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The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain. |
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| Alec Baldwin |
Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them. |
| Ron Eglash |
If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals. |
| Homaro Cantu |
The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes. |
| David Eagleman |
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. |
| Thomas R. Insel |
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function. |
| Henry Rollins |
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. |
| Gerald Edelman |
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins. |
| Tim Cahill |
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' |
| Edna Ferber |
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. |
| James Darren |
Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. |
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I had a dream that something was wrong with my brain and I went to the doctor and they said they had to drill into my skull. They drugged me and I wasn't on the operating table yet so I was stumbling around the room and then I felt myself become paralyzed and slowly lost the ability to hear what they were saying, which was worrisome because it sounded like they were giving me instructions. The drugs kept me from feeling pain but it was still disturbing because I could still feel everything they were doing.
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I feel your pain because I use tildes wherever possible.
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In more detail: I dreamt I was in a car with a bunch of people that I knew and someone else was driving. I was in the back seat and we were turning on a road on the edge of a cliff. The car broke through the guard rail and fell a few stories. I felt a lapse in consciousness and regained it realizing something was jammed through my shoulder. It hurt and I was bleeding but I was thankful that it didn't pierce any of my major organs. Someone else in the car was moving around and trying to help me. They moved me a little and I felt a terrible pain, looked down and realized part of the frame of the car had broken and was poking through my abdomen. I spent a moment contemplating that a short length of time in agonizing pain separated me from death. Then I woke up.
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Show. Your. Pain.
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tomcat can be a huge pain
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So do I, but in regular conversation. Being precise is a pain.
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Weed+exercise=yep. This is my new strategy. In the zone and no pain. #lifehackswithben
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80% of the brain is water. Your brain isn’t the firm, gray mass you’ve seen on TV. Living brain tissue is a squishy, pink and jelly-like organ thanks to the loads of blood and high water content of the tissue.
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Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. The brain only makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation. So breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in oxygenated cells.
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Counter-intuitively, Koubeissi’s team found that the woman’s loss of consciousness was associated with increased synchrony of electrical activity, or brainwaves, in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain that participate in conscious awareness. Although different areas of the brain are thought to synchronise activity to bind different aspects of an experience together, too much synchronisation seems to be bad. The brain can’t distinguish one aspect from another, stopping a cohesive experience emerging.
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