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the body's drumbeat, broadcasting your aliveness through fingertips before your brain agrees to it
means the rhythmic throbbing of the arteries as the heart pumps blood, felt as a beat under the skin — or, more broadly, any steady recurring rhythm or surge.
from From Latin 'pulsus,' meaning a beating or striking, the past participle of 'pellere,' to push or drive — the same root that gives us 'propel,' 'compel,' and 'expel.' The heartbeat, then, is literally a push: blood driven through you, knocking at the walls of your arteries. (The other 'pulse' — lentils, beans, peas — is a separate word entirely, from Latin 'puls,' a thick porridge, and unrelated to the beating kind.)
- first count
- clocked by an ancient Chinese doctor 3,500 years ago
- laser cousin
- shortest light pulses last attoseconds, one quintillionth of a second
- hidden tell
- a wrist pulse reveals lies better than words
- resting low
- elite cyclists idle near 30 beats per minute
- food echo
- lentils and beans share the name, from Latin puls
apollo 13 oxygen tank — burst on april 13, 1970, forcing nasa to abort the moon landing and improvise a return home
tacoma narrows bridge — collapsed on november 7, 1940, in washington state due to resonance from wind creating destructive pulses