July 29 - Biology - Vaccination and Public Health Policy

1.      Blog Assignments required this week: 

Ø    Should “parents take a more active role in designing their children’s immunization schedule”?

Ø    Would you support making vaccination programs “compulsory”?

Ø    Post a comment to a classmate’s blog entry

2.      Check out the following links: 

Vaccines--How and Why?
www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vaccines_how_why.html 

Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Measles (Rubeola)  CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week Two Chemistry - Atomic Structures and the Periodic Table

Assignments for Week 2 - Periodic Tables  Blog assignments for this week: * Post your comments on one of our class discussions * Explore your own carbon footprint and report on your findings * Post at least one comment to a classmate’s blog 2.    Check out the following links on Molecular Modeling and Chemical Bonds: http://csi.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/ak/immel/index.html Some interesting animations! http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/quick_tour.html What is Molecular Modeling? http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/water_concepts.htm WATER CONCEPTS
Read more

Week Four - Physics

Your Blog Assignments for "Energy, Matter and Force"  How has e=mc2 affected you?  How would you compare the four “forces”?  What is the function of gravity?  Keep up the blog dialogue! Check out the following links on Symmetry: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/symmetries-obeyed-and-broken   Symmetries Obeyed and Broken http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/9/4/1 Magnetism points to molecular asymmetry http://lhcb-public-old.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public-old/html/cpviolationtoc.htm Everything you ever wanted to know about CP violation and never dared to ask
Read more

Week One - Physics

Hi Physicists! Here are your Assignments for Week One:     Post a short bio introducing yourself     Post your thoughts on today's class - The Meaning of Time     Respond to a classmate’s blog entry And check out the following links on Quantum Mechanics: https://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/info/summaryOfVqm.html The simulations under “Programs” are excellent https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3578426 Writing for Non-scientists about Physics http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins.html A decent history
Read more