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Jesse VanBuskirk ​ #4-Brain and Music In my music class we were talking about the brain and music and I stumbled upon this stuff on the music wiki. I found these pretty interesting, basically showing both just the edges of the wonders of the mind and the wonders of music. In class we talked about when you're listening to a certain song you can remember another time when you heard that song and remember almost everything that was going on. We also talked about this person who could only move if she played a certain song in her mind, which you'll see in this video. I'm not sure about the second one, It doesn't really sonvince me that he's actually controlling everything that is going on. Also, if you have the time read this article--> [|HERE]​ ,its fairly decent. media type="youtube" key="9nnLTPPDRXI" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="bx__8XmMiv0" height="344" width="425"

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= Biggest Landfill in the World is not on Land The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch = = = == = How Big Is This Garbage Patch? = = Estimated to be twice the size of texas (although it is always changing shape so people are not sure on its size. Approximately 90% of it is plastics and half of it's plasics are heavy and sink to the bottom. The stuff that floats reaches over 10 meters deep. Their is 6 times more items of garbage than plankton. = = How Does It Get There? = The garbage comes from all of the surrounding continents of the Eastern Pacific and is taken there by currents causing the garbage to gather into one place. = Eventually all this garbage is thrown back at us as we consume the organisms that live in this environment. = = = = Sources: [|//http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pacific-garbage-patch.jpg//]  =

= Fire Ants = Ants are known for their ability to lift 100 times their own weight and their numerous ant hills in side walks. They inhabit more regions than humans do. They are found all over the world, except in polar regions. Probably the most brutal of all ant species are fire ants. They are known for their burning sting which they do by first biting to grip onto the animal and then stinging to release venom into the victim. Fire ants are now common in Southern United States, Australia, China and South America but United States lacks its natural predators. Scientists are working on controlling fire ant populations by introducing Phorid flies (a parasitoid) which lay eggs in the thorax of ants. The larvae move to the head and release an enzyme that destroys the connecting membrane of the head, then devours its brains and hatches out to reproduce. The fly lives in the ant for about two weeks then lives for a few more weeks.

Fire Ants Video

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Flight of the Bumblebee You're probably thinking that I like insects or something by now but I actually don't at all. If I had to choose my favorite insect, I would choose a bee. It's been that way since I saw "//The Bee Movie//". In the movie they say that a bees body weight is too heavy to make itself fly but in an article from //NewScientist// magazine it explains how bees defy this conception.

Engineers once proved that bees **can't** fly because of its weight and short wing beat. Until Dickinson and his colleagues at Caltech filmed bees in flight at 6000 frames per second. They discovered that bees use an unusual pattern of wing beats that creates vortices by rotating its flexible wings, giving the bee lift. The particular bees' wings beated at a speed of 230 times a second in the film. The work may go towards advancement in aerodynamics in engineering aircraft. Here's a listing of __wing beats per second__ (according to []): Links:[] []
 * Honeybee || 250 bps ||
 * Housefly || 190 bps ||
 * Bumblebee || 130 bps ||
 * Syrphis Fly || 120 bps ||
 * Hornet || 100 bps ||
 * Horsefly || 96 bps ||
 * Hummingbird Hawk Moth || 85 bps ||
 * Aeschnid Dragonfly || 38 bps ||
 * Scorpion Fly || 28 bps ||
 * Damselfly || 16 bps ||
 * Large White Butterfly || 12 bps ||

Source://Helen Phillips-NewScientist magazine Dec 2005//