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Matunuck (muh-TOO-nick [1]) is a village in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, located near Charlestown. It is located on a point along the southern Atlantic coast of Rhode Island off U.S. Route 1. The village takes its name from an Indian word [clarification needed] meaning "lookout".
Browning's Beach Historic District is a historic district west of the junction between Card Pond and Matunuck Beach Roads in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.It encompasses a cluster of four beach houses located on a barrier beach facing Long Island Sound south of Cards Pond, and accessed via a private gravel drive extending from Cards Pond Road.
It is located near the village of Matunuck, on Route 1 at the Matunuck Beach Road exit, near Mary Carpenter's, the South Kingstown Town Beach, Moonstone Beach, and the Theatre by the Sea. [3] The beach has yellow sand and slopes near the water. The beach has a lot of rocks in the water and on the shoreline, and has suffered from significant ...
Americans will set their clocks back an hour on 5 November
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Description: Overview of biological circadian clock in humans. Biological clock affects the daily rhythm of many physiological processes. This diagram depicts the circadian patterns typical of someone who rises early in morning, eats lunch around noon, and sleeps at night (10 p.m.).
These hormones help regulate blood sugar to give the body the appropriate amount of energy that is required throughout the day. Cortisol levels are high upon waking and gradually decrease over the course of the day, melatonin levels are high when the body is entering and exiting a sleeping status and are very low over the course of waking hours ...
The receptors for these hormones may be located far across the body and synchronize the peripheral clocks of various organs. Thus, the information of the time of the day as relayed by the eyes travels to the clock in the brain, and, through that, clocks in the rest of the body may be synchronized. This is how the timing of, for example, sleep ...