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...could also be hunger. Wolves also lick one another's mouths, particularly when one wolf returns to the pack. They can use their sense of taste and smell to see if the returnee has caught some prey on its journey. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. The kiss dogs give us probably evolved from this inspection. "If we happened to spit up whatever we just ate," says Horowitz, "I don't think our dogs would be upset at all." (See TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Where to find you at 3 a.m. on a typical weekend: “At least, hopefully I won’t be cleaning up my roommate’s vomit.” “Sleeping. Hopefully in my own room.” “Pretending to do homework.” “Straddling John Harvard’s head reading an organic chemistry book with no pants on.” Which House you’d want to live in: “Lowell, Leveritt [sic], Winthrop, Adams. Basically anything but Mather...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Survey: Part I | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Mather), Boylston Gate (the Quad), and behind Annenberg (both). On weekends and after midnight on weekdays, shuttles can take you all the way from Dunster to Pfoho, stopping at most of the useful points in between. When riding that late night bus with 50 other partygoers (watch out for vomit!), be grateful that the College decided against a plan to drastically reduce shuttle service...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Getting Around Boston | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...have a degree in astrophysics and you know how to fly a jet. You've endured years of preparation and training, logged thousands of hours of flight time and even survived NASA's terrifying "vomit comet" weightlessness test. Now you're up in space for the very first time, floating around the shuttle's cabin, and as you look out of the window, you realize something: you're hungry. What are you going to eat? (See pictures of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Astronauts Eat in Space? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...could lead to an increase in mothers being prescribed psychiatric medication unnecessarily. That concern lies close to the heart of Amy Philo, 31, of Texas, who has become a leader of the anti-Mothers Act movement. In 2004, shortly after her first son was born, he choked on his vomit and needed emergency treatment. Her son recovered, but after the incident, Philo became preoccupied with his safety and felt severe anxiety about protecting him - a common symptom of PPD. "After a one-minute conversation with my doctor, he gave me Zoloft and said it would make me and my baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postpartum Depression: Do All Moms Need Screening? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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