The Great Debate - Cannabis

   

      My personal feelings about the legitimacy of legalization aside, I think there is one thing we can all agree upon. Teens, and young adults who are still developing and making choices that affect their whole lives should not be smoking Marijuana. I stumbled into this article about a test recently done on adolescent and adult rats sets the stage for medical reasons why Marijuana is harmful to young minds that are still developing.
      During our teenage years is when our front parts of our brain really develop. This is a decision center of the brain. When teenagers make bad decisions it stems from here. It also affects some of our emotional outputs, making teenagers range from happy one minute to screaming the next. This test proves Marijuana does affect this development. If we legalized, regulated, and tested the over use of Marijuana in teens could diminish. This would protect the young minds of our future generations, and hopefully decrease teen suicide and adult depression.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19969082/

Laryngeal Nerve On a Dissected Giraffe

      This video is not for the faint of heart. If you have never seen a large mammal dissection this may be disturbing. Older audiences only.

      This is biological history at its finest. Finding evidence of evolutionary processes that do not fit our mainstream intelligent design theories. Thought I would share this, maybe I am the only one fascinated. Imagine being able to take a class where you could watch this, how many people get to dissect a Giraffe? I saw my first large mammal autopsy in the third grade. The result of a sudden death of one of our livestock. My Dad being a biologist thought it was a golden opportunity for learning. It was. I learned about animals having multiple stomachs, about hearts, other organs, and more. It exposed me to science at a young age, so that when I had to dissect a cow eye two years later in school it was no problem. I am thankful for having these scientific experiences, and it made me into a science lover today.