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Do you know why pregnant women should not drink?
2007-11-05 16:34:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Women who are pregnant or trying for a baby should stop drinking alcohol altogether or at least restrict to moderate drinking ? the doctors advice. Because by exceeding the recommended limit they often put their babies at risk. But do women ever pay any serious attention on this cliché warning, ever? If not, all you women better know the consequences now, than be sorry, later! Although, moderate drinking like up to two units once or twice a week is permissible, total abstinence is always desirable ? as the doctors say. Heavy drinking can cause Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, an incurable condition resulting in retardation, poor memory and in the worst cases, facial abnormalities. Surveys say, about one in 1,000 babies are born with the syndrome each year, worldwide. But a milder condition, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, is more common, affecting more than 6,000 children each year in Britain alone, and is a leading cause of learning difficulties. B...
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Do you know why dark chocolates are beneficial?
2007-10-29 16:29:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Chocolates are always yummy, delicious and irresistible, especially with girls and kids. And now, they also seem to be beneficial for your health because a daily dose of yummy dark chocolate may help patients suffering from the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Serotonin (a brain chemical related to CFS) is believed to play an important role in the regulation of anger, aggression, body temperature, mood, sleep, vomiting, appetite and fatigue. According to scientists from Hull York Medical School, dark chocolates have been found to lower levels of serotonin. The research team said that patients with CFS, found that their symptoms were reduced when they consumed dark chocolate, much more so when they consumed milk chocolate that had brown dye added to it. The researchers noted that patients taking dark chocolate reported significantly less fatigue when they started eating the sweet. They also reported more fatigue when they stopped eating it. The scientis...
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Do you know why siestas are good?
2007-10-22 18:50:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Usually it is said by doctors that six to eight hours of sleep at night is ideal for most people, though what is more important is the quality of sleep. But recent studies say that, also 40 winks, better known as catnap or siesta in the middle of the day is good to health and can protect you from a heart attack. A recent large UK study of around 23,000 people in Greece reported that those who catnapped for at least 30 minutes in the afternoon, three times or more a week had a 37 percent lower risk of death due to heart attacks compared to those who did not. People who occasionally took a siesta had a 12 percent lower risk. In the study, a siesta was defined as ?typically short naps or rest periods of no more than an hour that are taken in the afternoon?. Cardiologists say siestas help people relax, reduce their stress levels and benefit heart function by lowering blood pressure. Blood pressure and heart rate decrease while sleeping. Lowered blood ...
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Do you know why Eiffel Tower was built?
2007-10-16 16:34:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Eiffel Tower or ?La Tour Eiffel? in French, situated in the city of Paris in France is one of the few greatest engineering amazements that the world has seen till date. It?s a beauty to watch the Eiffel Tower at night when it?s all illuminated with its lighting effects. With a height of 324.00m (height with antenna) from the ground and 125m x 125m at the base, Eiffel Tower weighs about 10,000 tons (metal framework weight: 7,300 tons) in total. So what is this Eiffel Tower made up of and how was the foundation laid? Well, the foundation was constituted in stonework and is made of puddle iron. And, how much did it cost to build the Eiffel Tower? ? A whopping 7,800,000 gold francs, way back in 1889. The tower was built by Gustave Eiffel, -the man behind the company ?Gustave Eiffel & Cie? that got the contract. Now let?s see, why was this huge structure which is one of the most desired tourist-spot in the world, was created! Eiffel Tower was built...
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Do you know why daydreaming is good?
2007-10-08 18:57:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Call it woolgathering, but we all love to steal away from real life to indulge in roving thoughts or daydreaming. But what is daydreaming or rather, how do we define daydreaming? Daydreaming or mind-wandering - familiar to one and all, is more precisely defined as a state of mind where thoughts that are experienced by an individual are unrelated to what is going on in the environment around them. Let?s see why and when we daydream? In the recent studies, researchers found that our minds often wander fancifully while we are engaged in familiar tasks, such as making a sandwich or doing a regular household work, because we don't need to concentrate on it. They observed that daydreaming could be the result of the brain mulling over important - but not immediately relevant - issues when the external environment ceases to pose interesting and engaging. Scientists now have identified the regions of the brain responsible for our ability to daydream. A d...
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Do you know why you should drink?
