Articles for Human Body

Being ‘trans’ is being human
3 months, 1 week ago

Being ‘trans’ is being human

The Hindu  

Last year, at a closed door tribunal, I met several very young transpersons from rural and urban working class communities. It was a Nazi member of the International Olympic Committee who proposed a policy that “ladies taking part in the Games 1940 shall produce doctors’ certificates stating that they are women” — ironically, such a policy came into effect in …

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Microplastics finally found in human brains, but that’s not the full picture
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Microplastics finally found in human brains, but that’s not the full picture

The Hindu  

Plastic is in our clothes, cars, mobile phones, water bottles and food containers. A study from the United States has, for the first time, found microplastics in human brains. Some laboratory experiments suggest microplastics increase brain inflammation and cell damage, alter gene expression and change brain structure. Aside from the effects of the microplastic particles themselves, microplastics might also pose …

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How does heat kill? Know deadly consequences of rising temperatures and humidity on human body
6 months ago

How does heat kill? Know deadly consequences of rising temperatures and humidity on human body

Hindustan Times  

As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. That's only 7 degrees away from catastrophe in the form of heatstroke, said Ollie Jay, a professor of heat and health at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he runs the thermoergonomics laboratory. When inner body …

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How Much Heat Can Human Body Take? What Happens When The Core Temperature Rises?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

How Much Heat Can Human Body Take? What Happens When The Core Temperature Rises?

News 18  

Delhi, and several other parts of North India, are reeling under severe heatwave since mid-May. Experts mention humidity and the ‘wet bulb’ temperature to understand how much heat a human body can sustain. According to a Delhi-based think tank, Centre for Science Environment, the body works best within a narrow range of body temperature – 36 degree Celsius to 37.5 …

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Heat ledgers: What happens to the body, exactly, in extreme heat?
7 months ago

Heat ledgers: What happens to the body, exactly, in extreme heat?

Hindustan Times  

The human body can take a fair amount of cold. “As ambient temperatures rise around the world, high humidity levels will have a negative impact, especially in the coastal zones, of which India has many.” *** What will mitigation look like, for the human body and a climate it has not evolved for? Franco-Swiss adaptation researcher Christian Clot is conducting …

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What is the snake venom drug that Elvish Yadav is accused of supplying? know about its effects on human body
1 year, 1 month ago

What is the snake venom drug that Elvish Yadav is accused of supplying? know about its effects on human body

India TV News  

Since Friday morning, Elvish Yadav, the winner of Bigg Boss OTT, has been in the headlines after UP Police registered an FIR against YouTubers for supplying snake venom at rave parties. Snake Venom Drug These days, many types of drugs are used in rave parties for intoxication. It was also reported in the journal that most people consume snake venom …

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Two men consumed dead woman's body after rain stopped cremation, NHRC hears
1 year, 5 months ago

Two men consumed dead woman's body after rain stopped cremation, NHRC hears

Firstpost  

Sundar Mohan Singh, aged 58, and Narendra Singh, aged 25, both residents of Dantuni village, have been accused of committing this macabre act upon the lifeless body of Madhusmita Singh The National Human Rights Commission recently heard that two men were found consuming human flesh from a dead body of woman during a cremation in Bhubaneshwar’s Mayurbhanj district on July …

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Inside the 'oddities' community which has a LEGAL body parts trade
1 year, 5 months ago

Inside the 'oddities' community which has a LEGAL body parts trade

Daily Mail  

Members of the 'oddities' community that legally trades in human body parts have launched a staunch defense after an eight person was arrested for buying human remains stolen from the Harvard University morgue. Members of the 'oddities' community that legally trades in human body parts have launched a staunch defense after an eight person was arrested for buying human remains …

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The unorthodox quest to find Kristin Smart’s body, the last piece of an enduring mystery
1 year, 5 months ago

The unorthodox quest to find Kristin Smart’s body, the last piece of an enduring mystery

LA Times  

Paul Flores was convicted last year of murdering Kristin Smart, who disappeared in 1996. It’s been 27 years since Kristin Smart disappeared following an off-campus party after being “hunted” for months by another Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student. But attorney Harold Mesick, who secured a not-guilty verdict in Ruben Flores’ accessory charges, said the idea that a body could …

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Will we ever...hibernate in space?
1 year, 7 months ago

Will we ever...hibernate in space?

BBC  

Will we ever.hibernate in space? However, it Bears are also a good model for human hibernation Entering a torpor-like state "If you stayed in bed for several months you would lose a great deal of muscle tissue over that time," says Jüergen Bereiter-Hahn, a professor in neuroscience and cell biology at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. SpaceWorks Enterprises, an aerospace …

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Why don't humans have fur?
1 year, 9 months ago

Why don't humans have fur?

