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How Good Are Your Reflexes? Try These Exercises with Kids

Why do this exercise: Reflexes protect the body automatically. They keep us away from objects that might hurt us. [related_articles] Reflex Exercise 3: Knee Jerk Reflex Suitable for kids in grades 6 to 12 Method: This popular reflex pose is common at the doctor's office.

Sports

Perfectly Timed Sports Shots!

You need quick reflexes, an eye for dynamic movement. To make photos like these, though, you need a lot of luck! Submitted by: Laura K. Perfectly Timed Sports Shots! funny, photography, sports Being a sports photographer isn't easy. You need quick reflexes, an eye for dynamic movement.

How One Thumb Squeeze Can Activate Healing Hormones

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Experience Instant Benefits with This Thumb Technique!

Using pressure on a specific hand reflex point stimulates the release of hormones that increase endorphins, increase your immunity, and create positive neurological changes. Let’s explore this amazing method!

Cute overload

These Animals Have Cracked the Code for Cuteness!

These Charming Animal Pics Are Just What You Needed Today

This list features some charming animals just going about their day in the sun – from a squirrel with amazing reflexes to a couple of hippos basking in the water.

Let's Play: Can You Help this Man Avoid a Catastrophe?

You need to have good reflexes as well as the ability to plan ahead to get this one right! A man stands on top of an area with nine tiles. You have to make him avoid being hit by the red, flying balls, which come at him from all angles during the game.

Those Cunning Animals...

There is an age old discussion about whether dogs and cats and other animals can really think for themselves, or are they just blindly following the instructions of their own reflexes and instincts? Well, we're not really qualified to answer that question.

8 Bodily Functions We All Experience and Why

These Bodily Functions Are Beyond Our Power

There is no way to control this bodily function as it is an unconditional bodily reflex. When a person is cold, muscle contractions emit heat in order to keep the body warm. Fact: The temperature of the skin can increase by 2-3 degrees as a result of such muscle contractions. 2.

Let's Play: Help This Little Raccoon Reach the Sky!

interactive, games, skill, arcade This game takes some fast reflexes and a great sense of timing!

Science and Technology

Are You a Sun Sneezer? You Are Definitely Not the Only One

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Ever Wondered Why the Sun Makes You Sneeze?

This condition is called photic sneeze reflex and it affects an estimated 18% to 35% of the population. Are You a Sun Sneezer?

Riddles & Quizzes

Quiz: What is Your Secret Psyche's Purpose?

Quiz: This Trippy Test Will Tell You Your Psyche's Purpose...

Answer as truthfully and as reflexively as possible, so that your answers reflect who you truly are. Related Articles: 15 General Knowledge Quizzes 11 English Language Quizzes 11 Quizzes on Geography & Flags 12 Personality Tests and Quizzes Quiz: What is Your Secret Psyche's Purpose?

Vehicles of Ground, Air & Water

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Star Wars 'Hoverbike' Is Now Real!

The hover bike was developed by Aerofex, and while the hover bike was already feasible long ago, they have recently built one that responds to the body movements and leaning of the driver, so that control is handled by the reflexes of the driver, an amazing feat!

Let's Play: Oh How I've Missed This Classic Game!

It requires some quick thinking, quick reflexes and a fun-filled spirit, of course! How to play: Click on the play button and choose level 1.

Let's Play: This Colorful Platform Game is a Fun Challenge!

Sometimes that means quick reflexes, and sometimes it means solving a puzzle to get to the gate at the end! Click here to play in FULL SCREEN Game: Mango Mania!

Humor

Joke: The Italian and the Insatiable Woman

Joke: Are You Finished Yet?!?

Stunned, but still acting reflexively on his macho pride, he once again puts out the cigarette and mounts his companion du jour. This time, with all the strength he could muster up, he barely manages to end the task, but he does after quite some time and energy is spent.

Humor

This Joke Begins With a Wandering Eye...

He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back. "Oh my, I am so sorry," the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. "Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you," she says.

6 Pressure Points to Alleviate Knee Pain

6 Pressure Points to Ease Knee Pain Naturally

Spinal Reflex The spine supports the entire body and helps reduce the weight that burdens the knees, and this point strengthens it and consequently the support your knees receive.

Tips, Life Hacks and DIY

7 Ways You Can Make Your Dog’s Walks Better

Dog Walking Tips and Tricks Everyone Should Know

Dogs have, what is called “an opposition reflex”, which means that they have a reflex to oppose any force against them. This is why sometimes if you pull them in the opposite direction, they will stay firm and stop walking. So what do you do?

If You're Alone and Choking, This Video May Save Your Life

If You Find Yourself Choking, Here's What You Should Do!

After all, when something becomes lodged in your upper airway, your natural reflex is to expel air from your lungs and dislodge it. However, depending on how much of your airway is blocked, coughing might not work.

Science and Technology

7 Truly Provocative Psychological Experiments

In one of the most famous psychological experiment, Ivan Pavlov proved the concept of conditioned reflexes, also known as classical conditioning. In the experiment, he presented dogs with food that caused them to salivate.

Humor

25 Signs of Vet Clinics With Cat Jokes That are Hilarious

Hysterical Cat Jokes, Straight From Every Vets Repertoire!

Time to fine tune your reflexes Carroll County Veterinary Clinic 8. Then there’s also this Frontier Veterinary Hospital 9. Here’s a classic Petaluma Veterinary Hospital 10. Cats have it so good Carroll County Veterinary Clinic 11.

Family and parenting

Why Children Suck Their Thumbs and How to Stop It

Why Children Suck Their Fingers and How to Make It Stop

Finger sucking is a common behavior observed in children, with approximately 90% of infants displaying this reflex as early as two hours after birth.

I Was Blown Away by What these 10 Super Humans Can Do!

Super Human Reflexes, Isao Machii Isao Machii, a Japanese Laido Master, has the quickest reflexes in the world, holding many world records for his quick sword skills. In the clip below, Isao attempts to cut a speeding BB gun bullet in half - incredible!

12 Unbelievable Facts about the Human Body

[related_articles] When splashing cold water on your face, your body enters a state called Mammalian diving reflex , which slows down your heart rate by 10-25% and optimizes your breathing. Pound for pound, human bones can withstand more pressure than steel.