Biophysics - 6 August - Bionics

1.Would you support the development of a “bionic” person?


Well yes, why not? When we need to send people to a dangerous area like nuclear area, we can use them.


2. Would your opinion be any different if this were for a military purpose?


Not at all because instead of people to get injured we can use them to face our enemies without worrying about salary, food, hurting, and it will reduce our military cost.

Biochemistry - 30 July - Living Diversity

1. “Restroom Hand Dryers Are Blowing Bacteria Everywhere”

What are your reactions to this?
I agree because the weather that the machine is using to dry our hand is coming from the dirty area that includes toilet, so the weather is already dirty

Biophysics - 30 July - Energy Medicine and Energy Fields

1.Acupuncture as effective energy medicine:
yes it is because acupuncture is base on energy or Qi, Qi can affect your health as well, and everything in your body can stop Qi could bring disease to your body


 2. What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography:

It is good to know and understand the better subject, but it is not that important that can help us to discover an unknown world.

3.Human intent as it affects health:

I believe most diseases is base on our mental health, and the mind can affect all organs because it works as a commander of the body.

Biology - 30 July - Vaccination and Public Health Policy

1. Is compulsory vaccination the most effective public health policy in your view?

Yes, It can prevent us from getting some diseases that can even kill us.

2. Post a brief paragraph describing why you chose your Research Topic.

I choose Diet as my research topic because today having a healthy life is so important, and unfortunately people are not aware that some big companies that are working in this industry, in fact, think about themselves and money that they can make and nothing else.

Biochemistry - 23 July - Cell Biology and Radioactivity

1. Check out the various links on cells in 2. below, and post your impressions:
Well to me we enter the new world of technology, and since that should update ourselves with them. All these subjects I found an interesting among scientists.  I believe they become more popular in the future.


2. Side-effects could be all in mind:
well, depend if it is the real medicine or placebo, I have experienced a lot of side effect about my medication that I am using, and none of them are Placebo, but I believe placebo effect could be all in our mind, and even some people are addicted to the drug.

Biophysics - 23 July - Life and Living Systems

1. I know I’m a “living system” because:
I can respond to heat, cold darkness and other stimulation immediately
2.
TCM and Biophysics:
both them use energy which in Chinese medicine it calls Q

Biology - 23 July - Antioxidants and Free Radicals

"People should still eat healthy food" - do we rely too heavily on supplements to provide antioxidants?

You try to improve your diet before you use supplements. That's because nutrients are most potent when they come from food. "They are accompanied by many nonessential but beneficial nutrients, such as hundreds of carotenoids, flavonoids, minerals, and antioxidants that aren't in most supplements.

"Aspirin a day could dramatically cut cancer risk"  What are your thoughts on this?
base on this research I agree:
More than 130,000 deaths would be avoided over a 20-year period if Britain's 50- to 64-year-olds took a daily aspirin for 10 years, because the beneficial effects continue even when the aspirin is stopped, the authors say.

A research team led by Professor Jack Cuzick, head of the centre for cancer prevention at Queen Mary University of London, concluded that people between 50 and 65 should consider regularly taking the 75mg low-dosage tablets.

Cuzick said that taking aspirin "looks to be the most important thing we can do to reduce cancer after stopping smoking and reducing obesity, and will probably be much easier to implement".

In a briefing to journalists, the scientist added that he had been dosing himself for the last four years, keeping the tablets beside his bed. "I take aspirin as part of a bedtime ritual every day and I can achieve that quite easily," he said.

However, to obtain the newfound benefits of the drug, people would have to take aspirin for at least five years and probably 10, the review said.

Chemistry - 25 June

Post your thoughts on the diet suggestions in pH Balance: Acids &Alkalis & Anti-Oxidants:

As you know, the foods you eat have a powerful impact on your health. Eating foods that are more alkaline can be health-promoting, as we’ll learn below.

But that doesn’t mean you suddenly have to eat a “raw” or “vegan” diet, which is what we tend to think about when we think about eating highly alkaline foods.

The truth is, eating alkaline foods doesn’t require any extreme measures.

Eating high alkaline foods simply means you’re eating more of certain foods to help prevent your blood from becoming too acidic, which promotes your health in endless ways.

