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Evaluation Essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is a widespread essay written by Nicholas Carr. The essay is about how desired technology is making people think differently and how maybe google is being a little too helpful when someone is in need of an answer. Carr takes writing to a whole new level when he goes in depth to explain what the internet is doing to a human brain. He uses his own experiences and feelings to evaluate how he feels and what he believes on the effects of modern…

A change within the frequency of alleles in a population occurs on two distinct levels known as macro and microevolutions. The latter is explained as an alteration within a species’ environment that force adaptations in the group; a necessity for survival and reproduction. The evolution and adaptation of the human brain first occurred through a microevolution. As humans struggled to survive their brains grew and developed according to environmental changes; which are not always synonymous with…

The purpose of this project is to see how well people can remember the details of two or more tasks that they completed at the same time. My problem statement is how does multitasking effect memory. I was curious on this topic because I always hear my teachers say that multitasking is impossible and that the human brain can only focus on one thing at a time. So I decided to test that to see if they are actually correct. For my experiment, I will get a large group of people and then divide them…

1. Connect the concepts presented in the video to course concepts. After watching the video episode of The Secret Life of the Brain, the course concept that comes to mind are the Frontal lobe (Prefrontal cortex) of the brain and the amygdala. First, when watching the video episode, the episode discussed how the frontal lobe entitles how the brain helps humans to engage with each other and our environment. However, the frontal lobe becomes a contributing factor of how the psychological disorder…

Carl Zimmer, the author of this article, is a well-known science journalist and author. Within this article, Zimmer discusses what he has learned about the human brain, and in this paper, I summarize the main ideas and points that are brought up, while adding my own comments on its contents. The brain is known for being the most mysterious organ. Our current technology and methods of observation and experimentation are not advanced enough to unveil all that there is to know about it. Most of…

So, what makes someone be considered an adult when they grow up? When they’re 18, 25 or when they’re above 18, but they’re fully mature before the age of 25. So why do people say the age should be 18, even though there are many 18 year olds who are considered an “adult” but still don’t make the right decisions for themselves and can’t even take care of themselves? Same goes for 25, why should that age be considered an adult? Well the most reasonable answer to determine adulthood is when they’re…

Thao Nguyen CP GOV - Period 3 Inside the Teenage Brain Pruning is the process that removes inessential and defines paths of the brain of a teenager during their teenage development. All the branches that are created are formed through experiences and strengthened with practices. In the documentary, the growth of the brain is compared to a tree, hence, "the brain grows like a tree" - narrator. After a flurry of growth, the "unused branches or pathways are pruned"- narrator. "For Charlie, as he…

There is so much information that one can find on the internet. Information that can provide the user with a new favorite recipe or the information as to who is, today, the wealthiest person in America. The possibilities of attainable information are endless. There is so much information that most humans can not comprehend the amount that is really available. However, with the touch of a few buttons, that information can be provided for the human brain to absorb. The internet search engines that…

Skepticism have always been there when technologies were newly developed along with new approaches to other methodologies. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Carr conveys this idea by the examples of Socrates and his resist of adopting alphabet and Squarciafico and his resist of the printing press (Carr, p.564). Nonetheless, are Carr’s skeptical attitude based on the truth? Moreover, in such development of the communication system, is it able to supersede the negative…

Have you ever wondered the effect of what music you are currently listen to has on your brain? Is it capable of improving or degrading it? If so, how and why is music able to do it? Well there are many factors that come into consideration: the type of music you listen to, what psychological state your brain is currently in and the mood in which the music affects it, as well as how it impacts your emotional state. All these factors are linked to the human brain, so how does music affect all…