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Michael Harris

Concussion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Concussion, from the Latin concutere ("to shake violently")[1] or the Latin concussus ("action of striking together"),[2] is the most common type of traumatic brain injury
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 09 Dec 09
       
      A concussion is basically a violent collision that has to do with the brain. It is not a plesant feeling.
  • Treatment of concussion involves monitoring and rest.
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important because if a concussion is treated this way there would be no deaths or paralysis.
  • Repeated concussions can cause cumulative brain damage such as dementia pugilistica or severe complications such as second-impact syndrome.
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 09 Dec 09
       
      Repeated concussions can lead to lots of brain damage. That could lead to memory loss or even paralysis. Many people have terrible lives and miss out on a lot of things.
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  • Due to factors such as widely varying definitions and possible underreporting of concussion, the rate at which it occurs annually is not known; however it may be more than 6 per 1,000 people
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 09 Dec 09
       
      How many people in the United States have had or had concussions?
  • Common causes include sports injuries, bicycle accidents, car accidents, and falls
  • Concussion may be caused by a blow to the head, or by acceleration forces without a direct impact.
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 10 Dec 09
       
      A concussion can be caused by a heavy blow to the head, not anywhere esle. They blow must occur in the head area.
  • Cellular damage has reportedly been found in concussed brains, but it may have been due to artifacts from the studies
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 10 Dec 09
       
      Have Doctors done anything to fix the cellular damage in the brain?
  • A debate about whether structural damage exists in concussion has raged for centuries and is ongoing.
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 10 Dec 09
       
      This is important because I think that agruements are the reason that most things are discovered. Without conflict and resolution how are you going to discover anything?
  • Headache is the most common MTBI symptom.
  • A group of experts called the Concussion in Sport Group met there and defined concussion as "a complex pathophysiological process affecting the brain, induced by traumatic biomechanical forces.
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 15 Dec 09
       
      Is this the first defintion of the sports concussion?
  • neuroimaging
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 15 Dec 09
       
      What does neuroimaging mean?
  • According to the classic definition, no structural brain damage occurs in concussion;
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 15 Dec 09
       
      This basically means that back in the days Doctors didn't believe that when a concussion occured the brain was also damaged structally
  • concussion may involve a physiological or physical disruption in the brain's synapses.[17]
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 15 Dec 09
       
      This is important because it opens eyes to the public on what happens to the brain when a concussion occurs.
  • Definitions of mild traumatic brain injury
    • Michael Harris
      Michael Harris on 15 Dec 09
       