In fact, among other things your body has a hard time properly producing energy in an acidic internal environment, as an acidic state leaves less oxygen available to your cells for energy production 

Physic 25 June

Newton’s Three Laws and me:

a truck collides with another truck and the truck stops, but the driver keeps going The rock in this video wont move unless someone moves it. Newtons Second Law Acceleration increases with force and decreases with mass. Two objects of different weights are thrown off of a roof, you may assume that the heavier object will hit the ground first, but according to Newtons Second Law, the heavier objects acceleration decreases because it has more mass. The truth is, both objects will hit the ground at the same time. Another example of Newtons 2nd Law is that it is easier to push an empty shopping cart than a full one. If pushed with the same amount of force, the empty one will go farther while the full one will be harder to stop. Newtons Third Law For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When a rocket blasts off, the thrust produced pushes against the ground, forcing the rocket up When walking, you are actually pushing on the earth, and the earth pushes back, causing you to move.
The same applies to cars, bicycles, and boats.


2.Our “Energy Efficient” Culture:
Change the Culture
Take inventory of your office space. How many employees have space heaters at their desks? Minifridges? Christmas lights still blinking away? It's time to get ruthless. First, create an inviting area for shared microwaves, coffee makers and combination printer-fax-copiers. Then ban cubicle energy hogs and challenge employees to change their culture. Everyone should make a point of turning off lights, shutting down unused appliances and wearing a sweater in lieu of using a heater. Try efficiency contests among departments (with prizes!) to spark interest.





3.Descartes has a lot to answer for!

Descartes believes that his "false opinions" has deceived him. The opinions, he worried about, are the information he learned from the time he is born, such as if the earth is round or flat also Descartes wants to break down his 'house' of knowledge because he thought that all the things he knew he accepted without any proof. He wants to get rid of that information and rebuild his experience based on scientific, proven facts.

Biology week 10

1.How do you feel about western approaches to HIV/AIDS?

Well, I believe that we need western medicine to find out about HIV/AIDS, although that still we have a long way to go the only Chinese medicine cannot be enough to fight with we need both sides.

2.What are your thoughts on the issues around the PrEP treatment?

well I agree with it and believe Daily PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90%

3.Can TCM strengthen our immune systems?

Scientific research shows that acupuncture increases the white blood cells in the body and moderates the immune system allowing it to react swiftly and firmly to threats.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day7

I was so tired and when I tried to letdown and do nothing ,I slept for almost 3 hours .After I woke up I just make some cold drink and sit and watch TV for almost 4 hours and after that I start to study for my other classes.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day6

well ,I had a chance to finish my paperworks and take some rest for few hours ,I just lay down and tried not to think about anything for a while and this time I really enjoyed ,because I did not have any stress about it.

Your Biology Take-home Midterm Exam - Biomimicry

Investigate “biomimicry” and report on your findings.

Can you find examples of biomimicry at each of the three levels Janine Benyon describes?

I did some research, and I found interesting examples that we have got from nature, I noticed that biomimicry means getting inspiration from our environment and transfer them to our daily life to solve our problems or even make our world better place to live or make it beautiful. I got different examples from designing a building or even some communication tools that we have used biomimicry on them, but I should say that I found it really hard to find an example about level three that Janine Benyon has described it.here are some examples that I found:

1. Sagrada Familia:

Gaudi’s stunning buildings in Barcelona, Spain, Gaudi took over design in 1883 and the building is due to be finished in 2026, 100 years after his death in June 1926, aged 73. The cathedral ’s interior is inspired by the idea of a forest that invites prayer.

2.Kunsthaus Graz:

Dr. Marcus Cruz, who was involved with planning the Kunsthaus in Austria along with main architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier says" the building took inspiration from natural forms but didn’t mimic them exactly.

Cruz’s own research included looking at microscopic images of sea creatures."

3.National Taichung Theater:

Toyo Ito drew inspiration from the formation of rocks, caves and the transience of water for his design for The National Taichung Theater, which he hoped would provide a soft and mellow respite within the city of Taichung, Taiwan.

Also, I found those examples as well:

1.Firefly Lightbulbs.

