Frightening Fact: Presently there are 1.1 billion people without sufficient access to drinking water and 2.6 billion without enough water for proper sanitation. Roughly 3900 children in underdeveloped countries die each day from diarrhea alone as a result. Predictions currently forecast that two thirds of the earths population will have insufficient access to water by 2025.  So, we all
have something to look forward too.

Dr Martin Samuels studies acute life-threatening stress or, being scared to death.  He claims that not only can a sudden onset of fear cause a heart attack in sufferers of heart disease and the infirm, but in anybody should the circumstances be just right.  If the brain releases a high enough dose of adrenaline to the heart the resulting cell death and intense contractions can cause it to fail.  Which is good to know... just don't worry about it too much.

According to Canadian ethnobotanist Wade Davis, the Haitian Voodoo recipe for zombiism is a relatively simple one. First, bring the subject to a near death state with tetrodotoxin (the poison found in pufferfish, among other animals) and then pump them full of a very strong dissociative like datura (jimson weed).  We here at Provokátor do not recommend trying this at home as you're more likely to create a dead human than a live zombie, and besides it's easier to just get them drunk. 

When something goes bump in the night:

The part of your brain that routes stimulus (the thalamus) sends that information to two places simultaneously.  The sensory cortex takes the information and assesses the different possible interpretations of the bump before sending it off to the hippocampus for it's thoughts on the matter- they confer.Upon conclusion the verdict is sent to your hypothalamus to either fight, fly or forget.
 

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