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There’s no such thing as a ‘sugar high.’ Research shows no evidence that sugar makes kids extra hyper- we’re just so conditioned to think it does that we often perceive ‘changes’ in a child’s behavior when we think they’ve eaten too much sugar, even if they haven’t actually had any at all. Source Source 2 Source 3
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Choosing Myron Ebell means Trump plans to drastically reshape climate policies
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literally the only math class i would ever look forward to
he’s finally retiring after teaching for 40 years at the same school, so the yearbook had him recreate the picture
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There’s a post floating around that talks about skepticism towards science that, as it turns out, started as an Anti-Vaccination post. And a lot of people would probably shy away from it because of that, and rightfully so. Anti-Vaccination proponents overwhelmingly rely on notions of “health” around an incredibly liberal as well as essentialist concept of the body. And of course, that does not even begin to mention how Anti-Vaccination relies upon constructing notions of Autism as horrifying, as inherently pathological, specifically constructing precepts of neurotypicality that can stand as an opposite to it.
However, what so many people fail to do is challenge these harmful assumptions without acknowledging the structures required for their comprehensibility. Merely disproving (or claiming convincingly against, to use more exact language) a link between vaccination and autism or claiming that even if such a link were to exist that a child with autism is better than no child at all often incorporates the exact same assumptions about autism as well as the body that anti-vaccine proponents use.
All of this relies upon a naturalized body almost entirely external to discourse and frequently largely prediscursive if not entirely so. Additionally, it relies upon the understanding of research as contingent upon personal claims, but otherwise epistemologically sound. The creation of a “good science” that is being repressed involves this process, notions of research that are not only contained within structures of science as a loose collection of knowledges, but the validation and implicit naturalization of these structures.
Making a challenge to science as epistemologically valid in the singular fashion many describe it to be is incredibly important to discussing the construction of sex, of gender, of mental illness, of disability, of race, of any category contingent upon qualities of the body. Furthermore, the supposed-scientific, the social sciences, the economic, the historical, are themselves important subjects for this epistemological question. Simply allowing for unquestioned historiographies must be understood as a manner in which capitalism may expand itself across a plane in order to create both a limit and a supposed-beyond, in order to deterritorialize even the past and reterritorialize it, decoding it in a certain fashion. American understanding of our own politics in the Mid-East/North Africa region over the past few decades is a prime example, but it can be seen in an incredible number of places.
Acknowledging this process and being able to reject its validity, offer alternative epistemologies, is absolutely vital to genuine academic and non-academic decolonization efforts.
Do not simply accept science, history, economics as worthwhile or true. Do not accept truth for mere convenience or engage it without questioning the epistemic claims required for such “truth” to be comprehensible.
Scientists establish first map of the sea lion brain
Rio is a California sea lion who can solve IQ tests that many people have trouble passing. In fact, she is so smart that scientists at the Long Marine Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz designed a series of tests that prove she is the first animal besides humans that can use basic logic (If A=B and B=C then A=C).
Rio’s display of intelligence is less surprising when you consider the fact that she is a member of one of only four groups of animals that have evolved extremely large brains (weighing more than 1.5 pounds). Along with seals and walruses, she is part of a group of fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals called pinnipeds. The other large-brained groups are humans, elephants and cetaceans (whales and dolphins).
Despite considerable evidence of their cerebral skills, very little is known about pinniped brains. However, a team of neuroscientists at Vanderbilt University has taken an important step toward rectifying this lack of knowledge by conducting the first comprehensive study of the California sea lion’s central nervous system, concentrating on the somatosensory system, which is concerned with conscious perception of touch, pressure, pain, temperature, position and vibration.
Last year, the dramatic upsurge of juvenile California sea lion deaths due to strandings throughout central and southern California made it possible for Sawyer to obtain two juvenile sea lion brains for study. (Sea lions, like all marine mammals, are protected by the federal government under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.)
The results of their study are described in the paper “Somatosensory brain stem, thalamus and cortex of the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)” published online in the early view of the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
“It was amazing to see the sea lion brain for the first time because, after spending years studying brains, it was shocking to see something so large and so different from any other brain I had ever worked with,” said first author Eva Sawyer, a doctoral student in neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Fellow doctoral student Emily Turner collaborated in the study under the supervision of Jon Kaas, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in Social and Natural Sciences.
“We know a lot about how some brains are organized and function, mice and primate brains for example, but mammals are highly varied, and we know almost nothing about the brains of most mammals, including pinnipeds,” said Kaas.
Humans, elephants, cetaceans and pinnipeds each evolved large brains independently, so the way that their brains are organized is quite different, particularly the cortex. Due to our inherent interest in our own evolution and the importance of the large human brain to our identity, it is worthwhile looking at these independent examples of how brains become large, Sawyer pointed out.
