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Billie Napoleon

General Guidelines - 25 views

Hello All, For AOW, annotate at least three times. Please note that although I have posted a few articles, they have not been assigned. But if you want to read them ahead of time and share yo...

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Logan Hutchinson

What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 16 views

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  • We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another. And at the same time, we slaughter one another.
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 08 Jan 12
       
      I especially love this quote because it explains almost everything to do with the human race. How we live how we act. But at the same time you have to ask yourself is all these actions really for the better? -Kai Wilding
    • Uila Marx
      Uila Marx on 11 Jan 12
       
      This quote certainly illustrates humanity. It shows how we can be so kind and loving, yet terribly cruel. How will this relate to the book "Lord of the Flies?" You can already see the slaughtering of one another between Ralph and Piggy and how Ralph teases him dreadfully.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 12 Jan 12
       
      This quote really stood out to me. And it has a sort or irony to it. It tells how we can unconditionally love one another to the point of giving our life for one another, yet we can be so gruesome and cruel to each other at times.
    • Capella Gonzalez
      Capella Gonzalez on 13 Jan 12
       
      This is very true about the human race, we can have very different emotions towards one person.  We can love them and be kind to them but still be very cruel.
    • Kai Funakawa
      Kai Funakawa on 13 Jan 12
       
      This quote really describes what people do for each other. No matter what the situation is, people are willing to be helpful and show our affections for one another.
    • Ichi Manabe
      Ichi Manabe on 13 Jan 12
       
      This quote shows what humans do and it explains humans in general. We have feelings and do some things that animals cannot do. 
    • Reina Takaki
      Reina Takaki on 13 Jan 12
       
      This is like what Death mentioned in the Book Thief because he said that it isn;t war who is killing the humans, it is the hum as who are killing the humans.
  • those subatomic particles that are created in accelerators and vanish in a trillionth of a second, but in that fleeting instant, we've visited untold horrors on ourselves—in Mogadishu, Rwanda, Chechnya, Darfur, Beslan, Baghdad, Pakistan, London, Madrid, Lebanon, Israel, New York City, Abu Ghraib, Oklahoma City, an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 08 Jan 12
       
      The first part of this sentence actually explains how an atomic bomb works or explodes while the list of places state where murder or war has taken place. This shows how lives can be taken so quickly and with such brute force that people just die everyday from war and murder.
  • We're a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 09 Jan 12
       
      I didn't know that all humans can all be kind unlike Adolf Hitler
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 10 Jan 12
       
      Kolten so your saying you thought all people are like Adolf Hitler
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think its interesting how we can be so loving and kind but so cruel at the same time, much like in The Book Thief, Death explained how he didnt understand how humans could be so kind and caring but kill another also.
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 13 Jan 12
       
      I like how every person has a absolute kindness hidden n them that they will use mabye when they least expect it
    • Kai Funakawa
      Kai Funakawa on 13 Jan 12
       
      This quote explained how humans can have such kindness, but yet be so cruel to one another. People always try to be kind, but its the little things that can be cruel, and these can add up to one big mean person.
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  • We're the only species with language, we told ourselves—until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 09 Jan 12
       
      I would think all animals have a way of speaking to communicate with their peers/
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 13 Jan 12
       
      I agree with Kolton. You'll usually see animals working together or in groups. They'd have to have a way to communicate or else they wouldn't be able to be around each other. Imagine if you were standing by some people, but they didn't talk and you had no way of communicating. How would you let them know to relocate or get food like how animals do? All animals must have a way to communicate.
  • But if the same teacher says it's also O.K. to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates. "He'll respond, 'No, the teacher shouldn't say that,'" says psychologist Michael Schulman, co-author of Bringing Up a Moral Child.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 09 Jan 12
       
      interesting I never thought of it in this kind of way.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think it is good that kids learn the difference between right and wrong at a young age.
    • Reina Takaki
      Reina Takaki on 13 Jan 12
       
      I agree with Maris because if children aren't taught the difference between right and wrong at a young age, how do you think they would act when they are older?
  • Of course, the fact is, that child will sometimes hit and won't feel particularly bad about it either—unless he's caugh
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 10 Jan 12
       
      Some kids might think it is funny to punch someone but when they get caught they realize it is a mean thing to do and they feel bad
    • Fumi Hata
      Fumi Hata on 11 Jan 12
       
      Yes, I completely understand that people may have learned something is wrong... only if you're caught. If you're caught, the punishment awaits.
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 13 Jan 12
       
      How old of a child? You could be 3 years old and in preschool and hit your classmate but not realize that hitting is a bad thing. You need to learn from experience that hitting people isn't good. If a child hit someone and didn't get caught, they will think they could do it again. If they get caught and they're told not to do that, they'll not do it and they won't need to feel the guilt. If they are told not to, they won't do it at all because they know it's bad in the first place.
    • Tia Matsumura
      Tia Matsumura on 13 Jan 12
       
      Yes, i agree.  Bad behavior is developed when there is no discipline.  Or, bad behavior is learned from a child's parents depending on how they were raised. 
    • Reina Takaki
      Reina Takaki on 13 Jan 12
       
      I agree with Tia because the next generation of civilians will be brought up by their parents, and if their parents don't discipline them in the correct manner, the society could corrupt. 
    • Logan Hutchinson
      Logan Hutchinson on 13 Jan 12
       
      It pretty much comes down to supervision. If the next generation is filled with more criminals, idiots and negative thinkers its the parents fault. 
  • all of the crimes committed by the highest, wisest, most principled species the planet has produced. That we're also the lowest, cruelest, most blood-drenched species is our shame—and our paradox.
    • samuel He
      samuel He on 10 Jan 12
       
      Does this mean that we are the highest and wisest species but the crimes that we commit make us the lowest and cruelest species
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 10 Jan 12
       
      The entire human race is a paradox in this statement of truth. There are those who do the right thing and set a good example for others(those are the people that make us look good), and there are those like Hitler, Ghidafi, and Bin Ladin who tear out the light of our race and make us look like blood-thirsty creatures. We are the double edged sword that both takes our life and gives it reason to exist.
    • Jay Narimatsu
      Jay Narimatsu on 11 Jan 12
       
      Well I dont think it is just certain people like Hitler and Osama that tar the name of the human race, but ourselves as well. Every person that makes us look good (as Mako said) has probably done something that he or she regrets and people that make us look bad have probably commited some good deed. Remember these people in the eyes of their people look like heros. So it is a matter of perspective. We see others as bad and they see us as bad.
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 12 Jan 12
       
      Cool story Jay
  • In both cases, somebody taught the child a rule, but the rule against pushing has a stickiness about it,
    • samuel He
      samuel He on 10 Jan 12
       
      If the child had no desire to push another child why would they need to make a rule about pushing
    • Jay Narimatsu
      Jay Narimatsu on 11 Jan 12
       
      I think that they were using it as an example to explain how the rule of pushing someone seems to have an effect in our minds that it is morally wrong. While on the other hand the eating a snack in classroom rule doesn't seem as morally wrong. However, people do have different viewpoints of what is moral and what is not.
  • " The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant.
    • samuel He
      samuel He on 10 Jan 12
       
      does this mean that something that is savage yet splendid is mad?
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 12 Jan 12
       
