Getting to know strangers

If you wanted to know as much as possible about a person, but could only look at one part of there body, what would you look at?

Lungs- you could tell if they were a smoker, if they were an athlete or if they were a coal miner. 

Elbows- Scars and rough skin indicate an active life or a labor intensive profession.

Liver- Damage to this organ may stem from alcoholism or a deficiency/surplus of iron in there diet, probably from being a vegan or a hunter. 

Eyes- A lot of people believe they can tell a lot about a person by looking them square in the eyes.  

Hands- This would be my choice. The lifestyle, diet and attitude of the person can all be deduced by looking at there hands. Strength in the hands would indicate a hard working lifestyle. This would usually be accompanied by calluses. Lack of hand strength may be a sign of a white collar man or a dead beet. If the hands are weak but the nails are cut and the skin is not oily, it is usually a white collar man. Scars on the back of the hands would indicate clumsiness and scars on the front of the hands would indicate motivation. A wedding ring or class ring would also be dead giveaways. 

hungary. want eat.

"I'll have a double cheeseburger with fries and a frosty." "Our frosty machine is broken." "Ok, well than can I just have a milkshake?"

The grinch probably would have died

Having a big heart might be good in fiction, but in real life it's a real problem. Hypertrophy of the heart is  caused by an inflammation of the ventricle walls. Periods of increased aortic pressure requires pressure in the left ventricle of the heart to increase during cardiac contraction so that blood can be forced into the aorta. Just as skeletal muscle swells during sustained physical activity, the cardiac muscle in the left ventricle will becomes swollen to decrease the amount of contraction needed to create the needed pressure. This lessens the cardiac output overall by lessening the volume capacity of the left ventricle and increasing the overall size of the heart.

Brainiac

Not all stem cell research is research on pre-fetal stem cells. Stem cells exist in many places within your body and research on there mechanism give scientists and physiologists great insight into how our bodies function at a cellular level.
Remember your mom saying, you cant make new brain cells? She wasn't entirely correct. Stem cells in the olfactory bulb in the the nasal cavity are the only stem cells in the post-fetal body known to produce neurons. These neurons stretch from the external environment in the nasal cavity through the cribriform plate and connect directly to the central nervous system in the Thalamus. Producing new neurons in this area is essential to maintaining an acute sense of smell because the neurons exposed to the environment become worn and damaged.
Dr. Costanzo and his research team at VCU medical center are investigating the survival characteristics of these stem cells when transplanted into different regions of the brain.
This sort of research on stem cells can dramatically accelerate applications of modern technology in physiological systems and it would be irresponsible not to give it a chance.

I could write about this forever

Richard Dawkins might be able to put up a great argument against the existence of a higher power but it is wildly irresponsible to verbally attack the people of faith and to question there intelligence. After all, he will never know the truth for sure. That's like if I saying, "Nancy Pelosi has a huge wiener. I know this because I can see its outline when she sits down." I will never know why she has a huge bulge in her pants, but I'm not gonna go tell every libertarian that one of there government official is a cross dresser, that would just be reckless. After all, if he's right, that's great, but just think about what happens if hes wrong.
On the other hand, fire and brimstone Christians are not much better. If you don't accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior and go to your community church every Sunday your not going to burn for eternity. A christian serial rapist is going to hell before a Tibetan man lives a moral life and loves his family without ever being exposed to Christianity.
Most Christians are not this way. I myself have been a devout Maronite Catholic from birth, so it makes me angry to see god and the bible be misinterpreted. The bible is not a literal text. Jonah didn't actually get swallowed by a whale. That's just absurd. It was a story told to guide people people in times of fear.
Just because there is a god, does not mean that science is false. Science and religion can go hand in hand. Science is simply the understanding of gods plan. Evolution, for example, is a fact. It is happening every day and if you have every read stories about three legged people, you can see it at work. Mutations are the driving force behind evolution, not all mutations are beneficial, but some allow species to become dominant and as we all know, survival of the fittest takes over from there.
The point I am trying to make is, religion and science can coexist and it is irresponsible for authorities on either side to discourage believers in the latter.

All I wanted was a hamburger

My roommates and I were gonna cook hamburgers on our grill and the ignitor is broken. None of us smoke and the lighter we had used to light the grill before was out of gas. We were on our way to the gas station to pick up a new lighter when i decided it would be  good time to do Ms. Selmans assignment. We were going to try to light the grill without a lighter. We knew we could use the stove to light some paper and bring it to the grill, but we thought that would be cheating. In stead, my roommate Zach found his flint and magnesium he uses for camping. That stuff is a major pain in the ass. It was a little windy outside and every time we got a flame to light some paper the wind would blow it right out. We tried farting on it. If your thinking about trying that let me be the bearer of bad news, it doesn't work so well. Eventually we got a good flame and got the grill lit. I don't know how we would have done it without the flint though, ill sure never take fire for granted again. It took a little longer, but it was an adventure.

Beauty

May. Winter has come to an end.
The leaves are finally green
and world is beautiful, but you aren't so much.

There is much work to be done, but I
guess spraying your little cousin is important too.

What are ya thinkin bro?
Snap out of it. Capisce?!

Hemoglobin

This is not what our principle thinks happened. We even convinced the teacher of the year to go along with our cover up story.
In my senior year of high school I did more goofing off than anything. My favorite class, which was made up of a particularly rowdy group of friends, was one that I will never forget. One day Mr. Lester aka Moe Lester assigned us a project in which we were to construct catapults out of everyday items such as straws, tooth picks and duct tape. Unluckily for him, we were more up to the challenge than he ever could have known. As a group we spent our time designing a device not to shoot ping pong balls, but feathered darts. It was a beautiful peace of work, a blow dart gun made of PVC, a straw, paper, duct tape and a tack. A sharp tack. Once we had confirmed the effectiveness of the blow gun by puncturing water bottles, I told my buddy Zach I would pay him to let me shoot him in the leg. To which he promptly replied, "what does it pay?" Soon we had almost the entire class chipping in to encourage that poor kid to let me shoot a hole in him.
The dart stuck in his leg and we all just stared at it in disbelief. For the room was in hysterical laughter. That is until Zach decided to pull it out. A solid stream of blood shot out of his calve a good foot and a half. I will never forget the look on Rick's face. Rick doesn't like blood. He turned purple and ran to the trash. Zach plugged the hole in his leg with his finger and I, along with the other twenty people in the class, ran to get paper towels to clean up the river of blood on the classroom floor. Totally worth it though, even for Zach who came out of it 30 buck richer. Our only real casualty was Rick, he took one for the team.
To the public, we've all got pretty much the same story when it comes to this event in history. We had to. If we hadn't, I'm pretty sure we would all be still hangin around that school.
Privately however, I'm sure Rick remembers someone punching him in the stomach and shoving there fingers down his throat. It's very possible.