2.Candy-Coated Vaccines.

3.A Very Fishy Wind Farm.

4.Spider Web Glass.

5.Watercube.

which we got the idea from them to make new tools but most of those ideas even did not have used level two of biomimicry.they just got the idea by seeing how they are working and have tried to make similar to them.

I found interesting that the idea of the needle is coming from mosquitoes:

A human almost experiences no pain when pricked by a mosquito. The detailed insertion mechanism of the mosquito proboscis was investigated based on the observation of its penetrating motion into a transparent polymer material using a high-speed camera system. Among the parts of the mosquito proboscis, a center labrum and two maxillae beside it were biomimicked, creating the engineering equivalent of three microneedles by using a micromachining process. It was proven that the resistance force during insertion into an artificial skin is markedly reduced by cooperatively moving the three needles in a certain time phase to each other as the mosquito does. It is expected that pain would be reduced using the fabricated microneedles since pain and resistance force have a positive correlation.

“In mosquitoes the proboscis is a marvelously intricate structure…consisting of six different styles, each adapted for a particular purpose–for making the primary incision, inserting anti-coagulant and digestive enzymes contained in the insect’s saliva and, finally, withdrawing the blood itself. All the stylets are secreted within a protective sheath formed by the labium or lower lip, which, during blood extraction, is slid up out of the way into a loop form.” (Wootton 1984:72)

or

“The mouthparts of female mosquitoes have evolved to form a special proboscis, a natural biomicroelectromechanical system (BMEMS), which is used for painlessly penetrating human skin and sucking blood. Scanning electron microscope observations show that the mosquito proboscis consists of a small bundle of long, tapering, and feeding styles that are collectively called the fascicle, and a large scaly outer lower lip called the labium. During blood feeding, only the fascicle penetrates into the skin while the labium buckles back to remain on the surface of the skin…[The mosquito] uses the two maxillas as variable frequency micro saws with nano-sharp teeth to advance into the skin tissue. This elegant BMEMS enables the mosquito to insert its feeding fascicle into human skin using an exceedingly small force (average of 16.5 μN).” (Kong and Wu 2010:1)

Insects of the World

July 1, 2018

Walter Linsenmaier

A needle which mimics the mosquito’s unique “stinger”, making injections painless, has been developed by a team of Japanese microengineering. Contrary to popular belief, a mosquito can stab you with its proboscis without you feeling a thing. It then injects anticoagulant saliva to stop your blood clotting while it feeds, and it is this that carries the bacteria that cause irritation and pain.

Seiji Aoyagi at Kansai University in Osaka and his colleagues concluded that "the initial bite is painless because the mosquito’s proboscis is highly serrated. Unlike the smooth surface of a syringe needle, which leaves a lot of metal in contact with skin tissue, the jagged edge of the proboscis leaves only small points in contact. This greatly reduces stimulation of the nerves, says Aoyagi, causing far less pain."

To mimic this effect, Aoyagi and his engineering team created a needle just one millimeter long and 0.1 millimeters in diameter. They did this by etching slices of silicon dioxide into a jagged shape and then bonding them together. The needle’s walls were just 1.6 micrometers thick.

Then they fitted the needle with a five-millimeter-wide tank, which in future could store blood or fluids collected by the needle. An optical fiber inserted into the tank would allow doctors to analyze samples.

To test the needle’s strength, the researchers pushed the needle into a piece of silicone rubber – which has puncture resistance similar to the skin – wrapped around a vessel containing a red dye. The tank filled with the dye, indicating that the needle is up to the challenge of puncturing the skin.

The inventors hope the microneedle will be the forerunner of small wireless devices for collecting blood that could be permanently attached to the body. Such devices could monitor blood-sugar levels in diabetic people or collect blood samples from patients for diagnosis in a lab.

Aoyagi plans to conduct human trials eventually, but there are still some hurdles to overcome. “It is still a big problem that our needle is brittle,” he says.