2007-10-02 15:20:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Drink ing had been always associated with forgetfulness until recently, as a new research has overruled this age old theory. A glass or two of wine can boost our ability to remember, says a new study. Scientists have found that moderate amounts of alcohol challenge the brain and it responds by improving the memory. The findings rubbished the notion of drinking to forget, as they also show drinking enough to exceed the limit for driving means you are more likely to remember the embarrassment of an unrestrained spell ? from making an indecent proposal to dancing without your trousers on. Contrary to popular belief, it has also been found that excessive levels of alcohol even enhanced memories of highly emotional stimuli. In fact, heavy drinking actually reinforces negative memories. But moderate levels of alcohol consumption, equivalent to one or two of wine a day, enhance memory on the whole. Researchers suggest - just like the best way to build str...

Do you know why we have eyebrows?
2007-09-25 19:25:00
Prof. Know Why answers: People have always wondered why humans have eyebrows! They definitely played an important role in our culture though, in terms of beauty, since long time. We pluck, pierce, color or tattoo our eyebrows to make fashion statements. However, they don't seem to serve any other logical function apart from enhancing beauty - or do they? Well! The answer is yes, though their purpose has lost significance over time as humans evolved. Eyebrow s act as umbrellas for the eyes. The arch-shaped eyebrows help keep our vision clear by diverting rain and sweat away from the eyes to the sides of the face - leaving our eyes fairly dry. By doing so, our eyebrows not only allow us to see more clearly, but also keep salty sweat from burning or irritating our eyes. Eyebrows have other roles too. Recent researches support these theories of the fact - why we did not lose our eyebrows with evolution. As one of our most expressive facial features, eyebrows help us determin...

Do you know why we have heartburn?
2007-09-17 20:29:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Before you start thinking something else, let me clarify what is heartburn! Heartburn has nothing to do with ?heart?. Also known as pyrosis, heartburn is a form of indigestion. It is a painful burning sensation in the esophagus below the breastbone, caused by regurgitation of gastric acid. Now let?s see how we have heartburn! Heartburn happens when acid from your stomach gets forced upwards into the oesophagus (gullet). This is called acid reflux. The stomach wall is coated with a layer of mucus that protects it from digestive acid. The oesophagus does not have this protection, so any acid that leaks up, irritates and damages its lining. This causes the burning pain associated with heartburn. But why do we have heartburn? Heartburn is becoming the single most important factor behind the rise in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that nowadays largely affects the urban population, mostly due to their long working hours, erratic lifestyle, bad p...
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Do you know why we blush?
2007-09-10 17:33:00
Prof. Know Why answers: We all experience that deep rush of pink to the face known as blushing, sometime or the other. It happens when we are embarrassed, anxious, angry, ashamed, guilty or receiving unwanted attention. Blush ing means we are uncomfortable. Along with that normally goes an avoidance of eye contact with others and a glowing or tingling sensation over the entire body. But why do we blush when we are embarrassed? Well, blushing is a nervous reaction that triggers tiny blood vessels in the skin to widen. This allows more blood to flow to the skin, causing the reddening. Scientifically, blushing begins with an emotion - usually one associated with self-consciousness. A confused state of mind then acts upon the sympathetic nervous system. From there, the vasodilators (parasympathetic nerve fibers) are stimulated which causes the peripheral capillaries to expand. As a result, more blood flows to the surface of the face and neck, resulting in the reddening of the...

Do you know why people go bald?
2007-09-04 14:33:00
Prof. Know Why explains: Normally, there are about 100,000 to 150,000 hair strands on the human scalp. However many people cannot retain them and eventually go bald. Androgenetic Alopecia, the most common type of baldness — otherwise known as male pattern baldness — occurs due to a chemical known as Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) that builds up around the follicle and eventually kills the follicle and the hair. In simple terms, the growing cycle becomes shorter. So the hair does not grow as long as it once did. It becomes finer, and eventually the growth cycle is eliminated. A follicle’s resistance to DHT is genetic – which is why some people go bald and others do not. If you have relatives with thin hair or who are bald, you may well develop the same problem. Doctors say that the gene can be inherited from either the mother’s or the father’s side of the family and skips generations. In other conditions, such as Alopecia Totalis and Alopecia Universalis, the e...
