http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060209184558.htm
The article, "New Analysis Shows Three Human Migrations out Of Africa," posted by Science Daily is about new discoveries about previously determined dates of our ancestors. The article focuses its argument on the work of Alan R. Templeton, PhD, of Washington University in St Louis. He has proven that Eurasian populations interbred with those of Africa. His findings have enabled new discoveries about the dates to which these people belong. These new findings suggest that these populations have existed long before they were originally thought to have existed. These studies were assisted by the use of technology and a modified computer program that was used by Templeton. The new discoveries can help us determine more about the earlier populations. The more accurate dates we can derive the more accurate scientists and anthropologists' studies may be.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Ann. Bib
http://books.google.com/books?id=9Q1hr-E8x-YC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=a+solution+to+the+tissue+property+debate&source=bl&ots=gHqCfIZPrG&sig=WnayUhL9qhKySIM-1879b8UPuqM&hl=en&ei=t88LS-DcEY-Ytge0tNzrAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=a%20solution%20to%20the%20tissue%20property%20debate&f=false
The Stored Tissue Issue, Robert F. Weir; Robert S. Olick
Within the book, there is a section corresponding to actions that have taken place in Oregon to help better the tissue debate. A committee was assigned to come up with a better resolution to the property debate. In most cases property rights are mainly to benefit the researcher. The reasoning is to protect scientific research and experimentation. The book also refers to abandonment of property. The laws pertaining to abandonment of property state that all rights and ownership are relinquished if ownership is given up. The book raises a question as to whether or not tissues should apply. The argument is that in most cases the patient was under the impression that by giving up their tissue for whatever medical reason, the tissue would become medical waste.
WC 137
The Stored Tissue Issue, Robert F. Weir; Robert S. Olick
Within the book, there is a section corresponding to actions that have taken place in Oregon to help better the tissue debate. A committee was assigned to come up with a better resolution to the property debate. In most cases property rights are mainly to benefit the researcher. The reasoning is to protect scientific research and experimentation. The book also refers to abandonment of property. The laws pertaining to abandonment of property state that all rights and ownership are relinquished if ownership is given up. The book raises a question as to whether or not tissues should apply. The argument is that in most cases the patient was under the impression that by giving up their tissue for whatever medical reason, the tissue would become medical waste.
WC 137
Give me a Break, Give me a Break, Break me off a Piece of the Rest of the Week
I am so glad that we have one more day this week. I am really tired lately. It seems as though I cannot get enough sleep. Wednesday is going to be a long day. Dr. Hicks cancelled class (thank goodness), but the slight problem is that we now have a huge gap between our classes. Most of us have labs on Wednesday. We have to wait until 1:15 when lab starts. Why can't we just get that Wednesday off? It would be fantastic! Also, this Friday I have the pleasure of working. I do not look forward to that, but I do plan on getting up for the sales. I have yet to do my Christmas shopping. Our advancements in technology even allow shopper's to participate in Black Friday online. It almost seems smarter to use this method, especially since most people use debit cards anyhow.
WC 146
WC 146
King of the Fishes
The electric eel is said to be the "King of the fishes," because it is the most deadly fish. The electric eel is located in the fresh waters of the Amazon Rivers of Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, and Brazil. It can produce an electric charge of 600 volts. This fish can detect and generate electric fields. Its lethal discharge can kill humans instantly. How do eels produce this electricity? They have three organs in their bodies that help promote this "electrifying" function. The main organ, the hunter's organ, and the sachs organ are made up of electrocytes. There are over 6000 electroplaques in the eel. The eel can determine the amount of voltage it wants to emit. Strangely, the eel is somewhat disoriented by salt. The salt messes up the polarity of the head and the tail of the eel.
WC 139
WC 139
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Ann. Bib.
DNA Promise and Peril
Linda L. McCabe; Edward R.B. McCabe; Regents of California Press, 2008.
http://books.google.com/books?id=KKrsBcU_DikC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Rina Hikimian and David Korn from the Association of American Medical Colleges examined and researched the current conditions and impressions of the ownership of tissues and the property rights that are involved. The document reviews several court cases. In every court decision, the ruling was not in favor of the individual but in favor of the patent or institute of research. Summarizing each decision, science is left untouched. The court favors scientific research that ultimately will benefit more than one person. This impression disregards any argument of ethics and profit. I think these topics should be considered largely instead of casting them aside.
