Exoneration is when a person is freed from being guilty and proven innocent. In class we listened to as story about a group of teenage boys who were found guilty for a really bad crime, but later were actually proven innocent. The video we watched showed how ineffective and untrustworthy prosecution can be with evidence such as eye witnesses, compared to how effective DNA evidence is in finding the real criminals that committed the crimes.
The recording we listened to was a story about 4 black teenage bots who were wrongfully convicted of the murder of a white women in a black neighborhood. The boys served 15 years in prison for this crime. The police investigators involved in the case basically framed the boys to admit they did the crime when they truly never did. Many years later the case was brought back into the light now being able to test DNA evidence and found that the boys were innocent and then exonerated. The DNA evidence allowed the police to find the real murderers, who were two different men.
This story was really crazy to hear. I was surprised on how much under the table things go on at times with crimes like convincing suspects to confess to a crime they did not do making them think that they will be better of or be able to see their family. As well lots of other investigating procedures that are not always done properly contribute to wrongful convictions.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Anti Angiogenic
It's crazy to think about how many people and lives have been affected by cancer. And to think we still don't have a solid solution. Radiation and chemo therapy are very aggressive solutions. But what if there was a cure already in nature, is it possible?
In your body when your angiogenic is out of whack, that means your body is not producing ether enough or to much blood vessels. When you have cancer tumor the only way it can survive is if it can recruit its own blood supply through blood vestals. So intern if you can cut the blood supply from the tumor it can no longer survive, this process is called anti angiogenic treatment. These anti angiogenic elements can be found in many natural curing foods. examples would be dark chocolate, pineapple, strawberries and many more. As well they have created medicine that has the same properties but in higher doses to help cure diseases like cancer.
Learning about this information was really interesting to me. It's interesting how these certain foods have crazy anti angiogenic properties. And how we are just finding these things out. It shows how eating the right food can make an amazing difference in your health. Who new that just eating simple fruits could help cancer. Its this natural solution that only attacks the issue compared to how radiation and chemo kills the good and bad hoping that your body can handle it. I believe that with science we have the pieces but the struggle is putting the puzzle together finds which piece goes with what, slowly solving the puzzle.
In your body when your angiogenic is out of whack, that means your body is not producing ether enough or to much blood vessels. When you have cancer tumor the only way it can survive is if it can recruit its own blood supply through blood vestals. So intern if you can cut the blood supply from the tumor it can no longer survive, this process is called anti angiogenic treatment. These anti angiogenic elements can be found in many natural curing foods. examples would be dark chocolate, pineapple, strawberries and many more. As well they have created medicine that has the same properties but in higher doses to help cure diseases like cancer.
Learning about this information was really interesting to me. It's interesting how these certain foods have crazy anti angiogenic properties. And how we are just finding these things out. It shows how eating the right food can make an amazing difference in your health. Who new that just eating simple fruits could help cancer. Its this natural solution that only attacks the issue compared to how radiation and chemo kills the good and bad hoping that your body can handle it. I believe that with science we have the pieces but the struggle is putting the puzzle together finds which piece goes with what, slowly solving the puzzle.
Ted Talk I chose
When a animal goes extinct is it a different kind of death, I believe its a much larger death. If it was possible to bring back extinct species that lets say have been hunted to extinction should we?
In 1914 Martha the last passenger pidgin alive died. These pidgins used to be the most abundant bird in the world, and had been in North America for 6 million years before it was hunted in mas quantity to extinction. Recently in synthetic biology they have found out a way to bring extinct animals like the Passenger Pidgin back to life. They do this by taking Ancient DNA from a dead specimen of the species and are then able to assemble the hole genome, from that the hole bird can be created. They have successfully done this with one species names Javan Banteng (a type of Cow) by having a live Javan Banteng be born out of a cow. But in the case of the Passenger Pidgin we would use band tailed pidgins because they are their closest living relatives. They have also been able to turn stem sells into germ cells like sperm and eggs allowing them to say change the gonads of a chicken to be able to give birth to a falcon.
All of this is just so crazy to think about. And to be honest it makes me a little uncomfortable and uneasy yet really fascinated. Just to think we could fix some of our mistakes in the past of hunting species to extinction that would of otherwise been alive today. But at the same time with other cases some species have become extinct for a reason, that's natures way of survival of the fittest so if we brought some species back we could just create more problems for our self's. So what do you think, should we bring some extinct species back to a world that misses them?
