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Wormhole:
Primary lesson: atoms; wormholes.
Cells are made up of molecules. Molecules are made up of atoms.
Quantum mechanics is a science involving studying atoms. In this field, all the rules go out the window.
Atoms can be taken apart to the subatomic level and put it back together again.
Einstein-Rosen Bridge is also known as a wormhole.
A black hole can tear anything going into it apart, atom by atom.
The stronger the magnetic pull, the faster time moves.
Invisible:
Primary lesson: light.
Speed or Velocity = distance divided by time (v=d/t)
To see an object, there must be light reflecting off of it.
Magnet:
Primary lesson: magnetism.
A Van de Graaff generator makes one's hair stand on end because it sends a
charge through the body and the hair follicles repel each other.
Electricity can turn metal in a magnet.
There is iron in the body.
Thursday:
Primary lesson: gravity; time.
Gravity is a force that pulls all objects to each other.
In the absence of wind resistance, Gravity pulls all objects to the ground at the same rate.
Lifetime:
Primary lesson: life cycles.
Life time of a Mayfly is one day to three weeks.
Mayflies spend their entire nymph stage, which can last as long as three years in water, filling themselves with nutrients to molt into an adult.
Adult Mayflies can not eat because they do not have mouths.
Fate:
Primary lesson: Newton's laws of motion.
There is no gravity in space and little friction.
Friction is the force that opposes motion.
Newton's first law: an object at rest remains at rest and an object in motion
remains in motion until an external force is applied on the object.
Newton's second law: acceleration equals force divided by mass
A neutron's pressure stops a star's collapse.
Culture:
Primary lesson: clones and genetics; behavior traits.
Growing cells in a Petri dish is called Culturing.
Agar is a gelly-like substance which suppies the cells in the Petri dish with nutrients to grow.
Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he isolated the chemical for bread mold.
Mold growing on food is a way of finding out that the food is bad.
A clone is an exaclt genetic, physical, replica of a living thing.
Identical twins come from one cell that splits into two.
DNA can come from hair, blood, dead tissue, saliva.
Learned behavior traits shape a personality based on their interactions.
Radio:
Primary lesson: radio waves; ethical usage of information.
When energy moving by vibrating molecules collides, they carry sound on waves. When the vibrations slow down, the sound dissipates.
Storm:
Primary lesson: weather.
Black holes are only one way. Once something goes in, it doesn't come out.
A wormhole bends space around it to connect two points in space.
Warmer weather can change precipitation patterns and other climate conditions.
A storm is a disturbance in the atmosphere, causing changes to weather
patterns, when a low pressure system and high pressure system meets. When this
occurs there is a transfer of energy in and out of the atmosphere.
Who?:
Primary lesson: memory.
Amnesia is a loss of memory caused by shock, sickness, or brain injury.
The hippocampus houses memory in the brain.
The hippocampus is in the temperal lobe. Damaging this results in short-term memory loss.
Long term memory is thought to be stored in the cerebral cortex.
"Islands of memory" are important events in your life that are hard to forget.
Sound on a guitar is created when the strings vibrate.
On a computer, RAM stores recent memores and the hard drive stores long term memories.
Mendel used pea plants to demonstrate how genes are inhereted.
Lost:
Robot:
Shrink:
Wormhole2:
Primary lesson:
The shin is the least protected bone on the body.
bicarb and vinegar, when mixed, will cause a gaseous reaction.
Pheromones:
Primary lesson: Pheromones.
Apis Mellifera is the scientific name for the common honey bee.
Bees use pheromones (see Queen Mandibular Pheromone and 9-oxodec E-2 enoic acid)to communicate directions, like where to find food, when to guard the colony, and organization.
Cold:
Primary lesson: spread of diseases - epidemiology.
In 1854, Cholera broke out in England. John Snow theorized that it was spread by contaminated water. Noticing the most cases were around a certain area, a water pump on Broadstreet, he removed the handle to the water pump and people stopped getting sick. This is the founding of epidemiology.
Most diseases do not pass from one species to another.
Diseases, like a cold, cannot be cured with medicines but things can be done to help the body fight them.
Transference:
Primary lesson: cold fusion.
All molecules have potential energy which is stored in the bonds between the molecules.
How cold fusion theoretically works, pulling the energy out of the water molecules and releasing the potential energy.
Nocturnal:
Primary lesson: sleep and its effects.
Signs of sleep are when one is in a prone position, his/her eyes are closed, breathing is slow and rhymthic while the muscles are completely relaxed. He/She will also not hear anything that isn't loud.
