The Body:a Guide For Occupants Flashcards
Cost of a human
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
You are made of 7 octillian atoms
No one can say why those 7 billion billion atoms have such an urgent desire to be you
You unpacked take up immense space
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
Alyu element
No 9ne knows what it does. It looks like gibberish but it’s repeated throughout 10% of all genetic material
Titan
Muscle elasticity and the largest protein in your body. Its name is 189819 letters long.
Lighter eyes and hair
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.
We all have mites?
All the time?!
Most pleasurable place to scratch
Ankle itch
Bacterial body swapping
Bacteria can switch DNA with a nearby dead bacterium
Fleming and the discovery of penicillin
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
The most effective brains
Quickly completes tasks and then goes into standby mode
Limbus
Peripheral
How big is the gap
The gap is 1/5 of a second. We are all predicting reality 1/5 of a second in advance.
Brocade of broca’s aphasia
Also obsessed with brain size and criminality. Race etc. When he died his brain was measured and was below average
Ossicles
Evolution is often make do. These were originally jaw bones and only gradually migrated to positions where they magnified vibrations
Chevalier Jackson foreign body collection
A museum collection of things people have choked on
Opiorphine
We have a painkiller in our saliva 6 times more powerful than morphine. Just diluted
Taste receptors
There are taste receptors in your heart and testicles
Resiniferatoxin
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.
Msg
Not actually bad
Heart
In 1940s heart disease was not on the radar. But Franklin delanore died of it and they started looking into it.
Advancements in cardio treatments
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.
Bloodtypes
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.
Why did Nicholas alchameide survive
Study it
