The Body:a Guide For Occupants

Question 1

Cost of a human

Answer 1

Cheapish for the materials…..minus the millions of years of evolution and yearning and striving cumberbatch: 96546 pounds 79 pence PBS says 168 dollars. The American public is much cheaper to make

Question 2

You are made of 7 octillian atoms

Answer 2

No one can say why those 7 billion billion atoms have such an urgent desire to be you

Question 3

You unpacked take up immense space

Answer 3

If you wrapped a human and laid them out cell by cell it would be huge. But that’s not what we are right now. We are densely and intricately packed just right for me to type this right now. Or for me to read this again and again later. To facilitate awareness

Question 4

Alyu element

Answer 4

No 9ne knows what it does. It looks like gibberish but it’s repeated throughout 10% of all genetic material

Question 5

Titan

Answer 5

Muscle elasticity and the largest protein in your body. Its name is 189819 letters long.

Question 6

Lighter eyes and hair

Answer 6

No known evolutionary benefit. Just a tribal marker. Humans decided it was unique or more attractive. Like non functional chicken or dog breeds. Blue and green eyes doesn’t mean you have more blue or green but less other stuff. It is a lack and it is what I have.

Question 7

We all have mites?

Answer 7

All the time?!

Question 8

Most pleasurable place to scratch

Answer 8

Ankle itch

Question 9

Bacterial body swapping

Answer 9

Bacteria can switch DNA with a nearby dead bacterium

Question 10

Fleming and the discovery of penicillin

Answer 10

Happened bc he went on vacation and left out a mess. The bacteria floated in and settled. And it was just that Fleming noticed and didn’t throw it out. Other people made it useful

Question 11

The most effective brains

Answer 11

Quickly completes tasks and then goes into standby mode

Question 12

Limbus

Answer 12

Peripheral

Question 13

How big is the gap

Answer 13

The gap is 1/5 of a second. We are all predicting reality 1/5 of a second in advance.

Question 14

Brocade of broca’s aphasia

Answer 14

Also obsessed with brain size and criminality. Race etc. When he died his brain was measured and was below average

Question 15

Ossicles

Answer 15

Evolution is often make do. These were originally jaw bones and only gradually migrated to positions where they magnified vibrations

Question 16

Chevalier Jackson foreign body collection

Answer 16

A museum collection of things people have choked on

Question 17

Opiorphine

Answer 17

We have a painkiller in our saliva 6 times more powerful than morphine. Just diluted

Question 18

Taste receptors

Answer 18

There are taste receptors in your heart and testicles

Question 19

Resiniferatoxin

Answer 19

Resiniferatoxin, a chemical produced by the cactus-like plant Euphorbia resinifera, is the hottest chemical currently known, 1,000 times hotter even than capsaicin. A pure extract of this stuff scores 16 billion Scoville units. Eating just a gram or two would cause serious internal burns, and possibly death.

Question 20

Msg

Answer 20

Not actually bad

Question 21

Heart

Answer 21

In 1940s heart disease was not on the radar. But Franklin delanore died of it and they started looking into it.

Question 22

Advancements in cardio treatments

Answer 22

Seems pretty fast and loose. Dude shoved a catheter through his arm to his heart and then walked to the radiology depth to prove it. Gibson did a rectal thermometer and feeding tube on himself which helped lead to the procedure to external oxygenated blood circulation that allows the completion of open heart surgery.

Question 23

Bloodtypes

Answer 23

Lanstiner noticed when they bled people and the discarded blood mixed it would sometimes clump and sometimes not. So he indentif8ed a b an 0zero which became o. Before this they tried to transfuse with all kinds of stuff. Milk all animal bloods etc.

Question 24

Why did Nicholas alchameide survive

Answer 24

Study it

Question 25

Epigenetics

Answer 25

How the environment influences gene expression

Question 26

The air we breathe

Answer 26

Everyday we breathe about 20,000 times
Abt 12500 liters of air. Depending on lung size, etc.
7.3 million breaths between birthdays. 550 million over a lifetime. In every breath you exhale 25 sextillion (22 zeros) molecules of oxygen. Within a days breathing you will in all likelihood process at least one molecule from the breaths that’ve also been in every human that’s ever lived. We’re all here breathing each other’s breaths

Question 27

We know about stomach acid because

Answer 27

A man was shot in the gut leaving his stomach intact but exposed. A Dr offered to take care of the guy in his home in exchange for scientific experimentation on the men. But wait there’s more. The experiments were that he would tie foods to strings, have the guy swallow, watch it enter his stomach, leave it for a bit and then pull it out. He identified the main component to digestion in the stomach as acid by tasting the food after retrieval

Question 28

Mental bowel health

Answer 28

Cotton thought that mental health originated in the gut and illnesses were caused by misshapen bowels. And then he killed a bunch of people fuckin around in there

Question 29

Pudendum

Answer 29

External genitals (womens) comes from Latin for to be ashamed

Question 30

Menopause

Answer 30

Humans are the only primate and the only other land mammal are sheep or ewes. And some whales go through it