      No, it means that the two qualities of being good and bad are what is mad. Or in other words, good and bad are the opposite of each other and its crazy that both of those can exist in one person at one time. 
    • Tia Matsumura
      Tia Matsumura on 13 Jan 12
       
      i think this means that a person can be savage by slaughtering other people and splendid by helping other people but not at the same time.
  • insanity would not lie in the anger and darkness of the human mind—though it can be a black and raging place indeed.
    • Marshall Mamiya
      Marshall Mamiya on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think this part means that anger is not in the mentally part of us but our mind can be a creative place with many feelings.
  • The rules we know, even the ones we intuitively feel, are by no means the rules we always follow.
    • Marshall Mamiya
      Marshall Mamiya on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think this means that even though some people feel and understand the rules and what they did wrong that doesn't guaranteed that the rules and law will be not broken by that person again.
    • Jay Narimatsu
      Jay Narimatsu on 11 Jan 12
       
      I agree and for someone who broke a rule or is a constantly breaking rules will find it hard to stop since have already done it and it can get somewhat addicting even with harsh punishment. If a kid knows not to steal a cookie from the cookie jar I think it adds to the pressure of wanting a cookie when your not allowed to.
    • Fumi Hata
      Fumi Hata on 11 Jan 12
       
      Rules can be there. No one said you aren't allowed to have rules. Yet we all know, it's our choices to actually follow them or not.
  • but also the pain of others. That quality is the distilled essence of what it means to be human.
    • carsonmorneau
      carsonmorneau on 10 Jan 12
       
      So humans are recognized not only by our judgment but by our empathy? We know what it feels like to suffer, what it feels like after we make a good or bad decision, that is what defines a human?
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 13 Jan 12
       
      They're making it seem like this quality is only for humans. I'm pretty sure other animals feel pain for each other.
    • Kai Funakawa
      Kai Funakawa on 13 Jan 12
       
      I agree with dylan. I remember the previous AOW we did about ants and how we learned how smart they actually were. Other living things on this planet also have feelings and not just humans.
    • Logan Hutchinson
      Logan Hutchinson on 13 Jan 12
       
      But can all animals feel the same emotions as us? All of them? Hate, courage, pain, happiness all these conflicting emotions really sum up what it means to be human
  • We're the only one that uses tools then—but that's if you don't count otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 10 Jan 12
       
      We are not the only intellectually advanced species in this world. Our relatives hold their own on this level; even if it is as simple as a rock and another rock.
  • If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad.
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 10 Jan 12
       
      I believe that all the smaller, individual parts of the single being will speak something different from another and cause it to spiral out of control. It would be a mind of chaos and a body in anarchy. 
    • Melanie Buziak
      Melanie Buziak on 11 Jan 12
       
      I agree. With all of those thoughts and voices screaming to be heard it would be a big jumble of voices. But, if there were only one person of the human species, who would be there to declare said person mad?
    • mandy wittig
      mandy wittig on 12 Jan 12
       
      I agree with this. If everyone talked, acted, walked, or did anything the same, there would be no uniqueness. We would all be one. Sooner or later, we would get tired of each other and as it says in the saying, we would all go mad.
  • What does, or ought to, separate us then is our highly developed sense of morality, a primal understanding of good and bad, of right and wrong, of what it means to suffer not only our own pain—something anything with a rudimentary nervous system can do—
    • Austin Nakamura
      Austin Nakamura on 10 Jan 12
       
      people do what they believe is right, but when the morals of our own selves, cross those of others, who is the right person?  We initially decided that we'd have a third person sort it out, but is that really right?  Everybody has different morals and different ideas, so who draws the line?
    • Austin Nakamura
      Austin Nakamura on 10 Jan 12
       
      This brings it back to morals, if a person has different personal issues than someone else, and finds it okay to push someone, and gets permission, than they will.  Everybody has different morals, and even if a psychologist believes they will say that, there is to many factors for them to accurately predict that
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Jan 12
       
      In some cases, the only reason that people do good things is because they dont want to face the consequences of their actions.
  • The deeper that science drills into the substrata of behavior, the harder it becomes to preserve the vanity that we are unique among Earth's creatures.
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 12 Jan 12
       
       My theory on why people try so hard to make sure that we have reasons to say that we are better than animals is that we are afraid. We are afraid of the thought that we have lost to animals. Because right now in society if you aren't the best then its perceived that you have lost. Or it could be we want to be different. But realistically, every species is different in some way shape or form. It just that usually we overlook features that make species different. All animals have something different or special that makes them unique. For example, armadillos can walk underwater and great white sharks can go three months without eating.
  • Morality may be a hard concept to grasp, but we acquire it fast. A preschooler will learn that it's not all right to eat in the classroom, because the teacher says it's not. If the rule is lifted and eating is approved, the child will happily comply.
  • Investigations of tribal behavior are providing still more.
  • Investigations
    • Melanie Buziak
      Melanie Buziak on 11 Jan 12
       
      Does tribal behavior still influence our morals?
  • Brain scans are providing clues. Animal studies are providing more.
  • Brain scans are providing clues. Animal studies are providing more.
    • Uila Marx
      Uila Marx on 11 Jan 12
       
      Hopefully, sometime in the future, scientists will be able to figure out exactly why we behave in such ways. It will help us to better understand ourselves and others.
  • otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites
    • Fumi Hata
      Fumi Hata on 11 Jan 12
       
      I heard of these use of tools and saw them on TV. And it reminded me how alike we can be compare to these animals.
  • And why are we so inconsistent about following where they lead us?
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 13 Jan 12
       
      i find it interesting that we don't follow where our intuition lead us but we follow our heart and brain. What if our intuition is what kept us surviving?
    • Ichi Manabe
      Ichi Manabe on 13 Jan 12
       
      I wonder how life would be like if the first human beings didn't come up with a language. I wonder how hard it would be to communicate in sign language?
  • Megan Meyer on 13 Jan 12
     
    I like this quote because even though horrible things caused by humans happen daily, we are all capable of being good and caring.
Chloe Chalekian

The Power of Birth Order - TIME - 21 views

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shared by Chloe Chalekian on 27 Aug 11 - No Cached
    • Jaesun Brown
      Jaesun Brown on 27 Aug 11
       
      Interesting. I never knew that firstborns are generally smarter than any others. That's strange but I'm sure that you can't go by it as a fact. 
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 30 Aug 11
       
      Wow. I would never think that firstborns are generally smarter then second born siblings. I wonder why is that?
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 30 Aug 11
       
      Its a good thing I'm a firstborn then! I'm reading all about these benefits firstborns have, being older doesn't seem so bad with all that responsibility. I had no idea first born are generally physically bigger (taller, weigh more), smarter (an average of a 3 point IQ average), generally make it into higher paying professions, ect.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 30 Aug 11
       
