Common cold

Common cold, also known simply as a cold, is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose. Signs and symptoms may begin less than two days following exposure. They include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, headache, and fever. People usually recover in seven to ten days. Some symptoms may last up to three weeks. In those with other health problems, pneumonia may occasionally develop.

Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in the cause of the common cold; the rhinoviruses are the most common. They spread through the air, by close contact, and by being picking up the virus from the environment and transferred to the mouth or nose. Risk factors include going to daycare and not sleeping well. Symptoms are mostly due to the body's immune response to the infection rather than to tissue destruction by the viruses themselves. People with influenza are usually more sick.

There is no vaccine. The primary method of prevention is hand washing, not touching the eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands, and staying away from sick people. Some evidence supports the use of face masks. No cure for the common cold exists, but the symptoms can be treated.Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen may help with pain.Antibiotics should not be used. Evidence does not support a benefit from cough medicines.

Cold

How cold

When I woke up this morning
it was very cold.
How cold was it?
It was a freezing, sneezing
goose-bumpy, teeth-chattering,
can't-get-out-of-bed,
blankets-over-my-head
kind of cold

Cold refers to the condition or subjective perception of having low temperature, the absence of heat.

A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0 K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale. This corresponds to −273.15 °C on the Celsius scale, −459.67 °F on the Fahrenheit scale, and 0 °R on the Rankine scale.

Since temperature relates to the thermal energy held by an object or a sample of matter, which is the kinetic energy of the random motion of the particle constituents of matter, an object will have less thermal energy when it is colder and more when it is hotter. If it were possible to cool a system to absolute zero, all motion of the particles in a sample of matter would cease and they would be at complete rest in this classical sense. The object would be described as having zero thermal energy. Microscopically in the description of quantum mechanics, however, matter still has zero-point energy even at absolute zero, because of the uncertainty principle.

Tiny Moving Parts

Tiny Moving Parts is an American emo/math rock band from Benson, Minnesota.

History

Tiny Moving Parts is a self-described family band consisting of Dylan Mattheisen, William Chevalier, and Matthew Chevalier. The trio started playing together in junior high and have been together since then. They released their first EP, Moving To Antarctica on June 19, 2010. Their next major release was their debut full-length, This Couch is Long & Full of Friendship with Kind of Like Records, released January 13, 2013. In early 2014 the band signed to Triple Crown Records. In September of the same year, they released their second full length album, Pleasant Living.

Discography

Videography

Moving Parts

The Moving Parts was a late 1970s Boston-based rock music band. Though short-lived and little noticed during their career, the band's members went on to form parts of more influential bands Birdsongs of the Mesozoic and Mission of Burma.

The band's members were Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass guitar), Erik Lindgren (keyboards) ), and Boby Bear (drums); all but Bear shared songwriting and singing duties. Their main release, Wrong Conclusion, features tracks that range from absurd synthpop ("Good Oscillations") to artsy abstraction ("Max Ernst") to driving guitar rock ("Talk Talk.")

After Moving Parts broke up due to creative disagreements, Conley and Miller founded Mission of Burma, Miller and Lindgren co-founded Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

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