      Why are there so many definitons of concussions?
Zhapa EWSIS

Coffee and health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Coffee contains caffeine, which acts as a stimulant. For this reason, it is often consumed in the morning and when feeling tired. Students preparing for examinations with late-night cram sessions or code jams frequently use coffee to stay awake.
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This shows that many people drink coffee in the morning to start their day with energy. Whihc is somethimg good. But resourses state that coffee affects your health.
  • A study comparing heavy coffee drinkers (3.5 cups a day) with non-drinkers found that the coffee drinkers were significantly less likely to contract Parkinson's Disease later in life. [7]. Likewise, a second study found an inverse relationship between the amount of coffee regularly drunk and the likelihood of developing Parkinson's Disease
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Accrordind to this it state that coffee is a drink that many people drink but what as a result it gives you a disease. I strongly feel that children should not be drinking coffee becuase that is what manily affectx them with their brain.
  • Coffee consumption is also correlated to a reduced risk of oral, esophageal, and pharyngeal cancer.[17][18] In ovarian cancer, no benefit was found.[19] In the Nurses Health Study, a modest reduction in breast cancer was observed in postmenopausal women only, which was not confirmed in decaffeinated coffee.[20] According to one research, coffee protects from liver cancer.[21]
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      As it says here, that coffee can not only be bad for children. But also for adults because it gives cancer to your body. Cancer to women and men. That's why I think that coffee should not be drank every morning only sometimes.
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  • Blood pressure Caffeine has previously been implicated in increasing the risk of high blood pressure; however, recent studies have not confirmed any association. In a 12-year study of 155,000 female nurses, large amounts of coffee did not induce a "risky rise in blood pressure".
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Coffee is also known as giving blood pressure.
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Coffee is also known as giving blood pressure down.
  • Effects on pregnancy A February 2003 Danish study of 18,478 women linked heavy coffee consumption during pregnancy to significantly increased risk of stillbirths (but no significantly increased risk of infant death in the first year). "The results seem to indicate a threshold effect around four to seven cups per day," the study reported. Those who drank eight or more cups a day (64 U.S. fl oz or 1.89 L) were at 220% increased risk compared with nondrinkers. This study has not yet been repeated, but has caused some doctors to caution against excessive coffee consumption during pregnanc
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is so true due to the fact that many people think that coffee won'y affect women who are pregnant. But they are wrong cause it actually effects the baby from stillbirths.
  • The study concluded that consumption of coffee is associated with significant elevations in biochemical markers of inflammation. This is a detrimental effect of coffee on the cardiovascular system, which may explain why coffee has so far only been shown to help the heart at levels of four cups (24 fl oz or 600 mL) or fewer per day.[42]
    • Zhapa EWSIS
      Zhapa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      No matter wthat coffe is bad to drink.
  • Coffee intake may reduce one's risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 by up to half. While this was originally noticed in patients who consumed high amounts (7 cups a day), the relationship was later shown to be linear.[13][14]
  • Coffee can also reduce the incidence of cirrhosis of the liver[15] and has been linked to a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, a primary liver cancer that usually arises in patients with preexisting cirrhosis.
  • However, coffee can also cause excessively loose bowel movements.
  • Coffee contains the anticancer compound methylpyridinium. This compound is not present in significant amounts in other food materials.
  • Coffee consumption decreased risk of gout in men over age 40. In a large study of over 45,000 men over a 12-year period, the risk for developing gout in men over 40 was inversely proportional with the amount of coffee consumed.[32]
  • Over 1,000 chemicals have been reported in roasted coffee, and 19 are known rodent carcinogens;[33] however, most substances cited as rodent carcinogens occur naturally and should not be assumed to be carcinogenic in humans at exposure levels typically experienced in day-to-day life.
  • A 2007 study by the Baylor College of Medicine indicates that the diterpene molecules cafestol and kahweol, found only in coffee beans, putatively raise levels of low-density lipoprotein or LDL in humans.[36] This increase in LDL levels is an indicator that coffee raises cholesterol. The Baylor study serves to link cafestol and kahweol with higher levels of cholesterol in the body.
  • A Harvard study conducted over the course of 20 years of 128,000 people published in 2006 concluded that there was no evidence to support the claim that coffee consumption itself increases the risk of coronary heart disease.
  • for heart attack when drinking multiple cups of coffee a day due to genetic differences in metabolizing caffeine.[citation needed]
Andrea. C

Apple cider vinegar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • It is very popular, partly due to beneficial health and beauty properties.
    • Andrea. C
      Andrea. C on 15 Dec 09
       
      This is important because this is the main reason why people drink ACV. Despite it's vile smell and digusting taste, people drink it because it's really healthy.
  • Due to its acidity, apple cider vinegar may be very harsh, even burning to the throat. If taken straight (as opposed to use in cooking), it can be diluted (e.g. with fruit juice, honey, or sugar) before drinking.[2] Some dilute it with warm water and add honey.
    • Andrea. C
      Andrea. C on 15 Dec 09
       
      Bascially, you cannot drink this straight from the cup. You have to dilute it because the vinegar is really strong. If you don't dilute it with another liquid, the vinegar would burn your mouth and esophagus.
  • burns of the throat when using the pill form
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    • Andrea. C
      Andrea. C on 15 Dec 09
       
      Although people usually drink it in liquid form, they can choose to take it in a pill form. But one should be cautious when taking ACV, because it can still burn the stomach.
  • Apple cider vinegar is also an old folk remedy said to clear ailments such as gout, poor complexion and acne, arthritis, candida, high cholesterol, warts, varicose veins, allergies, burns, and other ailments.
    • Andrea. C
      Andrea. C on 15 Dec 09
       
