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...Suppressing the powerful pain impulse too successfully can prove deadly: subjects can continue holding their breath up to the point that their brains shut down from lack of oxygen. If you're 100 feet under water - or even three feet underwater in a pool - it's not a good time to pass out. In order to break the world record, Blaine had to hold his breath without fainting. (Had he continued until he'd depleted his brain's oxygen, however, Potkin is convinced he could have gone for another full minute...
...When you deprive your body of oxygen, it is only a matter of time before your carbon dioxide levels build, triggering a reflex that will cause your breathing muscles - including the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs - to spasm. The pain of these spasms is what causes most people to gulp for breath after just a couple of minutes. When holding your breath underwater, however, you have a bit of mammalian evolution on your side. When humans are submerged in cold water, our bodies instinctively prepare to conserve oxygen, much in the way that dolphins' and whales' bodies...
Like many communities across the U.S. that boomed during the housing bubble, Elk Grove is feeling the pain of the housing burst. For the most part, the trauma of eviction is hidden--the suburb has the occasional overgrown yard, although not as many as I'd expected, and FOR SALE signs dot the streets. But a funny thing happened on the way to Elk Grove's demise: it has started to come back. Over the past six months, investors and first-time home buyers have moved in, snapping up homes now priced at less than $250,000. Residents are working...
...middle of the race, however, while their nerves were nullified, many of the runners were beginning to really feel the physical burn. “Awful” was the one word Eagan could find to describe it. For many, the pain is so bad that reaching the finish line seems like an impossibility. Nick J. Shearer ’09, who ran the Boston Marathon for the third time this year, finished in four hours and 12 minutes—a personal best. Shearer mentions the physical intensity inherent in the process. “So much...
...cites exiled Korean composer Isang Yun as his source of inspiration. Although a native South Korean, Koh lived in Germany during his teens, where he learned of Yun. Listening to Yun’s music and biography, he realized that “where there’s pain, an artist needs to express that pain.” “There’s a sense of depression in Korea,” Koh says. “Everybody is thinking about unification and the Korean pain.” Koh has tried to contribute his share...