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Does crying actually contribute to emotional regulation?

Does crying actually contribute to emotional regulation?


Does crying actually contribute to emotional regulation?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 08:33 AM PDT

I see such conflicting answers on this. I know that we cry in response to extreme emotions, but I can't actually find a source that I know is reputable that says that crying helps to stabilize emotions. Personal experience would suggest the opposite, and it seems very 'four humors theory' to say that a process that dehydrates you somehow also makes you feel better, but personal experience isn't the same as data, and I'm not a biology or psychology person.

So... what does emotion-triggered crying actually do?

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If one intentionally ignores the urge to urinate, why do the bladder muscle weaken, but other muscles (eg heart) get stronger when actively engaged?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 08:33 AM PDT

I hope that makes sense. I hear that it's bad to hold in your urine, it weakens your bladder muscles. If resisting the urge to pee is done by voluntary muscle engagement, isn't this the opposite to other muscles that strengthen with use?

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How does "hairball control" cat food prevent my cats from developing hairballs, or does it? And since I assume the food has been specially processed, does it raise any health risks for the cats?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 05:22 PM PDT

What makes a colour "neon"?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 06:58 AM PDT

Is there a special ingredient in neon yellow or neon orange dyes or colours that makes them particularly glowing?

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Why does cannibalism cause prions but eating other animals’ meat does not?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 07:09 AM PDT

I keep seeing that cannibalism cause prions like during the mad cow disease epidemic and the jack kreuz something disease that killed a lot of tribesmen in the mid 19th century. However, i havent seen any explanation as to why cannibalism spreads prions but eating other species' meat does not.

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Bill Bryson in The Short History in Nearly Everything wrote, “The period immediately after the dinosaur extinction could well be known as the Age of Turtles.” What is it about turtles that made them so much more advanced and deadly than other animals at the time, and have they evolved since?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 02:47 PM PDT

What is the significance of Carbonate acid testing?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 01:50 PM PDT

I am a pre-service teacher trying to create a lesson around identifying rocks that have carbonates in them. I don't remember this concept entirely to be honest. What would a geologist infer from using an acid test on a rock? I think it's interesting that there is a correlation between limestone and fossilized remains. BUT, I have a feeling that the acid test reaction is not wholly indicative of the rock having former life in it. I think fossils is a fun and interesting hook that could get the students interested about this topic; but I want some more information. Any insight would be appreciated!

edit: also, would soapstone fizz in an acid test. I do not have limestone, so I am also wondering if soapstone would work?

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Can we measure the size or shape of the proton or any other particle with a particle accelerator?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 08:25 AM PDT

Most soaps advertise as being able to get rid of 99.9% of germs. Do our bodies do the same when dealing with viruses/bacteria, or do we eliminate them completely?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 04:51 AM PDT

Does the same x/y chromosome determine male or female in animals as it does in humans or does it work differently because they have different chromosomes?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 01:34 PM PDT

Like the title says. I know in humans if your last chromosome is xx your female and xy if you are male. Does it work the same in animals or maybe just mammals? Or does it work entirely different depending on the species?

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If you heat up a rubber band it has more elastic force?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 08:22 AM PDT

Context: I have done an experiment in which I use a rubber band in a lego catapult to throw projectiles. I've done multiple launches heating up the rubber band to see how it affects the time that the projectile is on the air. I have come to the conclusion that the more that you heat up the rubber band the less time the object is in the air. I have investigated online and I haven't found anything

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Why dont we have two tricuspid valves? Or two bicuspid ones? Why are the two atrioventricular valves different?

Posted: 20 Mar 2022 08:16 AM PDT

Does trying to keep someone awake help survival rates from severe injuries?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 07:43 PM PDT

So there's sort of a classic trope of TV characters yelling "stay with me" or "don't fall asleep" to people who are severely injured.

  1. Is there any reason to think its important to keep people awake to ward off dying. Ex, someone is bleeding heavily

  2. I mean only first order reasons. Obviously someone who is awake may be able to help with first aid, or give doctors medical history etc.

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What is the most acidic biome on earth and what things live there?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 03:59 PM PDT

I was thinking about what a carnivorous forest would be like, and starting thinking of it as a biome where the trees all secrete digestive fluids in a swamp-like setting, and began wondering what sort of animals would live there.

