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The Body Blog: A Mother's Touch
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Friday, December 20, 2013. With Christmas just around the corner, ‘tis the season for family gatherings. This provides either a blissful rush of joy or a pang of fear and dread, depending on your family dynamics. The holidays bring us together, whether we like it or not. Family traditions are big around the holidays. I always flash back to the customs my mother instilled: tasteful decorations, plenty of homemade treats, and a mandatory. 8221; The breasts sw...
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The Body Blog: Fire Down Below
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Friday, July 10, 2015. Last week, we took a brief glimpse at the long and convoluted history of prostitution, so I thought it only natural to follow up with an infectious postscript. First, let’s clarify the terminology. You may have noticed that the term STD has lately been supplanted by STI. What differentiates a sexually transmitted disease. From a sexually transmitted infection. But gonorrhea is only one of many. STDs come in three basic varieties.
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The Body Blog: Eruption in Your Mouth...
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Friday, August 30, 2013. Eruption in Your Mouth. Date: Thanksgiving Day, early 1970s. Location: Subic Bay, Philippines. Subject: A budding tomboy, bored with waiting for turkey, heads out to her favorite tree. Event: While doing her best impression of a ring-tailed lemur, she loses her grip and plummets to the ground. Status: Two front teeth, missing in action. The final insult occurred on the racquetball court. I was kicking ass against two fellow fire...
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The Body Blog: Guts and Glory
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Sunday, August 11, 2013. I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with roadkill. I can’t even drive to work in the morning without gazing, mesmerized, at the previous night’s slaughter. Living on the Florida coast provides ample opportunity, for there resides a plethora of potential victims. Raccoons, possums, and armadillos make for regular roadside fodder and their mangled, bloated bodies litter our otherwise scenic highways. Yes, the spleen. Is a lesser...
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The Body Blog: A Syphilitic Sequel
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Friday, February 21, 2014. Last week, we discussed the fascinating history of syphilis. If you didn’t catch it (no pun intended), I advise you to give The Seeds of Syphilis. A quick read (and then flog yourself for missing it). We’ll pick up where we left off:. It’s the dawning of the 16. Century and syphilis is rearing its ugly head across Europe…. By 1500, the “great pox” was spreading like wildfire. The word “syphilis” first appears in a 1530...For a whi...
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The Body Blog: Talking Heads
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Sunday, June 9, 2013. During transport, I stabilized him as best I could - oxygen, cardiac monitor, two large-bore IVs - before concentrating on the open wound. I flushed it with saline and wrapped his head in a bulky bandage as we rushed full-throttle to the trauma center. His prognosis was grim. The surgeon explained to me they would have to remove a significant part of his frontal lobe. As a bioarchaeologist, I’ve examined head injury among people ...
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The Body Blog: Timing is everything...
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Saturday, August 24, 2013. The other morning, I burnt my eggs. I put six jumbos on to boil, anticipating the delight of an egg salad sandwich, but forgot to set the timer before sitting down to write. Forty minutes later, my concentration was broken by a loud popping sound emanating from the kitchen. I rushed to the stove as, one by one, my eggs exploded. As I scraped the pot, I got to thinking about timing. As a firefighter, I experienced the joy of destru...
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The Body Blog: The Unseen
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Sunday, July 21, 2013. Late this afternoon, I found another tick. I’ve been plucking the little bastards off me for the past twenty-four hours, ever since I came in from the field. I write this not from the cozy comfort of my home in Cocoa, but from just outside Tomoka State Park. Is here to investigate the mounds’ histories and to train the next generation of archaeologists. Their first lesson in digging: wear plenty of bug repellent. But at least I can se...
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The Body Blog: Fecal Foes
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Exploring the body through science and culture. Friday, January 24, 2014. Here’s a question: When you flush your toilet, what goes through your mind? Do you ever think about the destination of your deposit? Ever marvel at the human ingenuity that makes your excrement magically disappear? I do, especially when I stay in a large hotel. I think about all those rooms, with all those toilets, filled with all that poo, all flushing into some mystical repository. It boggles my mind. Cesspools were the earliest ...
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