“While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.” IfsKnowsHelpingUseSidesVoiceSimpleCommonStepsCarPicksFunctionPhonesDrivingCommon SenseCellsFeaturesDriversDistractionMailItemsCell PhoneEmbeddedAccessories Author:Gary Shapiro
“We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies.” EarthFunctionVariousInvisibleCellsOrganismsAntibodies Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.” WellsMeanDoeMadeBodyAgeLawDiesFailingEternalSkinsFunctionErrorsPhysicsCellsGenesOrgansOne WordEternal LifeLaws Of PhysicsSluggish Author:Michio Kaku
“The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.” IfsFeelsImportantIdeasHomeCan DoToolsFunctionPhonesCellsCell PhoneProsthetics Author:Aimee Mullins
“A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.” EnergyFunctionStructureCellsMaintenance Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?” WayHumansWellsIdeasEnoughFactsBodyEarthProcessImagineBloodMinutesThousandWasteLosingConsciousHundredFlowTasksSkinsFunctionEnvironmentalYour BodyCellsOperationsArroganceSymptomsStewardshipRemovalKidneysStewardsArteriesBlood FlowOverseeing Author:Lynn Margulis
“I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.” UseQualityFunctionPhonesCommunicateCellsCell Phone Author:Okky Madasari
“As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.” WorldStatesBodyLightMovingEnergyDivineFunctionCellsVesselTransformingEmbodimentPostmodern Author:Leonard Sweet
“There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.” IfsThinkingWould BeUniverseBitsMysteryPossibilityMassUniversalFunctionTwentiesChainsCellsComplexityMinimumMoleculesProteinMystery Of LifeProton Author:Dean Koontz
“My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.” WayFormEmotionStudyPsychologyHealthyFunctionAddExcitedAll TimeCellsThese DaysPleasantSubtleFascinatedTopicsFleetingPositive PsychologyInvestigatingPositive EmotionsAll Time Favorite Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.” PeopleWayMindWellsLooksDifferentOrderIndividualLanguageMy OwnAbilityBrainGroupsHealthyCreatingFunctionFingersI RealizedCellsDifferent WaysDependentCircuitsGet WellHealthy HappyWiggling Author:Jill Bolte Taylor
“The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.” MindHeartMayBodySeemsProcessTalkingStudyAliveProtectDiseaseConsciousFunctionYour BodyCellsFiftyInfectionProtect YouHeart BeatToxinsHeart Beating Author:Deepak Chopra
“In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.” EyeProcessBlackFunctionStructureBoxesCellsBiologyDigestionImmunityBlack BoxesStructure And Function Author:Michael Behe
“Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!” WellsHelpingBodyPainRememberFightingNaturalLaughingBloodDiseaseLaughterFlowFunctionKillingCancerMoodCuresReleaseCellsInternalsChemicalsOrgansOxygenImmuneTransfersBoostInfectionImmune SystemNutrientsExtremityElevatingViralEndorphinsBlood FlowCardiovascular Author:Patch Adams
“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.” GivingBelieveHeartBodyRunningFightingFearBornBrainCourageFunctionInstinctFollowingYour BodyDespiteCellsThings To DoRight ThingFollow ThroughFear CourageUsing Your Brain Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.” YearsSchoolMovingCoursesChanceFunctionMedicalCellsSecond ChanceAnatomyPhysiologyMedical SchoolMedical EducationAnatomy And Physiology Author:Sydney Brenner
“Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus.” WellsMeanLongCharacterConditionsExampleTypeHigherFunctionTransformationStructureSeriesDefinedCellsControlledChemicalsOrganismsPredictableGeneticsBiologistAlterationsHereditaryMicroorganismsStructure And Function Author:Oswald Avery
“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.” KnowsWantLittlesScienceEasyStepsTeamProjectsUnderstoodDiscoveryFunctionDeedsCellsSugarMetabolism Author:Luis Federico Leloir
“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.” HumansMeanHardProblemScienceEasyIssuesInvolvedFindingsProjectsIntellectualResearchFunctionCellsGenesParticipationSequenceGenomeGenome ProjectHuman Genome Project Author:Sydney Brenner
“The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.” KnowsLawUniverseBrainConnectionsFunctionComplicatedCellsChemicalsSignalsNeuroscienceWovenElectricalTissuesKidneysHeart And Brain Author:David H. Hubel
“In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject. Among others whose several achievements in their own fields may have surpassed his, no one has ever attempted to unify and correlate biochemical knowledge so as to form a comprehensible picture of the cell and its relation to life, reproduction and function.” TryingMaySaidFormScienceSubjectsFieldsAchievementUniqueFunctionRelationCellsContributionBiographiesEvaluateReproductionHopkinsBiochemistry Author:Marjory Stephenson
“An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.” HumansCultureLanguageAnimalBrainProduceDegreesFunctionAddPopulationEnormousCellsComplexityAppropriateNervesSuperficialAssistanceAstonishingFluidImmuneMoleculesAnalogiesCognitiveTissuesImmune SystemHuman LanguageVertebratesAntibodies Author:Niels Kaj Jerne
“One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.” WellsMayReasonHelpingFoundGrowsGrowthLevelsRiskBloodBabyHigherFunctionCancerFactorsCellsConfusedMilkConsumptionHormonesHigher LevelInsulinBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Alison Stewart