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	ANESTHESIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
		"ether" in this context is the anesthetic gas.
		They exhaust all rooms and finally open the examination room where they find him with a gas mask over his face, connected to a tank of nitrous turned on full, a smile on his face but unfortunately cold dead.
		Narkose; der Roman vom Kampf Gegen den Schmerz (Zurich and Leipzig: A. Muller, 1938)
	www.anes.uab.edu /aneshist/popular.htm (400 words)

	Nitrous oxide Information Center - nitrous oxide systems
		It is commonly known as laughing gas due to the exhilarating effects of inhaling it, and because it can cause spontaneous laughter in some users; it's also known as NOS or nitrous because of its widespread usage in racing and motorsports.
		The structure of nitrous oxide sedation equipment the nitrous oxide molecule is a linear chain of a nitrogen atom bound to a second nitrogen, which in turn is bound to an oxygen atom.
		The gas is licensed for use as a food additive, specifically as an aerosol spray propellant.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Chemistry_Topics_Mi_-_O/Nitrous_oxide.html (2583 words)

	Provine, Laughter
		Whether it is a deep belly laugh or a high-pitched titter, however, all human laughter is a variation of this basic form.
		If chimpanzees laugh as they speak, by producing one laugh sound per expiration and inspiration, we have identified an important and previously unrecognized constraint on the evolution of speech and language in chimpanzees and presumably other great apes.
		This mechanism, involving a laugh detector that drives a laugh generator, may be the foundation of contagious laughter.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Provine_96.html (3914 words)

	Laugh News @ Heartily.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The phrase Laugh and the whole world laughs with you is literally true, for scientists have found that laughter is truly contagious, as it triggers a...
		Laugh and the whole world laughs with you is true
		She said of the show: "I've had such a laugh doing it and I'm absolutely over the moon that other people think it's good enough to give me an award."...
	www.heartily.net /news/laugh (387 words)

	Laughing Gas
		I realize that laughing gas has been sampled without significant ill effects.
		While some people might laugh while using it, it is actually used to partly sedate patients by doctors such as dentists.
		There are very few side effects because laughing gas is one of the safest gases used for medical procedures.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/gen01/gen01774.htm (665 words)

	Failbetter.com \| Donald Antrim
		Perhaps part of the enjoyment, for anyone inclined to have fun with these books, is found in the state of mind in which the meanings of things remain ambiguous.
		As to the therapeutic value of the pancake, this topic is explored at ridiculous length in the novel.
		The memoir creates the impression of immediate identification between author and reader, particularly if it—the memoir—declares itself to be a confession of, or a testament to, something felt by the reader to be, on the one hand, universally experienced, and, on the other, intensely private and subjective.
	www.failbetter.com /02/Antrim.htm (1544 words)

	Laughing gas makes best bubbles in chocolate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Laughing gas — or nitrous oxide — produces chocolate with better bubbles and a more intense melt-in-the-mouth flavour, claim UK researchers,writes Lindsey Partos.
		A panel of 20 non-expert testers said that chocolate aerated using laughing gas had larger bubbles and the most intense cocoa flavour.
		Full results for the ‘laughing gas' chocolate will be presented at the Institute of Food Technologist's Annual Meeting in New Orleans on 15th July 2005.
	www.foodnavigator.com /news/news-ng.asp?n=61301-laughing-gas-makes (533 words)

	Amazon.com: Laughing Gas: Books: P.G. Wodehouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But recently when I picked up an old copy of "Laughing Gas" and read it on a long flight, my neighbours on the plane kept on wondering what was wrong with me - I would burst into uncontrollable giggles at almost every second page.
		Laughing Gas was the first Wodehouse I ever read.
		Well, both souls get administered some laughing gas, and this gives them the ability to be masters of the art of astral projection.
	www.amazon.com /Laughing-Gas-P-G-Wodehouse/dp/0140011722 (2087 words)

	Lateral Science - Humphrey Davy & Laughing Gas
		I had now a great disposition to laugh, luminous points seemed frequently to pass before my eyes, my hearing was certainly more acute, and I felt a pleasant lightness and power of exertion in my muscles.
		The preparation of the gas as detailed elsewhere on this site is extremely dangerous (propensity of ammonium nitrate to detonate), and produces an impure gas which will poison you.
		Nitrous users who inhale from bottled gas risk frozen vocal chords, hypoxic irreversible brain damage, induced neuropathy and myeloneuropathy, inhibition of methionine synthase activity because of interaction with cobalt in vitamin B12, death by suffocation, unconciousness and laughter.
	www.lateralscience.co.uk /nitrous (1117 words)

	Humphry Davy Summary
		Inhalation of "laughing gas," as it was soon called, became a novel form of entertainment, although nearly 50 years passed before it was actually used as an anesthetic.
		When he encouraged his friends to inhale the gas with him, he found that their inhibitions were lowered and their feelings of happiness or sadness intensified.
		Davy became well known due to his experiments with the physiological action of some gases, including laughing gas (nitrous oxide) - to which he was addicted, once stating that its properties bestowed all of the benefits of alcohol but was devoid of its flaws.
	www.bookrags.com /Humphry_Davy (4367 words)