      ACV is a cure for many things. Not only is it a great supplement to take, it can also be a facewash to clear poor complexion.
  • Unpasteurized or organic apple cider vinegar may have a cob web, congealed appearance. This is natural, formed during the acetification process. This substance is often called "mother of vinegar" which is actually detritus from the bacterial colony.
    • Andrea. C
      Andrea. C on 15 Dec 09
       
      In the bottle, there are cob web like substance floating around.I'm not sure what this "mother nature" is. I just assume it's parts of the apple that was grinded.
Chun Heng EWSIS

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  • The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs and proposals, which posit that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21 or December 23, 2012,[
    • Chun Heng EWSIS
      Chun Heng EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important because the world is going to end either on dec 21 or dec 23 and they are telling us that there will be a cataclysmic or transfromative events occur on dec 21 or dec 23
  • NASA likens fears about 2012 to those about the Y2K bug in the late 1990s, suggesting that an adequate analysis should stem fears of disaster.[9]
    • Chun Heng EWSIS
      Chun Heng EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important,because the nasa are saying that y2k was a bug in the late 1990 and this 2012 might be another too.
  • Mainstream Mayanist scholars argue that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history.
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  • The Long Count set its "zero date" at a point in the past marking the end of the previous world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to either 11 or 13 August 3114 BC in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, depending on the formula used.
  • Today, the most widely accepted correlations of the end of the thirteenth b'ak'tun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0, with the Western calendar are either December 21 or December 23, 2012
  • According to Schele and Friedel, these 13s should be treated as 0s, so the Coba number would be read as if it were 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0, with the units of each column beyond the second (counting from right to left) equal to 20 times those of the previous one (The Maya, due to their cyclical concept of time, also wrote the date of creation, their zero date, as 13.0.0.0.0)
corey stanley

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  • Before widespread school district consolidation, most United States high schools were far smaller than their present day counterparts. During the first decades of the 20th century, basketball quickly became the ideal interscholastic sport due to its modest equipment and personnel requirements. In the days before widespread television coverage of professional and college sports, the popularity of high school basketball was unrivaled in many parts of America. Perhaps the most legendary of high school teams was Indiana's Franklin Wonder Five, which took the nation by storm during the 1920s, dominating Indiana basketball and earning national recognition.
    • corey stanley
      corey stanley on 09 Dec 09
       
      High school basketball went from this big popular sporting event before the tv broadcasting and before it became widespread to schools not having teams at all. Big transformation
  • The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players. The game ended at 1-0; the shot was made from 25 feet (7.6 m), on a court just half the size of a present-day Streetball or National Basketball Association (NBA) court. By 1897–1898 teams of five became standard.
    • corey stanley
      corey stanley on 15 Dec 09
       
      In todays game there is no way a game could end with a score of 1-0. That shows how much the game has really transformed over the course of time.
  • After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored; this proved inefficient, however, so a hole was drilled into the bottom of the basket, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time.
Andrea. C

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    • Andrea. C
      Andrea. C on 15 Dec 09
       
      I've tried it. It is tangier than regular things we would drink. It's sour and your teeth tingles when you drink it without a straw. You have to dilute it before drinking it or else the taste of the vinegar would be reallly strong.
  • Traditionally served on the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, it is sometimes heated and spiced, or mulled.
Yu Park

