Overall Web Designer and Community Connections

In class we're making 2 things. One, a cookbook- only composed of Anti-Angiogenisis recipes...
Two, a website.  This website focuses on the systems throughout the body, and my group is doing a page of this site about the Deigestive System.  Everyone in each group has a job that is critical to the website and overall project.  My job is pretty much to keep everyone on track and to make sure that our website is always closer and closer to being finished, as well looking more and more beautiful as the design improves.  The second part of my job is to find a way to connect the community with what we are doing, and interview, or somehow incorporate locals into our website project.  Once this page is being finished, I'll post a link to show it off!! :)

Heck no H2O!!! (just kidding..)

This week in class we read a very interesting article about the amount of water we intake, and if it sometimes may be too much.  Living in a dry climate, I'm used to feeling like i need to be drinking more than I am or do, but after reading this article it made me feel a little differently.  It said that if we drink too much, also known as water intoxication.  If too much water if put into your system at one point, the kidneys can't handle that kind of hydration. Multiple medical researchers advise to only put as much water into your system as you put out in sweat.  However, living in a dry climate, it's sometimes hard to see how much you sweat given it seems to evaporate off semi-quickly, so they also advise to drink your thirst.  By doing this, you don't deprive your body from water in any way, but at the same time you don't OVER hydrate... As an athletic person, I took this article to heart, and am now more conscious about my water intake.  Whether it be drinking more or less than I am used to, I feel like this article helped me be more self-conscious.

Organ Transplanting... Bias??

In class we had a long project on organ transplating, and whether or not our system is in need of changes.  After conducting sort of a play-organ-stransplant-debate, and hearing the variety of people in need of different organs is a very hot commodity it seems.  From teenagers that are left with one kidney becasue they donated one to a family member, to an elderly woman with eight grand kids, the choice is very hard for whoever has to make the tough decision of who gets what.  Speaking of which- who does get to make this decision? Who is the person that gets to decide who gets life, and who doesn't? What evidence do they base this decision off of? By doing this talk in class, it is now clear that unfortunately money and social rank do sometimes play a leading role in who gets organs sooner than others. For instance, between a young boy in Kansas who will soon die if not given a needed organ, and Oprah Winfrey who can live without it, but needs the same organ sooner than later, who do you think will get the selected organ?? Not hard to imagine... Another candidate to these organs is felons.  Although locked up, they are given the right to Health Care, just as any other person is.  Although these people will be locked up for most of if not the rest of their lives, they still get organs just as people who are out of jail do... what do you think of all of this??

Liiightinnngggg Striiikinggg Aaaagainnnn!!!

Last year my physics teacher was trying to find videos on YouTube about lighting, and when she typed in "Lightning Strikes" this is what we saw in class.... I'd say its MUCH better than watching lightning actually striking something. hahaha

Organ Transplant Debate... HOT TOPIC!!

Tomorrow in class, we are having a debate on whether or not felons should revieve organs, and who gets to decide this, and why- along with other topics of course... Once this discussion has taken place, ill post a new post, and tell about it!!