To Get Good Grades, Get Good Sleep

college students don't get much sleep. They can't get around their schedule of school work, work, partying, or usage of drugs. Students are sleep deprived. Sleep deprived people are at risk for obesity and diabetes. People who want to get good grades should get a good night's sleep.

Dreams

2/13: dreamt of being in a forest full of twisted trees (like seashells). Going up to a dark castle in a dark place. Then suddenly there's a cave. (Guild Wars/game experience I think)

2/14: Afternoon nap: boulders falling of a mountain (like avalanche except with boulders). Then I was at home with boulders fall out of a dresser (the same ones)

Night: in a classroom except no one's here, walk around the school then jump off a window into sand. Woke up (but still not really awake in real life, still in a dream or dream within a dream), walked to Subway to buy sandwich...

2/15: I was dreaming of taking the AP Bio test. I knew every answer to every problem, getting an A+. When I wake up I don't remember the answers (however fake). Also, I dreamt my bed was flying over to NYC with lights and big buildings. Attended an opera concert

2/17: Stealing egg from a phoenix on top of a volcano

2/18: in a factory with abandoned machine parts. An evil giant robot destroying everything. Went to a secret passage to the forest, everything's a haze from there

illusions

these really hurt my eyes after a while.

http://www.garybeene.com/images/rds-death.jpg

this is cool, you have to see beyond what's there lol. There's a hidden image (not literally) Hint: cross your eyes

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110336/Graphics/roseed.jpg

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110336/Graphics/crossed.jpg

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/gallery/d/5043-2/duckie_magic_eye.jpg

Monkey love

Harlow was a scientist who didn't like women. He had some relationship issues; therefore he didn't trust a lot of women he's with. He dedicated his time in studying monkeys and their behavior. He found that baby monkeys prefer a soft mother figure as opposed to a metal one that provided milk.

I find that this is against the moral codes because Harlow took the monkey away from its mother without its mother's consent. This experiment could cause severe neurological damage to the baby monkey and its mother, but we know that monkeys are our ancestors. Therefore, we're causing harm to our ancestors.

Preschool years

Interview on Mom:

- "Do you remember what I did during preschool years? Any vivid/happy/sad memories?"

mom: "You were cute, everyone loved you" "We got you vaccinated at the hospital when you were born" "I took you to flower festival when you were 4 with your sister"

"You also had a cactus but it wasn't properly taken care of so it died (laugh out loud moment)"

- "Any other places I went to?"

mom: "When your uncle came over from NY, we went to Rex restaurant/hotel to eat at a buffet and went swimming....you liked the corn soup with egg there" "You didn't know how to swim yet so we kinda have to guard you all the time"

"Also Vung Tau was our favorite beach place to go to, a lot of people there"

"We also went to Buddhist temple.... we bought birds and freed them, it was fun"

- "Do you have any pictures way back then?"

mom: "No, I don't really keep track of things so they might have gotten lost, but there were a few back in Vietnam"

"when you were 7, you learned to draw from your sister and the animes you watched" "we also went to karaoke to sing"

- "Did I like any shows?"

mom: "yeah, you watched several of them when your cousin went over to babysit you" "there were a few long-runs ones and some cartoons" "they were Sinbad, Noah in 21st century, Wu Zestian, Thanh Cung 13 Hoang Trieu (13 emperors), Scheherazade"

- "What did I do for fun?"

mom: "you liked us driving you around on motorcycle to stores"

New drawing lol

http://tropicorn.deviantart.com/art/Oz-of-the-Flames-107481438

cool drawing :D made by me

Human genome, twin study, genetic testing

Genome project was completed in 2003, contributions came from Japan, France, Germany, China, and others. Project goals were to identify all 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,
determine sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, store this information in databases, improve tools for data analysis. Imagine how many diseases can be cured from this, never before. A normal gene may be inserted into a nonspecific location within the genome to replace a nonfunctional gene. This approach is most common.

Twins:

By studying twins and siblings and their families, we can estimate how genes and environment interact to influence character, strengths, vulnerabilities and values. Beginning in 2000, the MTFS enrolled an additional 500 pairs of twins and their parents into the MCTFR.