Summaries- clementine102

It seems counterintuitive that babies are first learning when they are in the womb and not when they are birthed. Annie Murphy explains that fetal learning prepares the baby for the world they will be entering once they are born. The nine month process of molding and shaping the fetus in the womb is way more important than what society thinks. Much of what the pregnant women encounter in their daily life, like the air they breathe, the food that they eat, and even the emotions they feel, are shared in some fashion with the fetus. 

In one experiment, a group of pregnant mothers were asked to drink a lot of carrot juice in their third trimester while another group of pregnant mothers were asked to just drink water. Once the babies were born, the mothers gave their children cereal with carrot juice while the mothers that only drank water, gave their children carrot juice cereal as well. The babies that had carrot juice in their third trimester seemed to enjoy it more based on their facial expressions and the babies who only drank water in the womb did not like the cereal at all. This experiment shows that the fetus has fully developed taste buds and whatever the mother is consuming, goes straight to the placenta, and also teaches the fetus what food is good for them. 

Most of society thinks that the fetus has no life inside of the womb and can not think for themselves. However, the fetus is learning how to survive. If the pregnant mother is starving and malnourished, the fetus is learning that is how they need to survive and vice versa. All people should know that the most important part of a baby’s life is all of three of their trimesters in the womb. 

It seems counterintuitive that rape has had different definitions and leniencies for hundreds of years when rape should have no leniencies at all. In some instances in history, consent of the women wasn’t even a factor for when a woman was raped. During the 13th century, rape was considered acceptable if the women was “impure” or not a virgin. Furthermore, when black women were slaves, if they were to have been rape, it would be ignored. Men and women could be put in jail for years but many women are not being justified for what their rapist has done to them in today’s world. Their are lots of cases or rape that go unnoticed by governement and should be fixed. Everyone would think that an issue that has been around for hundreds of years would be fixed by now but it hasn’t. 

It seems counterintuitive that guns, which are used to protect us, are causing more danger in America than protecting this country. A lot of Americans could agree that guns should be used to protect ourselves, but in this country, that is not always the case with everyone. Evidence suggests that firearms endanger those who own them. Interestingly, the presence of a gun in a home increases the risk of a gun murder in the home in America. Everyday, about 80 people die from guns but the government has not regulated guns in our country despite all of the tragedy that has taken place with gun violence (Kristof). Entities like cars and medicines are regulated to protect us but the most deadly weapon a citizen can use is not being regulated by the government. The government needs to regulate guns so that our country can be more safe.

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Summaries – bluntwriting88

It seems counterintuitive that electric vehicles would have negligible if not negative effects on carbon emissions. We see around us a growing wave of electric vehicle (EV) use and commercialization mostly with regards to its utility for a greener environment. When we think of electricity, we think of batteries, cord and cables, and plugging into wall-sockets. Hardly do we imagine fossil fuels or power plants when using electric appliances. This is not to mention the carbon-expensive methods of manufacturing our electricity and electric storage appliances.

                The New York Times noted that the world’s coal plants are significantly increasing, along with the fact that much of the world uses fossil fuel powered electricity grids rather than nuclear or hydropower. Having fossil fuel generated electricity defeats much of the claimed benefits with EVs.

                A great example is Germany, which remained firm on fossil fuels due to its reliability and cost. In fact fossil fuel composes 80% of Germany’s energy consumption.  It was made clear to Germany that to have any difference in CO2 emissions, the energy grid which supplies EVs would also need to be green such as wind, solar, etc. These forms of power are expensive and in fact can contribute to much habitat loss and waste considering its manufacturing. Th dependence on fossil fuels which powers EVs is also readily apparent, as Germany produces 10 times the EV CO2 emissions as France – which has a significantly lower power grid dependence on fossil fuels.

                Surprisingly, China experienced less emissions with greater numbers of petroleum vehicles rather than EVs. Examining the global effects of CO2 emissions between petroleum vehicles and EVs, studies similarly find that EV’s increase overall emissions more than Petroleum vehicles.                 When we hear of EVs being better for the environment, perhaps we ought to consider further the details behind the power grid, and not merely the catch-all phrase. As usual, the problem is far more complicated, and the current data shows that if we do wish to reduce CO2 emissions, we need to do better than simply driving new Teslas.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

It seems counterintuitive that a mitigation to a growing heroin problem in Vancouver is for local authorities to provide heroin for a select group of addict. If the goal is not to free people of addiction but rather to ‘reduce societal impact’ then such a counterintuitive approach may be taken. Such addicts are less likely to end up dead, commit crimes, or sell themselves into prostitution. There is a merely aesthetic net-positive on society from this. However we know that addiction is a destructive parasitic illness. Certainly most would agree that providing an obese man a consistent supply of soda does nothing for the individual.