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Do you know why mosquitoes bite certain people?
2007-09-03 16:50:00
Prof. Know Why answers: It’s strange, but amazingly true that mosquitoes may not bite all the people in the same place. And only a selective set of people may fall prey to these tiny blood suckers that put millions of lives at stake by spreading malaria - the most prevalent life-threatening disease in the world. Scientists have worked out the answers why and how mosquitoes make a beeline for certain people and leave others almost untouched. Specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquito’s nose are tuned to identify the different chemicals that make up human body odor. To the mosquito, some people’s sweat simply smells better than others because of the proportions of the carbon dioxide, octenol and other compounds that make up body odor. It’s those people who are most likely to be bitten. Mosquito es use three organs to smell and taste – a feathery antenna which can identify a wide range of different chemicals, a proboscis used for short rang...
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Do you know why does hair turn grey?
2007-09-02 15:01:00
Prof. Know Why answers: Generally with age, our hair turns grey, although people can get grey hair at any age! Some people go grey at a very young age, whereas others may be in their forties before the first grey strand is seen. And in most of the cases, our genes determine how early we get grey hair. But what is grey hair? How does our hair turn grey? And why at all does our hair turn grey? Lets find out the answers! Melanin is the pigment that is responsible for producing color. To put it simple, - when the cells present at the base of the hair root, stop producing this melanin, the hair shafts turn grey. Melanin is made up of specialized pigment cells called melanocytes. These are found at the openings on the skin’s surface (follicles) through which hair grows. As the hair is being formed, melanocytes inject melanin pigments into cells containing keratin (a protein that makes up our hair, skin and nails). Throughout the years, melanocytes continue this process, givi...
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Do you know why broken heart can be fatal?
2007-09-02 14:58:00
Prof. Know Why answers: You feel great when you are in love and it shows, because your health glows. But why and how does your health react in case of an undesired break-up? Scientists say, intense stress caused by bereavement can make someone ‘die of a broken heart’. While it has always been suspected that emotional problems can put the heart under pressure, this was believed to have been caused by ‘primitive’ brain regions, such as the brain stem sending messages to heart tissue. Bereavement has been one such unexplained problem. Researchers say, that in such a situation, the regions of the brain responsible for learning, memory and emotion can destabilize the cardiac muscle of someone who already has heart disease. So, when we are under stress like this, the ‘higher regions’ of the brain take part in a vicious circle of activity which can trigger harmful rhythms in the heart. Doctors say, the activity in ‘higher level’ regions, such as the cortex m...
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Do you know why women are marrying younger men?
2007-09-02 14:40:00
Miss Finder –The Journo, investigates: When a woman marries a man, who’s a few years older than her, we take it as normal. But when it’s the opposite, it becomes a topic of gossips! Let’s see why this inverse relationship is picking up pace in this modern times. Though there’s a lot of debate about this issue, according to psychologists, - as women gain economic equality, they no longer marry for economic protection. Instead they marry purely on the grounds of attraction. Relationship counsellors feel that older women are seeing younger men as someone who they can have fun with and also who doesn’t necessarily want to have children. They want somebody who is young enough not to feel threatened by their career as well. While on the other side, an older woman come across as being lot more mature and confident about herself, which can be very attractive to a younger man. Psychotherapists believe that this has a lot to do with women’s increased position as ...
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Do you know why the sky is blue?
2007-09-01 16:24:00
Prof. Know Why explains: The atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere separate the sun’s white light into its many colors and scatter them throughout the atmosphere. The wavelength of the blue light scatters better than the rest, predominating over other colors in the light spectrum. This makes the sky appear blue to us on a clear day. The scientific name for this phenomenon is ‘Tyndall Effect’, more commonly known as ‘Rayleigh Scattering’. This phenomenon describes the way in which light physically scatters, when it passes through particles in the earths atmosphere that are 1/10th in diameter of the color of light. The light spectrum ranges in wavelength from red to violet and since the wavelength of the blue light passes through the particles with greater ease than the wavelengths of other colors of light, the sky appears blue to the naked eye. The human eye has three types of light receptors, known as cones, located in the retina. The cones are either ...
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Do you know why we fall in love?
