Taste Testing

Can we tell the difference?

   For us....taste can be very important to us. Inside our mouth or tongue has little bumps on the top and on the side of it, there are 200 more buds. Each of them containing a pore that can catch chemical from foods. But the ingredients in the drinks and food can change the taste. In an article from the New York Times called Knowing the Ingredients Can Change the Taste (article link here) was talking about know the ingredient in different kinds of beers. By telling people an ingredient from the different beers they tested, it would change the preference before they even drank them. Also in some other studies that they did was by putting a brand label on the those drinks tend to boost people's rating on the quality of them. The inter part in this article was that there were 60% of people in a blind test said that they could not tell the difference that contained vinegar but actually preferred balsamic.

  

What Makes Us Moral?

Good or Bad?

  

    This video that I found was pretty interesting. In this video from 60 minutes they did this experiment on babies if they knew wright from wrong. They do the experiment is that they put on a puppet show and have a character having a hard time with the box.a puppy in a yellow shirt helps the puppet open the box while the puppy in the green shirt just shuts the box. In the end, most of the babies choose the nice puppy. There were different baby studies but there were also studies that were tested on older kid on if the kids wanted to share the same amount of coins or have more than them. How this connect to class was that Lawrence Kohlberg talked about as we development moral reasoning, the thinking that we consider right or wrong.    

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I had an ice addiction!

 The 48 hours:

    Those 48 hours was a hard. I had to hide this from my mom and I had to hide it from my friends. But the hard part was trying to find a place that I can get ice from. The place I thought was the foods room, but they need it for a food lab that they were doing. I knew that the training room had some but I didn't have enough time to see if I could get some. When I went him I filled some tiny cups and put it in my bottle the next day. The second of this the ice lasted the whole day.

   How this made me feel to lie to my mom and my friends was pretty hard. First my mom kept asking what I was doing with a bunch of ice in my cup. What I said to her was that I like my water with a lot of ice in it so I can chew on the ice. Then I told her she didn't need to worry and then she was fine with it. But with my friends thought that I was going a little crazy. They kept asking why I was going crazy and I told them I just was having a bad day. They were kinda of worried and I told them Ill be better tomorrow.

   To me, I was even surprised that I was acting all crazy just to get the ice that I wanted. I kept asking people around the school when I can get some. My mom and my friends noticed that I did in that 48 hour period and they didn't like it one bit. They next day they were like are you back to your normal self and I said yes. I can see how parents that have kids that are doing drugs. Sometimes they want to help them but they can't do anything. They can try to talk to their kids about it but there kids would probably will say they don't have a problem.

I need better balance and coordination.

Blog #2

       Ever since I got into sports, I would need some kind of coordination and balance. For track and field, you need the coordination from running to throwing shot put. My main even in track is throwing shot and discus. The main thing that you need is balance and coordination. In balance, you would need to control the way how you want to hold the shot put and the discus.The other par for balance is the way you want to stand and how you want to stand. For coordination is for the amount of speed to have to get the out of your hands. You are probably thinking how this connects to class? The cerebellum mostly helps out with coordinating movement and and the balance. If you ever injured your cerebellum, it would be a hard time walking, keeping the balance or shaking hands. For example: David Beckham plays for a soccer team in California and he has to find the perfect time to hit the ball in the net. He has to do that while the other team tries to block him. Like my mom always tells me it's better to be coordinated then not. (I know that part is not funny)

Rat gets a digital cerebellum?

  

   This article was about restoring the an artificial cerebellum into some rats that have lost function in the brain. With a new cerebellum. it could soon replace parts of tissues that might have ruined from different kinds of conditions. Matti Mintz from Tel Aviv University in Israel created a synthetic cerebellum that which it can get sensory from the brain-stem. What it can do is that is sends a signal to the different areas of the brain-stem to send the information. One of the functions was of the cerebellum is to help coordination and time the movement. They tested the chips in two ways: one way was turning it on and the other time was not even connecting the chip to the rat. Like this person, we wanted to learn the way the cerebellum move and learn the sequences. And also to learn about the motor reflexes that everyone has. If we ever lived without our cerebellum, then we wouldn't find our way and we would keep losing our balance and falling all over the place.

The link for the article link is in the title.