Thursday, August 28, 2014
About Me
Hello there! My name is Jennifer. I don't want to bore you by telling you my life story (even though it's not that long) so I'll keep it short. I'm a Vietnamese child (noob at the language). I love to eat to noodles, sleep for more than 10 hours a day (I wish), and play video games (even though I suck). I hate basically anything that is scary, such as bugs. I just want to put this out here but I hate vegetables. In addition, I am very moody and I tend to get very sleepy during my classes. This is all I can think of at the moment so I'm going to end it here. Thanks for reading!
Sunday, August 24, 2014
OSF: Quote Master Chapter 1-2
"Some skeptics had questioned whether the cancer in fish was related to chemical contamination at all. But presentations in the fish tumor session put several alternative explanations to rest, including the suggestion that the cancer outbreaks were not a new phenomenon but a natural event caused by viruses." (page 16)
This quote talks about what skeptics had thought of to be possible causes of the cancer outbreaks but a suggestion shows that they were a natural event caused by infections.
"Those trying to discover links between ill health and contaminants were losing the battle, declared Bengt-Erik Bengtsson, the head of the Swedish Environmental Protection Laboratory for Aquatic Toxicology. Despite noteworthy advances, toxicologists were falling further and further behind in their ability to analyze and identify the contamination they encountered in the environment." (page 17-18)
This quote shows how people are failing to try to find a link between contaminants and ill health.
"Now the pieces were beginning to fall together. If the chemicals found in the parents' bodies were to blame, they were acting as hand-me-down poisons, passed down from one generation to the next, that victimized the unborn and the very young." (page 26)
This quote is important because it shows me what caused the deadly effects on wildfire back then.
"But the host of disparate symptoms in everything from adult herring gulls to baby snapping turtles did not seem to add up. Some animals, like the gulls, exhibited strange behavior such as same-sex nests, while other species, including the double-crested cormorant, had visible gross birth defects such as club feet, missing eyes, crooked spines, and crossed bills. Again a pattern emerged from the confusing pieces of the puzzle as Colborn reflected on what she had learned by following her nose. These were all cases of derailed development, a process guided to a significant extent by hormones. Most could be linked to the disruption of the endocrine system." (page 26)
This quote talks about the symptoms and shows that Colborn is slowly understanding what is contributing to these strange behaviors.
"The hand-me-down poisons found in the fat of the wildlife had one thing in common: one way or another, they all acted on the endocrine system, which regulates the body's vital internal processes and guides critical phases of prenatal development. The hand-me-down poisons disrupted hormones." (page 28)
This quote confirms that the hand-me-down poisons found in the wildlife victims had acted on the endocrine system as well as disrupted hormones.
This quote talks about what skeptics had thought of to be possible causes of the cancer outbreaks but a suggestion shows that they were a natural event caused by infections.
"Those trying to discover links between ill health and contaminants were losing the battle, declared Bengt-Erik Bengtsson, the head of the Swedish Environmental Protection Laboratory for Aquatic Toxicology. Despite noteworthy advances, toxicologists were falling further and further behind in their ability to analyze and identify the contamination they encountered in the environment." (page 17-18)
This quote shows how people are failing to try to find a link between contaminants and ill health.
"Now the pieces were beginning to fall together. If the chemicals found in the parents' bodies were to blame, they were acting as hand-me-down poisons, passed down from one generation to the next, that victimized the unborn and the very young." (page 26)
This quote is important because it shows me what caused the deadly effects on wildfire back then.
"But the host of disparate symptoms in everything from adult herring gulls to baby snapping turtles did not seem to add up. Some animals, like the gulls, exhibited strange behavior such as same-sex nests, while other species, including the double-crested cormorant, had visible gross birth defects such as club feet, missing eyes, crooked spines, and crossed bills. Again a pattern emerged from the confusing pieces of the puzzle as Colborn reflected on what she had learned by following her nose. These were all cases of derailed development, a process guided to a significant extent by hormones. Most could be linked to the disruption of the endocrine system." (page 26)
This quote talks about the symptoms and shows that Colborn is slowly understanding what is contributing to these strange behaviors.
"The hand-me-down poisons found in the fat of the wildlife had one thing in common: one way or another, they all acted on the endocrine system, which regulates the body's vital internal processes and guides critical phases of prenatal development. The hand-me-down poisons disrupted hormones." (page 28)
This quote confirms that the hand-me-down poisons found in the wildlife victims had acted on the endocrine system as well as disrupted hormones.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
OSF: Time Master Chapters 1-2
This is basically some of the important dates and events that occurred between the 1940s and the 1990s.
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