      Wow I never knew that firstborns acquire so much more since there born first, and generally second born or last born are generally not as good as there eldest sibling.
    • sam fleischer
      sam fleischer on 31 Aug 11
       
      This paragraph is totally untrue, and I can prove it with my family. My oldest uncle did not go to harvard, my dad went to harvard, and my youngest uncle went to Princeton
    • Fumi Hata
      Fumi Hata on 01 Sep 11
       
      MOST firstborns are smartest. I actually heard of this fact several times. Plus my brother is, (now that we mention it,) pretty smart.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 02 Sep 11
       
      I can see how the oldest sibling gets the "better" education and parents somewhat "committing" to the older child's education. But that doesn't mean that the middle/youngest child isn't just as smart. My brother is really good at math but he's horrible at geography while I'm not the best at math but a lot better at geography then he is.
    • Emma Baehrens
      Emma Baehrens on 02 Sep 11
       
      The eldest with the best IQ thing is very true in my family. My sister is smarter than all of us.
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 30 Aug 11
       
      This shocks me mostly by the usages and addictions of Teddys brother but aswell of the fact that i didnt know he had a brother. It amazes me that such a prestigious man with such honor can have a brother in the back ground with such a horrible life and actions being shadowed by his brother!!!
    • Gabe Mayer
      Gabe Mayer on 31 Aug 11
       
      I was also surprised that Teddy had a brother, but i also wonder why Elliot was so depressed
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 02 Sep 11
       
      Gabe: Don't you think Elliot was absolutely sick and tired of being compared to his big brother. I mean wouldn't life suck if you had an older, smarter, stronger, faster, taller, brother? And while he grows to be a president, you turn out to be a druggie, and a drunk. Then, imagine people constantly saying "You know Teddy could have done a much better job," for everything.
    • Gabe Mayer
      Gabe Mayer on 31 Aug 11
       
      I did not know that any of these people had brothers. I can Imagine the jealousy that went on their families!
    • Emma Baehrens
      Emma Baehrens on 02 Sep 11
       
      Soooooooooooo right Gabe. I'm a middle child, my older sister is the smarter one, my younger brother's the fun one, I'm sort of... I don't know. :(
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    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 01 Sep 11
       
      I never knew all these people had brothers
  • The importance of birth order has been known—or at least suspected—for years.
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 01 Sep 11
       
      what if I am an only child
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 02 Sep 11
       
      Sam: If you're an only child, I bet you would have the same traits as an elder sibling, because you would have the most attention, money, etc...
  • "'I'm a middle-born, so that explains everything in my life'—it's just not like that."
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 01 Sep 11
       
      I think just because of the birth order dosnt mean you cant try your best
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 02 Sep 11
       
      This is totally true. I am a middle child. I was really surprised when I read this article because I don't understand what would come out of saying which sibling is smarter or better. It doesnt really matter if it acutally does explains things that had happened in their life. We need to stop judging people. We can be anything we want to be.
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 02 Sep 11
       
      Yes I agree with both of you guys on this just because of birth order doesn't mean you can't aspire to be something great. I'm a middle born and I have the best grades in my family it says that I shouldn't, it should be my older brother, yet I am the one with the best grades. Maybe it depends on the family but it seems like there are so many variables that this study might not be true. 
    • sam fleischer
      sam fleischer on 01 Sep 11
       
      Authors's word choices of arbitrary and popping out of the womb seem like the author is unhappy with this.
  • But in family after family, case study after case study, the simple roll of the birth-date dice has an odd and arbitrary power all its own.
    • sam fleischer
      sam fleischer on 01 Sep 11
       
      Again word choice of arbitrary and dice shows a negative tone. The author is  unhappy saying that random birth order is important to a human's success.
  • In June, for example, a group of Norwegian researchers released a study showing that firstborns are generally smarter than any siblings who come along later, enjoying on average a three-point IQ advantage over the next eldest—probably a result of the intellectual boost that comes from mentoring younger siblings and helping them in day-to-day tasks
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 02 Sep 11
       
      I have to disagree with this study. I am 2 years younger than my sister and I get better grades than her for the same subjects.
    • Capella Gonzalez
      Capella Gonzalez on 02 Sep 11
       
      that is so true! first borns are always the smartest! ;)
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 02 Sep 11
       
      If the elder child helped the younger child with day-to-day tasks, wouldn't the younger child learn things too? I also think that this could be incorrect. Maybe second born and third born children don't have as much motivation or devotion to academics as the elder children do. The later born children might be as smart (maybe even smarter) as the elder child. Maybe the younger children just don't put very much effort into learning or academics in general. Some younger siblings may be smarter than their older sibling if they put more effort into what they do.
    • sam fleischer
      sam fleischer on 01 Sep 11
       
      Being an older sibling pays-off.  The work of teaching younger siblings helps the older one to develop intellectual skills.
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 01 Sep 11
       
      Being an older sibling this amuses me but also catches me to find what is the cause of this. To find how they know of this and what are the main scientific facts that show this statement. This information is amazing
    • Ria Sappal
      Ria Sappal on 05 Sep 11
       
       This piece of information specifically sound relevant. its interesting that the studies have come to this conclusion in most cases. In my case, this statement is very true.
  • the firstborn, with the heir-apparent bearing, who makes the best grades, keeps the other kids in line and, when Mom and Dad grow old, winds up as caretaker and executor too.
    • Zoe Abrigo
      Zoe Abrigo on 02 Sep 11
       
      This shows that being the oldest sibling isn't only having a higher IQ, but it also comes with responsibilities.
  • Then, of course, there were the constant comparisons with big brother Teddy.
    • Capella Gonzalez
      Capella Gonzalez on 02 Sep 11
       
      I know what it is like to have a sibling that is an over achiever.  But mine is younger! :(
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  • "There are stereotypes out there about birth order, and very often those stereotypes are spot-on," says Delroy Paulhus, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "I think this is one of those cases in which people just figured things out on their own."
    • Capella Gonzalez
      Capella Gonzalez on 02 Sep 11
       
      Its all how you look at it.  If you think that because you are a middle child that you will get no where in life, then you will so still work your hardest and you will be something big!
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 02 Sep 11
       
      I like how this professor says that it isn't the same way for every family. I can't imagine a parent who would say that one child is better than the next. If your parents don't have confidence in you, then who will?
  • For families, none of this comes as a surprise.
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 02 Sep 11
       
      I know a family with 3 children. This seems to relate to them.
  • Studies in the Philippines show that later-born siblings tend to be shorter and weigh less than earlier-borns.
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 02 Sep 11
       
      I wonder what causes this. What makes a later born sibling smaller than a early born sibling?
  • Well, they can be a puzzle—even to researchers.
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 02 Sep 11
       
      That's funny cause everyone says that about my uncle. They say he's "different". He also happens to be the 2nd child out of 3 children!
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 02 Sep 11
       
      I find it interesting that first borns get all of the smarts. I am a middle child and am considered better at school than my sister was at my age. My brother doesnt really like homework and is a active boy but is still smart.
  • the firstborn is going to get into Harvard and the second-born isn't."
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 02 Sep 11
       