Linda L. McCabe; Edward R.B. McCabe; Regents of California Press, 2008.
http://books.google.com/books?id=KKrsBcU_DikC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Rina Hikimian and David Korn from the Association of American Medical Colleges examined and researched the current conditions and impressions of the ownership of tissues and the property rights that are involved. The document reviews several court cases. In every court decision, the ruling was not in favor of the individual but in favor of the patent or institute of research. Summarizing each decision, science is left untouched. The court favors scientific research that ultimately will benefit more than one person. This impression disregards any argument of ethics and profit. I think these topics should be considered largely instead of casting them aside.
Hmm..
I read the link about pharmacists that is posted on the class blog.
I believe that a pharmacist should have the right to refuse to fill a prescription. However, the patient has a right to his/her prescription. A solution to this rising problem is to have another pharmacist that is willing to fill the prescription if the other one is uncomfortable. This solution would relieve any problems from the patient and the pharmacist will not feel guilty.
I am a pharmacy technician. I used to work in the Kroger pharmacy. When I was first hired, the pharmacist made me sign a paper that stated issues about the morning after pill that the article mentioned. The pharmacist explained to me that I had a choice as to whether or not I wanted honor this kind of prescription. If someone chose not to, someone else would take the uncomfortable person's place for the time the patient was there. Also, if one refused to have a part in this prescription, absolutely nothing can be said.
I believe that a pharmacist should have the right to refuse to fill a prescription. However, the patient has a right to his/her prescription. A solution to this rising problem is to have another pharmacist that is willing to fill the prescription if the other one is uncomfortable. This solution would relieve any problems from the patient and the pharmacist will not feel guilty.
I am a pharmacy technician. I used to work in the Kroger pharmacy. When I was first hired, the pharmacist made me sign a paper that stated issues about the morning after pill that the article mentioned. The pharmacist explained to me that I had a choice as to whether or not I wanted honor this kind of prescription. If someone chose not to, someone else would take the uncomfortable person's place for the time the patient was there. Also, if one refused to have a part in this prescription, absolutely nothing can be said.
I Wanna Be Rich I Wanna Be Famous....
If only I had money. Life would be so very simple. I would not have to think about college. Adios chemistry! I am trying to work and be a full time student. It is very difficult to do this. I already have limited time, but work limits it even more. I have a bitch for a boss! I can't stand her. She refuses to cooperate with my school schedule. I handed her a copy and wrote down everything that I needed her to follow, but she will not honor my requests. Now, I am in a situation. She told me over the weekend she could no longer work with my school schedule, so she is moving me to the front-end. I have to be a cashier! I do not want to do that job whatsoever. I tried to work in the pharmacy again, but their hours were supposedly cut back. Does every turn I make have a dead end?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
WIPS #2
The second reading was by a young man named, Benjamin Marshall. His work was titled, "Discussing Do-It-Yourself Porn: Tastes and Trends in User Generated Sexual Representation." He gave everyone in the room a warning before he began that his analysis was graphic at times and that it might be found highly offensive to some people. He gave everyone the opportunity to leave after he gave his warning. He was reading from an analysis that he made by watching various porn videos on Xtube. The website is another form of Youtube, but this is striclty for adult entertainment. He reviewed several different types of videos. He followed his video examples with some of the comments that corresponded to the videos. He discussed all sorts of issues such as homosexuality, sex with minors, sex with opposite sized people, and the responses to the different kinds of porn. I did not catch what his main objective was for this presentation. I can probably conclude that he was using this to study how people are so different in what they like. He said that he wanted to understand the people in the video and more importantly, the people viewing the material.
Annotated Bib. IV
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YHne2bkHd9AC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=property+rights+in+the+body&ots=QT0OxROHN4&sig=GrXQNIQf83LcrFHuw77CgA03c3Q#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials. E. Richard Gold. Georgetown University Press, 1996.
In chapter two, there is a section that describes a court case. In the Moore v. Regents of the University of California case, property rights within the body are discussed. In 1976, a man named John Moore had to get his spleen removed. The physician that operated and treated Moore kept his spleen for research. The physician realized that Moore's spleen held special cells that he could culture. The physician did so and made an enormous profit off of his work. Moore found out about what the physician had done with his extracted body parts and took the matter to the courts. Moore also drew an interest in his body parts as profit. The courts ruled that although the way of gaining these findings was wrong, the appeal was not going to be honored because Golde's findings contributed to science and medicine. His findings had a purpose. This section of the book helps give an opinion of how members of scientific background view property rights in the body. The courts overlook the profits that are gained, and look primarily at what good comes from this.
Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials. E. Richard Gold. Georgetown University Press, 1996.
In chapter two, there is a section that describes a court case. In the Moore v. Regents of the University of California case, property rights within the body are discussed. In 1976, a man named John Moore had to get his spleen removed. The physician that operated and treated Moore kept his spleen for research. The physician realized that Moore's spleen held special cells that he could culture. The physician did so and made an enormous profit off of his work. Moore found out about what the physician had done with his extracted body parts and took the matter to the courts. Moore also drew an interest in his body parts as profit. The courts ruled that although the way of gaining these findings was wrong, the appeal was not going to be honored because Golde's findings contributed to science and medicine. His findings had a purpose. This section of the book helps give an opinion of how members of scientific background view property rights in the body. The courts overlook the profits that are gained, and look primarily at what good comes from this.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Works in Progress Symposium
The first reading I attended was by a young woman named, Samantha Patton. Her presentation was titled, "Thinking in Color." She started off her presentation with an example. She said that a green apple could be recognized and pictured faster than a shiny apple. The reason for this is because visual words are processed faster than any others. Her objective is to prove that abstract words are grounded just as concrete words. They had fifty-two people participate in the "data experiment." The participants read a number of nouns some concrete and the majority abstact. The participants were not restricted by the responses they were allowed to give. However, they were not allowed to choose rainbow or colorless as a color. After they evaluated the results from the data experiment, they narrowed the free response to eleven colors. Experiment 1, as they called it, used a stoop based format and excluded the color brown. They used a program on the computer that measured accuracy and response time. They seemed to be happy with the results, so I assume that what they had hypthesized was what they proved.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Swain, Margaret S., and Randy W. Marusyk. Life choices: a Hastings Center introduction to bioethics. Ed. Joseph H. Howell and William F. Sale. Second ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2007. Print.
http://books.google.com/books?id=59lktthaUUMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The section in the book starting on page 484 is written by Swain and Marusyk. The section is titled, "An Alternative to Property Rights in Human Tissues." The section makes suggestions to the ownership problem. They assess the problem that people want to use tissues for profit. In the past, tissues has little of no monetary value, but no it does. The article makes an argument that involes the type of economy we have. The United States has a free market economy, but the property issue proposes ideas geared for a commercial market economy. Who gets to own the tissues? There have been many court cases involving this question, but there is no particular set of rules or laws that each case must follow. Therefore, each case must be examined individually. The decision in one case is different in other cases. The question is still unanswered. This section states that the best option is to come to a decision as to whether or not property rights should be honored in humans. The solution presented is to allow no property rights tobe given to any one person, but to have the tissue placed in the trust of physician or medical staff .
http://books.google.com/books?id=59lktthaUUMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The section in the book starting on page 484 is written by Swain and Marusyk. The section is titled, "An Alternative to Property Rights in Human Tissues." The section makes suggestions to the ownership problem. They assess the problem that people want to use tissues for profit. In the past, tissues has little of no monetary value, but no it does. The article makes an argument that involes the type of economy we have. The United States has a free market economy, but the property issue proposes ideas geared for a commercial market economy. Who gets to own the tissues? There have been many court cases involving this question, but there is no particular set of rules or laws that each case must follow. Therefore, each case must be examined individually. The decision in one case is different in other cases. The question is still unanswered. This section states that the best option is to come to a decision as to whether or not property rights should be honored in humans. The solution presented is to allow no property rights tobe given to any one person, but to have the tissue placed in the trust of physician or medical staff .
The Family Tree Video
The Family Tree video is very interesting. The movie takes place at a street fair in New York. They chose this particular setting, because this is the country's "melting pot." All types of people diverge here. The workers gather a variety of people in order to get a variety of data. The goal is to collect samples from what appears to be totally unrelated people, so they can trace back to each one's ancestors. I really like the project. It is very interesting. The information in the video is presented very well. I don't understand, though, how a group of humans arose from one set of parents. Does that mean they were all inbred? The project has already confirmed our ancestors all started their journey in Africa. They started moving out of the area probably due to climate changes geographic happenings. The project also declares that human genes are 99% related to one another’s. It is hard to fathom that the 1% develops the differences in millions of people. Biologically, race does not exist. I think is really interesting that the color of skin has no effect on differences in genes. I really like this video.
