Anti-androgenic TED talk

     Every day we are taught that if we cut out certain foods from are diet we would be less likely to get cancer. However, William Li had an idea what could we add to our diet to prevent cancer.

   

      In the ted talk we watched in class told use what we can add to help us prevent cancerous tumors from creating a blood supply and growing to harmful sizes. Blood vessels are what can turn a harmless tumor into a cancerous fatal tumor. The chemical that stimulates blood vessel growth is called androgenic. With anti-androgenic foods we could stop those unnecessary blood vessels from forming.

    

       I found this extremely interesting and helpful. I'm not very healthy and i feel like there is an increased chance of me getting cancer. My grandma had cancer and my great grandma got breast cancer. If i can eat the right food I could prevent cancer.

Lucy the Chimp

How human can I chimpanzee be? Can it be human? Can they communicate? Can they lie? Temerlin's experiment tells us just how human a chimp could be.


From the moment she was bornn she was raised as a human . She dressed like a human girl, she ate with silver were, etc. By the time she was 12, Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house. Eventually, she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter. For years, Lucy was unable to relate to the other chimps in the rehabilitation center, and never reproduced, displaying sexual attraction only to humans. Lucy showed many signs of depression, including refusal to eat, and expressed "hurt" via sign language. Though her adopted Temerlin parents stayed with Lucy for only a few weeks in Gambia, Janis Carter remained at the Center for years, devoting a great deal of time to helping Lucy assimilate to life in the wild.

TED Talk: The The mysterious lives of giant trees

A tree so tall, it could stand out in midtown Manhattan. And tree that is 38 stories tall, and has the circumference of 30 feet. Unfortunately there is only 40% of the forest left. Sequoia Sempervirens  aka the redwood tree it the largest living organism alive.

What’s left of the once huge Redwood forest is protected with little parks throughout the coast of california. Long ago people cut down Redwoods for house and lumber because of that there is only 4% of the original Redwood rainforest left. The forests of Sequoia Sempervirens is highly unexplored. There are so many things living out of one tree, mini tree come out of this huge tree. It’s like a fractal. These trees are amazing. Unfortunately there is an invasive species that is killing the Sequoia Sempervirens. It’s like the Ebola of trees.

I feel actually pretty sad about this video. There are these beautiful trees that are dying. I really want to climb one of these trees they are so amazing. It’s strange to see something so green since we live in such a dry place. Its almost surreal.