Science of Sex versus Love

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Is it is chance love or cold hard sex?

Science is proving that love, very much like sex, is in fact scientifically measurable:

The human brain looking for a compatible mate is predominately guided by the natural human evolutional cycle and this may remain a never changing constant in our psyche. Humans don't just mate with anyone, the human brain has a lot to do with the distinction of the overpowering passion for lustful sex and the potent emotion of romantic love.

The fact that both sexes of the intelligent human race want sex and love is well known but there is a third underlined notion in human sexuality that keeps it all together and it is usually camouflaged in law or disguised with cultural traditions: marriage (monogamous attachment). The natural urge to reproduce and populate the earth almost has no place in today's overpopulated planet making the quest for a monogamous relationship with a mate more complex and intertwined with social status, health, physical appearance and overall likability.

In the first beginning stages of attraction, it is believed, and often publicly displayed in society, that males are 'visually aroused' and that females are 'personality and character inclined'. Even though modern society has somewhat changed the mating ritual rules with the passing of time, and continues to do so, one thing is certain in the quest to psycho analyze sexual behavior: the basis of attraction still stems from a primitive urge to reproduce. The need to create healthy offspring and all the social conditions people perceive as normal may simply be a cumulative evolution from this innate instinct embedded in the wiring of the human behavioral brain. In psychology experiments with children, beauty (the basis of attraction) was defined with balanced facial symmetry and also body measurements seemed to play a crucial role in defining someone as pretty or handsome. In studies with adult men, the balanced size ratio of a waist and breasts ranked very high in the preferability choice where in studies with adult women a deep voice and broad shoulders were popular factors of finding someone attractive.

The statistical data supports scientific research that the hormonal development of the female body promotes features that males find favorable in their quest to reproduce; women whose oestrogen hormones helped produce pronounced hips and breast also physically have the likelihood of bearing healthy children and the ability to provide ample breast milk to feed them. Men whose testosterone have favored them with a masculine voice and muscular physiques statistically have stronger immune systems that promotes them to their females counterparts as a wise choice for a mate with a promise of a plausible ability to give them healthy strong children.

For this reason the human body is determined by hormones making the human physique, in essence, an upright walking billboard for reproductive sex but it doesn't stop there, scientists conducted several experiments on University student athletes to determine if the smell of a mate also plays a contributing factor. It was determined that on a subconscious level, the human nose can detect compatible genes and even body symmetry simply by the scent of another which may explain the mysterious physical attraction to someone. The research shows that as the nose is trying to decipher the airborne molecules exuding from sweaty armpit glands (pheromones) the deciphering brain sparks its own coded signals to attract the sought out partner thus making an innate histocompatibility connection (a distinct realization of having the same or similar sets of genes) whereas the human brain plays an integral role in the evolutionary quest for the perfect mate.

So this may explain the sexual attraction of a mate but what holds the relationship together, can science explain love?

As the logical brain settles its neurotransmitters produced in sexual arousal and orgasm between two lovers, it is believed that a need for a bond is also triggered like a secondary evolutionary sense that ensures more of the same pleasurable experience. Theories vary that it is manifested in the need to cuddle after love making or when offspring are born the need to help raise them creating an unbreakable family bond based on fondness. This emotion acts like a reward and stimulates the same part of the brain chemistry in needing or wanting something similar to an appetite, hunger or addiction.

The romantic love chemicals that overwhelm the human brain and even trigger the human physiology all seem to serve the purpose of the continuation of the human species. These chemicals may even alter accordingly to encourage lust to turn into sex and evolve into love.

In conclusion, the human reproduction process may be very intoxicating. The next time you are out for drinks looking for the perfect mate, even though the alcohol may be to blame for releasing the natural sexual urges you are feeling and for increasing your social confidence.. remember that ultimately it is the 'hormonal cocktail' in the human brain that will determine the one you fall in love with.