	The Kyoto Accord and Canadians
		Any gas in the atmosphere that helps to hold in heat energy around the planet rather than letting it radiate into space is a Greenhouse Gas.
		However, (assuming natural gas water heating) if you could reduce your water heating energy use by 10 cubic meters a month, that would result in annual savings of over $50 and over 220 kgs of carbon dioxide emissions (over 1/5 of a tonne).
		One novel solution to this electrical load is solar chargers that will charge the batteries daily, without using any electricity from the power grid.
	www.econogics.com /en/kyotocan.htm (5262 words)

	Laughing Gas Comedy Improv Theatre Company - Miami Florida
		When she is not performing with Laughing Gas, Kimberly is busy portraying a middle school science teacher.
		When he is not performing with Laughing Gas, he can be found expanding his standup repertoire at comedy clubs around South Florida, including The Improvisation Comedy Clubs in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, and Churchill's Pub.
		She is one of the founding members of Laughing Gas, and its Vice President.
	www.laughinggasimprov.com /current_cast.htm (3191 words)

	Political Literary Criticism Condensed
		The novel's great strength as a mode of apprehension is in its grasp of character, and the political novel at its best can show concretely and subtly what politics does to character, what character makes of politics....
		The nexus between news and novels is a powerful one because it allows us to see that fictional narratives, by participating in a journalistic discourse, are also parts of an information-disseminating system that is by definition social.
		Of a very different kind is the impact claimed for the novels of Dickens and Charles Kingsley, which have been credited with contributing, through the exposure of some of the social evils of mid-nineteenth century Britain, to the most important pieces of reform legislation enacted in the later part of the century.
	www.politicalnovel.org /politicalliterarycriticismcondensed.html (7295 words)

	Mystery! American Mystery! Specials . Navajoland . About Hillerman \| PBS
		Fittingly, it was a news story about a murderer condemned to die in New Mexico's new gas chamber that jump-started his career in fiction.
		She was soon at work, selling his essays to magazines until Hillerman was ready to move from freelancing to fiction.
		In addition to his mystery novels, Hillerman has written numerous nonfiction works that explore the geography and history of the Southwest.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/american/navajoland/abouthillerman.html (1024 words)

	Laughing Knees » Blog Archive » Dungeons and Dragons
		Back in college at the University of Oregon I knew a barrel-chested, hamburger-scarfing, gas-guzzling, giant macho-jock of an American man named Dave.
		I saw a possibility in creating more than a novel here… attempting to create a world of the imagination that could be experienced by players, replete with both traditional heroic fantasy themes and further, a concentration on real human themes like love, death, friendship, hate, deception, sex, even religion and philosophy.
		I was so involved with the game that I would play for three days straight sometimes, forgetting to eat and to go take bath.
	www.butuki.com /laughing_knees/dungeons-and-dragons (940 words)

	Calvino's Novels, by Gore Vidal
		Laughing women cross the courtyard with a cauldron, "perhaps the evening soup.
		Qfwfq is delighted with his new sign but as time passes he likes it less and less, thinks it is a bit pretentious, old-fashioned; decides he must erase it before his rival sees it (so writers revise old books or make new ones that obliterate earlier works -- yes, call it style if you like).
		Dantes, on the other hand, broods on the nature of the fortress as well as on the various drafts of the novel that Dumas is writing.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/calvino/novels.html (7016 words)

	Wash. Univ. Department of Anesthesiology
		andquot;Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is an NMDA antagonist, neuroprotectant and neurotoxin.andquot; Nature Medicine 4(4): 460-463.
		andquot;Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is an NMDA antagonist, neuroprotectant and neurotoxin.andquot; Nature Medicine 4: 460-463.
		andquot;Effects of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in hippocampal cultures.andquot; Journal of Neuroscience 18(23): 9716-9726.
	www.anest.wustl.edu /c/research/publications/1998.aspx (1103 words)

	Laughing gas makes better chocolate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Using nitrous oxide — or "laughing gas" — to put the bubbles in chocolate produces a more intense, melt-in-the-mouth flavour, according to Chemistry & Industry magazine.
		A panel of 20 non-expert testers said that chocolate aerated using laughing gas had the most intense cocoa flavour.
		Chocolate aerated using carbon dioxide or laughing gas, which produce larger bubbles, melted rapidly in the mouth.
	www.extra.rdg.ac.uk /news/details.asp?ID=534 (403 words)

	Couple feed their corn furnace to save money on their heating bills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 2003, their gas bills topped $300 a month -- and that was before gas prices spiked.
		It was just a kernel of an idea 20 years ago that sprouted into an affordable energy alternative as gas prices rose, and now it's popping up everywhere as people lend an ear to the novel energy concept.
		During seven months when the furnace is working they use about 9 tons or $1,125 for the year, or an average of $160 a month.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06242/717227-30.stm (1160 words)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com \| DIE LAUGHING, by Carola Dunn
		DIE LAUGHING is the 12th mystery to feature the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, but works well as a standalone novel.
		It is her reaction that most worries Daisy when she goes to visit her dentist and finds him dead in his chair, with a smile on his face.
		There are only ever a handful of suspects, and so it is not too hard to guess who might be responsible, but there are enough twists and turns in the evidence that is uncovered to keep the reader guessing and turning the pages.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=5110 (453 words)

