They call her Alexa, she is too pretty to acknowledge that she is pretty. She speaks with her friends on Yahoo! Messenger and she wants to be informed, she wants to travel and she doesn’t like priests that tell her moral stories and prohibit some behaviours. Alexa is 11 years, she will be old like me in 13 years. She won’t have as much fun as I had, I’m sure about it. But she will be more clever than me, she will have more friends than me and she will certainly get a job in the USA. Now she is slapping me because she doesn’t trust my words (in fact these are prospectives, it’s almost a prophecy). Tell me something, my dear!
She said “I wish many things”, she will have them. “But the greatest desire is to have an immortal family”, she said to me, smiling. Maybe her children will be immortal, and her husband, her relatives, her dog, her cat, her necklace and me.
What is Dasein?
-it is Being taken in its temporality
-it is the prove of the common existence, it is the prove that human beings are, on a deep level, the victims of likenesses
-”in its very Being, it is that Being is an issue for it”-what Heidegger meant is not so difficult for one to grasp: the essence of human being is to put questions on the way in which he/she relates himself/herself with others and with the world
Smell sense: the most developed of all its senses, used to identify the surroundings, those of its kind, people and other animals (smell is associated with dog’s hearing and sight, which play a secondary role). Smell is used to locate and follow their owners, to follow tracks, chase a prey and locate a female in heat, even when she is kilometers away.
Dog’s sight: they are capable of distinguishing colors, have a very sophisticated visually capacity (especially when it comes to night vision). In some breeds, when the nasal passage is long and narrow, the visual range of the dog is of 180 degrees.
Dog’s sense of hearing: it is its second sense, it is 4 times more powerful than man’s. Even if the sound has been produced 25 meters away, dog is capable of hearing something very neatly. Combined with smell, it serves as a substitute for the third sense, when this one lacks, in orientation.
Dog’s sense of touch: its skin has an erectile muscle (that’s why its hair gets prickly or sticks up sometimes). The animal is very sensitive to caressing and hitting.
Dog’s sense of taste: the least studied of all the dog’s senses (the number of taste buds that a dog has is inferior to ours, they have to use their sense of smell to see if the food they are about to taste is good or not).
It is a problem. When you have an aquarium and fishes that can no longer survive because of a certain disease, you must euthanize them. But how, in what way can you do it, in order to be done humanely? First, anesthesize the fish with clove oil (used usually as a toothache remedy, and in French, Czech, Sri Lankan cuisines as one of the ingredients in synthetic vanilla and perfumes). Second, introduce a clear grain alcohol like vodka to ensure the fish will not wake up.
Drakes (male ducks) have balls and penis. There is a tremendous anatomical variation in the male phallus. Some researchers try to discover the consequences of this. The female reproductive tract, called oviduct/ vagina, is usually a simple tube, but in some waterfowl, the tube has unique sacs and spirals. The sacs are outpocketings in the sides of the tube that are just inside the oviduct opening. Brennan, a researcher, points out that “They appear to function as ‘dead-ends,’ or false passages. If the phallus were to enter one of these sacs, it would not progress further into the oviduct where it would deposit sperm more effectively.”
In the tubular oviduct there is a series of tight, clock-wise spirals. The male phallus is also a spiral, but it twists in the counter-clock-wise direction, that’s why the twists in the oviduct appear designed to exclude the opposing twisting of the male phallus. Moreover, the number of sacs and spirals in the reproductive tract of various female waterfowl correlates strongly with the length of the male phallus. The genitalia of males and females have dynamically co-evolved (in various separate duck lineages, females developed more elaborate oviducts as males developed longer phalluses-as the phallus evolved toward smaller size, females lost oviduct complexity). Why? In order to block male attempts at reproductive control. So more elaborate phalluses have selected for improved means of excluding them, and vice versa.
“Listening to MP3 players with headphones that produce harmful volumes can harmfully affect hearing. Because the noise is much closer to the ear, the hair cells of the inner ear have a greater chance of becoming injured. Damaged hair cells, which turn sound into electrochemical signals to the brain, cannot be regrown or restored with surgical treatment. Studies show that iPod users have experienced hearing loss. No more than an hour of listening is recommended per day, over-the-ear headphones should be used, and turning down the volume will help keep listeners safe from harmful decibel levels. Over 28 million Americans suffer from hearing loss, and nearly half are younger than 65.”
Conclusion: avoid using too much your MP3 player/ iPOD, you can find other means in order not to feel the boredom. And if you’re such an avid listener, buy some speakers and forget about parental advice…it’s better than the loss of hearing. It’s a pity, and each person has her/his own reasons to believe that it’s a pity.
“A 37-year-old Canadian jogger suffered “multiple injuries to his head” after ill-advisedly standing under a tree during a thunderstorm while listening to his iPod, the Vancouver Sun reports. The unnamed victim, reportedly an active church musician and enjoying “religious music” at the time of the incident, was struck by lightning near Vancouver in June 2005. The impressive list of injuries he suffered has just been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and includes burns tracing a pattern from his chest, where he was packing his iPod, to his ears – following the path of the device’s earphone cables.”
And this is for those who love music during thunderstorms…
”A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in New York City and Buffalo. NewsChannel 4 reported that Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing the ban in response to two recent pedestrian deaths in his district, including a 23-year-old man who was struck and killed last month while listening to his iPod on Avenue T and East 71st Street In Bergen Beach.”
This is for those maniacs who love music so much…
I’m bored of this…I want to live. Farewell!
Thousands of cases were detected in Romania…and doctors say it is because of the stress. God protect the poets!
When something endangers your body, you feel weak, you forget about brain’s energy, about its power!
