Word: reflexivity
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...Diving reflex" and chill waters can prevent drowning deaths...
...reason, says Nemiroff, is a combination of coldness, which lowers the body's need for oxygen, and an old mammalian response known as the diving reflex. The reflex was studied in the 1930s in diving mammals, like the porpoise and seal, which can remain submerged without breathing for periods of 20 minutes or more. And, confirms Nemiroff, the same automatic response works in humans as well. Triggered by held breath and cold water on the face, the diving reflex slows the heartbeat and the flow of blood to the skin, muscles and other tissues that are relatively resistant...
...some cholesterol-free windbag hyperventilate about how his energy has doubled, his triglyceride level has dropped, his sexual performance is off the charts, and his life expectancy has approached that of a Galapagos tortoise, all because he has begun daily sessions on an exercise bicycle. Nothing stimulates the gag reflex so quickly as news photos of entire families-mom, dad and six children-jogging in identical warmup suits. And nothing is more appalling than, as a 10-to 15-mile-a-week runner (which is to say a moderate lunatic; some glittery-eyed types run 100 miles a week...
...Life," Frye places student unrest in the tradition of American anarchism, categorizing it primarily as a religious quest rather than a social movement. What he objects to most is the anti-intellectualism of the protesters, their refusal to appeal to "reason or experience or history or anything except emotional reflex." For Frye, the validity of the university as an institution is beyond question; there is something pure about the process of education which takes place within ivied walls, something which was profoundly, but only temporarily, threatened...
...lost. Subsumed by her massive creation and by my reflections of it. I was pure reflex to her every inclination. Although I had won my prize she had seduced my identity...