A program of 26 heroin addicts in Vancouver CA is doing precisely the aforementioned. Kevin Thompson, a participant, states how the heroin-availability program allows him to keep his job while also getting high consistently, otherwise he would ‘break into a car’ to score drugs.  In the addict logic, there is only a binary decision of getting more narcotics or devolving into criminal acts for the former. Rationally speaking, these are obviously not the only two options a society must take. It merely highlights that Thompson for example is but one day without his fix away from the very crimes the program is trying to avoid – something which is guaranteed by continuous heroin usage.

People in Vancouver also believe the program to be a form of blackmail, as some may think of the most severely addicted as hopelessly trapped into heroin. Therefore the program is once again an aesthetic act of ‘societal mitigation’ and the feeding of a habit which leaves its participants sunken in illness.

It seems counter intuitive that firearms, weapons of self-defense, would put one in more danger – with statistics to support it. With so many guns – 85 per 100 persons – the U.S. is swimming in potential danger, only with the civil-war-ridden Yemen to top the U.S. in terms on guns per capita. Due to this prevalence of guns alone, an article in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine found that children in America are 11 times more likely to die from a gun accident than in other developed countries.

The Harvard professor David Hemingway notes that having a gun in the home makes you more likely to be shot. If one does not have a firearm, the chances are nearly zero. However, when one puts bullets and a way for them to be fired in their home, the immediate risk of something being fired increases exponentially. This may be for a variety of reasons, the most numerous of which include suicide, accidental misfire, or aggravated attacks with a firearm. People tend to be safer by utilizing the police.                

Moreover, the prevalence of guns in the U.S. also contributes to a ballooning suicide rate in states with wore guns. How do we combat this? The Harvard Professor suggests limiting gun purchases to one per person per moth to reduce trafficking, increased use of gun safes, and improved background checks. Clearly the sheer number of guns in the U.S. is detrimental to many individuals and families. When one person commits suicide with a firearm, an entire family is broken. Limiting numbers and availability may in fact be the best route for treatment of gun related societal ills.

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Summaries – akidfromakron

  1. KFC, Pizza Hut, and the Sphinx

It is counterintuitive that the globalization of fast food is starting to make its way to historical landmarks. When most people think of the Great Pyramids of Giza or the Great Sphinx, I would think that they would imagine a desert full of open land. In reality, it is the contrary as it is on the outskirts of a major city. 

Historical landmarks, which in turn become tourist hot spots, are being overtaken by businesses and corporations who want to make as much money off of it as possible. Pizza Hut and KFC are just one example of how these companies are leeching off of people’s interest in history. 

It is clear too that these fast food chains are only there for the tourists and not the local people. One meal at KFC can cost the same as a day or week’s pay for some Egyptians, making it nearly impossible for them to purchase it. The American chains, which have great business in the United States and other Western countries, are only having the same success in Middle Eastern countries because they take advantage of these historical locations.  

  1. Clean Girls Get Sicker?

It is counterintuitive to think that gender stereotypes end up leading to more health problems for women in their life. It is a stereotype for boys to play outside and in the dirt early on in their lives and for the girls to look cute in dresses and not participate in outdoor activities. However, it seems in doing this that it has caused the same boys who play around in dirt, to be more immune to asthma and other allergies later in their life. 

According to the CDC, women have higher rates of asthma than men, by over a one percent margin. In addition to this, they also say that women are more likely to develop allergies in their life than men. Another national organization, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, has said that autoimmune disorders affect women three times more than men, further explaining the differences.

Gender unfortunately has a bigger role in someone’s health than people realize. It does not seem to have to do with any biological differences between them, but rather social stereotypes that cause the boys and girls to act a certain way at a young age.

  1. Was That Jump a 6?

It is counterintuitive that in an effort to reduce bias in skating judges scores, they actually did the opposite. After a complete uphaul of the judging system after two Olympic scandals, the International Skating Union wanted to figure out ways to make sure there was a clearer way to score and judge. Another issue they had to figure out how to implement a way to create subjectivity in their scores. 

However, when the Union did this, vote trading worsened and judging bias went up 20%. They thought that by making the voting and judging process anonymous, it would create less bias and would not allow the judges to know how each other voted. This is where the idea of subjectivity comes into play. In most Olympic sports, it is about objective feats, like who jumps further, scores the most goals, or runs the fastest, but you cannot do that in figure skating. 

