List of Parkinsons Disease Symptoms

Following is a list of PD symptoms in no particular order; it’s a rough outline for you to get a tad acquainted with PD.

1. Leaning forward or stooped poster

2. The PD "Mask" (Loss of some facial expression)

3. Fatigue

4. Slurred speech

5. Softening of speech

6. Difficulty swallowing

7. Sexual dysfunction

8. Cramping

9. Drooling

10. Tremors whilst body or muscle is at rest

11. Bradykinesia- Trouble starting motions and sudden stops in motion

12. Balance and coordination are compromised

I was turned on to the disease while reading Michael J Fox's book "Always Looking Up" along with "Lucky Man; A Mermoir".

Élan Vital- The Force of Life

The term was coined by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and at its roots was an attempt to understand the selections of lifeless objects and those of having an essence of life. Bergson thought that if by discovering and manipulating the Élan Vital and presenting an inanimate object with it along with an electric current, life might be possible. Alas, simple ignorance of anatomy to infinitesimal protons and neutrons is firstly a problem of any time period but one that must be gone through to slowly pick at the truth of the universe. Plus, to make matters worse, do we really know what makes us alive?




Also Mary Shelley's used vitalism ( Élan Vital would be the "life spark" and vitalism would be the doctrine to understand it) in her The Night that Birthed Frankenstein among other of her famous novels.

Milk is a Food

As always political outreach can change horizons beyond what most people would deem possible. As the tomato is considered a vegetable according to the U.S government (in accordance with laws regulating goods) , however, "scientifically" it is considered a fruit. It would not end there, of course, for furthermore the culinary arts use a tomato as a vegetable whilst cooking. So, its not hard or inconceivable to have a substance such as milk misplaced in the minds of a common man.

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Why is the Tomato a Fruit-

Go ahead and check out this question from Oxford Dictionary

Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? 

Why is Milk a Food

Go ahead and check out this excerpt from InfoPlease

Milk, Food

Word of the Week "Paragon"

My Use
 
 -Well this has quickly become one of my favorite words for it lets you take a specific entity and put it atop everything else in its category. With that it lends a hand in giving a nice complement to the topic.

Paragon- in short, paragon, is the model for excellence.


"My grandmothers cooking is and always will be a paragon of flavors waiting anxiously for my return to once again devour it."

Abacus and the Abacist- How to use an Abacus

Most people, I hope, have seen a picture of an Abacus or (more likely) someone using it (an Abacist). It, the abacus, is a "counting frame" used in parts of Asia to calculate arithmetic quantities. Here I would like to stay within the confines of elementary arithmetics, for its the main use of the abacus and its uses in theory are beyond what I have read or know. Plus, I wanted more visual aid then text and picture so we are going to make use of videos.


First lets see what an Abacus is.....

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Next this video will show you what an abacus is, the difference of the soroban, and a structural overview.






This next video will give you a little more historical background and it will get into how to read and use it.



This next video is simply a fun visualization of someone who has mastered the abacus.  (to anyone that has been in awe at a rubix cube master has certainly in need of seeing someone who is a abacus master)



Link to Speed Abacus