ACCHS Western Sciences 2018: July 2018

Monday, July 30, 2018

Biochemistry - 30 July - Living Diversity

1. Blog Assignments

Ø “Restroom Hand Dryers Are Blowing Bacteria Everywhere”

What are your reactions to this?

Ø Post your thoughts on one of our class discussions

Ø Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

2. Check out the following links:

https://www.cbd.int/iyb/doc/prints/factsheets/iyb-cbd-factsheet-sustainable-en.pdf

Sustainable use of biological diversity

http://greatlakesecho.org/2014/03/27/from-indiana-to-latvia-connecting-the-seeds-of-environmental-justice-agricultural-biodiversity/

Connecting environmental justice and biodiversity

Biophysics - 30 July - Energy Medicine and Energy Fields

Blog assignments for this week:

Acupuncture as effective energy medicine
What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography
Human intent as it affects health
Respond to another classmate’s blog

Check out the following links on the Institutes of Biophysics in China:

http://users.eastlink.ca/~cabbages/psi/usbeijin.pdf
Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

http://english.ibp.cas.cn/rh/ri/
The Research group in the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China

http://159.226.118.206/detailt.aspx?newsno=8094
Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Biology - 30 July - Vaccination and Public Health Policy

Your Final Blog Assignments:

 Is compulsory vaccination the most effective public health policy in your view?

 Post a brief paragraph describing why you chose your Research Topic

 Post a comment to a classmate’s blog entry

Our Biology Research Presentations are next week!

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Class blog addresses

Here is the latest list of class blog address:

https://cheekyqi.blogspot.com/

https://ginamarks.wordpress.com/

alohachella.blogspot.com

CivilizedDiseases.wordpress.com

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Biochemistry - 23 July - Cell Biology and Radioactivity

Blog Assignments for Week Twelve - Cell Biology and Radioactivity

Ø Post your thoughts on one of our class discussions

Ø Check out the various links on cells in 2. below, and post your impressions.

Ø Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

And here is the link to the "Radiation Dosage Chart" from class:
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/
You will note that airport scanners are typically in the 0.1 microsievert range - similar to eating a banana!

2. Check out the following links on Cell Biology:

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/index.html

Introduction to Cell and Virus Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/animalcell.html

Animal Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/bacteriacell.html

Bacteria Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/plantcell.html

Plant Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/virus.html

Virus Structure

http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm

The Virtual Cell – Cell Biology

Biophysics - 23 July - Life and Living Systems

1 Blog assignments for this week:

I know I’m a “living system” because…….
TCM and Biophysics
Post a response to a classmate’s blog

2 Check out the following links:

http://www.crystalinks.com/kirlian.html
Aura Photography

http://members.tripod.com/RandyHiatt/Kirlianpage.html
Kirlian Photography

http://www.experiencefestival.com/kirlian_photography
A Wisdom Archive on Kirlian Photography

Biology - 23 July - Antioxidants and Free Radicals

. Blog assignments for this week:

"People should still eat healthy food" - do we rely too heavily on supplements to provide antioxidants?

"Aspirin a day could dramatically cut cancer risk" What are your thoughts on this?

Post a comment to a classmate's blog

2. Check out the following links:

Vaccines--How and Why?
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vaccines_how_why.html

Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Measles (Rubeola) CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/

Monday, July 16, 2018

Biochemistry - The Chemistry of Life - Week 11

Your blog assignments for this week

Post a comment on one of the discussion items in class
Select one of the Definitions of Biochemistry - the Chemistry of Life, and post your thoughts
Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

And please feel free to post a brief bio introducing yourself

Check out the following links:

http://keywen.com/en/BIOCHEMISTRY/
DEFINITIONS (“The Chemistry of Life”)

Unfortunately. our Biochemistry Animations link is no longer available,

To follow up om our discussion today on placebo / nocebo, here's an article on UK doctors "prescribing placebos":
'Most family doctors' have given a patient a placebo drug
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-21834440

Physics - 16 July - Synthesis

Our Biophysics Course starts next week, 7/23, so your final Physics blog assignments are:

My E-Prime Day - describe your day, only using English Prime
How might you synthesize eastern and western ideas in Physics?
Post a response to a classmate's blog

Check out the following links on Biophysics:
http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=991
Oxygen Metabolism

http://www.bionetonline.org/
New discoveries in life sciences - Explore the science and debate the issues

http://www.mountainman.com.au/chaos_02.htm
Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers

Biology - 16 July - Restoring the American Bison to its rightful range

Your Blog Assignments for this week:

 How would you prioritize the reintroduction of the American Bison?

 “"It appears to be working," Glass says. "People can come up on this ridge and see what it was like 200 years ago." (Bison herd helping to heal a lost landscape in Illinois)
Do you feel we are able to reset the natural balance here?

 Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

2. Check out the following links:

http://www.intertribalbison.org/default.asp
InterTribal Bison Cooperative

http://www.gprc.org/Buffalo_Commons.html
Buffalo Commons

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/buffalo/strength.html
A SYMBOL OF STRENGTH

Monday, July 9, 2018

Chemistry - 9 July - The Chemistry of Household Products

Your final blog assignments for General Chemistry:

Ø Investigate the chemicals under your own kitchen sink, and prepare a short report on what you find

Ø Are you seeing more examples of "safer" alternative to cleaning products?

Ø Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

And thank you for your excellent Research Presentations!

We start our Biochemistry Course next Monday, 16 July

Physics - 9 July - Symmetry / Super-Symmetry and Sacred Geometry

Hi there Physicists

Here are your blog assignments for this week:

 My (a)symmetrical world

 Just what does this CP violation really mean?

 Are there connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics?

 Post a comment to a classmate's blog

And check out the following links:

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoAlte.htm
Arrow of Time: Towards a New Epistemology of Science

http://physics.iupui.edu/~vasavada/ModernPhysicsandHinduPhilosophy.pdf

Modern Physics and Hindu Philosophy

http://www.doyletics.com/art/physicsa.htm
Physics as Metaphor by Roger S. Jones
A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Human Side of Science

http://www.rawilson.com/quantum.html
Quantum Psychology - E and E-Prime
Robert Anton Wilson

Biology - 9 July - Ecosystems and Deep Ecology

Your blog assignments for this week:

What do you think about the “eight-point Deep Ecology Platform”?
Can you explain why “Ecosystems are both strong and fragile”?
How would you assess the “end goals” of Social Ecology?
Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry

And check out the following links:

http://www.bioregions.org/GYE.htm
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA

http://www.zulenet.com/see/newStuartHill.html
Social Ecology

http://uber.tv/g-one/archives/2005/03/005499.html
Making the Invisible Visible