This makes it difficult to get consistent scores in the sport, because they are all subjective. Part of the reason for all the rule changes in the first place was to reduce this inconsistency, but instead it created more. There have been other options they have explored such as dropping three scores randomly, but that was also proven to have negative effects on the competition. These problems are likely to always be around the sport.

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Summaries- PardonMyFrench

Unemployment Falls

It seems counterintuitive that when someone who is unemployed stops looking for a job, they are no longer counted as unemployed. The Labor Department has reported that the unemployment rate recently declined to a record-breaking low for the first time in 53 years. With this being said, the amount of jobs added during this period of time shouldn’t reflect this change. The analysis of these numbers fails to account for people who have given up their job search which shows the decline in unemployment isn’t actually as promising as it looks. This poses a lot of questions into the validity of the unemployment rate and what is being projected to the public.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/02/04/133489738/unemployment-falls-but-economy-only-adds-36k-new-jobs

Why Not Regulate Guns?

It seems counterintuitive that guns are being blamed for the death of citizens, yet the handler is not considered. Many studies have found that 80 people die from guns on any given day. Evidence even points to handguns endangering those who own them. An ongoing debate is what should happen with the regulation of guns and who is allowed to purchase them. Countless believe harsher background checks need to be taken, more gun safes need to be made, and limiting purchases to once a month should be implemented. The solution seems to be regulating guns just like toys and cars. Guns seem to be the main point of focus, and never who is behind it. An inanimate object cannot shoot or pose risk by itself without an operator. So why try and create new harsher laws, when the laws we currently have aren’t being enforced or followed? Criminals and people who pose a threat with guns have no intent on following these laws so adding more, may in turn hurt the abiding citizens. Education about guns and acknowledging their presence might just be the simplest solution.

PTSD Statistics

It seems counterintuitive that even with chilling statistics of mental health problems among veterans, more outreach programs have not been created. Veterans only make up a small amount of the American population. Of this 7%, almost all have needed VA health care and been diagnosed with some kind of disability. Trauma is now labeled as “expected” when serving and seen to affect anyone a veteran has close contact to. Suicide rates have also risen and are the number one cause of death to US troops. New records are being set everyday for vets that require health care services. The VA pays an average of 600 million a year for PTSD treatment, so why are things not changing? Maybe more outreach programs need to be implemented in order to give care to each veteran who needs it. Barriers to care seem to be at a high which needs to be solved before more lives are taken.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201091/

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Summaries – shadowswife

Student Wealth and Achievement:

It seems counterintuitive that no matter how wealthy a student is, it does not make them academically competitive on an international scale. With the amount of wealth these kids possess, it can possibly be inferred that they would put it to good use for their education. They should be able to attend competitive schools, obtain more advanced technology, and greater academic resources. However, their test results indicate differently. This outcome is particularly evident when comparing test scores with financially disadvantaged students. For example, the scores obtained by the rich students were not that much higher than the scores obtained by the low-income students. This illustrates that the most affluent students did not take advantage of academic resources, which could have been afforded by their finance status.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pisa-wealth_n_4641669?guccounter=1

Clean Girls Get Sicker?:

It seems counterintuitive that girls who practice more cleanliness than boys are more prone to acquiring illnesses. In this regard, boys are given the freedom to play outside and expose themselves to germs found in soil, whereas girls are more likely to stay away from uncleanly environments. This is because the girls’ activities are regarded by society to be restricted to cleanliness and less rigorous situations, while boys are more of exposure to active and rigorous situations. Girls are more likely to be monitored and be less exposed to germs and bacteria than boys. This aspect of exposure tends to be a protective mechanism that parents expose on their daughter while boys are not so restricted monitored. By doing so, girls have developed a weaker immune system, while boys due to exposure have developed a stronger immune system. In this regard, girls have become more vulnerable to developing illnesses, such as allergies and asthma.

Free Heroin to Battle Addiction:

It seems counterintuitive that the most effective way to prevent drug addiction is by continuing to prescribe heroin. In the city of Vancouver, Canada, the town has failed to resolve drug addiction. Therefore, a program was developed, which provides heroin in a controlled manner with the intention of minimizing uncontrolled addiction. While the program’s initial plan was to help drug addicts recover from their addiction by providing alternative drugs (e.g., methadone and suboxone), drug addicts continue to be non-compliant to these substitutes. Therefore, doctors have had no choice but to provide controlled doses of heroin since drug addicts are more compliant with this type of treatment. This type of intervention has allowed a reduction in crimes and prostitution, which has allowed Vancouver to have control of the addiction problem.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