      I can't believe that the possibility of getting into a amazing school can be depended on something you don't even have control over, if you were born first or not.
  • Now, with college and careers more equally available, the remaining differences have largely melted away.
    • Kai Funakawa
      Kai Funakawa on 02 Sep 11
       
      Now since girls and boys both have chances at college and universities, it doesn't matter if you are a boy of girl.  I can relate to this because my brother is a senior and he is completely focused on college work.
  • less educated
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 02 Sep 11
       
      wouldn't this depend on the parents? on how much they want to educate their child?
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 02 Sep 11
       
      yay:) im a mystery child!
  • It can't be easy being Eli Manning, struggling to prove himself as an NFL quarterback while big brother Peyton polishes a Super Bowl trophy
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 02 Sep 11
       
      It must be difficult trying to prove yourself in your favorite sport if your older sibling is better and attracts the media. This means that Eli Manning won't get as much as a "Spotlight" as his older brother because he attracts all the attention. Eli Manning must also get very angry when people talk about how good his brother is. People must mention his brother to Eli Manning alot because of Eli Manning relationship with Peyton (sport information from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl)
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 02 Sep 11
       
      It must be difficult trying to prove yourself in your favorite sport if your older sibling is better and attracts the media. This means that Eli Manning won't get as much as a "Spotlight" as his older brother because he attracts all the attention. Eli Manning must also get very angry when people talk about how good his brother is. People must mention his brother to Eli Manning alot because of Eli Manning relationship with Peyton (sport information from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl)
    • Ichi Manabe
      Ichi Manabe on 02 Sep 11
       
      I'm very surprised that just because you are first born means that your smarter than your younger siblings. This is a very interesting fact that I had heard first time in my life.
  • The Power of Birth Order
  • 2.3 IQ points can correlate to a 15-point difference in sat scores, which makes an even bigger difference when you're an Ivy League applicant with a 690 verbal score going head to head against someone with a 705. "In many families," says psychologist Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and the man who has for decades been seen as the U.S.'s leading authority on birth order, "the firstborn is going to get into Harvard and the second-born isn't."
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 02 Sep 11
       
      This must make the second born feel ashamed for failing to get accepted into the same college as their older sibling. This must make them think that first born children are the better ones and that second born children will never be better than the firstborn.
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 02 Sep 11
       
      This must make the second born feel ashamed for failing to get accepted into the same college as their older sibling. This must make them think that first born children are the better ones and that second born children will never be better than the first born.
  • In the past, girls were usually knocked out of the running for the job and college perks their place in the family should have accorded them.
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 02 Sep 11
       
      Its interesting that the article says this because even though girls usually get higher IQs than boys, boys seem to always get the important jobs.
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 02 Sep 11
       
      Its interesting that the article says this because even though girls usually get higher IQs than boys, boys seem to always get the more important and high ranking jobs in the future.
  • "People read birth-order books the way they read horoscopes," warns Toni Falbo, professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas.
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 02 Sep 11
       
      This professor is saying that don't take things like birth order too seriously. Just because you are born after your sister doesn't mean that she automatically has to be better at everything. You should take matters into your own hands and work hard to get to the places you want to go.
  • Billie Napoleon on 27 Aug 11
     
    AOW #3 - Due Friday, September 2 (Thesis Generator optional)
Trevin Tengan

Mark Moffett Ants | The 'Jane Goodall of ants' - Los Angeles Times - 45 views

articles.latimes.com/...la-sci-ants-20100529

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  • They outdo us in the amount of effort they put into environmental health and social welfare.
    • Billie Napoleon
      Billie Napoleon on 19 Aug 11
       
      It's funny that animals/insects know more about preserving the environment than humans!
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 26 Aug 11
       
      I agree once you think about it the more we have evolved the less we have thought about the environment. Our ancestors gave back to the land what they took so there would always be more. we don't do this and look where that has gotten us.  
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      Because ants are closer to then environment that may be why they respect the earth much more then we humans do. And although ants are extremely smart, I don't believe we'll have any ants considering to make a nuclear power plant anytime soon.
  • to remote parts of the world to study hard-to-find ant species and investigate the more
    • Isaiah Browning
      Isaiah Browning on 25 Aug 11
       
      I can't believe that they would travel so far to find ants!
    • Zoe Abrigo
      Zoe Abrigo on 26 Aug 11
       
      I wonder if some ants live in remote places of the world because of the temperatures. If so, what kinds of temperatures would be sutible for an ants life style.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 26 Aug 11
       
      I wonder how they communicate with other ants, and how the investigators are going to find out?
    • Annie Schiffer
      Annie Schiffer on 26 Aug 11
       
      I wonder what makes Moffett so interested about ants. Ants are such a small part of the world, why are they important?
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      This guy is really dedicated! But he speaks of ants as if they are one of the most important part of the ecosystem, which they might as well be. My mom is the one who crushes every single ant in sight... maybe I should show this to her.
    • Austin Nakamura
      Austin Nakamura on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ants are a very important part of the eco system, they decompose dead plants and get rid of dead animals. They war against each other and dig under the ground. Sure they are pesky and a bit anoying but the complexity and the structure of their life and colony is absolutely stunning
  • Most ants either hunt on their own or send out scouts
    • Isaiah Browning
      Isaiah Browning on 25 Aug 11
       
      Ants are pretty smart to send out scouts to hunt instead of sending everybody.
    • Rex Yoshida
      Rex Yoshida on 26 Aug 11
       
      Why doesn't the ant just go out with the scouts to ensure maximum food being found?
    • Billie Napoleon
      Billie Napoleon on 26 Aug 11
       
      Maybe everyone has a specific job?
    • Jarrod Infante
      Jarrod Infante on 26 Aug 11
       
      I also think that everyone one has a specific job just like us in a community, everyone has a different responsibility so that you can get more things done.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow thats pretty interesting. I didn't know that ants had such a complex and interesting way of life. Sending out scout ants to look for food is a very smart idea
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  • Serfdom
    • sam fleischer
      sam fleischer on 26 Aug 11
       
      what does serfdom mean?
    • Hana Ra
      Hana Ra on 26 Aug 11
       
      Serfdom basically means that your a slave and that you have to serve your lord!!
  • With scouting strategy, you spread out and you look around alone, because in spreading apart, you're going to have the greatest chance of finding something.
    • Sophie Collis
      Sophie Collis on 25 Aug 11
       
      Wow! I can't believe that ants think that much! The strategy of scouting out alone be very advantageous for a colony of such small ants.
    • Rex Yoshida
      Rex Yoshida on 26 Aug 11
       
      Thats a really smart strategy to get the most amount of land scouted and discovered.
    • Isaiah Browning
      Isaiah Browning on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think humans should use this idea more!
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow i didnt know ants were this smart! It seems most animals, espically ants, have a much more complex way of life then we think they lead.
  • ants care about the health of their own society more than themselves.
    • Sophie Collis
      Sophie Collis on 25 Aug 11
       
