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    Medical Why Does Joseph R. Ferrari Study Chronic Procrastinators?

    It's hard for me to say if procrastination is completely environmental because I have a friend who has always been a procrastinator and I mean a hardcore one (he waited until roughly an hour before it was due to turn in a collage aplication essay) and the nothing that I know of in his...
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    New Mammal Discovered in Indonesia

    Hope they succeed in capturing it. I'm really interested in what kind of behaviors it has.
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    How does Cyanide block the electron transport system?

    I don't really feel like explaining it right now but this link might be of some use http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/mitochondria/mitopoisons.html
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    Medical Is it possible to think oneself to death?

    Like cotarded I have also had similar dreams. In one I fell off a building roughly about 200ft from the ground and I hit the ground but I didn't die. I think one of the reasons why some people don't die from dieing in dreams is porbably because right before you die in the dream you realize you...
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    Medical Foreign Accent syndrome baffles medical experts

    I would have to agree with Ivan Seeking in that the accent has more to do with certain areas compensating for the damage done hence resulting in an something sounding like an accent. Thats assuming I understand Ivan's statement.
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    Medical Lucid Dreaming: Technique and Difficulty

    This website better explains nighterrors. www.nightterrors.org
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    Medical Lucid Dreaming: Technique and Difficulty

    EVO I believe those dreams that continue when you are awake are known as nightterrors for some people these nightterrors can be horrible expeirences. The reason is usually since when people wake up they assume the dream is over but then they see a vision such as the man you saw and assume its...
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    What is Central Governor Theory and its role in subconscious exercise?

    I'm sure a lot of you have heard of this theory if not oh well. I was wondering if any of you could fully explain or point me to a source that will explain it to me completely. I read about this theory in an Exercise book ,but it only vaguely explained it , I would like to know the full theory...
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    Is Copying Homework Justifiable When Overwhelmed by Schoolwork?

    It seems to me that, having homework as part as your grade is unreasonable because some people can learn with just seeing something once while others need repatition, so I think the grade should be based on knowing concepts through test while using whatever means that are necassary to learn...
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    Nothingness: Examining Existence Beyond the Mind

    existence to me is interaction. Wheather or not you percieve that interaction taking place it still happened in someone elses perception so even if I don't exist as myself someone still perceived me as exsisting even if I didn't acknowlage my own persona so in the end wheather you think you...