Fact or Fiction: Do we only use 10 percent of our brain?
Most students at MTHS have heard that human beings do not use the full potential of their brains, but this is in fact a myth. The brain is one of the most important organs in the human body. It controls the central nervous system. It also helps with the coordination of walking, talking, breathing and [...]
Questions Answered: The Human Body
Humans will always have questions about their bodies. Whether it’s why we have an appendix or why some people have green eyes while others have brown. The Hawkeye has uncovered the answers to a few of these mysteries. Why do we get brain freezes? Brain freeze is the common name of a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, which [...]
Carpal Tunnel Texting
Most people have heard that texting causes carpal tunnel in your wrists, but is it true? Carpal tunnel syndrome, a gradual progressive agonizing event that occurs in the nerves of the wrists, starts with a burning, tingling, or numbness in the palms of the hands especially, thumb and index finger. Then their ability to grab [...]
Chain reaction: the phenome-yawn
Most people don’t know that humans begin yawning at 11 weeks after conception, or that when one person yawns in a group, half of the rest will yawn within five minutes: Yawning is an involuntary action that has not been researched much. However, there are quite a lot of theories on why people yawn as [...]
Modern adolescents going up in smoke
Consider what we believe regarding the amount of knowledge teenagers have regarding the negative consequences of smoking cigarettes, then why would teens start smoking a substance whose addictive properties make it one of the toughest drugs/substances to quit? Why would teenagers stick something in their mouth that is responsible for killing more people per year [...]
Caffeine: common ingredient and harmful toxin
Caffeine, one of the most popular drugs in the world, is naturally produced in leaves and seeds of many plants, also known as guaranine. Around 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine every single day. Many consumers are unaware of the dangers of caffeine and its effects on the body. Caffeine is defined as a drug [...]
Legal Hallucinogen: What teens don’t know about salvia divinorum
Recently there has been a lot of talk about a legal drug becoming popular with American teenagers. Its called salvia divinorum. Salvia is a leafy plant found in southern Mexico, as well as Central and South America. In many countries where it grows naturally, salvia has been used in rites of spiritual healing or in [...]
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