      I find it amazing how ants sacrifice so much for the good of their colony and society. I wonder how us humans would be if we did the same...
    • Annie Schiffer
      Annie Schiffer on 26 Aug 11
       
      That's crazy. Like Sophie said, what if everyone in the world did that? Though I don't think a world of self-sacrafice will happen any time soon.
  • Your exploration of different types of ants has taken you to the Amazon, Nigeria, Botswana, Madagascar, Borneo, India, Australia.
  • You can get more different types of ants in one tree than you can in all of Great Britain. It's the drama of the Amazon. The early explorers called the Amazon "one big ant hill."
    • Sydni Tokuyama
      Sydni Tokuyama on 25 Aug 11
       
      I can't believe there are more types of ants in one tree than in all of Great Britain!! Is that even possible! Wonder what that tree looks like...
    • Trevin Tengan
      Trevin Tengan on 26 Aug 11
       
      That's amazing!!  there is more ants in a single tree than in a whole country.
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 26 Aug 11
       
      Dear Sydni, it would look utterly horrifying. Now I know I won't be going to the Amazon EVER!!! Can't bear to think of stumbling across a tree, and face-planting into a pile of man-eating ants. *Shudder*
    • Akela Baldwin
      Akela Baldwin on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow! That's so many ants on just one tree! I can't imagine what it would look like!
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      Thats unbelivable to think there are more diffrent types of ants in one tree then there are in the whole country of great britian!!! I wonder how big the tree must be and how all the ants get along together.
    • Reina Takaki
      Reina Takaki on 26 Aug 11
       
      That's a lot of ants!! Its weird knowing that there are some places with so many ants and some places with not so many ants!
    • Ria Sappal
      Ria Sappal on 26 Aug 11
       
      I can understand why the explorers called the Amazon, "One big ant hill," because you could find more different types of ants in one tree than you can in all of great Britain. That is a huge comparison.
  • Colonies of leafcutter ants put their trash in their innermost chambers that can be huge and take years to construct.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
      Sydni Tokuyama on 25 Aug 11
       
      I can't believe they put so much effort into this!! If we were like that would we be more constructed?...
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow! I cant hardly imagine what our world would look like if we did that! It would be covered in complete filth
    • Uila Marx
      Uila Marx on 26 Aug 11
       
      That is so smart!! Maybe we should research that more and do that ourselves ;) It's quite a smart system.
    • Annie Schiffer
      Annie Schiffer on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think that would be really cool to actually see that happen. I wonder why that is an instinct of that kind of ant.
    • Reina Takaki
      Reina Takaki on 26 Aug 11
       
      They must put a lot of effort in their work! I wonder what would happen if they got lazy like how humans are now?...
  • Sick ants wander off and die on their own rather than infect anyone else.
    • sam fleischer
      sam fleischer on 25 Aug 11
       
      Ants give more to the society then to itself. The sentence after the highlight backs my statement up.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 26 Aug 11
       
      I find it amazing that ants care about each other so much, its really quite amazing that ants may care about each other than humans do.
    • Zoe Abrigo
      Zoe Abrigo on 26 Aug 11
       
      This shows that ants put others before themselves. They think about what's best for their community. They want their community/society to keep "flowing" after they are gone.
    • Trevin Tengan
      Trevin Tengan on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ants is the true meaning for caring for others more than yourself.  For example, it would be willing to die alone just so it would get others sick.
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 26 Aug 11
       
      Now we all know whats going on in ants' heads. Welfare for others and environmental peace. I think that's pretty cool.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ants seem pretty cool after reading this. I guess I should give them more credit on being caring and loving and doing "one for the team" because usually I'm just flicking them off a table...
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think this is so sweet. Us humans would want everyone to be around us when we die and for it all to be about us. It is pretty amazing that ants actually have "hearts".
  • All you have to do is trick a young ant into thinking it is part of your colony, and it will work to death for you.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
      Sydni Tokuyama on 25 Aug 11
       
      That's so mean! Good thing that today everyone isn't that gullible.
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 26 Aug 11
       
      this is a very smart idea although very mean
    • Uila Marx
      Uila Marx on 26 Aug 11
       
      Aww... That's not nice at all! I wonder if there will ever be a Martin Luther King of the ants?? :)
    • Akela Baldwin
      Akela Baldwin on 26 Aug 11
       
      That's really harsh! I didn't know that ants could be so mean to each other.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ants really have a pretty good sense of how to grow their colony. (Ex. The Very Large Colony) Although tricking is not the best way to go in a humans perspective, in an ant's perspective it may be another way to add more workers to their colony.
    • Jaesun Brown
      Jaesun Brown on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think that this really shows how intelligent ants are nowadays. I never thought they would be the smart kind of insects, tricking others to be in there colony. But also that kinda tells me that there is no identification method within ants if ant were to see each other. 
    • Kai Funakawa
      Kai Funakawa on 26 Aug 11
       
      Although previously ants cared for others more than them self, this idea sort of counter acts that because ants are actually being selfish and taking other ants to work for them.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      I didn't know ants were so clever. In this aspect of their life they seem so tricky and sneaky. But its very clever how they can get other ants to think there one of them and begin to work for them.
    • Ria Sappal
      Ria Sappal on 26 Aug 11
       
      It's very interesting that you can trick an ant into thinking they are part of you colony, and their you have another worker. It's pretty smart of the directory of the colony to do that.
  • The book includes new hypotheses on ant behavior and evolution, including theories on foraging strategy, mass hunting and the origins of ant slaves.
    • Beobgwan Do
      Beobgwan Do on 25 Aug 11
       
      How interesting. I did not know that ants were so interesting. I never would have thought that ants could be so complicated, like having stategies for hunting!
    • Uila Marx
      Uila Marx on 26 Aug 11
       
      I did know that ants were social, but I had no idea that they would possibly hold captive slaves to work for them! This is amazing! :)
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 26 Aug 11
       
      It is very intresting that ants have slaves, and they hunt in the masses
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 26 Aug 11
       
      This makes you ponder the thought,  were our ancestors really that much different then ants? i don't think the really were. Maybe in a million years ants will be as smart as humans.
    • Reina Takaki
      Reina Takaki on 26 Aug 11
       
      It's amazing to know that ants can have slaves; their behaviors can be very similar to human behaviors.
    • Austin Nakamura
      Austin Nakamura on 26 Aug 11
       
      The ants actually take other ants from different colonies as slaves. they steal the eggs from a colony that they took over and then put the ants born from those eggs to work as slaves.
  • You can get more different types of ants in one tree than you can in all of Great Britain.
  • ants care about the health of their own society more than themselves.
  • And 8 million years ago, they figured out how to use leaves as a way to grow the fungus in huge monocultures.
    • Akela Baldwin
      Akela Baldwin on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ants are so smart! I didn't think that those little creatures could use their brain in such a way!
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      It blows my mind to think that those small little ants have such big, and intellegent, ideas that they apply to their lives!
  • You can be out there, finding new behaviors and species all the time.
    • Cameron Wong
      Cameron Wong on 26 Aug 11
       
