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Confucius said, “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men." The largest part of your brain is the cerebrum (Suh-Ree-Bruhm).  The folds and bumps give it an-other-worldly look.  It’s divided into two halves and they are connected by the corpus callosum (Kor-Pus-Kuh-Loh-Suhm).  It has a big job—helping you to do what …
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Employees Get Chipped: Embedding MicrochipsCareer Planning & Development
For medical reasons, implantable technologies such as a pacemaker, help to regulate someone’s heart.  Other implanted functions have been used to help the deaf hear and may one day be used for treatments for Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy, and Tourette’s syndrome.  They might also in the near future be engineered to help control obsessive compulsive disorder …
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Car Safety: Is It Better than Yesteryear?Personal Finance
It would be great if we could reduce accidents by using environmental design such as city transit, non-motorized transportation and better signage so people could drive less.  In the United States alone, traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for individuals 35 and younger.  If you do not have a late model car or have not shopped for a …
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Plastic Pollution in America: Alert to DisasterGreen Living
Have you seen the photo of the bird caught in plastic bottle rings? Or the dolphin that choked from a bag noose? How about the stomach contents of birds that have ingested a weird composite of plastic gizmos and toys?  Water animals from the largest whales to the smallest zooplankton eat microplastics—bits from larger pieces of plastic that are smaller than one-fifth of …
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Second-Hand Smoke IssuesMedical Science
Many people today are more conscious of health issues, eating better, getting exercise and staying fit with holistic methods and treatments, yet there is one killer they have little to no control over, secondhand smoke.  One point one billion people around the world use tobacco and 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily—that’s about ten million every minute.  One out …
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Natural and Organic: Decoding Labels for Cleaning or Personal Care ProductsGreen Living
Every day the message to consumers tells us the marketplace for personal care products and home cleaning products is complicated, and that switching to natural or organic products is the way to go.  But where do you go to decipher labels; and if the product is not monitored by the government, how can we believe …
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Death of the Plastic StrawGreen Living
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