Scientific controversy isn’t featured that often that in the New Yorker, but in 2012 an article titled “Kin and Kind” describing a tempest over a biological theory appeared in its pages. The controversy was started by an article in the Aug. 26, 2010 issue of Nature. Written by Harvard mathematicians Martin A. Nowak and Corina…
Author: Ian Nicholson
Best Ways to Use Music to Treat Insomnia
Sleep is an all too vital part of a healthy lifestyle. One 2013 study looked at the relationship between sleep duration and health in Korean adults1. The results showed that poor sleep of 5 hours or less per day and long sleep duration of 9 hours or more per day was associated with poor self-rated…
Complete Beginners Guide to High Intensity Interval Training Workouts
There are many different approaches to fitness, weight loss, and exercise. As science progresses and more research studies are conducted, new strategies surface. One such strategy is called High Intensity Interval Training (or “HIIT”). It’s a type of training that was actually pioneered by different people at different times. The training that you see today…
Deprivation, Autism And Disability Shine A Light On Development
We are born with basic visual biases, which make us look at faces, as if by reflex (nature). By regularly looking at a parent who talks, smiles, and looks back affectionately at us, we come to understand more about each of these things (nurture). Through this combination of brain-wiring and early experiences, we are set…
What are Sinus Headaches
Sinus headaches will accompany sinusitis, or sinus infection. Sinusitis is a medical condition in which your sinus membranes become swollen and inflamed. The signs and symptoms of a sinus headache are pain and pressure or fullness experienced in your cheeks, brow or forehead. The pain may worsen if you bend forward or lie down. You…
Sleep Groaning
Sleep groaning is a rare sleep disorder that involves a person groaning loudly while sleeping. The person groaning is usually not aware of the groaning and may or may not awaken as a result of the groaning noises. This sleep disorder falls into a different category than talking while asleep does, because the groaning does…
What Is Apoptosis?
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes and death. These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, chromosomal DNA fragmentation, and global mRNA decay. The average adult human loses between 50 and 70 billion cells each day due to apoptosis.…
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (also sometimes spelled sleep apnoea) takes place when a persons breathing stops as they sleep. It is defined as “a common sleep disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep.“ These interruptions of sleep are apneas, and they generally take place over a period of ten seconds or more and can…
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Self-image is one of the ways in which one will often times look at them from a different type of reality. Your perceived image often causes a reaction from an individual. If this is brought to an extreme, it causes body dysmorphic disorder. This causes one to believe that they must continue to work on…