Intensive exercise may be bad for your lungs

Respiratory pandemics set off several new trends..
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'It is believed that in the winter there is nothing like sports and exercise to improve your health and breathing.. yet this advice may be wrong as it is recently being proven that intensive exercise may be bad for your lungs; many top Oylympic athletes' health statistics are showing there is no longer any doubt that an alarming proportion of athletes with rigorous cold-air training end up having problems with their breathing' (Science Daily)

With the winter Olympics in Vancouver Canada merging with many countries worldwide the potential for a problem is already becoming a concern as the pandemic H1N1 influenza surges with the onset of a cold winter, the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union appear particularly vulnerable to a new black lung virus surfacing in the Ukraine, according to their government statistics, 1.5 million of its 46 million people have had diagnoses of the new flu and related respiratory sicknesses since the start of the outbreak. In scientific studies conducted by the Olympic Committee of Colorado (USA) were able to show that over a quarter of the athletes on the American team suffered from spasmodic contractions of the bronchi (bronchospasms) and these respiratory problems appeared more among cross-country skiers.

Physical activity is more likely to cause asthmatic type illnesses in winter because air temperature plays a crucial role. Cold air is also saturated with vapor therefore major water and heat loss occurs through the heavier breathing required by the athlete's activity. In a temperate environment of 27° Celsius the air breathed by an athlete undergoing intensive training is gently warmed as it enters the airways but when ice-cold air is breathed in the air inhaled (due to increased concentration of ionic components in the fluids of the airway mucosa) a mediator release occurs from certain cells in the respiratory tract resulting in airway inflammation.

Sporting a designer face mask in public that covers the nose and mouth may be one possible measure that may also become a new feature in our modern society. Surgical quality masks are designed to protect against airborne contaminants where hand washing only deters from germs from surfaces that were touched. In the case of cold air hindering breathing, a health mask can be altered accordingly whereas air exhaled at a temperature of 37°C enters a hollow metal grid where it can be momentarily encapsulated which will then help raise the temperature of the air breathed in thereby relieving the possible damage from the cold air and coinciding vulnerability from foreign contagious agents.

Other solutions may include anti-viral vaccinations supplemented with an inclusive anti-inflammatory prophylactic drug treatment (steroid-based remedies often given to asthmatics) whereas the steroid may effectively block the bronchial constriction and the vaccine may prevent the onset of severe respiratory flu symptoms.

Virologists investigating transmission say beware of cross-country skiing, the cold dry weather conditions pull moisture out of droplets released by coughs and sneezes which allows the virus to linger in the air making viral contamination worse in the winter. The lung experts warn against undertaking winter endurance training as nasal passages dry out making transmission more likely vulnerable and subject to viral related respiratory infections triggered by the H1N1 swine flu virus or lung respiratory type of illnesses like the one that is starting to recently surface in Europe.

Atom Supernova

The name atom comes from the Greek (ἄτομος) which means something that is undivided. Photography by Tomitheos©
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Although the name means 'one of' or something that cannot be divided further, very recently in the modern 20th century age with the principles of Quantum Mechanics physicists and scientists discovered the subatomic components / structure inside the atom and from this demonstrated that the atom was in fact divisible!

The atom is surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons and is fundamentally a basic unit of matter consisting of a dense, central nucleus . Bound with electromagnetic force to the nucleus are the electrons of an atom, forming together what is called a molecule. If an atom contains an equal number of protons and electrons it is electrically neutral, otherwise it is an ion that has either a positive or negative charge depending on the balance.


ART GRAPHICS ABOVE
My attempt to mimic the popnetic art graphics to resemble a degenerating dwarf star (that is very densely composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter with mass comparable to the Sun and its volume comparable to that of the Earth) expanding to a red giant, resonating thermal energy luminosity while approaching its mass transfer limit and going supernova via a process known as carbon detonation as its shedding its outer nebula energy layers from its collapsing hydrogen infused core.

Eucalyptus Martini - Alternative Medicine

Eucalyptus tea made from the leaves' oil is a powerful cough medicine and used as preventive medicine.
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Did you know of the Eucalyptus Martini?

The Eucalyptus Martini cocktail is the creation of Humberto Marques, mixologist at Oloroso is Edinburgh, Scotland. Using eucalyptus syrup from the flower herb oil makes the drink refreshing in its sweetness.

Tomitheos' Floating Flower Purple Petals Drink:
Using my own Herbs and Spices in the Cocktail Mixology, I've created my own concoction with a unique recipe using Tanqueray Gin (believed to be the purest alcohol) and by adding the following ingredients:

in every 75 ml Tanqueray Gin add..
30 ml homemade eucalyptus syrup
15 ml lime juice
Cinnamon Stick
and Crushed Ice

Preparation:
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with the crushed ice.
Shake well.
Double strain into a large martini glass.
Garnish with cinnamon stick and floating eucalyptus flower or leaf.