It’s International Brain Awareness Week! How shall we celebrate?
This press release arrived this morning in Robert’s e-mail. Bet you wondered where all those “official” theme weeks and months came from. Thought-provoking, isn’t it?
Greetings-
International Brain Awareness Week® is this week, March 12-18. Coordinated by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, it will be celebrated with public events in more than 69 countries.
Brain Awareness Week may be a useful framework for your upcoming stories on brain-related subjects – such as body clocks, hormones, infant development, memory, and more. It may also be an opportunity to profile neuroscientists who are science communicators. Members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives are just that; the Dana Alliance is a nonprofit organization of 260 leading neuroscientists committed to advancing public awareness of the brain. We would be happy to connect you with local experts.
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*Brain Awareness Week® is a federally registered mark of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives is a nonprofit organization of 260 leading neuroscientists, including ten Nobel laureates, committed to advancing public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. It is supported by the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization with particular interests in neuroscience, immunology, and arts education.
OOH! First post! Mwa ha ha!
WOAH! SECOND POST! (I hope!) YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
“First post”? “Second post”? So far, not much brain awareness on this thread, I’d say.
3- wait, did you edit that comment? Because I could have sworn that it said something different half an hour ago..
Yeah, I have a brain. I don’t really do that much for it.. It’s kind of been irritating me lately, actually, by its inability to concentrate on anything for more than 30 seconds.. I never used to get bored..
I do sometimes change a just-posted comment if I think of a better way of saying it. Once it becomes part of the “dialogue,” though, I leave it alone.
Brains are like a lot of other things: you don’t notice them when they’re working properly.
3- HEY! I’m aware of my brain…. which there’s not much of.
OK, then. I’ll try to be aware of my brain.
I am very aware of my brain. So are my teachers. I think most of them are really annoyed by it though, cause they have to keep thinking up extra work for me to do. However, my brain is useful – when I want to sleep through a lesson, I just do and then catch up later. Yup, I’m lazy. I know.
Ooooooooo! I forgot to say – 8th post! Also, does anyone here live in tornado alley? Cause we are studying tornadoes and hurricanes at school, and since we don’t get many over in England, I just want to know!
I don’t have a brain to be aware of.
9- my brain must be elsewhere because I could have sworn you said tomato alley. I dunno, is Minnesota in
tomatotornado alley?Brains, and psychology are fascinating!
Seriously? Alrighty, then!
9- I think I’m at the southern tip of it. Are you English? Can you explain how the school system works there?
Brains! Yes!
I hope this doesn’t come to the same bad things as brain injury awareness month did…my grandpa died of a brain injury!
So, how should we celebrate International Brain Awareness Week? Not by eating brains, I hope. I tried them once and didn’t like them.
My brain needs to be aware of undone social studies homework. I had questions for the entire chapter for science. Easy but I kept getting distracted. I’m not supposed to be on the internet right now.
16’th post! WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! My brain sometimes hurts, sometimes doesn’t concentrate, can’t
smellsellspell, and is large. 5- OOOOOOO!!!I think mine decided to go celebrate without me.
BRAINS! YAY FOR BRAINS!!!! *does brain dance*
16- Agreed. But instead mine decided to come here, not word, and blog, not finish my project. Bad brain! Bad! *slips choklit*
I think mine went off-duty Friday night. First MathCounts, and I’m neglecting homework for the nth time to museblog now.
Maybe we should celebrate by wishing a normal person “Happy Brain Awareness Week!” Find someone random in a hallway, or a non-Muser friend. Someone you think will have an interesting reaction. And then blog about the results.
My brain is…. ummmm….. smart.
When we’re not sure how to celebrate something, we usually put it in a pie. This time, though, that strategy could get a little messy.
i am aware of my brain. it is in my head. and it is capable of processing huge amounts of information. and it keeps me alive. and it needs tons of blood. therefore, i am very careful with my brain.
23rd post!!! Whee! That’s a prime number, you know.
See if your brain is as smart as you think it is with this teensy quiz.
1. Do thaw and unthaw mean the same thing?
2. If you punch 56078 into a calculater, then turn the calculater upside down, what do you see?
3. If you roll 6 dice, what is the chance of rolling all 6’s? Is it 6x6x6x6x6x6, or 6x5x4x3x2x1, or is it 6x1x1x1x1x1? (What I mean is, if first you roll a 6, then there’s a sixth of a chance you’ll get another one. Then if you roll a 6 again, the odds stay the same for the next die!)
