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The conventional idea regarding the brain is that each sense (vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell) has a designated area in the brain. This was the idea at first, but this article shows that the visual cortex may be doing double duty. Not only is the visual cortex processing vision, but it's also playing a part in processing sound. This breakthrough was discovered when scientists ran an experiment; in the experiment subjects were blindfolded and played three different sounds. When the scientists analyzed each subject's brain in reaction to each sounds they discovered that they could tell what each subject was listening to just by looking at the visual cortex. Thusly proving that the visual cortex actually has a correlation to one's sense of hearing. Furthermore, scientists have also made the assumption that the visual cortex's diversion to the auditory region is due to evolution and will help one survive.

Swine flu has become a world wide scare across America causing people to over think the entire situation. When under reacting to the situation with swine flu it puts a huge dent into public heath and harms the vaccine industry. When over reacting it causes tax payers to pay hundreds of millions of dollars which greatly effects the economy. The H1N1 scare is not to serious by saying yes, 2 billion people will be effected with the virus but about half of that won't even know they have the virus.