	Technology - Alternative Energy Sources
		Rapeseed crops used to make biodiesel emit the highly potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, which could make biodiesel more of a greenhouse menace than conventional diesel...
		Researchers are racing to develop organic solar cells that are as efficient as traditional silicon solar cells but much cheaper to produce...
		Chemists at Virginia Tech have developed a novel way of using light to directly power the chemical process that breaks water down into hydrogen and oxygen...
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/technology_alternative_energy.shtml (597 words)

	With the eyes shut (1889) by Edward Bellamy
		Turning out the gas that I might the more easily imagine the bewitching presence which the voice suggested, I went back to bed, and lay awake there until morning, enjoying the society of my bodiless companion and the delicious shock of her quarter-hourly remarks.
		One, he told me, was a new novel for his wife, with some fairy stories for the children,--all, of course, phonographs.
		He agreed with me that it was hard to see how a boy was to get his growth under quite so much government; but his wife, and indeed the ladies generally, insisted that the application of the phonograph to family government was the greatest invention of the age.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /bellX13.htm (5370 words)

	Novel Notes - CHAPTER II
		He stops you in the street with, "Oh, I must tell you!--such a capital story!" And he thereupon proceeds to relate to you, with much spirit and gusto, one of Noah's best known jokes, or some story that Romulus must have originally told to Remus.
		The other three were very eager now to get to work on the novel, but I did not quite see the fairness of this.
		The people laughed very much, and, when afterwards he came amongst them with his wooden saucer in his mouth, they gave freely.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/NovelNotes/chap3.html (5742 words)

	Gas Dot
		Laughing, have had some fun trying to communicate.
		Mute, mute, mute I find I have lost my voice, my mode of communica, my soul of expression that definds me. all I do now is point, point point.
		The service was great and the tv screens in the back of the seats were quite novel.
	www.lumanation.com /people/jamie/blog (2876 words)

	Biochemistry of Lyme Disease (Feb/March 2006)
		One known inhibitor of toxin activity is the substance glycyrrhizic acid (GA), the active principle of licorice root, used in Oriental medicine for thousands of years.
		GA is also the active principle of the American Biologics product, Biorizin™.
		Being a large molecule, GA is capable of binding into the active site of the toxin, thereby blocking the normal substrate, two adjacent amino acids in the protein SNAP-25.
	www.townsendletter.com /FebMar2006/lyme0206.htm (5085 words)

	Jack W. Boone - Book Summaries
		At first glance, it appears that this novel would be controversial with an underlying agenda.
		Atlanta, GA This is the story of a family dynasty.
		Marietta, GA The doctrine of "don't get mad---get even" was alive and well in the minds of two retired Police Captains, Amos Rogue and Felix Kilner.
	www.jackwboone.com /novels.html (2610 words)

	Amazon.com: Gas Food & Lodging: Video: Brooke Adams,Ione Skye,Fairuza Balk,James Brolin,Robert Knepper,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		She is a waitress at a gas stop/restaurant.
		Yet, what saves 'Gas Food Lodging' from being a depressing man-bashing polemic is that all three women eventually find partners who, although far from being flawless, stand by their women.
		While not a perfect film, 'Gas Food Lodging' is still a rare treat for those lucky enough to stumble upon it.
	www.amazon.com /Gas-Food-Lodging-Brooke-Adams/dp/6302690420 (2258 words)

	pharmaceutical
		Nitric oxide (NO), a gas that has been used successfully to treat certain lung ailments, may have another application--the "unsickling" of sickled cells, according to the results of laboratory research conducted at the University of Chicago.
		The common gas nitric oxide -- not to be confused with the anesthetic nitrous oxide --plays many roles in the body, including relaxation of blood vessels.
		The effect is limited to the lungs because the gas binds with hemoglobin upon entering the bloodstream, neutralizing its vessel-expanding properties.
	www.scinfo.org /serv04.htm (2525 words)

	DS Smokescreens
		You remember them, they’re the empty metal thingies on your car engine which allow the mechanic to nod his head, inform you that you failed the smog test, and call his wife to tell her to extend their vacation in Fiji by another week.
		Either way, now it turns out that the same catalytic converters which scientists thought were helping eliminate smog are actually generating nitrous oxide, a gas which warms the atmosphere at an amazing rate, adding to—you guessed it—global warming.
		Of course you know nitrous oxide better as laughing gas, the anesthetic the dentist gives you so you won’t feel anything when he tacks all those zeros on the end of your bill.
	www.maddogproductions.com /ds_smokescreens.htm (809 words)

	Laughing Gas (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday Doran, New York.
		Both Reggie and Joey get laughing gas as anaesthetic.
		On the other hand, wherever Eggy (whose complexion, especially in the morning, is described as "greenish") meets Reggie in Joey's body, he thinks his drinking habits have got the better of him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laughing_Gas_(novel) (1211 words)

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