MetaFilter posts tagged with physiology

Conservatives are scaredy-cats

XMLicious — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:06:31 -0800

The Politics of Fear: Some Political Views May be Related to Physiology video, audio news stories - BBC, Washington Post, NPR with audio Plus, a 2006 lecture on the heritability of political attitudes by John Hibbing, one of the authors of the above study - flash video or MPEG4 download, starts at around 10:00 and runs for about an hour (during the intro btw he quips "I'm a social scientist pretending to be a scientist...")

GetBodySmart.com

ignorantguru — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:56:44 -0800

GetBodySmart.com is a wonderful and remarkably complete resource to learn about the systems that keep our body running, including the skeletal , nervous and even urinary systems. What's more amazing is that it's all created by one man in his spare time and for no gain of his own. Read his mission statement here.

Redesign human body parts?

Rumple — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:36:12 -0800

The pancreas is a completely crummy organ...... so which parts of the human body could you design better? Interesting article and comments.

I smell a rat|dog|cat|mouse

Gyan — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:24:02 -0800

Do You Taste What I Taste? - The first of Slate's 3-part series on the physiology of taste [parts 2, 3]

"Obviously...you need a garage to park the car.”

adamgreenfield — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:06:36 -0800

Respect the cock! Or duck, as the case may be. Avian co-evolution in action, from the New York Times.

yawn

inoculatedcities — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:20:53 -0800

It begins in the paraventricular nucleus. It has been observed in the womb. Muslims believe it's an indication of Satanic possession. Too much of it might be a bad thing. Pandiculation sometimes occurs. In terminal rabies cases and in five percent of Clomipramine users it leads to spontaneous orgasm. Previous wisdom held it was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide in the blood and mirror neurons make it contagious. And yet still nobody knows precisely why it happens.

A&P for future health professionals or interested peeps.

dog food sugar — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:01:44 -0800

Curious about what a college class in Anatomy and Physiology is like? Here's Berkeley's version on Google Video, complete with adorable professor with a great collection of colorful scarfs. via Nurse Sean

Mmm ... lactic acid.

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 17 May 2006 10:40:50 -0800

Researchers discover that lactic acid is more than just a byproduct. According to George A. Brooks, "lactate is the link between oxidative and glycolytic, or anaerobic, metabolism." You can read the abstract of the paper at the American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism.