My dad had to plow a field using a tractor without power steering when he was a teenager. Now That's how you get buffed.I had to drive without power steering for a few months once and my forearms got buff.
The reason for switching to 9 and 3 is to avoid having the airbag smash your arms into the roof.Was unpowered steering more common when you grew up? Maybe they decided that now you can get away with less mechanical leverage and should focus more on tighter control, enabled by a closer grip?
The scientists were surprised at the findings because it has long been believed that the endings of nerve cells in the epidermis were bare or unwrapped. “In the pain field, we talk about free nerve endings that are responsible for pain sensation. But actually they are not free,” Ernfors said.
The team’s biggest finding was that these Schwann cells can sense pain.
“The major question for us now is whether these cells are actually the cause for certain kinds of chronic pain disorders,” Prof Patrik Ernfors, a co-author of the research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, told the Guardian.
Writing in the journal Science, the researchers reveal how they examined the nature of cells in the skin that, they say, have largely been overlooked.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/15/scientists-discover-new-pain-sensing-organ
TIL that there are so-called Schwann cells that are wrapped around the ends of pain-sensing nerve cells.
Today I learned about exploding head syndrome. It's less violent than the name implies.
Why do I get the horrible feeling this is exactly how the DSM was originally created.Doctor 1: Y'know, some people, a few anyway, as they are going off to sleep can sometimes, once in a great while, have a synaptic response that occurs for them like a loud noise, or even a flash of light. Maybe even both.
Doctor 2: Well, since one of the main purposes of sleep is to let the accumulated charges that have built up in the brain ground out into the outer layer of the brain where the high concentrations of melatonin dissipate them, the passage of those charges through different neural paths can produce all sorts of effects...like dream images and such. It's just normal. And if every once in a while they fire down a path associated with sensory input that's not really surprising either.
Doctor 1: Well, I know all that, but this particular aspect has never been studied.
Doctor 2: What makes you think it would be worth studying?
Doctor 1: Ummm, research grant money?
Doctor 2: Oh, yeah, good point.
Doctor 1: We need a catchy name though. Something with disorder in it is always good.
Doctor 2: Or syndrome.
Doctor 1: Yeah. Optic Flash Disorder?
Doctor 2: Not bad, but EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME!!!
Doctor 1: We have a winner!
Doctor 2: Where are those forms?
Doctor 1: Wait....Wat? Where did you learn that?Doctor 1: Y'know, some people, a few anyway, as they are going off to sleep can sometimes, once in a great while, have a synaptic response that occurs for them like a loud noise, or even a flash of light. Maybe even both.
Doctor 2: Well, since one of the main purposes of sleep is to let the accumulated charges that have built up in the brain ground out into the outer layer of the brain where the high concentrations of melatonin dissipate them, the passage of those charges through different neural paths can produce all sorts of effects...like dream images and such. It's just norm.....
Why do I get the horrible feeling this is exactly how the DSM was originally created.![]()
TIL that Patty Smyth, singer for '80s band Scandal, was married to Richard Hell back in the day, and is now married to John McEnroe. Hunh.
Patty Smyth is not to be confused with Patti Smith, who was married to Fred Smith of the MC5. Patti & Fred Smith's son Jackson is married to Meg White, of The White Stripes. Meg White is Patti Smith's daughter-in-law. That's kinda cool.
Patty Smyth is not to be confused with Patti Smith
Also I learned fentanyl is starting to show up in lots more drugs than just heroin - it's begun to make its way into cocaine and ecstasy.