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According to http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9023/24253/348513.html?d=dmtContent "Drug treatment and alternative medicine. Several drugs can cause growing hair to stop its growth cycle and fall out. For example, drugs such as lithium (used to treat manic depression) and...

I agree with Borek. Within the first few days of a human body dieing, for instance, gas begins to form and swell in the abdomen. Something similar probably happens inside the bees...and since gas is less dense than water, enough gas must have formed to carry the bee's body to the top. This would...

According to the page you attached, it is not nearly 100% DV for any of the vitamins listed, but the point is clear that it actually is more nutritious than I gave it credit for. I remember my biology teacher saying otherwise, so thanks for clarifying that. About celery, is it true that...

The part that we actually eat of many plants is not the green, cellulose part, but the fruit part (example: strawberry compared to a leaf). The fruit part is nutritious as it contains vitamins and minerals. The plants, like lettuce, that we actually do eat the green part is not very nutritious...

I realize, Moonbear, that it is not a common trait for all turtles. The fact is that it is limited to only water turtles. Even then, most water-based turtles can take in some amount of air through this means, though for most turtles this is not a significant amount of air at all. Only a few...

I am starting this thread because I have learned that many people know strange random facts. So if you know a random biology related fact, post it here. I'll start: Did you know that turtles can actually breathe through their butts? They can use this when they are head first in water so...

There are some catalysts in the growth of algae as well. For instance, light and heat increase the rate of growth tremendously.

Thanks for starting this post, Wolram! That video fascinated me and I think I'll write my psychology paper on this...synethstesia and/or giftedness/high IQ and/or high memory capabilities.

It sounds to me like a variation within humans. Humans, after all, do adapt to best fit their surroundings and being short and having such distinctive characteristics could be beneficial. I recently read an article of a different group of humans in Greenland (I believe) who were found to look...

You might find it interesting to hear of another such theory. There is a prevalent theory even now that states that one person is connected to everyone else in the world through a chain of six links. That means that every person in the world can be connected to you through six people that you...

IQ can rise and fall very slightly within one's lifetime. Typically the more one uses the brain for finding the solution to difficult problems, the higher the IQ is. (thus, quantity of brain usage has a positive correlation to quality of thoughts and IQ). For instance, a student planning on...

It depends on how far down the line you go. For instance, biology is what creates the brain that is examined in psychology as well as sociology. Likewise, chemistry and physics explain how this brain controls the body through the nervous system, muscular system, et cetera. In this way, natural...

If one had to be gotten rid of, I think it could be history. This is because your argument of history's main benefit is being able to learn from the past mistakes of others...but in literature we learn from the mistakes of others constantly. We are given tons of hypothetical situations in the...

Much of this has to do with one's desire to be "good" at math as well as your definition of "good". If one wants to learn a subject, is willing to put forth the effort and time to learn, and gets something out of it, then I would consider he or she to be "good" at math. Desire has nothing to do...

I agree with Betwixtwists in that much of a person's brain capacity is biological in nature. It is the whole nature v. nurture argument. Though a person can overcome adversity, their bringing up is important in their ability to learn and even their desire to learn. On the other hand, though...