Curie

Hmmm, I wonder if there is a way to create an ultrasound machine that could create 3D images. Kazunori Baba, M.D., Ph.D. thought to himself one day. For a time Kazunori Baba has been realizing the benefits of such a machine. He thinks to himself, the benefits of a 3D ultrasound would be monumental, my expecting mothers could not only see their babies in real time, but as a doctor I would also be able to better see the babies and find any possible birth defects before the delivery. But will there…

Sam Kean, a Washington D.C. writer with works in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, The Believer, Air & Space, Science, and The New Scientist, has created a user-friendly book about how to explain the periodic table and the elements that occupy it by writing the book The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. He provides an insight into the world of chemistry that relates to his audience, even…

2.4 Medical Science It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. – Hippocrates (460-377 BC), the ancient Greek physician – considered as one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine and, often referred to as the ‘Father of Medicine’ Visualize a chip that is implemented in the brain, which processes images from an artificial retina grafted in the eye and restores the vision of a blind person. Visualize a…

For over 50 years, Barbie has not only existed as a simple child’s plaything, but as a cultural phenomenon; an iconic piece of painted plastic impressed with untold amounts of potential. If you speak to any girl today in her twenties, she will be sure to regale you fondly with tales of the doll from childhood memories. It is easy to interpret how Barbie is marketed, at a foundational level, to promote a societally constructed definition of all things ‘ideally’ feminine, however, what is…

In the dictionary, quality is defined as the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind (Oxford Dictionaries | English, 2017). On the other hand palliative care is a team which provides for the seriously ill patients with care till their end of life. In my point of view, quality palliative care is whereby the palliative team should provide the best of care for patients during their final moments in this world. In addition palliative care improves the quality of…

Individual experiences of bereavement cannot be fully understood without knowledge of the context within which they occur. Discuss with reference to either the cause of death or the age of the deceased person. Death can be perceived as the most natural pehrnonomen known to man, it touches all of our lives at some point or another and we grieve when someone close to us dies there are various counselling services such as Mind and Cruise. These in tern can enhance the feelings of anger, fear and…

The city of Chernobyl is located in northern Kiev Oblast, in modern day Ukraine, where it was previously under the Soviet Union control. In the city is a nuclear power plant built and designed by the Soviets. It was an RBMK-1000 model nuclear reactor, which used “enriched U-235 uranium fuel to heat water creating steam that drives the reactors’ turbines and generate electricity” (http://www.livescience.com/39961-chernobyl.html). The plant had 4 reactors with graphite moderators, which slows down…

World War II or otherwise known as the good war. While this war did do a lot of good by liberating the Jewish people from concentration camps it was also the reason for Japanese internment camps. By having these internment camps, America was on its way to becoming the next Germany. The war ended the holocaust and the depression but the countless lives that it took, especially in Japan, was devastating. The good doesn’t outweigh the bad. Women were encouraged to get jobs for the first…

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is…

Sending people to the hospital for more than 100 years, leukemia affects a high percent of earth’s population. Researchers and scientists work insistently every day to help patients diagnosed with leukemia. Before the knowledge of this illness and its causing factors, many other known “ailments” aided to the treatment of the infamous disease. Medicine, as many people know, had not contributed to society until around the 16th and 17th century, therefore viciously increasing the health of many,…