Water

This does not involve sudden frights or copious amounts of water. — Oh, snap. You’ve got the hiccups! You don’t know where they came from. Google could easily tell you, but you don’t really care. All you care about is making them go away. Maybe it’s been a while since you had them. Maybe you just had them yesterday. Doesn’t matter. It’s…

The summer heat can be brutal, and few things are worse than feeling dehydrated. The solution? Drink more water. But how do you know, if you are really getting enough water? How much should you consume in order to stay hydrated throughout the day? Here are some tips on how…

9 lessons I learned from “Learning to swim in 22 days” — 6. Fear is a hell of a thing- how I acquired the fear of drowning by learning to swim I almost drowned on the last day (why it happened is explained in the previous blog). But that was not the first time I had drowned, it happened to me before…

Consequences, Bargains, and Time — Siegfried “Chiefy” Hintze was born in 1925 in Chandler, Arizona, a few years before the Mill Avenue Bridge crossed the Salt River in neighboring Tempe. …

In Chapter 5 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, Russ Hobbie and I mention aquaporins, a type of membrane channel. In a footnote, we write Some aquaporins are permeable only to water, and not to any other small molecules or ions, even hydrogen ions (Preston et al. 1992). Aquaporins…

Historic Drought Only Seems Like It’s Happening To Other People — The current conditions that have most of California in a state of either extreme or severe drought come just five years after the state’s previous drought that was the hottest and driest on record. …