
    • lopez5891
       
      Dolphins eat small animals, and I think that what they d lis really good because if they ate more bigger animals they would start to be endengared. Because the more little they are, the more number of animals they are.
  • Even more, large dolphins like the killer whales, eat some other marine mammals like seals or sea lions and sometime even turtles.
marino5856

Why are there 24 hours in a day? › Ask an Expert (ABC Science) - 0 views

  • "The origin of our time system of 24 hours in a day with each hour subdivided into 60 minutes and then 60 seconds is complex and interesting," says Dr Nick Lomb, consultant curator of astronomy, from the Sydney Observatory.
  • Our 24-hour day comes from the ancient Egyptians who divided day-time into 10 hours they measured with devices such as shadow clocks, and added a twilight hour at the beginning and another one at the end of the day-time, says Lomb.
  • "Night-time was divided in 12 hours, based on the observations of stars. The Egyptians had a system of 36 star groups called 'decans' — chosen so that on any night one decan rose 40 minutes after the previous one.
    • marino5856
       
      The 24 hours has been invented by the egyptians. They first divided it into 10 hours but then they divided it in 12 because of the twilight. So night time was divide in 12 hours because they wanted to see the stars in the night and also that there would be light in the day.
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  • The subdivision of hours and minutes into 60 comes from the ancient Babylonians who had a predilection for using numbers to the base 60. For example, III II (using slightly different strokes) meant three times 60 plus two or 182.
  • "We have retained from the Babylonians not only hours and minutes divided into 60, but also their division of a circle into 360 parts or degrees," says Lomb.
  • While each country has (in broad terms) historically had distinct measurements for distance, weights etc the method of splitting the day into 24 hours, one hour into 60 mins and one minute into 60 seconds seems to be the only one in use, and indeed to me the only one I know of. This non-metric measurement of time is far from ideal, but what other comparably accurate methods have been used historically?
Eugenio Ferrara

Why does the sky change color at sunset? - 0 views

  • The sky is blue all day because the particles in our atmosphere cause light’s energies to scatter! Th
  • The reason we have color is because we have light! Beams of light contain different energies that our eyes then interpret as certain colors. When the sun shines onto Earth and lights up the sky, it shines waves of energies containing lots of colors
Nany Rocha

Why We're So Materialistic, Even Though It Doesn't Make Us Happy - 0 views

  • We tend to equate buying things with positive emotions. Subsequently, we think that purchasing new stuff makes us happy. It's a pretty clear correlation. In a study published in Neuron, researchers looked at what's going on in the brain when we think about buying stuff. When a product image flashed before people's eyes, an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens lit up when a subject liked what they saw. Essentially, the brain's pleasure center kicks into gear and floods the brain with dopamine at the very thought of getting something we want. The weirdest thing about this is that just thinking about buying something is pretty much the same as actually buying it.
    • Nany Rocha
       
      We want to buy things,we make our brain think : "the more I buy things the happier I will be,LETS BUY MORE STUFF!"
  • "Thinking about acquisition provides momentary happiness boosts to materialistic people, and because they tend to think about acquisition a lot, such thoughts have the potential to provide frequent mood boosts," Richins wrote, "but the positive emotions associated with acquisition are short-lived. Although materialists still experience positive emotions after making a purchase, these emotions are less intense than before they actually acquire a product."
  • It's probably no surprise to most of us, but study after study shows that buying stuff doesn't make us happy. More importantly, we're actually unhappy when we put too much value on material objects.The big problem here isn't just that we're a little bummed out when someone else has more stuff than we do. It's that when we put a lot of emphasis on materialistic value, we're prone to depression, personality disorders, and more. One study from
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    • Nany Rocha
       
      buying stuff is supposed to make us happy but we are so materialistic and it doesn't make sense we trick our brain into thinking that the more we buy the happier well be but I now understand that happiness comes from having stuff because we trick our brain to it.
Esteban Cantu

Jupiter - Astronomy For Kids - KidsAstronomy.com - 1 views

  • If you weigh 70 pounds (32 kg) on Earth, on Jupiter you would weigh 185 pounds (84 kg). This is because Jupiter is such a large planet and so has more gravity.
    • Esteban Cantu
       
      If you weigh 32 pounds on earth, you would weigh 147 pounds on jupiter! That's 115 more pounds. Gravity on jupiter is harder because jupiter is such a big planet..
morales5853

Why do animals live in certain places? - 0 views

  • Animals live only where they can survive. Koalas, for example, eat only the leaves of certain eucalyptus trees, so they must live in Australia, where these trees grow.
    • morales5853
       
      A animal may only live were he is used to and where he knows how to survive its like if a polar bear suddenly appeared in the desert, he wouldn't survive because he is not used to the environment and doesn't know what to eat.
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      Animals only live were they are really adapted to because there is were they already know how to live and they know which animals to get away from and what to eat.
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guzman5862

Why do people cry? - WebMD Answers - 0 views

  • “Crying is a natural emotional response to certain feelings, usually sadness and hurt. But then people [also] cry under other circumstances and occasions," says Stephen Sideroff, PhD, a staff psychologist at Santa Monica--University of California Los Angeles & Orthopaedic Hospital."People cry in response to something of beauty. There, I use the word 'melting.' They are letting go of their guard, their defenses, tapping into a place deep inside themselves."
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  • "People cry in response to something of beauty. There, I use the word 'melting.' They are letting go of their guard, their defenses, tapping into a place deep inside themselves.
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    • guzman5862
       
      Crying is something created by emotions and feelings such as sadness and pain. But people also cry because they want. People cry because you reach the highest limit of your eyes like when you hit it hurt so much and the hurt goes to all of your body so you destroy your defense/guard and  let the tears pass your eye from deep inside you.
  • Crying may also have a biochemical purpose. It's believed to release stress hormones or toxins from the body, says Lauren Bylsma, a PhD student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, whose research has focused on crying.
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      If you cry it can also have some effects that it lets out somethings like hormons toxins and stress from some part of you. And when you releze all those things you feel kind of dizzy.
lobo5879

Nightmares - 1 views

  • While you sleep, your brain doesn't just turn off. It goes through several sleep stages, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Why do they call it that? Because during this stage of sleep, your eyes move back and forth under your closed eyelids. During REM sleep, you have dreams and sometimes those dreams can be scary or upsetting. About every 90 minutes your brain switches between non-REM sleep and REM sleep. The amount of time spent in REM sleep increases with each sleep cycle through the night. The longest periods of REM sleep occur towards morning. If you wake during this REM stage, it is easier for you to remember what you were dreaming about. That's why your most vivid dreams — and nightmares — occur in the early morning hours.
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      People have nightmares because when you are in REM (that stand for rapid eye movement) is when you are starting to have dreams and sumetimes the dreams are upseting thats why they are called nightmares
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      and evry 90 minutes youre brain desides to go to REM then without REM
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