“If a piece broke off in a hypodermic injection a blood clot could form.” And if such a clot entered the bloodstream and traveled to the brain or heart it could be lethal. Aoyagi hopes further research will resolve the issue and lead to safer designs.

conclusion:

I believe needle can go to level one and not two or three for now base on our technology but you never know maybe in future we can go to level three by advancing our technology. Right now it is a little bit hard to do it and make it real like mosquitoes are having. Most of my examples are saying that human has intelligence but having intelligence will not enough to save us, we need intelligence to understand and learn from our nature and other animals who also have some intelligence to survive.

Resources:

https://asknature.org/strategy/needle-like-structure-inserts-painlessly/#.Wzkzvi2ZOL-

https://biomimicry.org/biomimicry-examples/

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150913-nine-incredible-buildings-inspired-by-nature

https://biomimicry.org/biomimicry-examples/

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjsca/33/5/33_697/_article/-char/en

My Chemistry Take-home Midterm Exam - Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars

Will hydrogen fuel cells prove to be the way forward in car designs?

Investigate Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars and report on your findings.

the governors of eight states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—signed a memorandum of understanding committing to having 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on the roads in their states by 2025.  FCEVs are an important part of this portfolio. But as of now, fueling stations are definitely not widespread, so automakers are not likely to pursue hydrogen unless they see more investments in infrastructure.

Benefits of Hydrogen fuel cells are:

1. electrically powered vehicles reduce the emissions of pollutants that degrade local air quality as well as carbon dioxide emissions, which raise significant worries about altering the climate.

2. Another reason to favor electrically powered vehicles involves national security. Ample supplies of petroleum are found only in select regions of the world. So countries that lack these natural resources will remain at a political and economic disadvantage if they continue to utilize vehicles that burn gasoline or diesel fuel.

3. The final reason stems from the fact that exploitable sources of petroleum are slowly running out. Once the society reaches the point where production cannot keep up with demand, prices will skyrocket. So it’s no wonder, really, that the transition to electric vehicles is speeding up.

Problems with Hydrogen Fuel Cell:

1. If you have a hydrogen fuel cell car, where do you get your hydrogen gas?Fuel cells are expensive to build, Platinum is the dominant material used in the catalyst of these fuel cells (the cathode and anode portion of the fuel stack).

2.Platinum: as expensive, if not more expensive, than gold.The DOE tells me that over time, they've been able to reduce the amount of platinum required in fuel cells: "DOE(DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY)-funded research has reduced automotive fuel cell cost to $53/kW projected at 500,000 units/year and $60/kW at 100,000 units/year. This is more than a 50% cost reduction since 2006. Cost reductions reflect numerous individual advances in key areas, including a five-fold reduction in the platinum content of fuel cell catalysts and the development of durable membrane electrode assemblies with low platinum group metal content. The DOE says the durability of fuel cells has also been improving.



3: How do you make the hydrogen?

To get hydrogen gas, you have to make it. Right now, the cheapest way to get the gas is by reformulating natural gas. "So right away, you're using a carbon-based fuel to get the stuff - not ideal. If produced at high-volume, the cost of hydrogen from renewables/ electrolyzers could be around $5/gge even using today’s electrolyzer technology. The cost of hydrogen from renewables will decrease even further using longer-term approaches (e.g., direct solar photo-electro chemical conversion)." We’ve also reduced the cost of producing hydrogen from renewables by decreasing the cost of electrolyzers by 80% since 2002. And even if natural gas remains as the cheapest way to get the gas, the DOE contends that "because a fuel cell is more than twice as efficient as an internal combustion engine, an FCEV travels farther on that tank of hydrogen than a traditional car would on a tank of gasoline."
Honda says it's also looking at purchasing the hydrogen by-product from refineries around the U.S.  Another way to get the gas is from the water. Using electrolysis you can capture the gas from water. The question becomes: where do you get your electricity to do this? There's more research being done on how to do this with solar energy.

4.The hydrogen gas tank challenge

To store enough hydrogen on a vehicle to get the 200 to 300-mile ranges we are accustomed to, the gas has to be pressurized. High-pressure tanks that can do the job often end up being quite heavy, which starts to affect the car's fuel economy (the heavier the car, the less efficient it often is).To make a tank that can do the job, carbon fiber is often used, and, once again, we're using an expensive material.

