Scientific Literacy with Ms. Ghazarian 2014-15
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
How the Brain Sees Follow -Through
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/how-brain-sees-follow-through?tgt=nr
Follow-through is more important than you might think. The motion forms a part of a single motor memory in the brain.
LILRIZZ/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
How to See Without Glasses - MinutePhysics - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydqR_7_DjI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydqR_7_DjI
Designing California Cities for a Long-Term Drought
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/designing-california-cities-for-a-long-term-drought/
Bull Creek, an L.A. River tributary, flows in the city’s Lake Balboa neighborhood.
(Junkyardsparkle/Wikimedia Commons)
Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text
PHOTO: BETTMAN/CORBIS
Once Easily Recognized. Signs of Measles Now Elude Young Doctors
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-measles-diagnosis-20150127-story.html?track=lat-email-healthreport
A decades-long effort to immunize American children managed to wipe out the last homegrown measles cases in 2000. (Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)
The Benefits of A Good Night's Sleep - TEDEd by Shai Marcu
Brought to you by Jaime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gedoSfZvBgE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gedoSfZvBgE
Tar Pit Clues Provide Ice Age News
https://student.societyforscience.org/article/tar-pit-clues-provide-ice-age-news?mode=topic&context=60
A mural by Mark Hallett in the Page Museum depicts hundreds of species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits
PAGE MUSEUM AT THE LA BREA TAR PITS
Nano Air Pollutants Strike A Blow to the Brain
https://student.societyforscience.org/article/nano-air-pollutants-strike-blow-brain?mode=topic&context=60
Air pollution cloaks Mexico City in haze. Breathing in this pollution doesn't just harm the lungs; new studies show it also can damage the brain.
FIDEL GONZALEZ/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Immunity: Environment Can Have Big Impact
https://student.societyforscience.org/article/immunity-environment-can-have-big-impact
Your immune system reacts when you get a flu shot - or a flu infection. How well your immune system protects you over time may be influenced more by the environment than by your genes, new data show.
WFIU Public Radio /FLICKR (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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