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Summaries – mhmokaysure

It seems counterintuitive that a major cities solution to a drug problem involves safe injection sites, as well as the highest quality drugs for free, however that is exactly what is happening in Vancouver. Instead of trying to rid the city of its drug issue, the local government appears to have given up on its people, essentially deciding on a form of damage control. Offering the equivalent of a walk in clinic, users are able to walk in and inject in a controlled environment, overseen by a nurse; without a care in the world about the legal implications, which have been essentially thrown away. They are provided with syringes, band-aids, antiseptic pads, as well as fresh needles, funded by the city’s tax payers of course, to be able to safely inject and enjoy their high. A select few of the “lucky” users are even prescribed heroin by doctors, in an attempt to keep them at bay. Allen Schauffler, Pacific Northwest Correspondent for Al Jazeera explained it perfectly, saying that the program is a form of “harm reduction”, aimed at giving these users their fix in an attempt to keep them from committing crimes and wreaking havoc on the city. Instead of giving them a solution the city has decided to give them a cleaner, more pure version of the problem already at hand.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

It seems counterintuitive that extreme parenting, full of strict regulation, lack of freedom, and constant control often leads to adverse effects in children and youth. Intended to guide and shape a child into their parent’s ideal vision leaves a lot to be desired. While some may say that it allows for more focus and determination to be built in the child’s personality, oftentimes it results in a disconnect between the family. This form of upbringing takes away the creativity and self exploration that is essential to one’s childhood, and results in rebellion and even ruined relationships. In extreme cases, such as in China, where society puts a large amount of pressure on youth to meet the standards and expectations set by parents, this strict and extreme parenting has been shown to drive children to the brink, and unfortunately has resulted in many suicides. Today however, with mental health being more openly talked about, this older technique of parenting is beginning to wane, resulting in a hybrid of strictness and rules, with openness and understanding.

It seems counterintuitive that supplement sales make up $28 Billion of consumer spending in the United States, while studies suggest that multivitamins and other supplements may be pointless. In fact, in many cases they can do more harm than good. Nutritionist Marion Nestle goes as far as saying “There is virtually no evidence that they make healthy people healthier.” Studies have also shown that those who take multivitamins are more likely to get all of their necessary nutrients from the foods they consume, and by taking additional multivitamins increase their health risks. For instance, seniors who take extra iron supplements are more likely to suffer from heart disease than those who do not take these supplements as a typical diet supplies the body with sufficient iron. With such a large market, combined with the common belief that vitamins make one healthier, supplement use is a psychological boost that hurts American’s pockets while exposing them to more harm than good. 

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Summaries – sunshine2818

Is Walmart Really Going Organic and Local?

It seems counterintuitive for Walmart to state wanting to go organic and local because they are too busy making a profit. Walmart in the past has made statements about working with local farms. Unfortunately the definition of local farms is slightly skewed. What Walmart considers local is within the state. When local farm names were presented, most of them were very large operations and definitely not organic, so the image of a local fruit stand selling their fruit to Walmart wouldnt be correct. Walmart actually has a financial incentive to work more with local farms, with diesel prices rising and risk of product being damaged, is more economical for Walmart to work with local farms. As far as organic, there are not enough large operations of organic farms for Walmart to work with. Walmart is a machine created to pump out products for the public, they dont have time or the want to spend money to work with these smaller farms; especially when there’s no demand from the public.

Karachi polio killings: Vaccination workers shot

It seems counterintuitive to kill the workers who are trying to eradicate polio. Polio is an over aged endemic that could have been eradicated years ago. Pakistan remains one of the last regions containing polio. The U.N has begun a large scale polio eradication plan to end polio, but there is mass hysteria and misconception about the vaccine. No one has taken responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban has repeatedly made threats to the poll workers. The president has condensed the incident, and supports the vaccine, but the attackers are still at large. Because of the reticent incidents of violence, numbers of vaccinations have dropped significantly.   

Hidden’ species may be surprisingly common

It seems counterintuitive to trust past research on animals because we are not sure what species was being studied. With new evidence of cryptic species (animals that were thought to be genetically identical in which actually are not), past research inquiring how many species there are in certain regions might not be as accurate. For example it was thought in Africa there were two different types of elephants, the african elephant, and the african bush elephant. Now with new testing there are approximately ten species of elephants. It was originally thought that cryptic species were mostly located in the tropical region among reptiles and insects. With testing we are now able to take a new look at evolutions and the construction of genetics. Researchers state that within 5 to 10 years, while looking at birds and/ or fish, we will be able to construct a calculation on how many cryptic species are in the animal kingdom. 