      It shows how he spent his time doing that
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 26 Aug 11
       
      this is very true because you could study almost anything and find new behaviors in the species
  • Sick ants wander off and die on their own rather than infect anyone else.
    • Billie Napoleon
      Billie Napoleon on 26 Aug 11
       
      See how they sacrifice for the community? Do humans do that?
    • kris kadzielawa
      kris kadzielawa on 26 Aug 11
       
      I see why an ant would do that, knowing that they have no medecine, but still it is an interesting action that the ant takes
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      This is pretty cool, i didn't know ants sarcerficed so much for the sake of the colony. This really shows how much these ants depend on each other to take care of one another and to make the hard choice to benifit their society
  • It's equivalent to how we store nuclear waste [in the deepest places in the ground].
    • Zoe Abrigo
      Zoe Abrigo on 26 Aug 11
       
      If ants have such intricate ways of taking care of their environment such as burying their waste, could humans see ants as some what of an example of how our society should work? 
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 26 Aug 11
       
      I really didn't know that ants were very intelligent compared to humans
  • I grew up reading adventure stories and science fiction
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 26 Aug 11
       
      my favorite generes right now
  • Clearly, ants rule the Amazon basin
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 26 Aug 11
       
      how many species are there?
    • Jaesun Brown
      Jaesun Brown on 26 Aug 11
       
      So, ants rule the amazon; I can picture the sworm of ants moving or attacking something in like a forest of some sort. 
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 26 Aug 11
       
      How could somthing so small and insignificant do any damage or change in any environment. It seems humans have underestimated the power of many things we disregard.
    • kris kadzielawa
      kris kadzielawa on 26 Aug 11
       
      I would imagine the ants there are considerably larger, and I guess they "hunt" in packs to increase that strength even further
  • Mass hunting is searching in a group. It's something like a fox hunt, but with thousands or millions involved. Only army ants and a few others mass hunt
    • coltrane kubo
      coltrane kubo on 26 Aug 11
       
      It's really amazing how ants have jobs almost like our society
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      this is pretty cool. i didnt know ants were smart enough for such a complex way of thinking, setting up armies, stragesy for capturing and killing prey, i in some ways admire how ants work together
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 26 Aug 11
       
      thats a lot of places to go to find such a common thing as an ant
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 26 Aug 11
       
      Well, I guess to others, ants could be the center of attention. Who Knew?!?!?! I'm bewildered that someone could travel around the world because of a simple ant interest!
    • Gabe Mayer
      Gabe Mayer on 26 Aug 11
       
      I did not think that ants would be smart enough to have a social life. I only thought that they did what was instinct to them.
  • intricate parts of the insects' social behavior.
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 26 Aug 11
       
      It's very interesting to think that humans care about ants social behavior. Maybe we could learn something from them on how to act. Well at least during lunch we could learn something.
    • Melanie Buziak
      Melanie Buziak on 26 Aug 11
       
      I wonder why humans are just starting to study ants so intensily. It seems silly at first, maybe they just never thought about it as seriously?
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think this is very intriguing as we today dont pay much attention to the ant species but in reality there is a whole world we do not see. I myself thought there were only a few types of ants and all very common and normal. Yet it sais that there are rare types of ant and their life style of war and tactics is very unique and amazing.
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      i find it interesting that ants ahve a intericate behavior and social life and humans are trying to study that
  • This level of effort tells us something about a topic we're just beginning to recognize as important, in terms of how we invest in dealing with waste.
    • Gabe Mayer
      Gabe Mayer on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think that it is funny that we can learn form everything around us. From ants to teachers
  • They even invented pesticides.
    • Gabe Mayer
      Gabe Mayer on 26 Aug 11
       
      This and the surrounding sentences prove that humans are not the smartest animals in the world, they just industrialize things.
  • The 'Jane Goodall of ants'
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 26 Aug 11
       
      I can infer from the title alone that this article must be about a person who devotes their life to studying the social life of ants. I think this because I already know that Jane Goodall is a person who devoted her life to studying the social life of chimpanzees. So i inferred that the "Jane Goodall of ants" would be a person who likes studying about the social life of ants just like how Jane Goodall liked studying the social life of chimpanzees.
  • evolutionary biology
  • This level of effort tells us something about a topic we're just beginning to recognize as important, in terms of how we invest in dealing with waste.
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 26 Aug 11
       
      This shows how nature can teach us important lessons. If ants can teach us that we should take notice of how much we spend on disposing of our trash, maybe observing their social values could improve our society and economy.
  • Scouting strategy allows the ant foragers to search far and wide and therefore to find much more, but after one of the scouts does find something — say a prey she wants to kill — she often has to go get help, which gives the prey lots of time to escape.
    • Hana Ra
      Hana Ra on 26 Aug 11
       
      This is very interesting..I never knew that ants were so intelligent! But, I thought that there only such things as boy ants and not girl ants (not including the queen) that work!
    • Megan Meyer
      Megan Meyer on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow! These ants are smarted than my dog! I would have never guessed something so simple-minded as an ant, would know something as complex as a hunting strategy! That is literally mind blowing. I guess the animals aren't so simple-minded after all.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      I never knew ants could be so intellegent. Many people who look down on ants as small and stupid are as far from the truth as possible. I would think with their size they wouldnt be that intellegent, but obviously there much more advanced thinking then what most people belive.
  • Leafcutter ants have agriculture
    • Hana Ra
      Hana Ra on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ha!! I never knew that ants had such detailed jobs like agriculture!! I think this shows how much we don't know about animals and how we underestimate them!
  • Army ants put soldiers together in a tight group.
  • Slavery turns out to be very rare in nature
    • Hana Ra
      Hana Ra on 26 Aug 11
       
      This shows how sometimes humans are actually the stupidest animal on the planet! Slavery is not common in nature, so why should it be common in the human world?!!!
    • Jarrod Infante
      Jarrod Infante on 26 Aug 11
       
      I think that the ants are more cooperative and more accepting then were are. I think that we could learn many things from the ants.
    • Keala O'Connell
      Keala O'Connell on 26 Aug 11
       
      Animals don't turn on each other like humans do. We think of each other as being at different ratings and that feeling of over-powerment is what brought us to slavery. In the animal world, it seems that everyone is equal.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 26 Aug 11
       
      IN this aspet of the ant world, i thik ants, and generally nature, set a good role model for us to have no slavery
  • but after one of the scouts does find something — say a prey she wants to kill — she often has to go get help, which gives the prey lots of time to escape.
    • Skyler Kim
      Skyler Kim on 26 Aug 11
       
      This bit of information here shows that even though the scouting strategy helps the society spread about and it has a higher chance of finding something, this plan still has flaws in it. Maybe this strategy would be more effective if ants went our in groups of two or three.
    • Natalie Koch
      Natalie Koch on 26 Aug 11
       
      It's so interesting that ants will protect the others than trying to heal and take care of themselves. The ants care more about their society then we humans care about ours!
  • Leafcutter ants — these ants use foliage as mulch, on which they grow domesticated fungus. You describe their agriculture as parallel to the history of farming in humans.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 26 Aug 11
       
