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500+ Psychology Facts | ✍ by August_Parker
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Psychology, if it's your cup of tea, opens doors to a lot of interesting characteristics and traits that human beings encompass. Reading about it will not only give a meaningful perspective to how you see the world, but will also allow you to reach out and understand people around you better.
What Exactly Is Love? by GlitzPepe
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Love is a complex neurobiological phenomenon, relying on trust, belief, pleasure and reward activities within the brain, limbic processes. These processes critically involve oxytocin, vasopressin, dopamine, and serotonergic signaling. Moreover, endorphin and endogenous morphinergic mechanisms, coupled to nitric oxide autoregulatory pathways, play a role. Naturally rewarding or pleasurable activities are necessary for survival and appetitive motivation, usually governing beneficial biological behaviors like eating, sex, and reproduction. Yet, a broad basis of common signaling and beneficial neurobiological features exists with connection to the love concept, thereby combining physiological aspects related to maternal, romantic or sexual love and attachment with other healthy activities or neurobiological states. Medical practice can make use of this concept, i.e., mind/ body or integrative medicine. Thus, love, pleasure, and lust have a stress-reducing and health-promoting potential, since they carry the ability to heal or facilitate beneficial motivation and behavior. In addition, love and pleasure ensure the survival of individuals and their species. After all, love is a joyful and useful activity that encompasses wellness and feelings of well-being. © Pepe Peperino
Genetics by GlitzPepe
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My goal is to explain every topic so that anyone, even someone without any genetics background at all, can follow the subject and understand how it works. As in the first, I include many examples from the frontiers of research. I also make sure that the book has detailed coverage of some of the hottest topics that you hear about in the news: cloning, gene therapy, and forensics. And I address the practical side of genetics: how it affects your health and the world around you. In short, this book is designed to be a solid introduction to genetics basics and to provide some details on the subject. Genetics is a fast-paced field; new discoveries are coming out all the time. You can use this book to help you get through your genetics course or for self-guided study. ( Genetics ) provides enough information for you to get a handle on the latest press coverage, understand the genetics jargon that mystery writers like to toss around, and translate information imparted to you by medical professionals. The book is filled with stories of key discoveries and "wow" developments. Although I try to keep things light and inject some humor when possible, at the same time, I make every effort to be sensitive to whatever your circumstances may be. This book is a great guide if you know nothing at all about genetics. If you already have some background, then you're set to dive into the details of the subject and expand your horizons. Genetics affects all living things. Although sometimes complicated and always diverse, all genetics comes down to basic principles of heredity - how traits are passed from one generation to the next - and how DNA is put together. As a science, genetics is a fast growing field because of its untapped potential - for good and for bad. Despite its complexity, genetics can be surprisingly accessible. Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.
300 science facts  by Everysciencenerd
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:) if you want to know more about science then you are in the right place, hope you enjoy! :) - uncompleted :3 for a chance to be featured in my next book comment on any of my facts and I will choose 2 people :3
Cipher Code {complete} by _logogriph
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One day, Apocalypse came to pass. It started with a fog that engulfed the world. Thick and heavy in the atmosphere, nearly unbreathable to humans and able to corrupt a soul. It killed livestock, pulled buildings to the ground and deadened the soil. After a month, shields were erected over major cities to keep it out, but by then humanity could no longer see the sun. Next, they disappeared - the citizens in shieldless towns and the towns themselves - completely consumed by the fog. And in their place came monsters, beasts that craved human flesh and blood and knew nothing but destruction. In a matter of days, only half of humanity remained. . . but they didn't plan on going down without a fight. - Round Three Qualifier of the Tridents Awards (Winner of the Judge's favorites and Table Shakers subcategories)
OGENUS EARTH 🌎 🌊 {Dystopian Sci-Fi Adventure} by WhiskeySeattle
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FEATURED on the Wattpad Adventure 'Voyages and Sea Epics' list! Not so far in the distant future, the Earth is drowning in our mistakes. The permafrost has melted. Millions have been wiped out. Thousands more suffer to breathe on land while facing down brutal raiders and monsters too fantastic to be natural. As a Tinker, Meg's not entitled to many of the luxuries most citizens enjoy aboard Arc City One. She was a mistake to be forgotten. A blip in time destined to be erased by obscurity. Until she spotted the anomaly. This is an underwater sci-fi adventure filled with robots, pirates, seafaring rogues, terrifying monsters, a few stolen kisses, and a murderous plot set to a timer that's about to explode! 💙💙💙💙💙💙 🌊 #151 in #SciFi - 12/19/20 🌊 🌊 #73 in #SciFi - 12/22/20 🌊 🌊 #71 in SciFi - 12/24/20 🌊
S.M.A.R.T. (The Subject of Mind Altering Research and Testing) by RichardRHarley
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The story of Michael Thomas, a family man who worked for the U.S. army, and the experiments that were done on him. Shortly after after his return home from nearly six months as a captive of war, Michael is offered a top secret job that sounds too good to be true. When Michael refuses, he is dragged away from his family and tested on against his will, finding himself a prisoner once again, in a way he never imagined. __________ S.M.A.R.T The Subject of Mind Altering Research and Testing A psychological thriller. ________ Please vote & comment if you like. Thank you for taking the time to read my stuff. This is a work of fiction. All works © 2015 Richard Harley
Coming Undone by dexbox97
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How far would you go for a second chance? Humanity thought that meeting intelligent life would bring peace. They were wrong. Decades after first contact, Mankind is locked in a power struggle, not with our neighbors, but with ourselves. As nuclear war threatens to re-ignite in a nearby colony, Humanity looks to the best the galaxy has to offer. And the best aren't human. A pilot and his friend, trapped on a riot-stricken world, hold the information needed to strike decisively and end the war before it begins. He will stop at nothing to get them to safety, and she would give the world for a chance at redemption. But with governments trading secrets, assassins behind every corner, and war sinking its teeth into a struggling solar system, will the two operatives be able to make it home with their lives? And more importantly, their honor?