Sea lion brains are about the same size as chimpanzee brains. Although they have some features in common with the brains of their closest relatives – dogs, cats, bears and weasels – their brains are also intensely folded in a fashion similar to that of whales and dolphins.
“It is striking that both cetaceans and pinnipeds tend to have large and convoluted brains, but there is no single accepted explanation for this observation,” said Sawyer. “It is at least partially explained by their large body size. Animals with larger bodies are expected to have larger brains. But it may also be related to other factors, such as the weightlessness of the marine environment or coping with cold water temperatures. Or it could just be a random outcome of evolution.”
The researchers focused on the sea lion’s somatosensory system because they were particularly curious about the animal’s sense of touch. “We have long wondered about how the somatosensory systems of sea lions and seals are organized, as they have such remarkable abilities to use touch and their whiskers to explore and feed in deep water,” Kaas said.
Using modern histochemical methods, Sawyer and Turner were able to identify and characterize the major parts of the sea lion brain that are used in processing touch information from the whiskers and the skin. These include areas in the brainstem, thalamus and cortex.
They discovered that the marine mammal’s brain has specific areas for processing information from its whiskers that are strikingly similar to those found in mice and rats, who are considered the whisker specialists in the animal kingdom. Specifically, they found that each whisker on the sea lion’s nose has a specific, corresponding area in the brainstem devoted to it. These are comparable to specific areas on the human brain that correspond to individual fingers. Their existence confirms that these “mystacial ” whiskers play an important role in sea lion sensation and behavior.
In addition, the researchers identified the brain areas devoted to processing touch sensations from the sea lion’s flippers and tail. One of the surprises was discovery of a well-developed region, called Bischoff’s nucleus, which is found in animals with prominent tails ranging from raccoons to kangaroos to whales. It is surprising because the sea lion’s tail is not prominent at all: It is small and tucked between its hind flippers.
Once mapping of the sea lion’s somatosensory region is complete, the researchers plan on mapping the parts of its brain devoted to other functions. “It will be interesting to compare its overall structure to that of primate brains,” Sawyer said.
The researchers would also like to map the brains of other pinnipeds, like walrus and elephant seals, which have much larger brains.
Ann Makosinski is our young inventor of the year
“Doing homework late at night is hard. But if you’re one of the millions of children around the world who live without electricity, it’s almost impossible. For kids in the world’s poorest places, a cheap, clean way to turn on the lights can make all the difference.This young inventor designed a simple heat-powered flashlight, and she has more great ideas where that came from.”
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Male and female brains aren’t wired differently
New research, published in October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that despite size discrepancy, there’s no functional difference between men’s and women’s brains. “Male” brains and “female” brains simply don’t exist. In fact, there’s significant overlap.
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On the care and keeping of your scientist
Congratulations on adopting a scientist! Regardless of their field they will require much coffee, free food, and love. Here are some field specific tips for keeping your scientist happy and healthy!
Biology: make sure they don't get overly invested in their model organism by reminding them about the flaws inherent in their system on a regular basis, but also make sure to join in when they criticize other models in favor of their own
Chemistry: don't let them do that 'just one more reaction' at 10 pm. make sure they get out of the lab and see the sun on a regular basis. try to keep them from partying too hard when they do leave the lab
Geology: humor their rock puns but don't let the lick the rocks (they will tell you they need to lick the rocks to identify them, but don't fall for it)
Astronomy: try not to let them become completely nocturnal. point out nice stars to them and look suitably impressed by their "pictures" of planets that don't look like anything to you
Physics: take them to the park on a regular basis to remind them that things larger than subatomic particles exist. bring a frisbee or a ball to play catch with and be impressed by their ability to calculate trajectories
Math: always make sure to have free batteries for their calculators and a mathmatica user guide on hand. Humor them when they tell you why space without angles is important
Ecology: make sure they remember to wear sunscreen and keep an eye on them in the field. Remind them to come inside and analyze their data occasionally
Psychology: don't mention Freud or ever call them a soft or social science, but make sure you gently remind them that social factors can impact reproducibility and try to keep them from drawing sweeping conclusions about the inherent nature of humanity
Neuroscience: be suitably impressed by their newest experiment and then remind them that people are not mice as often as possible
Computer Science: make sure they take breaks while debugging by limiting their supply of coffee. Nod and smile when they go off on indexing and arrays. Make sure they always have a rubber duck.
Make sure to keep your scientist away from engineers unless they have been properly socialized to interact in a translational household. The most important thing is to remember to hug your scientist on a regular basis and remind them that there is life outside the lab
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HOW I FEEL MOST OF THE TIME IN LAB
WHEN I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO COMES INTO LAB OVER SPRING BREAK
