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Thongs (flip-flops) are bad for your feet

Thongs or 'flip-flops', as they are called elsewhere in places such as the US and UK, are an Aussie favourite and an important part of the summer beach wear culture


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Category: Health, Physiology

Thongs (flip-flops) are bad for your feet


Chilli Activates Same Pain Receptor as Spider Bites

Chilli Activates Same Pain Receptor as Spider Bites New research has found that molecules in ‘hot peppers’ (i.e. chilli) and in a certain spider’s venom target the same receptor on


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Category: Physiology

Chilli Activates Same Pain Receptor as Spider Bites


Elephants Can Recognise Themselves in a Mirror

Elephants Can Recognise Themselves in a Mirror According To the book I am reading, Robert Winston’s The Human Mind, babies develop the sense of self-awareness between 18 months and 2


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Category: Physiology

Sneezing When You Look At the Sun - Photic Sneeze Reflex

Sneezing When You Look At the Sun - Photic Sneeze Reflex Many stimuli can trigger a sneeze, such as colds, allergies, cold air, humidity, irritants such as pepper, eating too


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Category: Physiology

Joint Position Sense - Proprioception

Joint Position Sense, or proprioception (“one’s own perception”), is a 6th sense we all have that indicates the position of a part of the body relative to another part. Our


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Category: Physiology

Mummy, Why Do I Have Hair Down There?

Mummy, Why Do I Have Hair Down There? The bodily inquisitive of our readers may have once wondered, ‘Ok, I get that I have hair on my head, but what


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Category: Physiology

Referred Pain

Referred Pain Referred pain is a painful sensation that is felt in an area of the body that is not actually the source of the pain. Usually, this referred pain


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Category: Physiology

The Skeletal Muscle Pump

The skeletal-muscle pump is the pumping effect of skeletal muscle on veins to increase blood flow. During exercise, muscles squeeze veins, effectively pumping blood back to the heart. This is


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Category: Physiology

Bone Marrow

Bone Marrow Marrow is a soft tissue of the medullary cavities (medullar = the centre of an organ) of the bone. There are two types of marrow. Yellow marrow consists


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Category: Physiology

Reflexes

A reflex is an involuntary reaction in response to a stimulus applied to the periphery (e.g. arms, legs, etc) and transmitted to the Central Nervous System (CNS). The purpose of


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Category: Physiology

The Layers of the Heart and Heart Attacks

There are three layers of tissue in the heart; the epicardium, the endocardium, and the myocardium. The epicardium is also called the visceral pericardium and is a thin membrane forming


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Category: Physiology

The ABO Blood Group System

The ABO Blood Group System The ABO blood group system is used to categorise human blood. ABO antigens (which can be attacked by disease-fighting antibodies) appear on the surface of


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Category: Physiology

The Vertebral Column - The Spine

Body Part of the Day – The Spine The vertebral column, otherwise known as the spine or backbone, is the central axis for the skeleton of vertebrates (organisms with backbones


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Category: Physiology

The Teeth

Body Part of the Day – The Teeth There are 32 teeth in the adult mouth, located in the mandible (lower jawbone) and maxillae (bones of upper jaw). Starting from


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Category: Physiology

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