4. Why are all 5 of our senses on our head?
5. Where on earth will every direction be south?
6. What’s the maximum amount of notes a piano player can play at one time?
BONUS QUESTION
7. How many nickels does it take to fill up a school bus?
SUPER BONUS QUESTION
8. Is there enough DNA in our body to stretch from where your body is now to
a) The moon
b) Venus
c) Mars
d) The Sun
e) None of the above
whoops!
on the super bonus question, the first 2 words should read “There is”.
My brain is awesome!!!!!! Because I know how wonderful cows are!!!!!!!!! haha, well, ya, brains are cool. I don’t know how to celebrate them, though, ummm…
1. yes
2.blogs
3.whatever you said, the same chance the next time you roll
4.they are in our parietal lobe
5.at the north pole
6. all, if you hold down the pedal
7.something like 85000000
8.e
I lived in tornado alley for like 5 years. What do you want toknow? the sirens would go off about 4-5 times during the late summer, aug-oct.
Brains are icky. I don’t like them. I should tell my health teacher that it’s brain awareness week.
Sorry, the only ones you got right were 2, 5, and 6. Please clarify for 3. Did you mean the first example, second example, or third example?
oh, and I think you got 4 right too. As for the answer I had, the reason being was the head is located high up and the senses all need to be there for various reasons. The eyes need to be up high, since you wouldn’t be able to see much if they were on your shins. The ears can hear better if they’re up high, and it’s the best spot on the body to measure balance. The nose needs to be high so it can sniff things, and so that it is close to the mouth and can drain air down to it. As for the mouth, it needs to be high so that there will be more room for other organs elsewhere, and that it’s in a convinient place for our hands to stuff food down it. And touch needs to be on practically every surface, so there’s no real logic there.
clarification, i mean they taste bad. i had veal brains. ifi think i got 1 right too unthaw: to become or cause to become soft or liquid. thaw: To pass from a frozen state to a liquid or semi liquid state. They are the same.
28-2-COOL! You got 8 wrong, I think. I choose a.
The correct answers are:
1. No.
2. Blogs
3. 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 x 6
4. See post 30.
5. North Pole
6. about 850,000 (not 85,000,000)
7. belive it or not, b
My brain
tis smart
it doesn’t like
to fart
cause brains
can’t fart
but nevermind
My brain
is cool
it loves
my school
and it works
hard at ISATS.
My brain
it rocks
it smells like socks
but no one knows
what brains smell like
so never mind.
Ya like it?
didja know that the section of the brain that controls multitasking is one of the last bits to mature and one of the first to start deteriorating?
15: I heard they taste like scrambled eggs. X(
Did you know that about twelve people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year?
That was probably the brainiest thing I’ve said all day.
Brains…
Mine is quaking in fear. (Can brains quake? Never mind.) I detest, I loathe standardized tests. So does my brain. (you’ll just have to trust me on that one)
My brain is wrinkled. I think. SQUEEEESHHYY!!!!!!!! Now I shall act like a total idiot and be unaware of my brain. In other words, I will be myself.
Smart people’s brains are wrinkled. Dumb people’s brains are smooth. The reason being is that when your brain stores information, the memory lobes swell, making the brain wrinkley.
i don’t belong here. i have been brainwashed from my constant consumption of VitaminWater. *giggles maniacally*
In honor of Brain Awareness Week:
BRAINSTEM (from Pinky and the Brain)
Lyrics by Tom Minton.
(sung to the tune of “Camptown Races”)
(Pinky) And now, the parts of the brain, performed by The Brain!
(Brain) Ye-e-s!
(Brain) Neo-cortex, frontal lobe
(Pinky) Brainstem! Brainstem!
(Brain) Hippocampus, neural node
Right hemisphere.
(Brain) Pons and cortex visual
(Pinky) Brainstem! Brainstem!
(Brain) Sylvian fissure, pineal
Left hemisphere.
(Brain)
Cerebellum left!
Cerebellum right!
Synapse, hypothalamus
Striatum, dendrite.
(Brain) Axon fibers, matter gray
(Pinky) Brainstem! Brainstem!
(Brain) Central tegmental pathway
Temporal lobe.
(Brain) White core matter, forebrain, skull
(Pinky) Brainstem! Brainstem!
(Brain) Central fissure, cord spinal
Parietal.
(Brain)
Pia mater!
Menengeal vein!
Medulla oblongata and lobe limbic
Micro-electrodes…
(Pinky) Naaarf!
P+B : THE BRAIN!!!
(Brain) That ought to keep the little squirts happy. Ye-e-s!
Why is number 1 on the quiz thing no? go to wikipedia and look them up! The definitions mean the same thing!
41- yessss!!!! Pinky and the Brain!
dear brain,
you are very helpfull and without you i wouldn’t be a MBer and my teachers would get REALLY mad!
brain? What brain?