So far from my amateur imagination, it seems like vines, fungi, tree-dwelling animals (monkeys, snakes, bats, birds). Though, I find myself wondering what sort of things might adapt to live in medium-strength acids.

I have a few narrower questions

  1. How energy-intensive is it for an organism to produce acid? I assume it'd be reasonable for a plant to produce large amounts of acid, since pitcher plants manage to do something to that effect, and so does basically every animal with a stomach (again, I'm ignorant.)
  2. What sort of skin could survive in an acid? Would modified aquatic mammal skin be sufficient (dolphins, whales)? Or would they be more likely to be rock-like reptiles? Could any form of frogs/amphibions exist there?
  3. Assuming normal weather cycles and thus rain causing the pH to fluctuate, how might this affect what could live there?
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As a general rule of thumb, do metastases respond to treatment similarly to the primary tumor?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 02:09 PM PDT

Background: I'm a physician.

I understand that an individual metastatic deposit could accumulate enough somatic mutations that could make it behave/respond to treatment quite differently from the primary tumor, especially if the treatment targets a specific mutation. However, I couldn't find a good answer or scientific consensus regarding whether there's any pattern to this across tumor types. The best I could find was this opinion piece (2009) in Nature Reviews Cancer arguing that independent progression of metastases arising from early disseminated tumor cells is a better model for tumors across the board.

What's the current thinking on this in the oncology world?

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Could a human survive on a planet with a thinner atmosphere and a higher oxygen concentration?

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 05:27 PM PDT

Is the general length of axon components in the brain variable?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 02:45 PM PDT

I understand that axons for example in nerve bundles can be quite long but my question relates to neurons in the brain. Are axons generally the 1mm or so as described or are there axons that extend for example from one region of the brain to to another at a scale of possibly centimeters?

Also are axon terminals (the individual branches off the main axon trunk) all uniform length or do they vary as well and does this mean that the action potential travelling down the axon reaches the individual synaptic connections at different times?

Finally why does every drawing of neurons show many magnitudes of order higher dendrites than axon terminals? If this is the case are most dendrite synaptic junctions unconnected?

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How much effect does temperature have on fluid dynamics at a macro level?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 03:37 PM PDT

Suppose I have 3 identical pots of water at SATP. Each pot gets stirred up to an arbitrary rpm to form a vortex. The stirring is stopped and the first pot of water is heated constantly. The second pot is cooled constantly at the opposite rate the first pot is heated (so if the first pot is heated at 10 W the second is cooled at -10 W). The third pot is left at room temperature.

Which pot will come to standing (no rotational motion in the fluid) first?

I have been puzzling over this one for a few days. My thinking is that the random particle motion of the water that is heated will cause the fluid to stop spinning. But then I thought that of I am removing energy from the entire system that I will achieve the effect of stopping the spinning faster.

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How are we able to determine if a distant star or planet, like J1407b, has rings around it?

Posted: 19 Mar 2022 01:57 PM PDT

How does the JWST point its instruments, and what percentage of the "sky" can it point to while remaining shielded from the sun?

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 03:09 PM PDT

There is a sunshield that protects the JWST from the heat of the sun. Clearly, the shield must always be between the telescope and the sun.

Is it right to say it can't look at the North Star because the shield would be edge on to the sun?

If so, what percentage of the sky can it point to at any given time while ensuring no part of the telescope is in sunlight?

How far above/below the ecliptic can it point while remaining dark?

If it mostly points directly away from the sun, what is the length of time that any specific star could be targeted for observation before it would have to look so far "over it's shoulder" that the sun could peek over the shield?

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why doesn't stomach acid burn through you?

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 08:22 PM PDT

Science reddit this question comes from my 8yo who is not satisfied with my answers.

So my question is if you have heart burn why doesn't your stomach acid burn through you and kill you? And how does the stomach acid not burn through your stomach?

If anyone wants to expand more on the answers that would be awesome. I'm semi surprised she stopped at 2.

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Isn’t the JWST more vulnerable to collision with meteors since it’sat a Lagrange Point (L2)?

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 05:58 PM PDT

Isn't there more primordial junk (e.g. Trojan Asteroids) at the Lagrange points?


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