Moon landing conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

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  • Various Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo Project and the associated Moon landings were falsifications staged by NASA and members of other involved organizations.
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      I wonder if conspiracy theorists think these things up in order to gain something
  • A number of different hoax claims have been advanced that involve conspiracy theories outlining concerted action by NASA employees, and sometimes others, to perpetuate false information about landings that never occurred, or to cover up accurate information about the landings that occurred in a different manner than have been publicized. Believers have focused on perceived gaps or inconsistencies in the historical record of the missions. The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to accuse NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood and based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke.[13]
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      This is important because it shows why conspiracy theorists believe that the moon landing was a hoax and how they try to find proof to back up their theory.
  • A 2000 poll conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Fund found that 28% do not believe that American astronauts have been on the Moon, and this percentage is roughly equal in all social-demographic groups.[
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      I wonder if the poll rate is raised because of the media and the internet
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  • An article in the German magazine Der Spiegel places the Moon hoax in the context of other well-known 20th century conspiracy theories which it describes as "the rarified atmosphere of those myths in which Elvis is alive, John F. Kennedy fell victim to a conspiracy involving the Mafia and secret service agents, the Moon landing was staged in the Nevada desert, and Princess Diana was murdered by British intelligence."[41]
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      I wonder if all of these conspiracy theories are connected in some sort of way.
  • Cold War prestige, monetary gain, and providing a distraction are some of the more notable motives which are give
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      This is important because it shows the reasons why conspiracy theorist think why the government would want to create a hoax of the landing on th moon
  • A 1999 poll by The Gallup Organization found that 89% of the U.S. public believed the landings were genuine, while 6% did not, and 5% were undecided.[2][3]
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      This is important because it shows the percentage of beilevers and none-believers
  • Dr. David Williams (NASA archivist at Goddard Space Flight Center) and Apollo 11 flight director Eugene F. Kranz both acknowledged that the Apollo 11 telemetry data tapes are missing.
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      I double-checked this here http://news.cnet.com
  • On November 1, 2006 Cosmos Magazine reported that some one-hundred data tapes recorded in Australia during the Apollo 11 mission had been discovered in a small marine science laboratory in the main physics building at the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. One of the old tapes has been sent to NASA for analysis. The slow-scan television images were not on the tape.[67] Britain's Sunday Express reported in late June 2009 that the missing tapes were found in storage facility in the basement of a building on a university campus in Perth, Australia.
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      I double-checked this here http://www.abovetopsecret.com
  • There are no stars in any of the photos. The Apollo 11 astronauts also claimed in a press conference after the event to have not remembered seeing any of the stars.
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      Let me explain this. First because of the daytime at the moon, stars were not visible. Second, the camera may have just concentrated on the bigger blackness rather then the light. Third, human eyes werent used to the light in the moon.
  • 5. The color and angle of shadows and light are inconsistent.
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      Let me explain this. First the angle of the Sun's light affects the angle of the shadows. Second, the distance between objects affect the angle. Third light reflects off the moon resulting in some objects appearing to be different angles.
  • p. 97-98 2.
  • The flag placed on the surface by the astronauts flapped despite there being no wind on the Moon.[citation needed] Sibrel said "The wind was probably caused by intense air-conditioning used to cool the astronauts in their lightened, uncirculated space suits. The cooling systems in the backpacks would have been removed to lighten the load not designed for Earth’s six times heavier gravity, otherwise they might have fallen over".
    • Yu Park
      Yu Park on 14 Dec 09
       
      Let me explain this. First the flag appears to be moving because the astronaut is shaking it. Second, the crumpled state of the flag makes it look like its waving. Third it waves because it is like a pendulum
Anna EWSIS

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  • Anna EWSIS on 12 Dec 09
     
    I read this article and its interesting. It talks about how people can have a dream where they are being chased. "Chasing dreams are usually about fears or anxiety." The dreamer is usually being chased from what they are fearing and worrying about. This would make he/she run because he/she would like to get away from their fear or anxiety. He/She don't want to be near their nightmare. I hate getting these dreams because I don't like the feeling I get after I wake up from the dream. After I wake up from these dreams, I still feel the panic. It's quite scary.
Madeline Brownstone

Video games take bigger role in education - Yahoo! News - 2 views

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 11 Dec 09
     
    "Teachers trying to get students interested in molecular biology or space now have a new tool -- video games. As more children grow up playing video games, educators are partnering with game developers and scientists to create new interactive experiences for the classroom."
Tianna EWSIS

