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and a turd

In case you missed it, yesterday was the third anniversary of the foolsletter.

I’m proud of this insanity. I should follow you to read it here.

Also, I’m continuing with The Book of Wrong Answers.

Hello dear readers!

You will always know that Mr. Book is around.

You’ll notice that I’m a bit slanted.

Before the celebratory interruption, I was pulling up old stuff about our preverbal senses: (to recap)

• Balance and acceleration

• Temperature

• Proprioception – aka the space around you

• Pain

• Sexual stimulation

• Next we have other  internal senses including:

• Hunger

• Pulmonary stretch which controls your respiration rate

• Peripheral chemoreceptors that monitor carbon dioxide levels

• Stimulation receptors in the esophagus control vomiting and swallowing

• Cardioception refers to the perception of the activity of the heart

addition to these, we have a chemoreceptor trigger zone which receives inputs from blood born drugs or hormones and communicates with the vomiting centre. Other chemoreceptors respond to our blood …