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Ivan, that help you give others also makes you feel good about yourself. In that respect, you're doing what makes you happy as well. There's nothing wrong or selfish about that. It just shows your helpful character as a person, and that's a good thing. Helping others should make people feel...

RA, in order to be a meaningful energy source, the energy extracted has to be a significant portion of the energy put into it. It is unlikely that the energy extracted from two grapes in a micro-wave would be comparable to conventional and/or nuclear methods. Unfortunately, the "fuel" here is...

Oh. Sorry; I didn't realize. But it doesn't answer it all, and introduces the LD50 system, so that should also be helpful to research, so I wasn't a complete knucklehead there. I hope, anyway...

Many paralytic venoms used by spiders and other creatures affect the opening and closing of those channels. A paralytic will work either by causing the channels to open wide, causing the signals to continue non-stop, or slam shut, so no signals are sent and the muscles don't contract at all. A...

An interesting wrinkle in this is that Circadian Rhythms make just about everything from birds to us more prone to sleep between the hours of about 2 and 5 in the morning. Arachnologists are quite upset by this, because evolution, therefore, favored spiders that built their webs during those...

Because salt is sodium and chloride (NaCl); both are far more toxic to humans than carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (C6H12O6). Granted, we eat a little salt, and our bodies actually need it. But the toxicologist's credo is "the dose maketh the poison." Any substance, in sufficiently large doses...