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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Synapse, Neurotransmitters and Neurons

A few links and videos to illustrait a portion of the picture that makes up how we think and how we feel or create emotion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron

Friday, October 30, 2009

Riding my bike again

It has only been a week but i managed to ride my bike to work three days this week. The other days i walked during my lunch break for some excersize. Im hoping to be in shape enough to race my bike next summer. My family has really enjoyed coming to watch me races during the week day crits and i like that they come. So i think ill do it again if i can next summer. it has been two years since i last raced. i dont want to get dropped trying so i have to start now to get race fit.
Im also eating less calaries each day. that helps loos the needed weight.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Living Proof Project

The video is over an hour long so I don’t know if many people will watch the entire thing. Basically it’s showing how some of the US aid is helping the world. It makes me glad to be a tax payer when they can do some of these things with the money.

The decrease in child death rates made me think of this other lecture on communicating bacteria. Some bacteria when they reach a critical mass they take on new properties where they are then capable of communicating with one another. But you have to take a moment and imagine we are all like this bacteria. When we all get together we can do amazing things. Right now the world is still working on getting together.

A couple thoughts I had when watching the video…
Make more scientists not solders. Because of all this good work going on there are still conflicts and blood shed around the world. I hope that by improving the economic situation of countries this will change (health reform helps economies).
More “rich” countries will turn out more smart and educated people to work on hard world problems. This kind of work being done in helping in global health will have exponential returns.

please, after watching some of the video share what your thoughts are here as a comment. Thanks you.