HEALTH AND WELLNESS

                                             Nature’s creatures often exhibit impulses of self-assertion and competition. But all through life’s vast range, these instincts are balanced by another kind of drive. Nature does not implant in her children just the single message: Take care of yourself. Ancient and universal, there is a second injunction: Get together. It is as vital as the breath of life.       Every creature has a need for companionship as biologically important as food and drink. Testing tadpoles, zoologists have found that even these humble creatures are so deeply influenced by social need that a solitary tadpole can regenerate an injured part of the body only slowly, but if it given the dimly sensed comradeship of fellow tadpoles its healing powers speed up almost miraculously. University of Chicago scientists have discovered that when mice are raised in contact with fellow mice they grow faster than mice reared on an identical diet in isolation.      Anima

  [1]         GERMS IN THE OFFICE: University of Arizona microbiologists measured bacteria in offices in a number of U.S. cities. They found that the five most germ-contaminated spots were [in order] phones, desktops, water fountain handles, microwave door handles and keyboards, says the Globe and Mail newspaper. According to the report, the average desktop is home to 100 times more bacteria than a kitchen table and 400 times more than the average toilet seat.   [2]          CHRISTIANS ONLY IN WORDS: The Philippines has been referred to as the only Christian nation in the Asia. However, Bishop Efraim Tendero of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches stated: most of us are Christians only in words but not in our actions. As stated in the Manila Bulletin, part of the blame rests with church leaders, who fail to create awareness and appreciation of the Bible. Some church sermons are said to highlight politics rather than the Scriptures.   [3]        HUMANS AND ANIM

                            COLD DESERT:     A term applied to the ice sheet of arctic and Antarctic regions, where vegetation is prohibited by low temperatures, and sometimes extended to the tundra, where vegetation is severely restricted by the climate.       COLD FRONT: The boundary line at the earth’s surface between a mass of advancing cold air and a mass of warm air, beneath which the cold air pushes like a wedge. The frontal surface rises at a steeper angle than in the case of the warm front. The passage of a cold front through a place is normally marked by a rise of atmospheric pressure, a fall of temperature, a veer of wind, a heavy shower, and sometimes a line squall, perhaps with thunder        COLD POLE: A name frequently applied to Verkhoyansk, in eastern Siberia, where excessively low temperatures have been reached; the mean midwinter temperature is -50 degree centigrade, and the lowest reading ever taken on the earth’s surface, -70 degree centigrade, has been

                                       A tall column of earth, often 20 to30 feet high, capped by a large boulder. The boulder has originally lain on the soil; when most of the soft surface material surrounding it has been gradually worn away by rain, it has protected the earth beneath it, and has remained perched on a long pillar of this earth. Earth pillars occur frequently in mountain valleys, and probably the best-known examples are those of the Tyrol.                                          

             WE ordinarily think of knowledge as meaning the acquisition of facts or content of experience. But just what is the phenomenon of knowledge? Knowledge consists of knowing, and what we know are ideas. The ideas are the products of experience. The word experience is but a general term for two phenomena, namely, perception and conception . Perception is the receiving of impressions through our receptor senses, the sensations of which ultimately compose the substance of our ideas.genious             Perception can be both voluntary and involuntary. For example, when we are focusing our auditory perception upon it. Or, for further analogy, when we read a book, we are voluntarily perceiving through the sense of sight.            However, we can have certain sensations which are involuntary perceptions. We may feel intestinal pain. The pain was not sought; that is, the sense of feeling was not made responsive voluntarily. Nevertheless, the experience of pain was one o