分类目录归档：human
There are currently hundreds of thousands of people on transplant lists,
waiting for critical organs like kidneys, hearts, and livers
that could save their lives.
Unfortunately,
there aren’t nearly
A few months ago we posed a challenge to our community.
We asked everyone: given a range of integers from 0 to 100,
guess the whole number closest to 2/3 of the average of all numbers guessed.
So i
You know that little pink thing nestled in the corner of your eye?
It’s actually the remnant of a third eyelid.
Known as the “plica semilunaris,”
it’s much more prominent in birds and a few mammals
The Tibetan high plateau lies about 4500 meters above sea level,
with only 60% of the oxygen found below.
While visitors and recent settlers struggle with altitude sickness,
native Tibetans sprint u
Inside our cells, each of us has a second set of genes
completely separate from the 23 pairs of chromosomes
we inherit from our parents.
And this isn’t just the case for humans—
it’s true of every an
They call you the human cannonball,
but you’re really more of a pinball person.
Your act involves flying through a dozen rings of fire,
bouncing through a trampoline course,
and catching the trapezi
so
i'm 18 years old and i walk into a bank
and
i stand online and i'm nervous my palms
are sweating
and the security guards are looking at
me giving me dirty looks
and i woke up to the teller and i ha
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they live in every major city in
shelters and cheap motels
in their cars and behind dumpsters
they're oftentimes overlooked and feel
hopeless
living in loneliness amongst us me my
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my name is genevieve peturo
but i always wanted to be mary tyler
moore i watched mary
every week she was my idol
she moved to a big city she got a job in
tv
a single independent woman she had a
great
oh
i used to live in a house on the south
side of town
it was a brand new development so 270
degrees of my view was
dump trucks and skid loaders and 2x4
skeletons of future homes
but the remaining 90