Hmmm… My brain. Well, it works. Thats good.
Although I wish that the many personalities inside would cooperate from time to time.
42 – to unthaw something means to freeze it again.
If “thaw” means to get it unfrozen, “unthaw” must mean to undo the process…
Just wondering: can’t you write whatever garble you want on a Wikepedia entry?
And technically this is the only website I’m allowed to go to besides Google. Sigh…
BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
48- Why?
My brain is european. Therefore it is fluent in four languages and is doing college level physics in America in High School in Europe. Us poor European students…
13- Um, I’m sort of English. I’m techincally american, having spent the first 2 years of my life there, but I am living in England now and have been for the past 4 years. I will try to explain the school system, as long as the GAPAs don’t cut it out. (Please don’t! This is very educational, which makes it good for brains)
Basically, you start when you are five with a class called reception. After that, you just progress up in years, starting with year one. (Age wise, the number of the year you are in is about equal to one above the American grade. For example, Year seven, which I am in, is equal age wise to Grade six. However, the subject matter and level of difficulty is about one year higher than in America, so ability wise Year seven is equal to Grade seven.) You spend up to year six and reception in Primary school, like grade school, and then move up to Secondary, like high school, in year seven. We don’t have a school in the middle if you are in public school. When you are in year eleven, you take GCSE’s, which you spend year 10 and 11 studying for. After year 11, you don’t have to go to school any more, but about half of the pupils do. Your GCSE’s influence what you can take. The half that leave go and do apprenticeships or something, and the other half go into Sixth form, either at a special center for them only, or at the Sixth form part of their Secondary school. There you spend about two years preparing to take A levels, which determine which form of higher education you can get into. After A levels, you either go straight into work, get an apprenticeship, or go to university. So, unlike the students in America, you have to know generally what you want to do when you are older by the age of 14, when you pick your GCSE subjects. Isn’t that nice?
I hope that wasn’t too complicated, and that I didn’t go and blabber about things that you didn’t want to know.
28- cool! I don’t really mind, but for example, how about the safety measures that you have to take. I would like to take this opportunity to ask the GAPA’s for a thread on tornado alley. PLEASEEEEEEEEE!
cool about the school hting
51- Meep! I have no idea what I want to do with my life, and I’m 15… *hides*
Okay. Enough about the US school system. This is making me DEPRESSED. Why the 2 periods of English, and then 1 math and 1 science? Why? This is unbalanced. English
Here we have:
3 years of preschool, from ages 2 to 5
5 years of elementary school, with the same class for 5 years! Agh.
4 years of middle school, again with the same class for 4 years
Then comes the seperation. The better students go to Liceo, the slightly lower, but still high students go to the Commercio, a school for commerce and business, and then there are various other specialized schools for various jobs. There is also the possibility of taking an apprenticeship and learning a trade while working and earning something. I’m in Liceo.
There are 4 years of Liceo. In the first year everyone does the same subjects, including Biology, Chemistry and Physics, for two hours a week per subject. In the second year, students choose a direction: either Linguistico, Scientifico or Economico. The Linguistico focuses on languages and literature, and you have to take latin and greek as long as a bunch of other languages. But you stll have to do the scientific classes, just not as much as the Scientifico, which puts emphasis on Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry. The Economico focuses on Economy, Law, financial mathematics, and then the human sciences, like psychology, philosophy, sociology, etc.
I’ll probably go economico.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO MODERATE A COMMENT? IT’S BEEN ON HERE FOR DAYS AND YOU STILL HAVEN’T GOT ROUND TO IT?
Patience is a virtue, IWTBAM, dear.
55- so what if you want to do music or art or something like that?
We have what they call “academies” at my school. Kids who want to specialize can go into either the academy of Math, Technology, and Science , Humanities(languages and history), or the Arts academy. I’m in MTS. You have to go to lectures during lunch and some after school classes, in addition to an internship, research project, summer session, etc. You don’t have to join an academy, though people who already know what they want to do usually join because it’s almost impossible to join after freshman year, and it looks good on a college application. I think about 99% of students go to college, luckily UMD is one of the best state schools in the country. Go Terps! (don’t laugh, yes, our motto is “fear the turtle!” )
58: Supplementary classes available in each direction.
Ok, i will just throw this out there and hope not to offend anyone. IN GENERAL the entire human race is stupid. we are all idiots and don’t know how to take care of the earth or how to get along. I am not directing this comment to anyone person, as i have mentioned this to many different people. Humans are just idiots!
61: I whole-heartedly agree with you. The masses of humans are stupid and lazy, and a few thinking individuals can’t do anything about it.