Jennifer Moon 
Immediately after the baby’s birth, babies are expected to cry within 30 seconds to one minute of their lives. This crying is necessary for the baby to survive because while inside the mother’s uterus, the babies do not take breath from their lungs. It is the umbilical cord which provides them with fresh oxygen and takes away carbon dioxide from their blood stream. Once, outside their mothers’ womb, the babies need to breathe on their own.
There are many reasons behind girls love for chocolates. This has got to do a lot with the female hormone cycle in a woman’s body contrary to boy’s almost stable hormonal status throughout the month. Women tend to have increasing and then ebbing level of hormones in each menstrual cycle. Due to this whirlwind rise and fall of hormones cortisol, the stress hormone increases and serotonin the feel good compound begins to ebb.
Most of the times you will find babies drooling and wetting their clothes. Before understanding the reasons which make them drool we need to understand what saliva is and what its function is. Saliva is a natural oral secretion which helps in keeping our mouth wet and aids in digesting food. Saliva also keeps washing teeth and keeps germs and dirt away. In addition, saliva also lubricates the lining of esophagus and keeps the acidity reflux controlled in children. It also contains a healthy substance called epidural growth factor which helps the intestinal lining mature fast.
Hiccups are funny and sometimes in formal settings can be quite embarrassing too. The body part which is responsible for that funny sound is known as diaphragm. Situated right below the lungs, all hiccups start in this dome shaped muscle.
Last year falling of 50,000 birds in Arkansas made headlines everywhere as everyone was afraid as to what caused sudden falling of flying birds and their subsequent death? Surprisingly, the experts believe that there is nothing to afraid of. Falling of a large number of birds simultaneously is a natural phenomenon and there is nothing to worry about it.
Like all living creatures, birds also need an abode to sleep peacefully after a long and stressful day of work. Since birds do not have the luxury of house making laborers and architects they need to make their own nest and hence all the birds make their nests themselves. Different kinds of birds make their nests as per their own needs and the environment in which they live. A mynah’s nest is altogether different from a Humming bird’s nest.
When we eat or drink, we also tend to swallow air. When the food gets digested this air gets pushed out back through esophagus and stomach. This release of gas often comes with a not- so- cool sound called burp. So, in essence burping is a very important function of body wherein it tries to expel the unwanted air (or gases found in the air) from the body. Burping is also known as belching, ructus or eructation.
The first poem of their lives learnt by most Indian children is about fish. The English rendition of the poem would say, “fish is the queen of water bodies, its life is water, if you will touch it, it will be frightened and if you will take it out, it will die.”
When we stay in one position for long time, our arms or feet tend to fall asleep. We begin to feel a tingling sensation and find ourselves unable to move that part of body. Though it is widely believed that our limbs fall asleep when they do not get blood supply owing to the pressure put on them but the fact is that it is not blood circulation but nerves which are responsible for this break.
Bullying is a very common practice in schools, colleges and other academic institutions. We can also find people bullying at work place, in homes and everywhere. The question is why do people bully? What pleasure do they derive in intimidating people?