Tuesday, October 14, 2008

PLN3

CSU to study herbal supplements for arthritic dogs

Anthony F.
10/14/08
Period-6

In the article “CSU to study herbal supplements for arthritic dogs” by: Monte Whaley, they study 36 dogs with arthritics and give them the same supplements that humans take for pain relief. At Colorado State University they gave the dogs supplements to relieve the pain and it just that. They successfully relieved the pain of the dogs, but Dr. Narda Robinson said, “…there are concerns of long-term side effects of these drugs, such as such as gastric ulcers, bleeding, abdominal pain, and kidney or liver damage.” These are some ways that CSU is studying to see if human narcotics on arthritic dogs can relieve their pain just like it does on humans

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Did You Know

Did You Know By: Karl Fisch
In Karl Fisch’s “Did you know” what matters is past-present, change, and statistics. First, the video displays what it was like in t he past compared to 2006. It showed examples like college graduations in the 1980s- 2006. Second, change is one of the most important topics in the short film. Throughout the film it presented how much change has happened over the last few years. For example it said in 1990 only 100,000people had the internet, now there is more than 600,000,000 people how the internet accessible. Last, statistics are probably more important than change, then and now, or anything else in the video. The statistics had some interesting topics. On one scene it displayed that nearly every 21 year old person had played more than 10,000 hours of video games. The statistics also revealed that 1 in 8 couples that meet only got married. In Karl Fisch’s video “Did You Know” it uncovered some important facts about change, past-present, and some intriguing statistics.