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It makes me think that I have lived before, the deju vu isn't long enough to really reconize anything, just a knowing gut feeling that I have been in a place before when I walk in. Or that I have heard or seen things that feel very familiar.
It doesn't happen as it did years ago, I believe as the brain ages so do feelings of deju vu. Now days I have feelings of major things happening but get the people mixed up as to who it will happen to, but know that things are going to happen to a person and it will be tragic..
I am a believer that I have lived and died before and will again. When my life is as close to perfect as it can get then I will never come back as me or self, my bio will change. Deju vu to me is flashes of old memories in my old brain when I lived other lives. I am I think in my last life. I also believe in dimensions, when death comes we go to a new dimension. I have the instinctive feeling that new lives come from the dimensions. Babies I believe can sometimes be put with the wrong parents, or were we? To be reincarnated into a being that will always have strikes against them has to be a type of Hell you are meant to endure for that life . Deju vu gives me hope that a new and better life is ahead.
thanks for the open forum, V.J. LANE

have never though about how disable people are looked at sexually. After reading this article it put the subject matter in a different light.

thank you

I dont have the answer key to check the answers

We have revised the Student Handout to improve clarity and the logical progression of student understanding.
Ingrid

I was hit by a car a little over forty years ago at the age of 15 and suffered from a TBI that almost killed me. I was unconscious for a day, and when I awoke I had no feelings of awareness from before. My sense of "I" stems only from that day. I have most of the memories from the time before the accident, but "me", my sense of awareness of me as I am today was born on that day over forty years ago. I have no emotional connection to the memories from the time before the accident. They aren't mine. When my family came to visit me in the hospital, I knew who they were, but they held no attachment for me. Many weeks later when I was well enough to be released, I went home to a family of strangers. I never said anything to anyone about this for years, because I didn't want to be locked up as crazy. Everyone said that I was different, but ascribed it to the accident. I felt like I was living a life that wasn't mine, that belonged to someone else. I also had trouble controlling my temper, and I was angry that I had to pretend to be this person that I was supposed to be. I couldn't tell anyone that he was dead, that I was living here now, going through the motions of his life. My rages led me to fighting, drug and alcohol abuse, dropping out of school, bad relationships, and eventually prison (I did time for armed bank robbery). I have been out of prison for over 20 years now, and I have managed to come to terms with my past and the accident. I got my BA and taught theatre for many years. I eventually came to care for the strangers who were my family, and accepted and took control of this life and made it mine. My anger is gone, and I am now an active and respected member of the community, and a father with an amazing and happy daughter who is doing very well in college. This life is mine now, although it took me a long time to accept and claim it. I have lived for over forty years in this body, and I have enough life experience now that the early years are now only a small portion. This is in contrast to when I first woke up from the accident feeling frightened, alone, and isolated in a life with which I had no emotional connection, surrounded by people I didn't really know or care about, with no memories of my own. I don't know if this will help anyone, but I thought that I would post it anyway just to let people know that given time to adjust, life after TBI and personality change can be wonderful and fulfilling. Please feel free to comment.

I experienced this for first time a couple days ago. I know I was awake, but had just woken. The unknown symbols were quickly changing like flashing code. It appeared on the right side of a wall at the foot of my bed. It stopped and then started again twice. It was vivid, not bright or dim, in clear focus, each symbol separate but rapidly changing to a new symbol. All symbols were the same height vertically, and horizontally in rows about 2 f x 3 ft area, and about 5 or 6 lines of symbols were in the area. They were light green, and the light was not obtrusive but rather clear and defined. My room was dark, but a little bit of light was coming in behind my white solid wood horizontal blinds. This is the one and only time I have seen anything like this. I didn't feel a strong fear or a presence, but rather a strange curiosity. I could make out all the other objects and walls in my room. There didn't seem to be any noise accompanying this event/vision. Just plain weird unexpected, unprecedented, and unknown.

For some reason I have not been able to open the ppt slide show for Levels of Biology. It appears to be loading for long periods of time without loading.

The activity on the origin of the coronavirus that is causing the current pandemic has been revised and expanded to include more emphasis on the process of natural selection and to introduce the evolution of the new variants of the coronavirus. Recent research evidence (up through March 6, 2021) has been incorporated in the Teacher Notes and Student Handout.
Ingrid

I am grateful to Ann Dixon, the wonderful webmaster of Serendip, who located the new URL for this activity. I have updated the resources document and include a new description here.

The Winners and Losers of Climate Change

Lesson: homework + ~35 minutes of class time; for high school. Students are assigned two articles to read and then answer questions about these articles. In the first article, students learn how climate change produces not only hotter temperatures, but also extreme weather events. In the second article students learn about phenotypic plasticity and look at several examples of genetic changes that have already occurred in species due to climate change. In class, students predict the vulnerability to climate change for eight species, based on information in a set of species cards.

pages 9-22 in https://www.cpet.ufl.edu/media/cpetufledu/pdfs/curriculum/cpet-curriculum/evolution-and-climate-change/DrowsyDrosophila2017_LoRes-Full-Curriculum.pdf

Thanks for alerting us to this problem,

Ingrid

Has anyone had a flare up due to getting the covid vaccine? Vaccines always cause false ups for me

Hello;

Your description is very similar to my own. I developed vision loss in my right dominant eye. Retina specialist misdiagnosed it as CSR and was told to return in 2 months. By that time my vision was very bad in the affected eye. I consulted with another opto and was told that he suspected CNV because it was bleeding slightly on fundus exam. Further testing revealed CNV under the center of macula(subfoveal). My vision was 20/200+ and after avastin injections for four months, it improved to 20/80. The vision is distorted blurry and there is major glare like I saw a camera flash(the afterimage of a camera flash) It is absolutely maddening, it has caused me to feel suicidal, severe anxiety, and major depression. I am now treating also with a psychiatrist and therapist. I am a very visual person and it feels that so much has been taken away. I also just recently had PDT(a week ago) and there is even more blurriness and glare though my opto states that this will resolve to baseline or possibly even better after several weeks. I wish all the best for you. Remember, there are new treatments coming around the corner for CNV and perhaps in a few years a cure will be there.

Excellent article, as a Muslim, I testify to the benefits of fasting, it is the tradition of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم to fast at least 3 days of each month, which I have been practicing for a number of years, there’s nothing like fasting.

The longer version of the Student Handout has been expanded to provide a more complete explanation of how the immune system fights a coronavirus infection and how the infection and immune system response can result in illness and even death. The shorter version of the Student Handout provides a concise prerequisite for COVID-19 Vaccines – How do they work? The Student Handouts and Teacher Notes incorporate recent research findings (as of mid-January 2021) concerning the rapidly evolving understanding of coronavirus infection.

I suspect we are missing a quite important piece in this discussion of the humanities and natural sciences.  That is the role the social sciences play in helping us understand the accumulation of knowledge as a group activity.  I am thinking of Bruno Latour and his work in sociology of science... 

Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to politics; they add new ingredients to the collective process. http://www.ub.edu/prometheus21/articulos/obsprometheus/Latour208.pdf