Learn more about the commodification of your genetic information

What is the difference between genetic testing and genetic therapy?

Learn more about the facts and evidence for Climate Change due to global warming

Nature Study – Read More

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Learn more by looking at the images of change:

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The animated Genome – Link

Learn more about the 2018 Prize Research in Medicine and Physiology

The Science behind curiosity – Learn more about what makes us curious.

There is no single type of curiosity.  

Curiosity comes in different flavors.  “Specific/diversive curiosity” is a type of curiosity when you would like to know the answer to something fairly straightforward that can be answered by a simple internet search. 

“Epistemic curiosity” is a type of curiosity when you want to learn more for the satisfaction and joy of learning.  This is the type of curiosity when YOU try to learn more things for the sake of the fun of learning. 

YOU can enhance/build your curiosity by being trained to ask questions.

One of the most powerful types of questions you can ask as a science student is “How”.

You can improve your curiosity.  Start with something that you are interested in. Begin to ask questions about something that you like and enjoy about a topic.

Young children typically ask questions because they are interested in “cause and effect”.  This means that their perceptual curiosity decreases as they get older.

As you get older your epistemic curiosity does not decrease.  Your willingness to learn new things, to discover new things does not decrease as you get older.

Notes:

DNA to RNA to mRNA to tRNA

A question journal will help you to develop a strong scientific question about a topic that interests you in Unit 1, Genetics.

In order for your question to be at the appropriate level of difficulty for your grade you need:

• to ask questions about the information that you are learning about in class.
   to learn how to research your question to make it answerable using the scientific method.

Top questions in Science learn more…

Learn more about System 001

Animation of System 001

A new study published this month highlights how dirty air damages cognitive function in people.  Learn more…

The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance:

The significance of the Study

“Most of the population in developing countries live in places with unsafe air. Utilizing variations in transitory and cumulative air pollution exposures for the same individuals over time in China, we provide evidence that polluted air may impede cognitive ability as people become older, especially for less educated men. Cutting annual mean concentration of particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM10) in China to the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard (50 μg/m³) would move people from the median to the 63rd percentile (verbal test scores) and the 58th percentile (math test scores), respectively. The damage on the aging brain by air pollution likely imposes substantial health and economic costs, considering that cognitive functioning is critical for the elderly for both running daily errands and making high-stake decisions.”