BBC  

Why don't humans have fur? David Trood/Getty Images Humans began to wear fur clothing as protection against the cold – but scientists still don't know exactly when this happened Evidence for this theory also comes from studies that have found switches for some genes responsible for determining whether certain cells develop into sweat glands or hair follicles. Kypros/Getty Images The …

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How researchers are trying to harness the electricity in the human body
1 year, 9 months ago

How researchers are trying to harness the electricity in the human body

NPR  

How researchers are trying to harness the electricity in the human body Writer Sally Adee says scientists are looking into ways to manipulate the body's natural electrical fields to try and treat wounds, depression, paralysis, and cancer. Like, I could just very easily tell who is the first, you know, sort of attacker that I need to pick off and …

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How human body can predict mealtimes: Study
1 year, 10 months ago

How human body can predict mealtimes: Study

Hindustan Times  

According to a recent study from the University of Surrey, the human body can forecast the timing of frequent meals. For six days, 12 participants consumed small meals hourly throughout the waking period, with the remaining participants consuming two large daily meals. Analysing results of the first six days of the study, researchers found the glucose concentration of participants in …

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Kerala ‘human sacrifice’, a ‘brain eater’ and other horrors of ‘cannibalism’ in India
2 years, 2 months ago

Kerala ‘human sacrifice’, a ‘brain eater’ and other horrors of ‘cannibalism’ in India

Firstpost  

The couple who murdered two women in Kerala as part of ‘human sacrifice’ also turned cannibals, police suspect. The shocking case brings to mind the Nithari serial killings and the criminal Raja Kolander from UP who cooked his victims As the Kerala “human sacrifice” case unravels, chilling details of suspected cannibalism – eating of human flesh by humans – have …

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MIT researchers make stamp-size stickers that can scan the human body
2 years, 4 months ago

MIT researchers make stamp-size stickers that can scan the human body

The Hindu  

MIT researchers have developed small stickers that can capture images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs using ultrasound technology. “We believe we’ve opened a new era of wearable imaging: With a few patches on your body, you could see your internal organs,” Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, said in a statement. The researchers applied the stickers …

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Albania asks human rights body to cancel stolen organ claims
2 years, 5 months ago

Albania asks human rights body to cancel stolen organ claims

Associated Press  

TIRANA, Albania — The Albanian Parliament has asked Europe’s top human rights body to rescind a 2011 resolution that cited since-unsubstantiated allegations of human organ harvesting during the 1990s war in Kosovo. In 2011, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly passed a resolution calling for a European Union mission in Kosovo to investigate “war crimes and organ trafficking” in Kosovo …

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OPINION: Human Body is an Extension of Planet; Man Needs to Sustain Earth to Heal Himself
2 years, 6 months ago

OPINION: Human Body is an Extension of Planet; Man Needs to Sustain Earth to Heal Himself

News 18  

Have you ever wondered that we humans are an extension of the Planet? Nothing can better explain the relationship of the planet with the human being than the oft-quoted ancient Indian aphorism which says, “Yatha Pinde Tatha Brahmande, Yatha Brahmande Tatha Pinde”, which means the outside exists what is exactly inside us and vice versa. Human body is a mini …

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The heat is on: savage signs of climate change speeding up
2 years, 7 months ago

The heat is on: savage signs of climate change speeding up

The Hindu  

The Indian Meteorological Department, established in 1875, began by tracking temperature, moisture and rain. The IMD factors long term data between 1981-2010 for normal temperature per day and predicts heatwave conditions accordingly, and issues warnings if the temperature is expected to cross 40 degree Celsius in the plains, or 30 degree Celsius in hilly areas. Although most of the impact …

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Review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’
2 years, 7 months ago

Review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’

LA Times  

Early on in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” a speculative horror-comedy as wildly deranged as it is beautifully controlled, we witness a live demonstration that functions as an art show, a medical procedure and a very public seduction. Bearing no narrative relation to Cronenberg’s 1970 independent feature of the same title, this “Crimes of the Future” is a feverishly …

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Woman Lived With Mom's Corpse for 10 Days. Such Cases 'Common' But Why? News18 Explains 'Weird Ties With Dead'
2 years, 7 months ago

Woman Lived With Mom's Corpse for 10 Days. Such Cases 'Common' But Why? News18 Explains 'Weird Ties With Dead'

News 18  

A woman was found living with her mother’s corpse for almost ten days in Indira Nagar in Lucknow, according to reports. Another recent case made headlines when a Thailand man ‘bid adieu’ to his dead wife’s body by cremating her. The report by Julie Beck further elucidates that ‘if caring for the deceased is one of the most fundamental aspects …

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UN suspends Russia from human rights body: How your country voted
2 years, 8 months ago

UN suspends Russia from human rights body: How your country voted

Al Jazeera  

US- The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. A United States-initiated resolution that expressed “grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine” on Thursday received 93 votes in favour and 24 against, with 58 member states abstaining from the process. “Bucha and dozens of other Ukrainian cities …

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U.S. researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body
2 years, 11 months ago

U.S. researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body

LA Times  

In this photo provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, surgeons prepare to transplant kidneys from a genetically modified pig into the body of a deceased recipient in September 2021. “The organ shortage is, in fact, an unmitigated crisis and we’ve never had a real solution to it,” said Dr. Jayme Locke of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, …

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Body composting a 'green' alternative to burial and cremation
3 years, 2 months ago

Body composting a 'green' alternative to burial and cremation

ABC  

In a suburban warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business in Denver, Colorado, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. Key points: Body composting reduces human remains through a natural organic process over months Colorado has become the second US state after Washington to allow human body composting Young people motivated by sustainability are …

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UN creates permanent body to address challenges of racism
3 years, 4 months ago

UN creates permanent body to address challenges of racism

India TV News  

The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Monday establishing a Permanent Forum of People of African Descent to provide expert advice on addressing the challenges of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. The assembly called the global fight against racism “a matter of priority for the international community.” The Permanent Forum of People of African Descent was given a series …

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