Stem Cells

how you think it will impact medicine in the future and why you think it is good to support.

The stem cell is a small number of cells in mitosis process. In medical way, the researchers found that these stem cells can be a good treatment for cure people' diseases. In the future, it might be possible that the doctors will use the stem cells as technologies to treat a lot of diseases, for example, the cancer, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, muscle damage, multiple sclerosis. I think this technology will definitely impact medicine in the future. This is a great way to cure them, people will be more healthy. They will be a lot long-lived because the significant problems for everyone are diseases. There are many diseases in the world that kill many people. Though there might be a bad effect doing this technology, but I think people can try, if we find out it is harmful to humans, we won't use them. And if the stem cells way is proved that it is safe and really helpful, I think people' lives must be much better and they'd be happy.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell#Treatments
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/stem_cell/

CELLS

"What is perhaps most remarkable is that it is all just random frantic action. There is clearly no thinking presence behind any of actions of the cells."

These are the quotes from Bill Bryson's book called A Short History of Nearly Everything. I read this in my biology class and think that this is the interesting part that I never know about cells before. When I read this, by his words, I could imagine a picture in my mind: a picture of the cells running around uncontrollable, excited, and no planning. I never knew about that happens inside the cell, especially inside of me. I did not know that the cells had to run around to work. I think it stayed still. But actually, it works all the time, sending the messages, never stop. 


Images: https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/highlights/when-small-meets-speedy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/feb/23/whyistoppedworryingandlea
http://www.ehow.com/about_7216358_difference-between-human-bacteria-respiration.html

Reflection on my Mangrove research 2

Working as a group was a good idea for doing this project. The friends helped each other with the things they could do. People were separated into each specific thing such as creative team, technical team, and management team. Everybody had their own duties. 

For improving my project in the future, I would find one short good film (video) about mangroves for putting on site. I think the video is a thing that describes well about the mangrove and not boring. It is more attractive for a site. Also, I would put more less data because putting much character would be boring.

I think my project was successful with focusing on ecology and not the human aspects of the flood. When the flood came, the mangroves were affected and were the aquatic animals. So it was all about the ecology, not human. 

Reflection on my Mangrove research

Working with Google site is fun. It's nothing hard; it already prepared for the users to be able to use it easily; just click edit, put the work, and done! The time when I collected the research and typed, I put it in Word Document. I am happy with Google site.

I think I chose the right topic. Researching about mangrove was the thing that's a new knowledge to me. I didn't even know that the mangrove lives in brackish water. All I knew is that the mangrove lives near the coast and has the weird look of roots. My topic: what will happen to the mangrove if they live in fresh water; and I got the answer. All of the mangroves can live in fresh water, the salinity doesn't matter much. Or if it really matters, the mangroves still can adapt.

Antibiotics

Personally, I don't think that Antibiotic Use Should be Restricted. I think it's very useful. In 1940s, Antibiotics was first used and the antibiotics are one of the great advances in medicine. the two major types of germs are bacteria and viruses. Antibiotics are effective against bacteria because they work to kill the living organisms by stopping their growth and reproduction. But viruses do not respond to antibiotics at all. People like to use the antibiotics for colds or viral illnesses, but it won't work! Not only that, it has a dangerous side effect. Overtime, this will help create bacteria that have become more of challenge to kill!

We can see how dangerous it is, but... I still think that the Antibiotics should not be restricted because when I research about this, I see that the only problem is people use it in the wrong way, it people do it right, this won't happen. People should treat only bacterial infections. There are ways that people can take Antibiotics safely, it's not so dangerous, if you know how to use it in the right way. 'Treat only bacterial infections and ask for advices from the doctors.'

http://kidshealth.org/parent/h1n1_center/h1n1_center_treatment/antibiotic_overuse.html#
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/antibiotics/article_em.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/10278.php

Snowy Owl

In the summer, snowy owls are brownish with dark spots and stripes. In the winter, they are completely white.

Scientific name (Genus & Species): Bubo scandiacus

Habitat: Range; Northern most Canada, Alaska, also circumpolar

     Summer      Winter

Environment: open spaces; tundra, grasslands, or frozen lakes.

Description: 

The feathers of the snowy owl have no pigment. This leaves more space for air which helps to keep the owl warmer because air is such a good insulator and it also makes the owl white.  

One of the biggest owls is up to 27 inches.

Wingspan is about 45-60 inches.

They hunt silently, hunt during the day unlike most owls.

Breeding once is about 8-10 eggs, eggs are laid on the ground or on hummocks because there aren't trees in the Arctic.

     Reason why I like it:

     First, I am interested in it and start researching this owl because I think it’s beautiful and strange because it doesn’t live in Thailand. It is in the cold country and has snow. I see it from the movie (Harry Potter). When I researched this kind of owl, I found this owl is different from others. The usual owls hunt at night but these snowy owls hunt during the day. They all have the strange bright yellow eyes. Their skins are as white as the snow. I think that this kind of owl is not like an owl. It looks like a normal bird.