2007-08-21 17:05:00
Prof. Know Why answers: When you are young, passion is so strong that it’s almost impossible to stop loving someone! But ever thought why this happens? Well, it’s all in the brain. First comes initial attraction, the spark. Then comes the wild dizzying infatuation of romance – a unique magic between two people who can’t stop thinking about each other. The brain uses its chemical arsenal to focus our attention on one person, forsaking all others - say research scientists. The brain in its first phase of love is much like a brain on drugs, i.e. the cravings and pleasure unleashed are as strong as any drug. And certain regions in the brain are deactivated, such as within the ‘amygdala’, associated with fear. That’s why you can do many insane things, when in love. All these ‘falling for’ episodes are actually the effects of conflicting reactions of the front brain and the middle brain. The front brain is believed to be the logical thinker, with reasoning an...
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Do you know why we see a mirage?
2007-08-07 15:17:00
Prof. Know Why explains: A mirage is an optical illusion that occurs due to atmospheric conditions by which reflected images of distant objects are seen. In other words, it’s a refraction phenomena in which the image of some objects appear displaced from its true position. Mirages form when light rays emitted from a source or reflected off an object are bent, as the path of the light ray crosses air layers of different densities. Common examples of a mirage are the appearance of water some distance down the highway on a hot summer day and seeing a lake in the desert. Oasis or viewing a lake in the desert happens when light passes through two layers of air with different temperatures. The desert sun heats up the sand, which in turn heats up the air just above it. The hot air then bends light rays and reflects the sky. So when you see it from a distance, the different air masses colliding with each other act like a mirror. And the desert ahead seems to have become a ...

Do you know why we see a rainbow?
2007-08-07 15:12:00
Prof. Know Why explains: Witnessing the history, throughout the ages, mankind has always been fascinated by rainbows. And their arched splashes of color have been the subject of numerous songs and poems, stories and mythology. Even, in the Bible, the rainbow is seen as a sign of God's promises. What makes rainbows so mysterious is the simple but often puzzling fact that rainbows are light and they exist only in the eyes of the beholder! To unlock this amazing secret of the nature and explore how water and light work together to produce the magnificent colorful work of art, we have to understand a little bit of physics, because that’s what it is – pure science! You need three factors to work together to see a rainbow. Firstly, the sun must be shining. Secondly, the sun must be behind you, and thirdly, the air in front of you must have water drops in it. When the sunlight enters a water drop, it is refracted, or bent, and reflected out from the drop in such a way tha...
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Do you know why lightning happens?
2007-08-07 15:09:00
Prof. Know Why explains: In one line, lightning is a bright flash of electricity that is produced by a thunderstorm. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of these collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. The positive charges or protons form at the top of the cloud and the negative charges or electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Lightning results from the buildup and discharge of this electrical energy between positively and negatively charged areas. Lightning can occur within the cloud or between the cloud and the ground as well. In the second case, this electrical charge strikes around anything that sticks up, such as mountains, people, or single trees. When a lightning bolt travels from the cloud to the ground it actually opens up a little hole in the air, called a channel. Once the light is gone, th...

Do you know why does it rain?
2007-08-07 15:04:00
Prof. Know Why explains: Let me simplify it first - warm air turns the water from rivers, lakes, and oceans into water vapor that rises into the air. That water vapor forms clouds, which contain small drops of water or ice crystals. When the water vapor in the cloud becomes too heavy, it falls back to the ground as rain or snow. Now let’s get into a detailed explanation. When warm, wet air rises, it cools, and water vapor condenses out to form clouds. As said above, cloud is made up of small drops of water or ice crystals, depending on its height and how cold is the surrounding air. Height and temperature also determine whether any ‘precipitation’ (Latin for 'to fall from') will be rain or the hail associated with thunderstorms, or the snow, or the sleet and freezing rain. To form rain, water vapor needs a ‘condensation nucleus’, which can be tiny particles of dust, or pollen, swept up high into the atmosphere. When the condensing droplets that form the cloud...
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Do you know why trees shed leaves?
