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October 5,2014 Have you ever wondered when you get a #|hair cut way it doesn't hurt, but when you cut your knee it hurts like crazy? you don't feel any pain when your hair gets cut because hair does not have any nerves so it doesn't hurt. Nerves send waves to the brain when it senses something that hurts. Like temperatures, pain, and textures. If you pull your hair it will hurt because the roots of your hair have nerves and will hurt and may cause a headache.

October 13, 2014 Do you know way you get a brain freeze? All of your major sensory organs that deal with the brain are all crammed up with more than one organ within a #|centimeter. They all led into the brain. That can cause "wires" to cross. When one organ is triggered it can accidentally trigger another organ because they are so #|close together. For example when your eyes see bright light it can make you sneeze. Brain freezes happen when you take in a lot of something very cold very quickly. When that frozen substance hits the back of your mouth or called the internal #|carotid artery and the anteriorcerebral artery, which is a place you don't want to shock. It is where two of your two most important blood suppliers are. When they get to cold they restrict and they try to warm up the blood cells so they expand really quickly. Which triggers pain respecters to cause pain of course. With the "wires" being crossed you can feel the pain in your forehead or in the roof of your mouth. To help if you get a brain freeze in the roof of your mouth stick your thumb or tounge on the roof of your mouth to stop the pain.

October 18 2014 Have you heard of a pumpkin or a jack-o-lantern? A pumpkin is a cousin of the squash plant, most commonly of Cucurbita pepo, The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp. The outside of a pumpkin is round and sooth. It is also slightly ribbed on the outside with deep yellow to orange coloration. Carving pumpkins came from Ireland, but pumpkins didn't yet exist. People in Ireland carved turnips on what they called All Hallow's. They place an ember in them, to ward off evil spirits. We use jack-o-lanterns mainly for decorating and we use pumpkins.White pumpkins are color variations of the traditional orange varieties. They are a color variation of the traditional orange pumpkin. Like all pumpkins, they contain edible seeds and pulp that is high in beta carotene, #|vitamin C.  What did a Jack-o-lantern say to the pumpkin? A: Cut it out! Q:Why do Jack-o-lanterns sit outside a house? A: They have no hands to knock on the front door!

October 25 2014

The history of wind chimes finds its origins in prehistoric times. Chinese would use them for hanging objects from a branch and watching them sway is an ancient pleasure. Early wind chimes may have been as simple as hanging seashells or stones that clashed together. Feng Shui is the Asian art of object placement that was designed to enhance positive energy in a home or garden. Wind chimes were part of that belief. In this case the bells and wind chimes were used to summon nature spirits as well as disperse negative energy from a premises The Japanize would use metals,wood, or iron to make the wind chimes. While the Chinese wood only use wood. This was around 1000 B.C.Asia from Bali to Tibet to Malaysia also used bamboo, Wind chimes did not become a decorative art for inside the home until the nineteenth and twentieth century. In these modern times you can find wind chimes made of almost every type of material including plastic, copper, iron and recycled silverware.