      I didn't know that ants are so similar to humas in that they farm plants too!
    • kris kadzielawa
      kris kadzielawa on 26 Aug 11
       
      ants are now farming ; they are going on the path or great colonization that humans went through. I am anticipating what they will be able to do in the future
  • Particularly in North America and Europe though, ants plunder other colonies and steal the young.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 26 Aug 11
       
      This is very similar to the trafficking that goes on in Africa every day.
  • ants plunder other colonies and steal the young.
    • Natalie Koch
      Natalie Koch on 26 Aug 11
       
      WOW! Ants are quite clever but very cruel!!! They're very small creatures, but obviously make it up in brains!!!
  • For ants, as individuals, it's a rough life. As a society, it isn't so bad.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      I can understand that. Ants seem to be very dependent on each other from when it comes to building and eating. With only one lone ant, it can't have other "helpers/workers" to help build a nest and it is more difficult finding food. In a society, they can thrive well.
  • which we don't think of in the animal world.
  • These ants started growing their fungus 50 million years ago.
    • Chloe Chalekian
      Chloe Chalekian on 26 Aug 11
       
      This means before humans even walked on the earth ants had discovered agriculture. wow humans seem like they have been stealing the ants ideas for a while.
  • Colonies of leafcutter ants put their trash in their innermost chambers
  • ants care about the health of their own society more than themselves
  • much as human armies use spies.
    • coltrane kubo
      coltrane kubo on 26 Aug 11
       
      This is truly amazing. Scouting is not a complex strategy but to imagine ants doing it...
    • kai wilding
      kai wilding on 26 Aug 11
       
      All this information about ants is blowing my mind. I have never thought this in deep about the ant life. So many of the animals and plants that roam around us aren't much different from the human species. It almost humors me. ;)
  • Twelve million years ago, they domesticated that fungus so that it could no longer grow in the wild, much as we domesticated wheat and rice
    • coltrane kubo
      coltrane kubo on 26 Aug 11
       
      Why would we do something like that to the ants?
    • Melanie Buziak
      Melanie Buziak on 26 Aug 11
       
      That's so weird! I didn't know that ants have methods war, I didn't even know they had war!
  • their methods of making war
  • explorer naturalists
    • Melanie Buziak
      Melanie Buziak on 26 Aug 11
       
      What is an explorer naturalist? Is it someone who explores the natural?
  • The fungus is their food. It has their complete diet.
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 26 Aug 11
       
      I never knew animals went through slavery! It seems like animals have their own "world" like us humans. I bet they have their own language to communicate too. Seems like those tiny ants are pretty smart.
  • The swarm moves forward together.
  • The fungus is their food. It has their complete diet
    • Jaesun Brown
      Jaesun Brown on 26 Aug 11
       
      I didn't know that ants ate fungus as their food. I always thought they hunted other insects and bugs. 
  • 2Slavery
  • Why does slavery exist in ant life?
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 26 Aug 11
       
      I would hate to live off of fungus. It seems like these ants might not have any taste buds. Fungus probably doesn't taste very good.
    • Dylan Matsuno
      Dylan Matsuno on 26 Aug 11
       
      I've seen ants walk in a group or in a line, but after reading this section I am very surprised. Ants are very smart creatures. It's amazing that ants have teamwork and they work together for mass hunting. I know that other animals gang up on their prey, but I'm amazed that ants do the same. I guess I just underestimated the ants because they are such tiny creatures. After reading this I learned that there actually is a brain in that tiny body. Ants are very smart for knowing to work as a team.
    • Kai Funakawa
      Kai Funakawa on 26 Aug 11
       
      Is there really a place where ants are more important to the region's biology? How can something so small such as an ant contribute to such an environment?
    • Ichi Manabe
      Ichi Manabe on 26 Aug 11
       
      Ants are similar to humans when we had slavery in the past. This is a very interesting fact.
    • Ichi Manabe
      Ichi Manabe on 26 Aug 11
       
      I thought that ants are very caring to their group or family since their priority is protecting other ants instead of protecting yourself. It is amazing that ants will risk their life for other ants.
  • intricate parts of the insects' social behavior
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      I find it interesting how ants are interesting yet apparently they have a very intricate social life.
  • Colonies of leafcutter ants put their trash in their innermost chambers that can be huge and take years to construct
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      I find it cool that ants have a "garbage bin" for their trash.
  • his level of effort tells us something about a topic we're just beginning to recognize as important, in terms of how we invest in dealing with waste.
  • much as human armies use spies.
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      If find it intruiguing to compare ants armies to human beings. We are so tall and ants are so small yet they are also very productive.
  • wander off and die on their own rather than infect anyone else
    • nova clark
      nova clark on 26 Aug 11
       
      i never knew that ants are very unselfish creatures that care a lot about their colony and doesn't want to affect other ants. That they are wiling to leave their loved ones behind for the sake of not infecting the other ants. It shows how close ants are together.
  • Your exploration of different types of ants has taken you to the Amazon, Nigeria, Botswana, Madagascar, Borneo, India, Australia.
    • Austin Nakamura
      Austin Nakamura on 26 Aug 11
       
      I've actually learned a lot about ants from reading various things. It's actually wrong to think of a colony as millions of life forms rather than what is called a super organism. The organism can communicate with eachother almost telepathically and the ants in the amazon can actually pose a threat to humans
  • Careers in nature are thriving because there is a lot to be discovered.
    • Trevin Tengan
      Trevin Tengan on 06 Sep 11
       
      I can tell from this sentence that this guy must like his career on also enjoys doing it. 
  • Billie Napoleon on 19 Aug 11
     
    This is AOW #2 -- Due next Friday 8/26/11
Emma Baehrens

Ants AOW - 3 views

I think the "dear enemy phenomenon" is super awesome. I wonder why people don't know that ants sleep. All creatures sleep right....right?

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Natalie Koch

What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 5 views

www.time.com/...685055_1685076_1686619,00.html

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  • If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad.
    • Trevin Tengan
      Trevin Tengan on 08 Jan 12
       
      This is very interesting to me because I would have thought that all the humans combined would be happy, but this is saying that person would be mad.
    • Emma Baehrens
      Emma Baehrens on 11 Jan 12
       
      You need to consider the different kinds of people. The All-Star celebrities, the average working person, drug and alcohol abusers, criminals, and those locked in an insane asylum. There are so many different emotions and personalities to try and fuse into one person.
    • Shayna Chung
      Shayna Chung on 12 Jan 12
       
      If every person was put into one body, it would kind of be like LOF. If they didn't elect a leader and they had multiple leaders to make decisions, everyone would go mad. One leader could say something then annother could say something from a different point of veiw. Then the next and the next and so on until everyone was disagreeing with each other.
    • Rex Yoshida
      Rex Yoshida on 12 Jan 12
       
      More isn't always better meaning people if 2 people who are smart combined then it doesn't necessarily mean that it will be smarter. So they may be mad or happy depending on how they turn out in the end.
    • Gabe Mayer
      Gabe Mayer on 12 Jan 12
       
