we've all heard that Chimps are the closest species to humans but how much are they really like us?
In class we listened to an NPR Podcast that told the story about Lucy, a female chimpanzee. She was raised by humans for most of her life. She was used as a scientific project to see how human-like a chimpanzee could really be. She eventually talked like humans and even was sexually attracted to humans. Lucy really opened that gate way into learning more and more about the relations from Humans to chimps. These studies were a huge break-though and seemed to be going very well but, at age 11 Lucy became to strong and violent so they decided to let her go free on an island with other chimps. A lady named Janet stayed there with her to try to teach her how to be a chimp, she stayed for several years when she was only planning on staying three months. Once Janet thought she was ready she left Lucy and came back 2 years later, only to find Lucy's body, only bones, laying near where Janet used to stay on the island. The best guess Janet had was that she had been poached because there were no signs of other remains.
I am not 100% sure on how I feel about this story because Lucy did teach us a lot about her human socialization. But, in the end, this socialization is what probably got her killed. The ending of this story really tugged at the heart strings though, which is kind of funny considering this is an different species from us. Once the podcast said that Lucy had probably been poached, I felt a light feeling of sadness. I did enjoy this story though, it puts a whole new perspective on Human-Chimpanzee relation.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Anti-angiogenic blog
Have you ever thought that it would be possible to beat cancer by eating.
In the TED talk we watched this week, doctor Li talked about the possibility to prevent and beat cancer by having the right diet, a diet that contains anti-angiogenic foods and drugs.
The body is made up of blood vesels, millions of them, most of which grow while you're still in the whoom. Angiogenicus is the cells that feed tumors and allow cancerous cells to grown and spread. Anti-angiogenic treatment is the act of starving cancers, not allowing them to grown and makinging them shrink or die out.
Doctors conducted a few tests on animals to see if anti-angiogenic treatments really worked to increase the life of animals with cancer. A dog with a large tumor on his shoulder was given anti-angiogenic food and creme, the dog lived about six times longer than the vetranarian predicted.
They realized that they were trying to treat cancer to late in the game. treating people who already have dangerous cancerous cells/tumors. Dr. Li found many foods that were anti-angiogenic, eating these foods to prevent cancer buy not letting them grow. red grapes, strawberries, pineapple, and even dark chocolote are just a few anti-angiogenic foods.
I find this fascinating because everyone says "eat right", but who knew that doing this made such a big difference, big enough a difference to fight off horrible things like cancer. Eating right in the first place is such a better alternative as to getting treatment for cancer. Chemo is used to kill cancerous cells, but at the same time it kills good cells too, I personally would much rather eat foods that are good for you and not have to deal with such a painful process
In the TED talk we watched this week, doctor Li talked about the possibility to prevent and beat cancer by having the right diet, a diet that contains anti-angiogenic foods and drugs.
The body is made up of blood vesels, millions of them, most of which grow while you're still in the whoom. Angiogenicus is the cells that feed tumors and allow cancerous cells to grown and spread. Anti-angiogenic treatment is the act of starving cancers, not allowing them to grown and makinging them shrink or die out.
Doctors conducted a few tests on animals to see if anti-angiogenic treatments really worked to increase the life of animals with cancer. A dog with a large tumor on his shoulder was given anti-angiogenic food and creme, the dog lived about six times longer than the vetranarian predicted.
They realized that they were trying to treat cancer to late in the game. treating people who already have dangerous cancerous cells/tumors. Dr. Li found many foods that were anti-angiogenic, eating these foods to prevent cancer buy not letting them grow. red grapes, strawberries, pineapple, and even dark chocolote are just a few anti-angiogenic foods.
I find this fascinating because everyone says "eat right", but who knew that doing this made such a big difference, big enough a difference to fight off horrible things like cancer. Eating right in the first place is such a better alternative as to getting treatment for cancer. Chemo is used to kill cancerous cells, but at the same time it kills good cells too, I personally would much rather eat foods that are good for you and not have to deal with such a painful process
Monday, September 2, 2013
TED Talk I Chose: Why Do We Sleep?
Mr. Russell Foster has done research on why we sleep. He says that sleep is the most important behavioral experience that we do, which most people my age would agree without a second thought. Russel says that an average of 36 percent of our lives are spent asleep.
Russell did this TED Talk to change our views on sleep. He says that sleep is important but must of us don't give it a second thought and put it aside. Why do we sleep? Restoration - restore, replace, and rebuild during the night. Energy Conservation - Sleep to save calories. Brain Processing and Memory Conservation. But what I found to be the most interesting was his knowledge on sleep deprivation. We as species, are desperately sleep deprived. Teenagers need an average of 9 hours of sleep a night but most are only getting around 5, it's simply not enough. When you have a lack of sleep, you have poor memory, increased impulsiveness, and poor judgement. Thousands of people are killed in accidents including car crashes revolving around poor decision making.
For people who tend to stay up very late, your brain is tired and is searching for something to make it up. Drugs, stimulants, alcohol are all things that may make you think that you're not tired when you're actually slowly crashing.
Russell gives lots of good tips on how to get a better nights sleep. It helps to make your sleeping area in a way, a haven for sleep, Make it comfortable.
Mr. Russell Foster has a very good idea on sleep in my opinion.
http://www.ted.com/talks/russell_foster_why_do_we_sleep.html
Russell did this TED Talk to change our views on sleep. He says that sleep is important but must of us don't give it a second thought and put it aside. Why do we sleep? Restoration - restore, replace, and rebuild during the night. Energy Conservation - Sleep to save calories. Brain Processing and Memory Conservation. But what I found to be the most interesting was his knowledge on sleep deprivation. We as species, are desperately sleep deprived. Teenagers need an average of 9 hours of sleep a night but most are only getting around 5, it's simply not enough. When you have a lack of sleep, you have poor memory, increased impulsiveness, and poor judgement. Thousands of people are killed in accidents including car crashes revolving around poor decision making.
For people who tend to stay up very late, your brain is tired and is searching for something to make it up. Drugs, stimulants, alcohol are all things that may make you think that you're not tired when you're actually slowly crashing.
Russell gives lots of good tips on how to get a better nights sleep. It helps to make your sleeping area in a way, a haven for sleep, Make it comfortable.
Mr. Russell Foster has a very good idea on sleep in my opinion.
http://www.ted.com/talks/russell_foster_why_do_we_sleep.html
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