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  • Kendall Walton argues (also with respect to tragedy) that sadness is not in itself negative. Rather, it is the situation to which sadness is the response that is negative.
    • Tianna EWSIS
      Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
       
      so true..so true...
  • One obvious suggestion is that our negative emotional response is a price we are willing to pay for the other benefits of engaging with the piece in question, such as (but not limited to) ‘positive’ emotional responses. While this sort of reasoning may play a role, it cannot be a complete solution, since for most pieces that elicit negative responses there are many others that elicit fewer, or less intense negative responses for the same positive payoff. More sophisticated versions of the same suggestion argue for a more intimate link between the negative emotional response and the payoff.
    • Tianna EWSIS
      Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
       
      So, emotions are neither positive or negative. This goes to show are ignorant people could be on terms such as this one.
  • This is decisive if true, but there is plenty of room to quibble about our ability to test for the right kinds of imaginative activity, the selection of the subjects, and so on. A different kind of objection is that if the persona theory were true, expressive music could not constrain our imaginative activity in such a way as to yield convergent judgments of expressiveness among understanding listeners.
    • Tianna EWSIS
      Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
       
      Music itself is a work of art that could touch even the evilest of people could enjoy.
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  • The resemblance theorist must give some account of why the funeral march, and not the cup of coffee, is expressive of sadness, and not joy. Levinson claims that the obvious suggestion here is that the funeral march is ‘readily-hearable-as’ an expression of sadness. If this is correct, then the resemblance the music bears to emotional behavior is logically secondary — a cause or ground of its expressivity. The expressivity itself resides in the music's disposition to elicit the imaginative response in us of hearing the music as a literal expression of emotion. As a logical consequence, the imaginative experience prompted must include some agent whose expression the music literally is.
    • Tianna EWSIS
      Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
       
      The type of music that you listen to doesn't change who you really are, alll it changes is how you feel for a period of time.
  • We say that a piece of music is sad in the same sense in which we say that a weeping willow is sad (S. Davies 2006, 183). Such uses are no more metaphorical than a claim that a chair has arms.
    • Tianna EWSIS
      Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
       
      Music can shape a story
  • The central problem is the great disparities between language and music, in terms of the ways in which each is both syntactic and semantic.
    • Tianna EWSIS
      Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
       
      These two words sound very interesting....
  • Tianna EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
     
    This is important because it tells me about what music does and why it causes such emotions like happiness and anger. Knowing what sound waves trigger certain emotions and the effects it had on the human body
JustinM EWSIS

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  • JustinM EWSIS on 11 Dec 09
     
    ""Pen spinning is a form of object manipulation that involves the deft manipulation of a writing instrument with one's hands. Although it is often considered a form of self-entertainment, multinational competitions and meetings are sometimes held. This pastime originated in East Asia and is referred to as 'pen mawashi' in Japan." When i read this i wasnt surpised on how pen spinning was used for entertainment because very often during class i spin to pass time and keep my attention away from the boredom. i find that pen spinning helps me not only mentally but physically too because of the amount of stress yoru hands take form constant spinning and the mental fatigue you face when your eyes have to constantly follow the pen while your spinning.
Traci EWSIS

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  • Traci EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
     
    I'm learning more about medical marijuana and in particular what i'm wondering is "why is medical marijuana illegal".I was researching this question online, and this blog post caught my attention because my teacher pointed it out to me.\n"The council's move against the pot shops comes following threats by the district attorney, who claimed "about 100%" of medical marijuana dispensaries are operating illegally by selling the drug to patients over the counter in a storefront setting."
Anna EWSIS

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  • Anna EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
     
    I just finish listening to this podcast from NPR and it was interesting. It was basically saying that sometimes people can dream about work. They can dream about their life at work. Martin said "Which is usually what I think when I wake from my dreams. If we're going be spending half of our day of work and two-thirds of the remaining day asleep, it would be nice to think dreaming about work would actually do us some good." I guess people do dream about life at work because people usually spend most of their day at work. I consider my work as a student. Its not really work because I dont get paid for what I do at school but I consider it a job for me because I do a lot of classwork, homework, projects and many more. What Im trying to say is that people dream about what happen recently to them. And for me, what happens recently at my day is school. I do remember dreaming many times about school. I dream about the test im going to have the next day, I dream about the homework I just did and if i did a good job on it. I also dream about my friends and teachers at my school. I like this NPR I just listened to.
Hawa EWSIS