Conclusion:
I believe the future belongs to the hydrogen fuel cell but it will take more time to solve the problems that I have mentioned them in above,human has to and there is not any choice to cut his dependency to oil and gas since they are not there forever and we already have made huge damage to our environment. By getting more knowledge and having advance technology I will see that the future belongs to Hydrogen Fuel cell.

resource:

http://michiganradio.org/post/hydrogen-powered-cars-cant-make-it-without-these-4-miracles

My Physics Take-home Midterm Exam

Carl Jung The term synchronicity is coined by Jung to express a concept that belongs to him: the acausal connection between two or more psychic and physical phenomena. as Carl Jung has said" synchronistic moments don't happen just to inspire wonder, they arrive to force people to reconsider their values. I believe in western view Synchronicity is base on more reality and some events that had happened in past, for example, people think about some friends that they have when they were young and from nowhere they meet them the same day or the other day. Also some of those are in common with eastern view as well ,like when some people are thinking that something will happen for them or they are getting nervous and know something will happen to their family or child but they do not have control over it and again it will happen in the same day or the other day. But this concept was not something new in eastern point of view as we have learned this concept had thousands of years old in an ancient Chinese text used for divination called the" I Ching" or "The Book of Changes, In Chinese view it believes that" just as casualty describes the sequence of events, so synchronicity to the Chinese mind deals with the coincidence of events. the casual point of view tells us a dramatic story about how D came into existence: it took its origin from C, which existed before D, and C in its turn had a father, B,etc.on the other hand tries to produce an equally meaningful picture of coincidence. How does it happen that A, B, C, D, etc appear all at the same moment and in the same place? It happens in the first place because the physical events A and B are of the same quality as the psychic events C and D and further because all are the exponents of one and the same momentary situation. The situation is assumed to represent a legible or understandable picture. in western view it has more base on accident event, but In eastern view, they are looking for the way to make the connection between them and some explanation unlike the western view that just thinking of events match to each other as an accident,Also I believe that in eastern it has more feeling and karma to it compare to the west and people thinking about synchronicity in eastern as a cause and looking for a way to solve it and not just as event that just happened.synchronicity is more like Shen(spirits) in Chinese medicine our spirits is able to find the way to make contact between us and our environment. The word"Shen" has connotations that enable it to be related to both personal and impersonal understandings, I think in eastern people are trying to have an emotional and spiritual connection  instead of just think of it as a something accidentally like the west.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day5

I am super busy with my research paper and so far was not able to stop working on them,I will try tomorrow to do it.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day4

Today I was able to do not do anything only for two hours, still, I was not feeling that I am relaxed, because I am little behind my research papers.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day3

well for half a day I just watched TV and did nothing this is the third day that I am doing it and I am scared that I do not have enough time to finish my research paperwork.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day2

I just woke up but did not do anything the whole day, I got nervous and worried about my research papers but did not want to do anything, I just watched TV and lay down on the sofa all day, but my mind was not with TV and I was thinking only about my Midterm papers.

Loafing around without feeling guilty Day One

I laid down on my bed for 4 hours and did nothing, which it was little boring:)I just closed my eyes and tried not to think about anything.It is good to do nothing for a while but for me could get boring:)

Chemistry week 7

Alchemy – science, magic, art – or all three?

I believe it was all three, they were trying different ways to bring their dreams to life by exam different ways, At the same time, alchemy has often been seen as a get-rich-quick scheme and many alchemists as charlatans and pretenders. But many alchemists were, in fact, serious-minded practitioners whose work helped lay the groundwork for modern chemistry and medicine. Also, I found that Alchemy is called, among other things, the Black Art in reference to its alleged Egyptian origin. It is also called the Hermetic Art or Hermeticism in respect of its legendary founder.

Physic week 7

1.Are all vibrations “good”?

well, it is the little gray border,I believe some feeling like Greed, fear, hate, and sadness vibrate at lower speeds. they are not kinds of energy we like but we need them and they try to do not make our life boring everyday happiness cannot be so good and makes our life little bit an interesting

2. Resonance in my world:

The Law of Resonance has a relational character, i.e. expresses the way in which two or more apparently different things or phenomena selectively communicate (are linked), being integrated into a unitary Whole. The links which unite all things in the Universe (physical objects, mental processes, psychic phenomena, spiritual levels, in other words, everything manifested) have as a basis the process of Resonance

3. Connections I can make between Energy and Qi?

Simply put, Qi is energy. But Qi goes much deeper than that. Qi is the Universal life force or the energy of the Universe. Qi contains power and wisdom. But energy is not just seen in the powerful; energy is everywhere and everything.