Some believe that the brain sorts memories during sleep and to help the brain deal with emotions and fears.
REM, Rapid Eye Movement, sleep is the stage of sleep when dreams take place.
Reptiles don't dream, birds dream a little, all mammals dream.
When the body doesn't get enough sleep, it produces adrenalin to compensate.
When one is cathemeral, he/she is active during both the day and night with no regular sleep pattern.
When sleep deprivation, the body compensates by having "waking dreams," when the brain goes into REM sleep while awake.
Allure:
Primary lesson: the Venus Flytrap.
Nitrogen Tri-iodine will explode at the touch of a feather.
The scientific name for the Venus Flytrap is Diani Muscipula
Venus Flytraps eats insects to absorb the Nitrogen and other chemicals in their exoskeletons.
The Venus Flytrap lures insects by the use of a sweet necter.
The mouth of the Venus Flytrap is composed of two fleshy leaves. Each has six stiff hairs.
Tesseract:
Primary lesson: tesseracts.
A cube, a three dimension object, can unfold into two dimensions, meaning it is flat.
A tesseract if a four dimensional cube, which can unfold into three dimensions.
Camouflage:
Primary lesson: camouflage.
Chameleons have the ability to change their skin color and pattern using cromatophores. This is believed to be a way of communication, revealing the chameleon's emotions.
A chameleon will react to temperature changes, changing their skin color.
Many animals use camouflage to avoid predators.
Nanotechnology:
Primary lesson: tiny technology; technology ethics.
A nano is a billionth
The using sound to pass through the body without harming it is called extracorporeal shockwave liphotripsy.
Vision:
Primary lesson: the eye and how it works.
Light passes through the outer layer which contains the cornea. It then goes to the back of a pigmented chamber which leads to a disk-like structure called the iris.
The iris's pigmentation (color) is what is referred to the eye's color.
The iris controls the size of the eye's pupil and therefore the amount of light entering the eye. When there is a lacking of light, the pupils will dilate (become wider). When a lot of light is present, the pupils will contract (become smaller).
Sight can not be restored.
Hologram:
Primary lesson: holograms; biometrics.
Biometrics involves identification by physical and behavioral properties, like facial features, fingerprints, retina, and speech.
Modulating lasors, like fibor optics, can be used to carry information and even create holograms.
Probability:
Primary lesson: probability; the scientific method.
The Bell curse. A mathematical chart that displays an average when large amounts of samples are measured. The area around the middle middle of the curve is a normal distribution. At the farther to the edges of the curse, the less samples will fall into that catagory. This can be applied to population growth, retail sales, and even growth patterns.
Non-scientific predictions have a way of coming true off of events that are more probable than one would believe.
Chirality:
Primary lesson: molecules; chirality.
"Chirality" comes from the greek word for hands.
Chirality is a basic principle of chemistry. The opposite form of a molecule does not match its chiral form since it won't be the same when overlapped but is instead a mirror-opposite.
Some molecules in their "left-handed" chiral forms can be harmless while in their "right-handed" chiral forms can be deadly.
The molecule Carvone smells like caraway seeds in its "right-handed" form. In its "left-handed" form, it smells like mint.
Meta-santalol in its chiral opposite form smells like sandalwood.
Sulfur has a pungent odor.
Everyone's DNA helix twists to the right.
A despot dictator is an authoritarian ruler.
Friction:
Primary lesson: friction.
A gecko is a land and tree inhabiting animal that sleeps most of the daytime. Its toes create a hightened molecular bond to a surface it wants to climb, enabling it to hold on to vertical surfaces. Its feet are not as sticky as scientists once believed.
Even when touching something, one's molecules do not actually touch it.
Olive oil is a natural lubricant, meaning it reduces friction.
Heat expands metal
Past:
Primary lesson: lightning; Benjamin Franklin.
Back in the time of Shakespeare, buildings were routinely struck by lightning due to a poor understanding of grounding techniques.
In 1752, Thomas Francais D'Alibard de France was one of the first people to experiment with electricity and grounding techniques by holding in one hand an iron rod, to attract lightning from a thunderstorm, and an insulated ground wire in his other hand, which sparks jumped to once attracted to the iron rod.
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm to attract lightning, which travelled down the kite's damp wire, to a key which caused sparks to jump from the key to his other hand, which was insulated.
Palladium is the least dense metal on the planet.
Inquiry:
Primary lesson: the scientific method.
NASA used Chimpanzees as test subjects.
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