The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...
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The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...
Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Questions and answers; Science -- Miscellanea; Technology -- Miscellanea
The trouble with man in this connection is that his natural motion is
climbing. He has been a climber ever since he was developed from the
monkey, and when you throw him into the water before he has learned to
swim, he naturally starts to climb and as a climbing motion won’t do,
for swimming, the man will drown.
This climbing motion is as much of an instinct in man and monkeys as
the instinct in dogs which causes him to turn round once or twice
before he lies down just as his forefathers used to do ages ago when,
as wild dogs, they first had to trample the grass before they could lie
down comfortably.
Why Do I Get Cold in a Warm Room?
I suppose you mean the instances when you get cold while in a warm room
even when you are perfectly well. This will happen often when all of
the moisture in the room outside of what is in your body, is evaporated
by the heat in the room. The remedy is, of course, to keep a pan of
water some place in the room as the air has become too dry.
While heat is necessary to evaporate water, the process of evaporation
produces cold. The quicker the evaporation the sharper the cold feeling
produced. Now your body is continually evaporating the water from your
body which comes out in the form of perspiration through the pores of
the skin. This is one of nature’s ways of taking the impurities and
waste out of the body. You know, of course, don’t you, that more than
one-half the waste material which the body expels from the system comes
out through the pores of the skin rather than through the canals.
When the air in the room becomes too dry, the evaporation on the
outside of the body proceeds faster and makes you cold. By keeping
water in some vessel in the room you keep the air of the room from
becoming too dry.
Why Do They Call Them Wisdom Teeth?
The wisdom teeth are the two last molar teeth to grow. They come one
on each side of the jaw and arrive somewhere between the ages of
twenty and twenty-five years. The name is given them because it is
supposed that when a person has developed physically and mentally to
the point where he has secured these last two teeth he has also arrived
at the age of discretion. It does not necessarily mean that one who
has cut his wisdom teeth is wise, but that having lived long enough
to grow these, which complete the full set of teeth, the person has
passed sufficient actual years that, if he has done what he should to
fit himself for life, he should have come by that time at the age of
discretion or wisdom. As a matter of fact these teeth grow at about the
same age in people whether they are wise or not.
What Makes Freckles Come?
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