Biology week7

How sophisticated is our understanding of cancer?
I did some research and found this in popular since  magazine :
“Back in the 1970s, we thought if we found every cancer early, we might be able to cure it. Now we have a much more mature understanding,” says Len Lichtenfeld, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the American Cancer Society. “Our technology has allowed us to find many different cancers than we would have in the past. And our understanding of what cancer is and how it behaves is also evolving.”

Cancer isn’t just one disease—it’s actually hundreds of diseases. And these diseases don’t have much in common, except that they are caused by a genetic mutation that throws the cells’ normal process of growing and dying gets out of whack.
I believe that still, we do not know much about cancers yes maybe we know what is the cause of cancers but not completely sure, still we do not know how to treat them all.

How does a TCM approach to cancer differ?
I believe In TCM, cancer is not seen as a disease but rather, an imbalance within the body that needs to be addressed, it also enhances the body’s immunity, increasing energy levels and improving the body’s ability to deal with the disease.

Physic week 6

• 1.“Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?

Yes,It suggests a way of working that on the surface looks completely irrational and disorganized, like what time you are going to bed or waking up.

• 2.Fractals as patterns of complex systems:

A Fractal System is a complex, non-linear, interactive system which has the ability to adapt to a changing environment. Such systems are characterized by the potential for self-organization, existing in a nonequilibrium environment.

• 3.Consciousness out of chaos?

Dreams, creativity, and healing arise from this undifferentiated "chaotic consciousness."  Dreamhealing uses images as portals for consciousness journeys to facilitate transformations ranging from mood alteration to profound physiological changes.  Imagery (virtual experience) affects the immune system, activating psychosomatic forces, such as the placebo effect.  Chaos-oriented consciousness journeys suggest these states reflect complex phase space, fractal patterns, strange attractors, "the butterfly effect," sensitivity, complex feedback loops, intermittency, and other general dynamical aspects suggested by chaos theory.  I found this definition best described of consciousness out of chaos.

Chemistry week 6

• 1.Test your understanding of hypotheses – try Avogadro's Hypothesis and report back on your findings:

an idea or theory that is not proven but that leads to further study or discussion and" Skepticism is one of the scientist's main tools." For example, as I learned With a clear understanding of how to measure atomic and molecular weights established, Chemistry proceeded rapidly.



2.What exactly is a mole?

One mole of any substance always contains exactly the same number of solute particles, that is, 6.02×1023
6.02
×
10
23
 (Avogadro's number). So whether you weigh out 1 mole of glucose (180 g) or 1 mole of water (18 g) or 1 mole of methane (16 g), in each case you will have 6.02×1023
6.02
×
10
23
 molecules of that substance.

Biology week6

• As an optional assignment, feel free to post your thoughts on the article "Why Grandmothers May Hold the Key to Human Evolution":

well, I am sure that as we have seen in movies after a while children are getting separate from their mothers and they were learning how to hunt from their fathers, well to me both are the key to human evolution.

Biology week five

1.Post your thoughts on "Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa":

Well base on what we have found in the past and now always would be debate between scientist ,human does not know much yet about the world that we are living on it and I do not think that that theory can be certain or accurate and anytime something new will come out,I do not have any idea at the moment but I am sure that this theory cannot be 100% true.


2.Comment on the “Gaia Theory” – is this now a commonly accepted theory?

I went truly some articles and I found these articles useful to answer this question:
https://courses.seas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/Courses/EPS281r/Sources/Gaia/Gaia-hypothesis-wikipedia.pdf

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/environment-in-crisis-we-are-past-the-point-of-no-return-6111631.html
I believe yes it is accepted widely now, in my opinion, everything in our world has a direct and non-direct connection even when for example a tree dies it turn to the soil and can grow other trees.

