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  • Small Section Of The Brain
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    Dissection of an adult bullfrog's central nervous system (CNS) Experiment consists of the dissection and analy zation of a bullfrogs nervous system. Dissection consists of the isolation of the CNS consisting of the brain and spinal cord. It also consists of analyzing the nervous tissue under the microscope. Materials needed: frog, scalpel, razor blade, dissecting tray, pins, forceps, scissors, microscope, slides, slide covers, water, blue dye, diagram of frogs brain, paper towel. The bullfrogs C...
  • Great Big Brains Of One Million Years
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    Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos was written one million years ahead of the year 1986 AD. In this book, Vonnegut argues that the ultimate effect of humanity's sociological problems with technology is that man's intelligence will be the downfall and destruction of the human race. The essential point made by Vonnegut in this work is that the 'great big brains' of humanity drives people to go further into technology and create new weapons that will lead to the demolition of man kind; Vonnegut disagreed ag...
  • Pack From The Plane Brain
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    Hatchet By- Gary Paulsen Time Line- Brian Robeson's parents get divorce- Brain boards a plane to go to his dad' house- The pilot of the plane gives flying lessons to Brain- The pilot has a heart attack and dies- Brain takes over the plane and crashes it into the Canadian woods- Brain is stranded- Brain explores the woods; finds berries and eats them; gets very ill- Brain makes himself shelter- Brain comes encounter with a porcupine: the porcupine attacks his legs causing Brain severe pain- Brain...
  • Being A Brain In A Vat
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    To understand what it truly means to be a brain in a vat one must understand the meaning of these words. The proper definition of "Vat" is a large vessel, tube, cistern, or barrel used to hold or store liquids. So essentially what it means to be a brain in a vat is to be a brain in a vessel with sustaining liquid and neural connections. Neural connections mean electronic or organic connections from your brain to a main frame. The main frame would most likely be a computer, but the connections wo...
  • Phantom Limb Pain
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    For more than a hundred years, physicians have published accounts of people who perceive an amputated arm or leg as if it were still there. Many amputees feel burning, cramping, or shooting pains in these phantom limbs. Doctors explained this by saying that the patients went through a denial period due to the trauma of loosing a body-part. Experts have discovered in the last decade that the sensations which the amputees have been reporting, is due to a manifestation called Phantom limb phenomena...
  • Brain Transplant Medical Technology
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    Brain Transplant Medical technology has seemed to advance enough so that doctors are able to perform brain transplants. So far this procedure has only been successfully performed on animals, and now doctors hope to perform this procedure on humans. I believe brain transplants should not be performed at all, and especially not on humans because of the numerous problems and side effects that could arise. Even though brain transplants can be successfully performed on animals, this does not mean tha...
  • Franz Joseph Gall Phrenology
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    Phrenology is basically the study of personality through the study of the shape of the skull. The basis of this theory is that the brain conforms to the shape of the head and its contours. This pseudoscience says that because we have isolated where different parts of personality come from we can tell how dominant this trait would be in a persons life by the size of the piece of the brain. We have since proven that this theory is not true. Franz Joseph Gall is considered to be the founder of the ...
  • Development Of The Brain
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    The human brain is a portion of the central nervous system and serves as the control center for movement, sleep, hunger, and virtually everything else vital and necessary to survive. Not only that, but the brain also controls all human emotions from fear and love, to elation and sorrow. It also receives and interprets countless signals from other parts of the body and the outside environment. Summarily, the brain makes us conscious, emotional, and intelligent. It's no wonder that with everything...
  • Form Of Thought
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    The following is Pound's Introduction to his translation of Remy de Gourmont's The Natural Philosophy of Love "Il y aurait peut-tre une certain correlation entre la copulation complete et prof onde et le d veloppement cabral". Not only is this suggestion, made by our author at the end of his eighth chapter, both possible and probable, but it is more than likely that the brain itself, is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserve; at first o...
  • Extreme Trauma To The Brain
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    Terrible Fall It was November 17, 1988 and it was getting cold and dark. I had just gotten a bike for my birthday. It was big and red. I took it out riding and I was going to go ride down the street. I was going back and forth down the street and all of a sudden my front wheel turns and I could no longer fight to keep the rocket spinning tire as I then fell off over the handlebars and landed straight on my face and head. I continued to slide on my face tearing it up like a meat patty in a grinde...
  • Blood Circulation In The Brain
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    Throughout the history of the human race, mankind has been locked in a constant struggle with its own limitations and imperfections. Bound by norms and social stratification, civilization has molded itself into a conformist society. The same society that looks upon radical medicinal practices and alternative ways of thinking with disdain. One medical custom met with great opposition from most cultures is that of trepanation. Elaborated in this text will be the history, truths and falsehoods, pop...
  • Hyoid Bone To The Temporal Bones
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    Why Do We Yawn The definition of yawning is to open the mouth involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation of air. Yawning is a normal response to fatigue and drowsiness, but excessive yawning can be caused by a vaso vagal reaction and may indicate a heart problem. Normal yawning may be induced to cleanse the brain. At the deepest part of the breath when the lungs have the greatest force, the lungs fill up the ribcage, then lift the ribs. The ribs lift the spine and the force is transferred f...
  • Information Through Handphones
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    Handphones have become a common tool for communication in this advanced society. they came in all sorts of patterns, designs and models. few people on the streets are seen without a handphone. it shows that handphone is no long 'a tool for the rich'. even young children nowadays carry a handphone. handphone usage has both its advantages and disadvantages. for disadvantages, handphones are said to emit harmful radiation to the brain, which may cause brain tumors or even brain damage. the se of ha...
  • Physical Brain
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    The debate between dualists and physicalists is one of especially interesting qualities. A dualist is a philosopher that believes that the human mind consists of two very distinct, individual and intertwined pieces. One piece is the physical brain. Chemical reactions and electrical impulses course through the brain in order to produce sensations through the body. Combined with these physical characters is a soul, or an organism that interprets these impulses in the brain. According to the dualis...

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