All of this is just so crazy to think about. And to be honest it makes me a little uncomfortable and uneasy yet really fascinated. Just to think we could fix some of our mistakes in the past of hunting species to extinction that would of otherwise been alive today. But at the same time with other cases some species have become extinct for a reason, that's natures way of survival of the fittest so if we brought some species back we could just create more problems for our self's. So what do you think, should we bring some extinct species back to a world that misses them?
Thinking Like a Mountain
In this story we read in class it talked about how this guy and some friends were out deer hunting. Around this time most all hunters hated wolfs because they killed deer and were dangerous, wolfs were seen as unwanted animals. As they were deer hunting they ran accost a pack of wolfs and decided to have some fun and start opening fire on the wilds as fast as they could. When they walked up, they had came just in time to see the green fire die out of one of the old wolfs eyes, and a young wolf badly injured limp off. Many other people did this, over time the wolfs died away and the deer population rapidly increased. In turn the deer grazed all the edible plants away leaving only baron landscape left. Dead dear carcasses lay scattered across the land that had died from starvation. Killing all the wolfs in the long run did more harm then good.
Reading this really created an impact on me emotional, as well I can relate from being a hunter my self. Its just so sad to see these amazing animals that were doing nothing wrong be hunted to near extinction for no real reason. To me every animal deserves respect, these mountain were their place and here we came in altering the delicate balance of life, "thinking that we are improving things". Hunting is not all bad in my opinion but I needs to be done in a responsible and respectful way. It really makes me hope that we have learned from things like this, and maybe be smarter but we still see these near extinctions occurring with many other species year after year. That's just so crazy to me.
Lucy
we all know that Chimps are our closest living animal but how much are we really alike?
In a NPR radio podcast we listened to a story about Lucy a female chimpanzee. She was razed by humans her hole adolescent years. She was used as a scientific project to see how human like a chimpanzee could be. She eventually talked like humans and even was sexually attracted to humans. You could say she de-bonked lots of myths or prier conscription about the abilities of chimps. But at age 11 Lucy became to strong and violent so they decided to let her go free on a abandons island with other chimps. A lady named Janet stayed there with her to try to teach her how to be a chimp, she stayed for several years when she was only planning on staying three months. Once Janet thought she was ready she left Lucy and came back 2 years later to find Lucy's carcass all bones laying where Janet used to stay on the island. Their best guess was that she was poached because there was not sighs of hair left or she scared a person coming onto the island when she came to approach then and they shot her.
I have mixed feeling about this story because yes Lucy did teach us a lot but her human socialization in the long run killed her, and her ability to be a normal chimp. Its a sad ending but what did they expect was going happen, she was never going to be live a normal life. It was really cool to see how smart chimps are though! Like how she had the ability to lie, make up words and be sexually attracted to another species considering that we thought that was impossible before. I did enjoy listening to this story very much and it go me thinking how much alike we really are to chimps.
In a NPR radio podcast we listened to a story about Lucy a female chimpanzee. She was razed by humans her hole adolescent years. She was used as a scientific project to see how human like a chimpanzee could be. She eventually talked like humans and even was sexually attracted to humans. You could say she de-bonked lots of myths or prier conscription about the abilities of chimps. But at age 11 Lucy became to strong and violent so they decided to let her go free on a abandons island with other chimps. A lady named Janet stayed there with her to try to teach her how to be a chimp, she stayed for several years when she was only planning on staying three months. Once Janet thought she was ready she left Lucy and came back 2 years later to find Lucy's carcass all bones laying where Janet used to stay on the island. Their best guess was that she was poached because there was not sighs of hair left or she scared a person coming onto the island when she came to approach then and they shot her.
I have mixed feeling about this story because yes Lucy did teach us a lot but her human socialization in the long run killed her, and her ability to be a normal chimp. Its a sad ending but what did they expect was going happen, she was never going to be live a normal life. It was really cool to see how smart chimps are though! Like how she had the ability to lie, make up words and be sexually attracted to another species considering that we thought that was impossible before. I did enjoy listening to this story very much and it go me thinking how much alike we really are to chimps.
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