Radiation Hormesis: What killed 200,000 people could save your life

Post published:March 7, 2022
Post author:Ilyasjan Husan
Post category:Health Informative

“Hormesis is a term used by toxicologists to refer to a response to an environmental agent characterised by a low dose beneficial effect and a high dose toxic effect.” - Mark P. Mattson, NCBI The definition above will be the basis for…

Koko the Gorilla and her Remarkable Signing Skills

Post published:February 14, 2021
Post author:Ilyasjan Husan
Post category:Environmental General

On the 4th of July, 1971, Koko was born in captivity at San Francisco Zoo. She was a Western Lowland Gorilla, which is ranked as critically endangered according to the IUCN. Francine ‘Penny’ Patterson, an animal psychologist, was studying for her doctorate at…

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

˙ǝsnoɥ ʎɹoʇs-ǝuo ɐ sʇᴉ—ʎuɐ ʇ,uǝɹɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ :ɹǝʍsuɐ

Why do mushrooms get invited to all the parties?

Because they are such fungis.

Snakes can predict earthquakes

Apricity

The warm rays of sun in the winter

“Always look people in the eye, even if they’re blind. Just say “I’m looking you in the eye, but it doesn’t seem to be doing much.”

~Phil Dunphy, Phil’s-osophy