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One small article on ScienceNews (published online yesterday, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009) summarizes all you should know about fat in the light of recent scientific advances.
First. Women and men tend to carry fat in different parts of their bodies: men inside the abdomen near their organs, women in a concentrated layer directly under their skin [...]

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What does it mean to be normal? Most people thought about it. (A sudden quote from J. Krishnamurti: For most of us, thought is a means to change. Through thought we hope to change, through ideas we hope to transform ourselves…)
Among the definitions that can be found in a short article in Wikipedia I like [...]

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Milan Kundera mentioned, by the way, in his “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” that Johannes Scotus Erigena, the great ninth-century theologian … believed … that Adam’s virile member could be made to rise like an arm or a leg, when and as its owner wished. I decided to check this information.
Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815–877) [...]

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