Physic Week five

1.How has e=mc2 affected you?

It affects everything that occurs in our world; each time you flex a muscle, breath in or out, think a thought or beat your heart, you’re converting mass into energy, and each time you digest a meal, you’re converting energy back into mass. Everything that adds or subtracts energy from a system causes its mass to change


2. How would you compare the four “forces”?

Well, base on what we have learned STRONG NUCLEAR FORCE, ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE, and WEAK NUCLEAR FORCE are not directly interacting with each other but rather generate a field which affects the behavior of distant objects. From quantum field theory, these fields are associated with one or more particles and are believed to be the result of some fundamental symmetries of nature. Also, I believe that Electromagnetism and gravity are inverse square forces that propagate at the speed of light, I am not sure that base on what we have learned we can compare Gravity with other forces since it does not count as a force anymore.

3. What is the function of gravity?

I was not sure about the answer but I found this:
height = initial height + initial upward velocity * time - 0.5* gravity * time^2 where moving direction is the counter-gravity direction.

Chemistry week five

Explore the colors of foods in your own kitchen – report on your findings:

Well, I have inflammation on my body  ,my chiropractor dr told me I have to use more vegetable and when I told him that I love salad he asked me what is in your salad and I explain that I am using lettuce, carrot, because each color has tomatoes in my salad but he said that I should use more colorful vegtebale and use them all toghether because each color has its own chemichal affect, so I start it and now you can see lot of different vegtables in my kitchen that I am using every day for my inflamation.

Biology week Three

1.1    “99.4% of the most critical DNA sites are identical in human and chimp genes”
What do you make of this?
I believe it is possible that human is a development Chimp who were developing at the time and become human, it could be by jumping genes. It is not the first time that people are discovering this results, in 1991 physiologist and ecologist Jared Diamond called humans “the third chimpanzee”.

1.2    Read the articles “Sleep 'cleans' the brain of toxins”, “Moon Phases Tied to Sleep Cycles“, and “How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?”  Investigate the role of sleep and health.
Monitor your own sleep cycle over the coming week and use your blog to report on your findings.
Post your results on your blog:
I can speak for myself since that I am using CPAP for helping me to sleep, I have never been able to sleep very deep and wake up usually after 4 or 5 hours. I have talked with a lot of my friends and those who are working in Tech industry have the same issue, I think we are living in the world that we are living in is getting more and more difficult, technology is not the bad thing but it can affect our lives.

Chemistry Week Three

1.Discover your “Element of the Week” and post a brief description:


Carbon comes from the Latin" carbo" for coal and charcoal and was known in the forms of charcoal to the earliest human civilizations.   is probably the most important element in the periodic table when it comes to life on earth. Due to carbons unique way of bonding to four different atoms and also being able to bond to itself repeatedly – it can create a vast array of different chemical compounds. These chemical compounds make up every living organism on earth and without Carbon – life would not be possible.Carbon is the basis of a huge quantity of extremely important and essential materials that we use every day. One of the most commonly known materials is diamond which is a natural heavily structured mineral made desirable due to the way in which it reflects light and its sturdiness.
Carbon is the main component of fuels (hydrocarbons) such as coal and gasoline.



2.  Post your thoughts on Green Chemistry:
Well, I love the Green Energy, it helps us not to keep our environment safe, also can be useful for the economy to find a way to make the energy we are using more economical and try to use those energies that are not ending

Physic week three

What evidence can you find for synchronicity?
"Synchronicities happen no matter if you believe in them or not. In which case what you think about them plays no role whatsoever."K.Z.FREEMAN
well it happens a lot for me, I saw something in my dream, and when I went out, I saw the same exact event that I saw in my dream, or sometimes I have called my friends, and they have told me we were thinking about you when you call us.



 Based on what you know, how would you explain connectivity?
"Connectivity suggests there exists a fundamental disconnect between things which can later be connected through action and thus share connectivity."K.Z.FREEMAN
I believe like karma, everything has a response, you are doing anything and you will see that there is the result for it like acting to close the door and door will be close, but in physic, there is a connection between all the world and everything has an effect on other things.