Video game behavioral effects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • From both a social and psychological standpoint, video games have the ability to influence their players both on implicit and explicit levels.
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      What does it mean when it says both on implicit and explicit levels?
  • Research on aggressive behavior as an effect of playing violent video games began in the 1980s and 1990s and still continues today.
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is seen a lot in our society today. Many people who are video game addicts exhibit this behavior.
  • some researchers claim that these violent games may cause more intense feelings of aggression than nonviolent games, and may trigger feelings of anger and hostility. Several studies that have supported such findings.
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      as one can see at the bottom of this, there is another article supporting this theory.
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  • The average gamer, far from being a teen, is actually a 35-year-old man who is overweight, aggressive, introverted — and often depressed, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[4]
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Woah, that is actually really surprising. I thought that the average gamer was a teenager not a 35 year old man
  • Female video game characters are often hypersexualized and unrealistic,[8][9] and have been shown to play a factor in hard-core gamers’ perceptions of ideal beauty
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      this is really true since when I play some video games the girls are so unrealistic with huge breasts and all that. It actually makes me feel ugly all the time compared to them.
  • This repetition of violence and reward system create a psychological effect on people telling them that violence is okay.
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      Is that people commit murders and stuff? This it because of huge influence of the video games?
  • This addiction could lead to physical health problems, spending problems, and time displacement leading to missed work or school days. In one example, a 28 year old South Korean gamer died after 50 hours of StarCraft online gameplay.[12]
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      I know that video game addiction can make someone socially awkward, but can it really make someone die? Somebody should really go into that....
  • The rise in childhood obesity in the U.S. has raised awareness of media consumption in children.[citation needed] Not only are parents and organizations blaming the food industry for the problem, but they are turning to television and video games as a key factor. Displacement Theory supports the notion that the time that would normally be spent being active outdoors or in sports, children are now replacing with leisure and inactive time in front of the television.[citation needed] Others tend the blame the problem on parental enforcement.[citation needed]
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      In short, parents are just blaming video games for their child being overweight. Why would blame others? It's their fault in my opinion since it's the parents that give children access to video games and other things....
  • Anderson and Bushman explain how violent video games promote violent behavior, attitudes and beliefs.
  • have written that video games are neither good or bad alone, because it all depends on the individual and the context they are played in.[18]
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      I have to agree for the fact that it all does depend on the person. They all have different effects on someone even though sometimes they share the same effects.
  • The interactive nature allows for high levels of entertainment, but has not yet been shown to subtract from the educational lessons being taught. Additionally, developers are beginning to change the view of traditional video games by creating popular games that require the player to be active -Wii Fit, Dance Dance Revolution- or focus on using brain power -Brain Age 2.
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      see....a lot of people tend to think that video games is coupled with laziness and being unhealthy. However there are someone games that help become active and some that requires brain power. So video games aren't always that bad.
  • Many authors disagree with the notion that suggests that the media can cause violence, they think that media cannot cause violence because human can recognize what is wrong and what is right and people are not copycats
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      Well this can be true at times. It is usually built in someone that tells them what is wrong or not. However, what if it's a child who plays the violent games. They're so young that they might not know what is wrong or right...
  • Journalist and author, David Sheff, believes that many skills can be learned from the gaming experience, it builds practical and intellectual skills,” by playing video games children gain problem solving abilities, perseverance, pattern recognition, hypothesis testing, estimating skills, inductive skills, resources management, logistics mapping, memory, quick thinking and reasonal judgements”. [26]
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      This can be true at times. However I don't really agree with the reasonal judgements. It depends on the person really.
  • There are many positive effects of video games on some people as suggested by some researches; people play because they want to get away from their everyday life, break routine, to relive stress, allow them to cool off when they are stressful, could help people take out their anger through the game rather in real life because they are fun and interesting way to spend time. [25]
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      This is true, because you can get lost in the world of whatever game you are playing. You can become another character and just be someone else for a while. Also it's sort of a hea;thy way to release stress instead of surpressing it.
  • In research undertaken by Acta Psychologica, in a number of tasks, video game experts outperformed non-gamers. Experts were able to track objects moving at greater speeds, perform more accurately in a visual short-term memory test, switch between tasks more quickly, and make decisions about rotated objects more quickly and accurately.
    • Hawa EWSIS
      Hawa EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      Well this is sort of true too since I experience something like this once. I think it does help hand eye coordination at times...
Yanira EWSIS