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Summaries

Notes

  1. you need to take notes it will help you
  2. Writing notes could be good practice for you
  3. We went over African Americans that are identified as Americans or African Americans
  4. You also discussed the point system for these assignments you can get 3/3 or if you put in more work you can get a 4
  5. You explained that these post can help your grade for example you have a C+ doing these assignments you have a chance of getting your grade to a B-
  6. In writing semi colons are major
  7. Homework- Create a hypothesis, purposeful summaries, create a topic
  8. Writing indicates an understanding of the counterintutive nature of the topic

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Summaries – gooferious

It seems counterintuitive that a patient who is aware that they are being given a placebo pill would think that it actually would relief them of pain. 80 volunteers were split into two groups. One group would receive regular treatment to treat their I.B.S symptoms while the other group would only receive a sugar pill aka the placebo pill. Weeks go by and the group that knowingly took the marked placebo pill saw greater pain relief than the group who received regular treatment.

It’s quite shocking that this group of people who knew they took a pill that technically doesn’t do them any good or harm could experience greater relief than those who had treatment done to them. The mind is very powerful and self-healing is very much real. When patients are told by doctors that the pills work, the patients believe them and in a way self-heal themselves from pain. It does not take the pain away it merely reduces it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/health/research/28perceptions.html

It seems counterintuitive that Americans would believe multivitamins are actually not effective and a waste of money. Nearly a third of Americans take multivitamin pills regularly with the idea that they are being conscious about their health. After careful studies though, it seems that multivitamins might actually be a scam. Are we saying that all multivitamins are not effective? No, we are saying that some multivitamins are not necessary because the food that you intake contains the necessary vitamins needed to survive and flourish. Why pay for a bottle of iron vitamin pills when you can get your iron intake from eating brown rice for dinner.

It seems counterintuitive that students who come from not so wealthy families would score roughly the same on the PISA than students who come from a wealthy family. This however is exactly the case for certain students across the world. To help put into perspective, Vietnam’s top decile families aka the wealthy families of Vietnam has students scoring an average of about 575 on the math portion of the PISA. While that is quite impressive, you have students from Shanghai-China from the second decile aka the second most poor families in Shanghai-China scoring about roughly the same score.

One would believe that the more money you have you could use it to help your child by getting them a tutor. What good does this do though if you have children from another country who are far less wealthier than you scoring the same as your child without the aid of a tutor. What does this say about a country’s schooling system or more importantly what does this say about your child’s education? How is it possible that being born into a wealthy family doesn’t give you the advantage to do better than those who do not have extra money to spend on luxuries like tutors.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pisa-wealth_n_4641669

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Summaries – ComicDub

1)

It seems counterintuitive that the best solution a city belonging to a first world country could come up with for the fight against drug addiction would be to directly supply the addicts with the drugs. Vancouver Canada, rated one of the most beautiful cities in the world, has, just like any other city would, an underlying drug problem. One such drug that is particularly big is heroin. Heroin is extremely addictive and very hard to quit so officials in Vancouver believe that the best thing to do is to give it to addicts for free. Most people would argue that this is the exact opposite of what the city should be doing to fight drug addiction. Pacific Northwest Correspondent for Al Jazeera, Allen Schauffler would respond to that argument by explaining how keeping addicts supplied with the drug makes them less likely to have to sell their bodies or commit crimes just to get their next fix. That fixes the problem of crimes related to drugs but doesn’t exactly make any progress towards reducing drug addiction at all.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

2)

It seems counterintuitive that keeping young girls from getting dirty and exposing them to germs would make them more sick. One would normally think that the cleaner you are the less likely you are to get sick. This is actually not the case. Researchers have come to the conclusion that children who are exposed to more germs are less likely to contract asthma, allergies and autoimmune disorders when they grow older. This is because being exposed to more germs early on in your life, helps build up an immunity to certain allergens and diseases. And during childhood boys are usually not the most hygienic and will get dirty while girls are always told to stay clean and look pretty. This is why women have a higher rate of asthma, more likely to have allergies and autoimmune disorders. Still though, thinking about it logically, one would assume that having better hygiene would go hand in hand with having better health, but to an extent, this really isn’t true.

3)

It seems counterintuitive that an herbicide used to kill off weeds so crops could thrive would create unkillable weeds that would be detrimental to the health of crops. This is exactly what happened with the herbicide known as Roundup. In 1993, Monsanto’s Roundup petitioned to the USDA to deregulate their herbicide. In 1996 the company got what they wanted and their herbicide was now being used among a countless number of farms. Everything went completely fine at first but as more and more of the herbicide was being used, weeds started developing an immunity to the poison. This created what people refer to as “Superweeds”, weeds that are almost unkillable to any food safe herbicide. So in the struggle to get rid of one problem for farmers, Roundup just ended up creating a much larger one.

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