Simon Says.....he is a good catcher
Peter Simon is an ordinary baseball catcher. He is skilled at his position on the field and proud of his accomplishments. Training with several professional coaches, trainers, and athletes have helped shape his catching techniques and establish many of his own.
Catchers have a tough position. Throwing and catching are only a few skills that catchers must perform.
Catchers lead the team and call all the shots- or, "pitches" that is. Simon says, “Leadership skills are a must. The catcher dictates the flow of the game, and every pitch.”
The catcher must have a good relationship with the pitcher as well. If the catcher does not get along with the pitcher it can ruin the flow of the game. The catcher has to be fully alert in order to make calls for his other teammates.
If the catcher becomes lazy, “a runner on third could easily steal as oppose to a runner on first of third and get a base run,” says Simon.
What makes Peter so great at catching? What has helped make him the all-star player that he is today? He believes that his training with professionals has helped better him. All good catchers must acquire technique.
Simon says, “Framing the ball, blocking the ball, and pitch calling are techniques that every pitcher needs to know how to do and do it well.”
Fooling the umpire, catching crazy throws, and knowing which calls to make for the other team’s hitters is only a few of the many techniques Peter knows.
Although, Simon is adequately skilled, catchers have to be fit. Simon believes catchers must be the fittest players on the team because of the constant up and down.
“Not just anybody can be a catcher, but with extreme training, conditioning, good balance, and good hand-eye coordination it might be possible,” Peter Simon declares.
Don’t be fooled, Peter is not Superman; he also gets exhausted sometimes. In order to overcome tired legs from squatting, it is ideal for a catcher to know tricks on how to ease his legs.
The legs can get tired, but so can a throwing arm. It is important to make good throws to the bases or your target. Throwing can be difficult for an unfit or fatigued catcher, so it is important that the catcher can endure the length of the game.
“Practice makes perfect. Catchers can improve their throwing arm by long tossing-warming up before a game-, techniques in throwing, footwork, and accuracy,” says Peter.
Catching is an important position in baseball. It takes a strong, fit player to perform all the skills that are required for the position. Peter Simon is an expert at catching, and plans to continue sharing his expertise to other athletes one day.
Catchers have a tough position. Throwing and catching are only a few skills that catchers must perform.
Catchers lead the team and call all the shots- or, "pitches" that is. Simon says, “Leadership skills are a must. The catcher dictates the flow of the game, and every pitch.”
The catcher must have a good relationship with the pitcher as well. If the catcher does not get along with the pitcher it can ruin the flow of the game. The catcher has to be fully alert in order to make calls for his other teammates.
If the catcher becomes lazy, “a runner on third could easily steal as oppose to a runner on first of third and get a base run,” says Simon.
What makes Peter so great at catching? What has helped make him the all-star player that he is today? He believes that his training with professionals has helped better him. All good catchers must acquire technique.
Simon says, “Framing the ball, blocking the ball, and pitch calling are techniques that every pitcher needs to know how to do and do it well.”
Fooling the umpire, catching crazy throws, and knowing which calls to make for the other team’s hitters is only a few of the many techniques Peter knows.
Although, Simon is adequately skilled, catchers have to be fit. Simon believes catchers must be the fittest players on the team because of the constant up and down.
“Not just anybody can be a catcher, but with extreme training, conditioning, good balance, and good hand-eye coordination it might be possible,” Peter Simon declares.
Don’t be fooled, Peter is not Superman; he also gets exhausted sometimes. In order to overcome tired legs from squatting, it is ideal for a catcher to know tricks on how to ease his legs.
The legs can get tired, but so can a throwing arm. It is important to make good throws to the bases or your target. Throwing can be difficult for an unfit or fatigued catcher, so it is important that the catcher can endure the length of the game.
“Practice makes perfect. Catchers can improve their throwing arm by long tossing-warming up before a game-, techniques in throwing, footwork, and accuracy,” says Peter.
Catching is an important position in baseball. It takes a strong, fit player to perform all the skills that are required for the position. Peter Simon is an expert at catching, and plans to continue sharing his expertise to other athletes one day.
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