Discrimination against homosexuals - 0 views

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      Yanira EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      This quote is very important to me because it states what I have been trying to get across some peoples head that if they are going to discrimniate against homosexuals not only to do it to gay men also to do it to lesbians because it seems as if dthey are let oss easy just because they are hot or something like that and its unfair.
  • People in countries of the former USSR, especially Russian, are notoriously homophobic since they have been conditioned since the 1930s to regard homosexuality as deviant and criminal behaviour. This situation is even worse in the provinces. Homosexuality was only decriminalized in Russia in 1993, although those serving sentences for homosexuality were not immediately released
Madeline Brownstone

More Research To Back The Notion That Streaming Kills Piracy - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Dec 09
     
    "Research conducted by London-based Global Web Index, a collaboration between online market research agency Lightspeed Research and Trendstream, suggests that streaming might in fact be the right antidote against content piracy. "
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Dec 09
     
    My Information Technology in a Global Society commented on this in "What's Up" today - 12-10-09
Madeline Brownstone

Death of piracy about as likely as death of porn - eCommerce News Story - 0 views

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Dec 09
     
    "According to the Global Web Index the answer could be simple and obvious: why bother downloading something illegally when you can watch it or listen to it perfectly legally using streaming media services?"
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Dec 09
     
    My Information Technology in a Global Society commented on this in "What's Up" today - 12-10-09
Madeline Brownstone

Report: 'Why pirate when you can stream?' - FierceOnlineVideo - 0 views

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Dec 09
     
    "Want to cripple content piracy? Stream your video online instead. That's the conclusion of a new study from Global Web Index, which says content piracy isn't about having the content, it's about watching it as soon as possible. GWI -- the offspring of research consultancy Trendstream and Lightspeed Research -- contends that the increasing popularity of Hulu, YouTube and other online video hubs has increased content availability to the point where personal ownership is redundant, making users less inclined to steal content."
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Dec 09
     
    My Information Technology in a Global Society commented on this in "What's Up" today - 12-10-09
Houin EWSIS

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  • The United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18, 2009.
    • Houin EWSIS
      Houin EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important,because it shows the country where the conferer is,and the days of the conferer start and the end.
  • European Union To cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 1990 levels by 2020 if an international agreement is reached committing other developed countries and the more advanced developing nations to comparable emission reductions. To cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 unconditionally
    • Houin EWSIS
      Houin EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This makes me wonder about the contry. Is that all of the country in european union will follow what they accept to do?
  • At this international conference, 250 high-ranking representatives from industry, science, politics and non-government organizations discussed solutions for future road transportation under the motto of "Sustainable Mobility– United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009|the Post-2012 CO2 Agenda"
    • Houin EWSIS
      Houin EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important,because it show that why the country in the world need to have a conference,because they need to discuss some thing that will affect the world.
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  • Potential focus areas for TAPs include early warning systems, expansion of salinity-tolerant crops, electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, efficient energy grid systems, and other technologies.[30]
    • Houin EWSIS
      Houin EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      This is important because it show the potenial focus area for TAPs include early warning system, and the expansion of salinity-tolerant crop and some other technologies.
  • A leaked document known as "The Danish Text" has started an argument between Developed and Developing Nations. The document was subtitled as "The Copenhagen Agreement", proposes measures to keep average global temperature rises to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
    • Houin EWSIS
      Houin EWSIS on 10 Dec 09
       
      I have a question about that 2 document.What is the document ''The Danish Text'' that argu about between the develop and develop nations?
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