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POPSWhy Does Hot Water Sometimes Feel Cold? If you touch a warm spot with something cold, it’s still going to tell the brain that you’re touching something warm. Mixed Signals Neurologists call instances when these spots send the “wrong” signal in response to a stimulus paradoxical cold and paradoxical warmth. If you want to try another experiment (and you still trust me after the hot water thing), grab a pen and lightly poke the point around between your knuckles. In some spots it will feel cold, in some it will feel warm. Of course, when you run your hand under hot water, the water touches both warm and cold spots. In cases like this, where the stimulus is strong enough, the receptors get confused and sometimes the wrong signal gets sent to the brain, even though both temperature receptors are being stimulated. Sometimes it only takes a second for things to correct themselves; sometimes it takes a few minutes.
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POPSIs a "Little Ice Age" Imminent? -Maverick Scientists Say "Yes"
The idea is especially intriguing considering that most of the world is in preparation for global warming. Could we be preparing for the wrong scenario? Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, notes that pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show that there are currently no spots on the sun. He believes this is the reason why the world cooled rapidly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C. "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over." Sorokhtin believes that, in spite of the results of certain recent studies, lack of sunspots does indicate a coming cooling period. In fact, he calls manmade climate change "a drop in the bucket" compared to the cold brought on by inactive solar phases.
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POPSdrug addiction The list contains costs of addiction, I think young people should take look at it to see how addiction can affect our lives financially.
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POPSRaspberry Shortcake with Blueberries Calories 133 Calories from Fat 39 % Daily Value* Total Fat 4.3g 7% Saturated Fat 0.7g 3% Cholesterol 0mg 0% Sodium 66mg 3% Total Carbohydrates 21.0g 7% Dietary Fiber 1.4g 5% Sugars 3.2g Protein 2.8g
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POPSClimate Change Is Already Affecting the West's Water Unless it slaps them in the face, the typical American can't be bothered by an abstract threat. If there's a global warming event -- a mammoth hurricane, tornado, or forest fire -- in our neighborhood, then we get concerned. From this perspective, the loss of a few thousand acres of ice in a remote corner of Montana hardly seems significant. Most of us don't see it as a danger sign. But it is. Disappearing glaciers is a harbinger of huge problems. In the West, the most obvious is drought.
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POPSPrisoners Keeping their Stick on the Ice ! this is what happens now that we are a tech base world wanting to put all data in one place,there's an actually fight for the clouds and yet they want you to store shit there too ! But who owns them that will be the (?)
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POPSThe Worst Comedians of All Time Carlos Mencia - If this is what comedy is going to be like when Mexico takes over America, then we're voting for anyone who promises to put a 50-foot barbed-wire electric fence from Texas to California—and then another one around our TV.
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POPSScientists unlock Iceman's dress code Oetzi the ice man is about to become a star in the fashion industry. The technique they used to find out what his clothes were made of, can also be used in the fashion industry, or police to detect or trace fake animal materials, and to identify coats made from cat and dog hair, that are planned to be prohibited in Europe next year.
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POPSCANADIANS LET THE DNA FLY OVER THE CHANNELS ! The Feds are giving their oral grant to all Canadians who are interested in showing why "making bacon" taste so good.Canadian bacon not just for morning meals anymore,try it for one of those "NOONERS". So let the "DNA" fly and take you stick off the ice ! Red Green lives on !
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POPSICE,ICE, BABY ? AMERICAN VERSION "Honey what's that in the oven" answer: Dear, that's you support payments, will call her "sp" for short, JERUSALEM "Honey what's in that in the frig". Harsh country,breeds cold women !
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POPSExpert: World is Entering a Little Ice Age At present, assured the world is going through a transition phase where solar activity diminishes considerably, "so that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years," and the immediate consequence of this He added, will be drought. Here's hoping Algore freezes his gonads off...whoops... forgot he has no gonads....
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POPSAny one is interested??? The Seven Continents: An Around-the-world Expedition by Private Jet... More details on the site... impressed...wish I had funds...
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POPSIce Volcanoes of Titan May Habor Life For almost thirty years, scientists have known that complex carbon compounds called tholins exist on comets and in the atmospheres of the outer planets. Theoretically, tholins might interact with water in a process called hydrolysis to produce complex molecules similar to those found on the early Earth. Could tholins formed in Titan's atmosphere react with liquid water temporarily exposed by meteor impacts or ice volcanoes to produce potentially prebiotic complex organic molecules — before the water freezes? Laboratory research by Catherine Neish, a graduate student working on her doctorate in planetary science at the University of Arizona, suggests, not without controversy, however, that, over a period of days, compounds similar to tholins can be react with water at near-freezing temperatures.
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