Traduce
Meaning: speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so as to damage their reputation.
Author: DB
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Traduce
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Exercise and DNA Methylation Changes
How is this for amazing, that exercise or lack thereof could be the catalyst for many diseases in the children born of those who exercise, or don’t.
From this PubMed article
Aim: DNA methylation programs gene expression and is involved in numerous biological processes. Accumulating evidence supports transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation changes in mammals via germ cells.
Results: Global and genome-wide sperm DNA methylation was altered after 3 months of exercise training. DNA methylation changes occurred in genes related to numerous diseases such as schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.
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Enrol
Enrol is the standard spelling in British English, which breaks the general rule that British words carry with them an extra consonant. In many cases, such as traveling-travelling, canceled-cancelled, totaled-totalled, labeled-labelled, etc., it is the British spelling that contains the two –ll’s.
But, in the case of enrolment, the standard spelling in British English only has one l – enrol and yet in past tense it is – enrolled.
in American English the word has two ll’s – enroll and enrolled.
The origin of the word
The word enroll originated from late Middle English (formerly also as inroll ): from Old French enroller, from en- ‘in’ + rolle ‘a roll’ (names being originally written on a roll of parchment).
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Breast Milk Pump
We were talking about feeding babies, and when the practise of using a pump to express milk originated.
The first patent for a breast pump was filed in 1854 by Orwell Needham in New York. The pump was made of a rubber cup connected to a glass pipe in which there was a hole. A mother would control the vacuum effect with her finger. A flexible tube connected the glass pipe back to a bellows fitted in a box.
The goal was to mimic the sensation of a nursing baby.
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Puppet
Atropos is cutting the threads
Sandie Shaw is a puppet on a string
And still
That still small voice that whispers
You should know that
Seek and ye shall find,
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Gallstones
Gallstones are dried and compacted lumps of bile that form in the gallbladder when bile builds up. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or the size of a golf ball. They do not cause symptoms in most people.