What the frak does edufracked mean?
Edufracked = educated + frak (fuck in battlestar galatica) + frack (as in Frick and frack). Have you noticed that I tend to like slang?
Risky Business
I have a class called Risk and Society, It’s only in it’s second semester so I am one of the guinea pigs. All is going well right now and it is all about the risks people take in their everyday life. I also have another class called Brain and Behavior in which we discussed the definition of risk and risky teen behaviors.
16,000 teenagers die every year of unintentional accidents. Many people have pointed to the development of the frontal lobe however, recent studies have shown that risky behavior is associated with a developed frontal lobe, hmmmm.
Also, it is VERY rare for a squirrel to have rabies. Most of rabies cases come from woodchucks.
Nepal is also horribly polluted at 1,000 parts per billion and the residents have to wear face masks. The World Health Organization says the levels should be 250-300 ppm. Nepal is also having huge deforestation problems an Mt. Everest is littered from all the climbers (in one picture they collected roughly 20 tanks).
Well that’s what I’ve been learning lately (at least the interesting stuff) so i hope some of it is slightly interesting.
Igor and Andre
This 23 year old Californian artist is truly talented. His drawings and paintings are breath-taking. If only Vogue Took a note out of his book! His artwork has been featured in Womens Wear Daily, Vogue Brazil,Marie Claire (Spain), etc. in print and Teen Vogue, Perez Hilton, Marie Claire (Spain), Elle Magazine (Brazil), Sundance Chanel Blog, and more.
Everybody’s Studying on the Weekend!
Yes, this is my idea of fun. (jk) These are all interesting tidbits from Introduction to Brain and Behavior 2nd Edition by Bryan Kolb and Ian Q. Whishaw, Worth Publishers, 2nd edition, 2005.
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“But our version of the world, whether we see it directly or view it reproduced, is always a creation of the brain. What we see is not an objective reproduction of what is “out there” but rather a subjective construction of reality that the brain manufactures.”
- “We perceive red because certain cells in our eyes are activated by certain wavelengths of light that we call red or green…If we did not have these cells, we could not experience red. In fact, about 5 percent of all human males lack the cells.“
- “Winderickx found two forms of the receptor cell that detects red; about 60 percent of men have one form, 40 percent have the other. The difference between these two forms is small but significant and results from a small difference in the gene that encodes the red-detecting receptor. The Winderickx study provided the first evidence that normal variation in our mental world is traceable to normal variation in our genes.”
- “Vision is our primary sensory experience. Far more of the human brain is dedicated to vision than to any of our other senses.”
- “Within the rather narrow range of electromagnetic energy visible to humans, the wavelength varies from about 400 nanometers (violet) to 700 nanometers (red). (A nanometer, abbreviated nm, is
one-billionth of a meter.)” - “The eyes are usually moving. We make tiny, involuntary eye movements, called nystagmus, almost constantly.” (There is a name for them!!)
- “…In fact, these darkened regions have become known as blobs, and the less-dark regions separating them have become known as interblobs. Blobs and interblobs serve different functions. Neurons in the blobs take part in color perception, whereas neurons in the interblobs participate in form and motion perception.” Yes, blob is a legit neurogical term.
- “Light is electromagnetic energy that we see; sound is mechanical energy that we hear.”
- “…sound waves travel at a fixed speed of 1100 feet per second, sound energy varies in wavelength (frequency)”
Just Follow Me I’m the Movie Man
So I actually am friends with this lyrical genius and I realized I hadn’t pimped him out on my blog yet. He is a child prodigy med student who raps away his stutter. He is truly an inspiration to me!
The Joker (filmed on our campus 
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Check out his youtube for all of his videos!
Shark Have C-Sections Too!
From The New Zealand Herald:
“Visitors to Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section.
Staff were initially dubious when visitors came running to tell them there were baby sharks spilling from a wound in a female school shark’s stomach – courtesy of a large bite by another shark.
But they found a female with a large gaping stomach wound and four babies swimming in the tank.
Kelly Tarlton’s aquarist Fiona Davies said it was common for sharks to take chunks out of each other, even in the wild, but she had never heard of anything like this.
“It had to bite a certain part to let them out and do it without killing them [the babies] or her [the mother].”
Ms Davies said the unusual delivery had probably saved the baby sharks’ lives.
Staff did not know the mother was pregnant and, had she given birth naturally, most likely at night, the babies would have been eaten by adult sharks and stingrays before staff could rescue them.
The young sharks have been taken to a “nursery” tank with some baby eagle rays, where visitors can see them before they are released into the wild.”
Francesco Mugnai
I just found a few amazing new sites the other day (sidenote: I found them while waiting to meet people from my group project for a class. There are 18 people in the group, 3, including myself, showed up) and since I have papers and tests to do instead of wander all of these amazing sites I figured I should let you know about them one. at. a. time. If I have no time for myself then I don’t have any time for you!
The website Francescomugnai.com, created by Francesco Mugnai who is a “certified expert” in Photoshop, a Freelancce Graphic Designer, a Teacher of Graphic Design and a Web Manager at the Italian Institute of Art and Design in Florence, Italy. He has been featured in Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop, and Web Designer Magazine and has expanded his interests into advertising, website development, and editorial blogs.
Check out some of my favorite blogs from back until October (you know that if you have this many good links from such a short period of time, it’s quality 
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30 clever logos with hidden meanings. The magic of negative space…
Mac OS Evolution: from System 1.0 to Snow Leopard (55 wonderful images)
Banksy the genius: 60 pieces of amazing street art
The 80 best guerrilla marketing ideas i’ve ever seen
Photoshop training videos: The magic of “blend if gray”
35 Creative and Inspiring Examples of Latte Art
Check out all of the website’s authors feeds below!
Francesco Mugnai 
Jacques van Heerden Jake Mize Nikola Lazarevic