2007-08-07 14:58:00
Prof. Know Why explains: Like people, the leaves of trees also age, but do so much more rapidly. Each spring the young leaves develop from buds and then rapidly mature to full size to carry on photosynthesis (the process that provides food needed for the tree to grow and maintain itself). By autumn, the leaves of many hardwood trees reach old age and do not function well. At this time a tree must also prepare for the harsher weather conditions of winter. Signals to the tree indicating it is time to prepare for winter include shorter days, less intense sunlight and cooler temperatures. Prior to the leaves falling, nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus move from the leaf into the adjacent stem to be reused during the next growing season. The following spring a new crop of leaves are produced and the cycle is repeated. To sum up, in early autumn, in response to the shortening days and declining intensity of sunlight, leaves begin the processes leading up to their fall. The vei...
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Do you know why lizards lose their tails?
2007-08-07 14:57:00
Prof. Know Why explains: Lizards can lose their tails, but not all lizards can grow them back, though. Lizards that lose their tails also lose an important source of energy because they store fats at the base of their tails. In lizards, the tail bones have central regions that break away easily when the tail is pulled. The muscles of the tail pull apart and the blood vessels constrict to stop the wounded tail from bleeding. So, if a predator attacks a lizard, the tail is designed such that it separates from the body allowing the lizard to escape while the predator gets the tail. Lizards that lose their tails grow them back but the replacement tail is never as long or as colorful as the original one. Replacement tails grow back in as little as three months or as long as two years. In short, in order to defend it in a threatening situation, the lizard chooses to detach its tail by contracting a special muscle near a weakness in its vertebrae. In lizards, especially big o...
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Do you know why we cry?
2007-08-07 14:56:00
Prof. Know Why explains: Women cry 64 times a year on average, while men just 17, says a recent study. Actors and politicians do it on demand though! But why does crying happen in the first place? When we become upset, our brains and bodies overreact and work overtime, producing chemicals and hormones. Crying helps eliminate t,hese extra chemicals that we don't need, in the form of tears. These tears are formed in tiny glands present in the upper eyelids of our eyes, called lachrymal glands. Scientifically, emotional tears contain high levels of manganese and a chemical called prolactin. As our tears flow, they sooth our sadness or distress by disposing of these chemical agents. That is why generally, we feel calmer or more refreshed after crying, because the tears get rid of these hormones that are produced when we are sad, happy, or distressed. Visit http://why-corner.blogspot.com for pictures, and other content. Click HERE or the WHY CORNER logo on top.

Do you know why people snore?
2007-08-07 14:55:00
Prof. Know Why explains: This is one of the most common problems worldwide. Snoring occurs when the muscles at the back of the throat relax during sleep and narrow the passage through which you breathe. As the air passes through this narrowing, the soft palate and uvula vibrate and produce the sound of snoring. The airway can be further narrowed due to: - Poor muscle tone (after alcohol or sedative use). - Enlarged tonsils and adenoids. - A long soft palate or uvula. - Blocked nasal airways from polyps, a deviated septum, allergies or a cold. - Excessive weight causing tissue at the neck to be bulky and flaccid. - Tissue swelling from cigarette smoking. - Hypothyroidism. However, snoring can be treated medically. Somnoplasty is a new technique to treat snoring painlessly. It involves placing an electrode for a brief moment into the soft palate to locally reduce the quantity of tissue. As it heals over the next few weeks and the soft palate shortens and stiffens, the vib...
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Do you know why camels survive without water?
2007-08-07 14:54:00
Prof. Know Why explains: The humps on a camel's back are actually huge heaps of fat and flesh that can weigh as much as 80 pounds in a healthy camel. These humps help camels survive for weeks without food and water. When water and food become scarce in the deserts where camels roam, the fatty humps serve as stored food and are used for nourishment. As the camel's body metabolizes or uses up the humps' stored fat, the hump becomes smaller and flabbier. So the longer the camel goes without eating, the smaller its hump gets. The size of a camel's hump helps determine a camel's health, food sources, and overall well-being. These humps, or reserves of fat, are the reason why camels can go for days without water and food. While humans are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, camels can go without water for nearly 2 weeks! Visit http://why-corner.blogspot.com for pictures, and other content. Click HERE or the WHY CORNER logo on top.
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Do you know why we have gall-stones?
