Okay, here's something that has boggled my mind...

[Mitera Nikkou]

Not that it's hard to boggle my mind, mind you. <.<;

Right. I actually went outside, beyond the property, and did some good ol'-fashioned labor. Now... I tend to overwork and will carry on even if it feels like my head is the core of the sun and all that. I'll be all hot and sweaty 'til the point where I might as well be melting. However, when I feel my abdomen, it's as cold as an ice cube. Exaggerate I do not.

So, what I'm wondering... Is why and how my stomach would be that cold? O.o

[Rowan]

I think I can try fielding that one. Although a couple months back I don't think I would've been able to.

I read a new theory that suggests (with some pretty good evidence) that the burning feelign we experience from physical exertion isn't from the build up of acids from the secondary powering of our muscles, it is from the heat the builds up; that sweating is our secondary less efficient means of dumping heat. Thus, if you're doing beak breaking labor, you might be using all of your muscles except the ones in your stomach (or at least to a greatly reduced extent). The article I read, was about scientists that had found a way to dump the heat we build up, allowing a human being to increase their workout by many, many times. Conversely, by feeding them heat instead of cold with this system, by simply keeping their hands warm to a certain extent the entire rest of the body could be totally submerged in freezing waters and survive. You wouldn't be comfortable, but you wouldn't freeze to death.

Aha! Here! I dug up the article.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html

[Tiaiel]

Wow
This is interesting.

[Mitera Nikkou]

My abdomen was fairly active. You see, I was helping to dig up a layer of gravel at someone's family grave site so they could replace it with a layer of top soil. Since the layer was only a few inches, the angle for digging (well, scooping) required that I bend over to nab a load. Then I'd twist at the middle so I could dump the gravel in a bucket. It was a simple enough job for my arms, so a lot of the strain went to my lower back and abdomen.

I understand that the body can lower its temperature other than by sweating, although the head seems most vulnerable to heating up. So, while my head was the sun, my abdomen was Pluto. XD Since spontaneous human combustion starts in the abdomen, I wonder if keeping that area from getting too hot diminishes the possibility of that occurring? Yay for silly ideas. ;p

[Rowan]

Hmmmm... Well, I'm stumped! And not for the first time since landing here

[Lucky]

Sweat. You got more sweat glands on your stomic then on your head. Not to mention you head relesses more heat. The heat on your stomic is easly pulled away well the sweat on your head quickly becomes warm.