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Sean Goodenough

William McKinley | The White House - 0 views

  • McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out.
    • Sean Goodenough
       
      This must Had been the first time he thought of being in the war.
Ruby Ridgway

Study prompts rethink of how ovaries develop - 0 views

  • polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS
    • Ruby Ridgway
       
      Could be significant to me, because my sister has been diagnosed with PCOS and there is a high chance that I also have it.
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    New studies on how the ovaries form. Found new cell type (GREL).
Katie Stevenson

Marie Curie Biography - 2 views

  • first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry)
  • discovery of polonium and radium
  • the development of X-rays
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  • died on July 4, 1934
  • youngest of five children
  • a bright and curious mind and excelled at school.
  • continued her education in Warsaw's "floating university,
  • informal classes held in secre
  • five years, Curie worked as a tutor and a governess
  • spare time to study, reading about physics, chemistry and math.
  • 1891, Curie finally made her way to Paris where she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Pari
  • completed her master's degree in physics in 1893 and earned another degree in mathematics the following year
  • Curie took Becquerel's work a few steps further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays.
  • rays remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium
  • This revolutionary idea created the field of atomic physics and Curie herself coined the word radioactivity to describe the phenomena.
Alec Myers

5 Smells That Make You Kinder, Happier, Nicer | Care2 Causes - 0 views

    • Alec Myers
       
      who knew that smells could really influence our behavior. 
  • Researchers from Wheeling Jesuit University found that the smell of peppermint boosted both mood and motivation in competitive athletes by making them run faster, do more push-ups and squeeze a hand grip harder.
  • The smell of American spice apple has been found to help reduce blood pressure. 
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  • Lavender scent has been found to help reduce stress and relieve pain (possibly).
Indea Armstrong

Anthropologists find American heads are getting larger - 0 views

  • White Americans' heads are getting bigger.
Azrael Long

The Beatles' Surprising Contribution To Brain Science : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

  • evidence that the motor system can step in to help retrieve a chunk of forgotten musical notes.
    • Azrael Long
       
      Motor system can step in to help retrieve a chunk of forgotten musical notes? Would this go as deep as knowing a musical scale with a missing note, and being able to figure out what that missing note is say by singing it? Gotta look more into this.
    • Azrael Long
       
      Found a study on the pentatonic scale that proves this.
Imani West

Inappropriate Inhalation of Duster Cans | Education.com - 0 views

    • Imani West
       
      Why is it that the long-term users really don't have any mental or heart damage?
    • msdchemistry
       
      Good question. Any hunches?
Carolina Torres

Top 10 Medical Benefits from Marijuana - 2 views

  • Cigarette smoke causes cancer because the tobacco is radiated whereas marijuana isn’t. In fact, the American Association for Cancer Research has found the marijuana actually works to slow down tumor growth in the lungs, bitches, and brain considerably.
    • Carolina Torres
       
      Why is there bitches in this? And see what makes it so bad if it helps slow down the growth of things?
    • msdchemistry
       
      Makes me question the reliability of this source... reputable journals don't write using incorrect grammar (the not than) and name calling..
  • Marijuana’s treatment of glaucoma has been one of the best documented. There isn’t a single valid study that exists that disproves marijuana’s very powerful and popular effects on glaucoma patients.
Natalie Mitten

Why Einstein Was a Genius - ScienceNOW - 0 views

  • Thomas Harvey, permission to preserve the brain for scientific study. Harvey photographed the brain and then cut it into 240 blocks, which were embedded in a resinlike substance.
  • only six peer-reviewed publications resulted from these widely scattered materials
  • greater density of neurons in some parts of the brain and a higher than usual ratio of glia (cells that help neurons transmit nerve impulses) to neurons
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  • 2009 by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee,
  • But the Falk study was based on only a handful of photographs that had been previously made available by Harvey, who died in 2007.
  • several regions feature additional convolutions and folds rarely seen in other subjects.
  • and his prefrontal cortex—linked to planning, focused attention, and perseverance in the face of challenges—is also greatly expanded.
  • Albert Galaburda, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says that "what's great about this paper is that it puts down … the entire anatomy of Einstein's brain in great detail.
  • he study raises "very important questions for which we don't have an answer."
  • whether Einstein started off with a special brain that predisposed him to be a great physicist, or whether doing great physics caused certain parts of his brain to expand
  • "some combination of a special brain and the environment he lived in."
  • Falk agrees that both nature and nurture were probably involved
  • "he had the right brain in the right place at the right time."
Natalie Mitten

Snapshots explore Einstein's unusual brain : Nature News & Comment - 0 views

  • anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and her colleagues
  • pathologist Thomas Harvey
  • Einstein’s brain was smaller than average
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  • According to Sandra Witelson, a behavioural neuroscientist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, who discovered that the parietal operculum is missing from Einstein’s brain
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