      I think that this would be true because all human beings have different opinions and that one single combined human being would have a severe case of Bipolar
  • We're the only species with language, we told ourselves—until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language.
    • Trevin Tengan
      Trevin Tengan on 08 Jan 12
       
      This is interesting to me because I always thought other animals had their own language but I guess not.  Also, gorillas and chimps to me are fascinating because they're smart enough to make their own language to communicate.
    • Sophie Collis
      Sophie Collis on 09 Jan 12
       
      Doesn't every species have to have a language to communicate? Weather it be dolphins with their clicking, or dogs with their barking, every living species known to man communicated with each other somehow. In that sense, I wouldn't think of this statement to be completely true.
    • Ria Sappal
      Ria Sappal on 10 Jan 12
       
      I thought all animals have their own way of communication, but I think they are saying that Gorilla's way of communicating is similar to ours.
    • Jonathan Crooks
      Jonathan Crooks on 12 Jan 12
       
      I find this very interesting, yet also somewhat confused. I'm amazed that gorillas and chimps mastered sign language, as that it probably hard. But I'm confused to, don't all animals have their own unique way of communicating to one another? For example, a dog's bark, or a birds chirping, or like how Sophie said, a dolphins clicking.
    • Shayna Chung
      Shayna Chung on 12 Jan 12
       
      Jeffery Kluger was probably trying to say that we were the only species with a language that we could understand. Dogs and cats probably have their own language its just that we can understand it. Japanese is still a language if you understand it or not. Same for the rest of the animal kingdom.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 12 Jan 12
       
      I heard a lot of people say that humans are very arrogant because we make ourselves "higher" than animals because we can "speak," because we can "think." This sentence sounds a bit "arrogant" because to me, the author may be saying that chimps and gorillas were never smart enough to master our "language" and that it's amazing that something "lower" than us could do something like that. I'm not saying that the author is arrogant in a sense but I mean to say that humans are not the only beings on Earth who can create a language or can "think."
    • kris kadzielawa
      kris kadzielawa on 12 Jan 12
       
      I think that this statement isn't completely true, because don't whales make sounds that other whales hear and react too, or a cats meow, a mouses squeak. All of these noises must be a language or way of communication, so I would have to disagree with the authors statement.
  • Of course, the fact is, that child will sometimes hit and won't feel particularly bad about it either—unless he's caught
    • Trevin Tengan
      Trevin Tengan on 08 Jan 12
       
      I believe this is true because if the kid doesn't get caught, he/she will think it is ok to keep doing it.
    • Ria Sappal
      Ria Sappal on 10 Jan 12
       
      I agree with this because a young child won't know that hitting someone is wrong unless someone tells him/her.
    • Shayna Chung
      Shayna Chung on 12 Jan 12
       
      I believe that not only young children know its wrong, everyone does. Some people just feel differently about it that others.
    • Rex Yoshida
      Rex Yoshida on 12 Jan 12
       
      If a child who is naive may not know anything better to do and just continue to do because thats all that they know until someone catches them and tells them that it is bad.
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  • A preschooler will learn that it's not all right to eat in the classroom, because the teacher says it's not.
  • What does, or ought to, separate us then is our highly developed sense of morality, a primal understanding of good and bad, of right and wrong
    • Sam Skinner
      Sam Skinner on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think this sense of morality is passed down through generations. This could be the reason why some people make bad desicions because it was passed down in their family
    • coltrane kubo
      coltrane kubo on 12 Jan 12
       
      i think, another thing that separates us is knowledge of our surroundings in practical creative use
    • Nicole Stacey
      Nicole Stacey on 12 Jan 12
       
      I think that this sense of morality may be a part of our instincts. We are aware that the choices we make can simultaneously change the way that people view our place in society. Ideally this makes us aware of the consequences  of our actions.
  • Marc Hauser, professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of Moral Minds. "
  • Moral behavior, however, is scattered all over the chart.
    • Ria Sappal
      Ria Sappal on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think this is true because for the most part, everyone knows what kind of behavior is acceptable but the amount of people who actually follow good behavior is a whole other story.
  • all of the crimes committed by the highest, wisest, most principled species the planet has produced. That we're also the lowest, cruelest, most blood-drenched species is our shame—and our paradox.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 12 Jan 12
       
      This reminds me of something discussed in our socratic circle: we discussed how although Jack had said that the boys were English and they were civil, the use of "flies" in the book title lowers them to the level of flies. 
  • That quality is the distilled essence of what it means to be human.
    • Sachi Clark
      Sachi Clark on 12 Jan 12
       
      What does it mean to be "human?" Animals have their own sense of right and wrong too. Maybe it's because humans have "expanded" on their morals and even judging one's actions and labeling it wrong or right, good or bad. But who knows? It's said that wild dogs in packs isolate other dogs if they do something "wrong" in their eyes. Or how ants will separate themselves from their colony if their sick. 
  • We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another.
    • kris kadzielawa
      kris kadzielawa on 12 Jan 12
       
      I think "tear our own organs out for one another" by itself is a good quote, but it kind of counteracts what the author said in his first sentence, about being mad.
    • Nicole Stacey
      Nicole Stacey on 12 Jan 12
       
      I think this means that we are kind in general but I don't think it is something that we just inherit and do. We continuously adapt from one another by absorbing what we see and copying. The way we live is like the saying, "monkey see, monkey do". When we grow up, we don't know how to do kind acts such as, holding a door open for someone, or helping someone carry in groceries. I believe that many of us do acts of kindness because we are raised that way.
  • He'll respond, 'No, the teacher shouldn't say that
  • The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
      Sydni Tokuyama on 12 Jan 12
       
      It is interesting that the madness would lay in the whole body it self other than the mind. I find this interesting because when people say someone is going mad, they usually mean in the mind.
  • And at the same time, we slaughter one another.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
      Sydni Tokuyama on 12 Jan 12
       
      Fun thought: Like the Book Thief
  • The same is true for people who steal or despots who slaughter.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
      Sydni Tokuyama on 12 Jan 12
       
      I do not think that if someone stole or slaughtered, they wouldn't feel nothing until caught. I think that they (at least most people) would feel a little bit of guilt
  • But if the same teacher says it's also O.K. to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates. "He'll respond, 'No, the teacher shouldn't say that,'"
    • Nicole Stacey
      Nicole Stacey on 12 Jan 12
       
      When you are young, you are just learning what is right and wrong. I believe that sometimes kids and adolescents do mischievous things because you know that you can get away with it and no one will find out. You sometimes want to rebel from what you know you should do. That is why, when a teacher tells a student to do something bad, they will not because they only would do it secretively with no guilt.  
    • Natalie Koch
      Natalie Koch on 13 Jan 12
       
      That statement makes it sound so painful! But very true, we do what we can to help.
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  • The purpose of locks, the locksmith said, is to protect you from the 98% of mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock
    • Billie Napoleon
      Billie Napoleon on 06 Jun 12
       
      It's strange to think that locks are made to keep honest people out.  I never thought of it that way.
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