2007-08-07 14:53:00
Prof. Know Why explains: In medicine, gallstones (choleliths) are crystalline bodies formed within the body by accretion or concretion of normal or abnormal bile components. In easier words, they are small, hard, pathological concretions, composed chiefly of cholesterol, calcium salts, and bile pigments, formed in the gallbladder or in a bile duct. Researchers believe that gallstones may be caused by a combination of factors, including inherited body chemistry, body weight, gallbladder motility (movement), and perhaps diet. Cholesterol gallstones develop when bile contains too much cholesterol and not enough bile salts. Besides a high concentration of cholesterol, two other factors seem to be important in causing gallstones. The first is how often and how well the gallbladder contracts. Incomplete and infrequent emptying of the gallbladder may cause the bile to become over concentrated and contribute to gallstone formation. The second factor is the presence of proteins i...
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Do you know why Bush winked at the Queen?
2007-08-07 14:51:00
Miss Finder ?The Journo, investigates: When you've just made it sound like the Queen is more than 200 years old, there could be only one way of recovering from the gaffe. That?s typically the Bush ?s self-proclaimed way of projecting smartness, after a blundering stupid act. Yes! Turning to her and giving her a sly wink which might not necessarily needed to be included in any book of royal etiquette though. That's exactly what happened on 7th of May, 2007 after George Bush mangled his greeting to the Queen on her state visit to the U.S. Stumbling over his words, he came perilously close to suggesting that the monarch had toured the States in 1776. And although the President's following wink was initially rewarded with a regal glare, the Queen did at least seem to see the funny side of the blunder. Being human, it was only a forgivable slip-of-tongue-issue, though not expected, which could have been rectified with a normal and humble ?sorry?, instead. But may be tha...
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Do you know why onions make us cry?
2007-08-07 14:46:00
Prof. Know Why explains: It is not the strong odor of the onion, but the gas that the onion releases when we peel off this member of the lily family, makes us cry. The onion itself contains oil, which contains sulfur, an irritant to both our noses and to our eyes. Cutting an onion arouses a gas contained within the onion, propanethiol S-oxide, which then couples with the enzymes in the onion to emit a passive sulfur compound. When this upwardly mobile gas encounters the water produced by the tear ducts in our eyelids, it produces sulfuric acid. In response to the caustic acid, our eyes automatically blink due to irritation and produce tears to flush out the sulfuric acid. Moreover, to rid the eyes of this foreign substance, we instinctively rub our eyes with our hands, while into the act, which again exacerbates the situation, as our hands are coated with the caustic, sulfuric acid producing oil from cutting the onion. The only remedy to get rid of this pungent, irri...
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Do you know why we laugh?
2007-08-07 14:45:00
Prof. Know Why explains: The reasons we laugh, including ?contagious? laughter, may be products of evolution. Natural laughter is a two-part, spontaneous, response to humor, that has physiological, psychological, and physical benefits. Most agree that we laugh when we find something to be humorous, though different reasons exist for what we find to be humorous. Additionally, different things are humorous to us at different stages of life. Laugh ter, a physiological response to humor, can be broken down into two parts. The first is a set of gestures, and the second is the production of sound. The brain forces to conduct both responses simultaneously. From a physiological standpoint, a ?sensor? in the brain responds to laughter by triggering other neural circuits in the brain, which, in turn, generate more laughter. Oddly enough, laughter is an orderly response, and almost occurs spontaneously during pauses at the end of phrases, earning it the name the ?punctuation effect...

Do you know why Richard Gere kissed Big Brother Shilpa Shetty?
2007-08-07 14:43:00
Scene 1 -Shilpa surprised! Scene 2 -Shilpa resisting. Scene 3 -Shilpa submitted, mission accomplished. Miss Finder ?The Journo, investigates: The occasion was an AIDS awareness programme in New Delhi, India on 15th of April, 2007. Hollywood star Richard Gere went on to hug his Pretty Woman, Big Brother Shilpa Shetty on stage. It was supposed to be a normal hug, or so was thought by Shilpa! But suddenly Richard held her tight, and then leaned on to kiss on her cheek. Shilpa was quite taken aback, tried to kind of resist somehow, but finally submitted, all with her gracious laugh. Now, what could the reason be, behind this sudden act? Well! It could be that Richard wanted to pass the message that AIDS doesn?t get transmitted like this, or one should be so much affectionate with an AIDS patient. And it might also be for a spicy headline though, in his otherwise not so happening career at the moment! Or could it be that he was eyeing this conservative Asian beau...