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Scientists are still investigating potential triggers for the three types of primary headaches: recurring, long-lasting migraines; intensely painful, rapid-fire cluster headaches; and, most common of all, the tension headache.

As the name suggests, tension headaches are known for creating the sensation of a tight band squeezed around the head.

For example, in dehydration headaches, the frontal lobe actually shrinks away from the skull, creating forehead swelling that doesn’t match the location of the pain in tension headaches.

And it's this interplay between tension and release, or consonance and dissonance, that makes what we call music.

So silence preceding verbal communication can create a lot of tension.

Hearing a sound without knowing its source is going to create some sort of tension.

But even in our own world, the developed world, we see the tension of stagnant economies impacting the lives of people around us.

We couldn't understand why you had a mountain under tension.

We understood mountains under compression, but we could not understand why we had a mountain under tension.

The one who makes out with a partner for three hours and experiments with sensual tension and communication, or the one who gets wasted at a party and hooks up with a random in order to dump their "virginity" before they get to college?

And the tension here is between institution as enabler and institution as obstacle.

The discrepancy, and his inability to resolve it, left Einstein in what he described as a state of psychic tension.

In a time of racial and social tension, embracing this movement and others like this help us to rise above the confines of the status quo.

And that's the tension I want to create with my work, because I believe it is that contemplation, that internal dialogue that will lead to greater interest in our planet and more awareness of what we're doing to it.

Yes, and I clearly remember the feeling of fear and being threatened, and tension rising up between me and the interrogator when we talked about politics.

And the quality of the elasticity is what we call "surface tension."

Now by adding soap, what happens is the soap molecule reduces the surface tension of water, making it more elastic and easier to form bubbles.

That is surface tension at work, trying to find the most effective geometry arrangement.

At the time she was writing, a wealthy marriage was a financial necessity for most young women, and she often explores the tension between the mythical quest for love, and the economic benefits of making a match.

Many see the controversy around the statue as tension between the Italian-American community and the indigenous community.

There's always been this tension between how much data we can generate and how much we can recover and how much we can store.

And that tension exists between the layers of privilege in the diagram and the absolute privilege that people experience in society.

There's a sort of natural tension between exploration and exploitation.

"Who are we?", but be really forever denied an answer and left in a state of existential tension which we seek to relieve in various ways, and one of these, the most effective for me is laughter.

He said, "I want to speak about the Palestinian question," and you could feel the tension in the audience rose tremendously.

You set a couple of boundary conditions, like gravity, the surface tension, density, etc., and then you press "execute," and magically, the universe produces you a perfect ball lens.

So how can you take a line that pulls tension like a sculpture and put it into a print?

So you have this combination of the lull of that beautiful swing, but also the tension that it constantly could destroy the piece itself.

And they put that same kind of tension into the sculpting of a car that you do in a great sculpture that you would go and look at in a museum.

That tension between the need to express, the need to discover, then you put something new into it, and at the same time you have bounds of craftsmanship.

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