Just sit down, and imagine the fact that you could be in jail right now, for something you didn't do. People every year are put in jail based on false Eye-Witness testimonies and false evidence for crimes that they did not commit.
But the U.S. Justice system has realised that this is becoming a huge problem, and thats where we get DNA evidence. Un-debatable evidence that can only be linked to one person on this earth. As DNA evidence is being used in more and more court cases, less people are being falsely imprisoned and more people are being exonerated (released from jail after new evidence was presented). A group called Project Innocence aims to help exonerate falsely imprisoned people, ans as of now, they have exonerated 316 people from prison.
My personal reaction to this would be that I think Project Innocence is definitely a step in the right direction, but the thing that we need to fix would be the loophole in the justice system that keeps on allowing people to be falsely imprisoned and convicted of things that they did not do.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
TED talk on Genetics and Dinosaurs by Jack Horner
One of the great mysteries that surrounds the early times of the world are dinosaurs. The dinosaurs where these massive, powerful creatures that roamed the world hunting and leaving a lot of untold secrets in the ground.
So what if you could create a dinosaur from a current animal like a chicken or a dog? Well a paleontologist by the name of Jack Horner had a dream like this for his whole life, and he spent his life trying to find the DNA needed to recreate a real living dinosaur. Jack Horner, who had an amazing sense of humor, talked in this TED talk about how we can actually change a chicken into dinosaur. He was part of a handful of dinosaur digs that recovered a lot of soft tissue, and even red blood cells. Including things like atavism activation and tons of primitive and prehistoric examples, he makes a really good argument for how we could change a chicken into a dinosaur using DNA and changing its genetics.
This is something that I find really interesting, and when he explains it, it definitely makes it look like we could easily make a dinosaur from a chicken. The only issue is we need to find a dinosaur with living DNA in its blood and tissue so that we could create this Jurassic Park like creature.
So what if you could create a dinosaur from a current animal like a chicken or a dog? Well a paleontologist by the name of Jack Horner had a dream like this for his whole life, and he spent his life trying to find the DNA needed to recreate a real living dinosaur. Jack Horner, who had an amazing sense of humor, talked in this TED talk about how we can actually change a chicken into dinosaur. He was part of a handful of dinosaur digs that recovered a lot of soft tissue, and even red blood cells. Including things like atavism activation and tons of primitive and prehistoric examples, he makes a really good argument for how we could change a chicken into a dinosaur using DNA and changing its genetics.
This is something that I find really interesting, and when he explains it, it definitely makes it look like we could easily make a dinosaur from a chicken. The only issue is we need to find a dinosaur with living DNA in its blood and tissue so that we could create this Jurassic Park like creature.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Laughter and the Immune System
Waking up everyday to something that makes you laugh definitely starts the day off well, but when scientists discover that laughter can actually improve your health?
Well you have me sold. Humor and laughter is quite un-humorous when it is put into scientific terms, but its actually quite intriguing, laughter can help Natural Killer cells, which are cells that can help defeat tumors and cancer in the body, laughter can even help prevent tumors and cancer all together! A test done on 10 students helped relay this information, 5 watched a humorous video and the other 5 watched a teaching video. Blood tests were taken from each test subject, and it showed that the people that watched the humorous video had higher levels of Natural Killer cells in their blood, which in turn helps kill and prevent cancer.
Humor is basically a stimuli that occurs in the body, this can help prevent sicknesses and help mental stability too. In conclusion, laughter and humor is something that everyone should wake up to everyday, mostly because its good for your health and it brightens up your morning!
Well you have me sold. Humor and laughter is quite un-humorous when it is put into scientific terms, but its actually quite intriguing, laughter can help Natural Killer cells, which are cells that can help defeat tumors and cancer in the body, laughter can even help prevent tumors and cancer all together! A test done on 10 students helped relay this information, 5 watched a humorous video and the other 5 watched a teaching video. Blood tests were taken from each test subject, and it showed that the people that watched the humorous video had higher levels of Natural Killer cells in their blood, which in turn helps kill and prevent cancer.
Humor is basically a stimuli that occurs in the body, this can help prevent sicknesses and help mental stability too. In conclusion, laughter and humor is something that everyone should wake up to everyday, mostly because its good for your health and it brightens up your morning!
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