Chemistry Week Two

Well, I am trying not communicate a lot with my car and use public service instead, when I go to the market I carry my own cart and do not take any bag to put my grocery on it, I am using LED light and try to keep my trash as low as I can. I believe that government should invest in public services that are working with electricity.

Evo-Devo: Evolutionary Developmental Biology

I thought maybe you like it:)

Biology Week Two

 Post your thoughts on Evo-Devo:

It is hard to believe this theory, to me I need more evidence to accept all life on Earth came from a common ancestor, I believe that maybe our genes are coming from an ancestor but not believe that  all  ancestors  have common had the exact same genes we see today in all of our modern species,I think that  maybe one animal has responsibility for our genes and not all of them. I should say that I am not 100% sure and if this theory is correct it is amazing and unbelievable.

 Research synesthesia and report on your findings:

well still when I remember it , it makes me so sad, my grandmother, when she was a child, got sick and lost her eyes, she died when I was young but can remember how she was able to use her other sensation to cover her weakness about her blind problem,and she was doing well. So I completely agree with this theory since I have been a witness to it.

Physics Week Two

 1.Your reflections on Uncertainty
well It was a new concept for me and it took me a lot of time to try understanding about such as position x and momentum which it was very an interesting subject ,but still it is not easy to explain it but it was wonderful that who weight can play as a fast or slow rules on it.

2.Your comments on Causality:
well if  I understand it correctly  casualty is the  is the relationship between causes and effects the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future

3. Is the Universe weird?
I believe when we do not understand something we think that it is weird, I believe we do not know anything about the universe so that is why we think it is weird. To me, it is not weird, and we should try to learn more about it.

chemistry week two

This African factory turns  trash into Energy, clean water, and bricks.

Chemistry week two

I post it here because I thought you should watch it, we do not need a bottle anymore to drink water, hope you like it:)

Chemistry Week One Quiz Answers

1. Classify the following as either a chemical or physical change:

The burning of a substance is a chemical change.

The crushing of a rock is a physical change.

Dissolving sugar in water is physical change


 The rusting of Iron is chemical change.


2. Classify the following as to whether or not they are pure substances or mixtures:

Milk is a mixture.

Table salt is actually a mixture. 

Sugar is typically a pure substance.

Steel is a homogeneous mixture of iron and carbon.


3. A cup of black coffee is considered to be __?__ and a/an __?__ substance:

 Homogeneous. Impure


4. The boiling of water is considered to be a __?__ change and the temperature at which water boils is considered to be a __?__ property:

 Physical.Physical

Physics week1

I believe that depend on what part of the world you are living you can change the speed of time and the culture of that area can affect the time as well. For example I was living in middle east for a long time and I visited some countries there as well,I have noticed that countries that have more develope economy are more active and time is money there and people should work hard to be able to make money,but in fewer developing countries people are not doing much and spend most of the time hanging out with freindsand they do not think that time is money so  besicly time is not an important factor there and they are controling their own time unlike develop countries where the time has control on you.we can control and slow time down if we are living in fewer developing countries but in countries like The U.S. it is not possible I beleive because wasting time or not keeping up with time can cost you money and other stuff that comes with losing money so here we have to let time have controll on us.

Biology week 1 What Exactly is the "Nocebo" effect?

I did some research and I found this definition on Wikipedia which to me has the best definition:The term nocebo (Latin nocēbō, "I shall harm", from noceō, "I harm") was coined by Walter Kennedy in 1961 to denote the counterpart to the use of placebo (Latin placēbō, "I shall please", from placeō, "I please"; a substance that may produce a beneficial, healthful, pleasant, or desirable effect). I noticed that unlike Placebo that is about having a good feeling after using a placebo, after using real medicine drugs most of the time you will get other side effects that could bring new problems to your body such as a headache, dizziness or nausea which I personally have experienced them all. If I want to explain it in my own language nocebo effect could be any bad feeling that you will have after using chemical medicine.

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my name is Mohsen Barghandan and  I am living in the bay area , I have two bachelor degree in marine biology and web design and master degree in multimedia and communication. I choose this degree because I realized how is important to treat people problems with organic material instead of chemical drugs after I had experience with both. I am looking forward to learning more about you:)