Puppies save a toddlers Life.

A toddler escaped from the house last week in Austraila with the 2 family puppies. The babysitter found out he had escaped and called the police. But the toddler could not find his way back home and sat down. The tempature dropped severely. But the puppies cuddled with him and he didnt freeze to death. When they found him, they took him to the emergency room, but he was fine thanks to the puppies. They refused to leave his side. Wherever he went, the puppies went.

An Autistic boy gets Hot Wheels after a house fire

In Sylmar, California, John Reyes, an Autistic boy, had his house on fire due to the California Wildfires (What I like to call the Orange killers). He had collected over 500 hot wheels. When they searched the rubble of his house for any toys of his, he only found a rusty tricycle and a hunk of metal that used to be a hot wheels car. Mattel found out about this and sent 2 cardboard boxes to his Grandmothers house. It contained hundreds of cars, racetracks, stickers, t-shirts and hats, and more. He was so ecstatic. His mother said, it was like gold to him

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A former thief sends an apology note and the money worth what he stole to the Shop Owner

Iran Ahmed, a shop owner in Bristol, England, was robbed 7 years ago. But recently he recieved an apology note and 100 pounds in cash. The Thief stole 400 cigarettes and payed for them, and apparently they cost 100 pounds. The thief sincerely apologized and noted that he had been a drug addict at the time but he noted that he was clean now. So he really didn't steal it now. I think. Anyway, Ahmed donated the 100 pounds to a charity that helped drug addicts stop using drugs or smoking cigarettes

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The Note (from BBC)
"Dear Sirs, I am writing this letter to make amends to you for something I have done in the past."

"About seven years ago I was walking past your shop late one night when I noticed that someone had broken into it.

"I used this opportunity to enter your shop where I stole 400 cigarettes. The money enclosed (£100) is to pay for those cigarettes which I stole from you.

"At that time I was heavily using drugs and my life was in a mess, now I no longer use drugs and I strive to lead a decent and honest life.

"As part of my ongoing recovery I try to put right all of the wrongs I have done in the past, at least where I can, and this is why I am giving you back the money which I stole from you.

"I regret the harm I caused you in the past and I sincerely apologise to you for it.

"I was very wrong to do this and I hope that returning the money will make up for this harm, at least in some small way."

Teenager with Down Syndrome was Elected Homecoming Queen at her School.

Anne Jennings, a teen with Down Syndrome, was elected Homecoming Queen of her Libertyville School. She was in special education classes because of her Down Syndrome, so she couldn't go to class with her friends. A bunch of people in her class made a Facebook site called "Annie Jennings for Homecoming Queen" and it had more than 300 members. Some people said that she already won in there book. She was amazed and so was her mom, Ellen Jennings.


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Two Winners in the Netflix Movie Watching Contest

Two people were in a contest where you had to stay up and watch movies for the longest. Netflix rewarded them with $10,000 each, and a trophy. They even broke a record! They also got a lifetime DVD rental service from Netflix. They stay through 57 consectutive movies. If they were 2 hours a piece, thats 114 hours, thats 4 days, 18 hours! But possibly some of the movies were longer. I wish I could do that.

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Neuroscience Website

The link to the site

Today at this website I found. I learned about the West Nile Virus, and how the mosquito's actually get it from birds. I also learned a lot about your Eyes and about afterimages and illusions. I also learned how to find your blind spot. I also did the Stroop effect and learned how to do brain in sign language. I also learned the names of some phobias, and some of them I had, such as My opinion major Toxiphobia(fear of Poison), Arachnophobia(we all know is the fear of Spiders), Minor Entomophobia(insects, I don't fear them all though), Cancerophobia(fear of, you guessed it, Cancer), and Panthophobia(fear of disease). Chemicals with the Brain, like Caffeine is not bad for your brain, but cocaine can confuse it. I also did a game they had called Neuro-Jeopardy, I thought it was pretty good. I did Brain Response Time Experiments. I also did some Brain Facts that would make you go Hmmmmm. Looked at some kind of funny Brain Jokes. I learned about Yawning, yes yawning. The purpose of yawning is too stretch, not to warm up your blood or get rid of excess carbon dioxide and bring in more oxygen, although that is a good Theory. Another myth is that you have 2 brains, but its not true, your brain is just divided in a Left Hemisphere and Right Hemisphere. Its also a myth that you use 10% of your brain, that was a misquote of Albert Einstein. I learned how much your computer is like your brain. It learns, calculates, both uses electricity. They also can get damaged, a brain can get a disease and a computer can get a virus, they can learn, they can have a memory that grows and more. I learned an interesting thing about chocolate, it contains approx. 380 chemicals! No wonder its poisonous to dogs! I also added more stuff to my brain about Synesthesia. Also about yawning, its contagious! I learned about Rabies, which from the Latin words means "to rage". It is a virus. I learned about Lead. I was relieved that graphite is in pencils not lead. There used to be lead I think.

Synesthesia. A gift, and a curse.

Synesthesia is a condition of the brain which is harmless, that gives the senses a certain connection to each other. It allows stuff such as if you taste Spaghetti you could see Pink, even though Spaghetti is not pink. You could smell Licorice and hear an Oboe. You could feel a metal doorknob, and taste metal, vice versa. There are so many connections they cant be counted!

How Synethesia occurs
* After birth the neuronal wiring's in the brain are not yet specialized. They are overlapping each other. Until the forth month there is a process of pruning this connections. The failing of this process could lead to Synaesthesia. So this theory emphasizes that Synaesthesia is a result of too less neuronal inhibition. Inhibition enzymes could be involved. So basically, you can only get it from birth.

An overload could be if you go into a loud room, for example, your Synesthesia could make you very very uncomfortable! You could probably figure out why, You taste a lot of grilled cheese sandwich's listening to very loud music, or feel very smooth things while hear loud noises, etc.

Synesthesia is a very cool condition. The only harmful thing that it could possibly do is cause a small discomfort like I added above. Although, people could also have red skin, because of how you see them.
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