Elizabeth O'Connor Stumbleupon 9-22-09

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2YiveG/www.livescience.com/culture/090903-seizure-switch.html/topic:Brain%2520Disorders

The first article I stumbled upon was “Seizures Makes Woman Mistake Herself For a Man.” Know when I saw this title I was like how creepy!!! Now I know some basic facts about seizures like do not try and hold down the person if they are having one, and don’t put your hand in there mouth because they will clamp down and you won’t be able to get your hand or fingers out until after the seizure s over with. But I did not know that it could make you think you were a man. This article states that for the first time, scientist report an instance of a brain seizure making someone believe they underwent a sex formation. This seizure was making this woman think she was becoming a male and she thought that she was starting to have man hormones and features, as she also did when she saw her woman friend. So to fix this issue instead of doing brain surgery to implant electrodes that can help monitor and control the disorder, but can also stimulate cells to better understand brain circuits. The researchers instead are seeking to develop tests checking how well a person can distinguish gender, to analyze this patient and potentially others. This is kind of creepy. I wonder if they will ever be a cure for this problem that has started to happen?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1Prd0L/picky-palate.com/2009/09/10/caramel-apple-cream-cheese-cookie-bars//

Now this stumble upon looked so good when I pulled it up! I love apples and cream cheese, so I had to do a stumble upon about it! This is a caramel apple cream cheese cookie bar, not doesn’t that sound good!? From the ingredients it doesn’t seem bad, but when I started to read the instructions I wish they would of broke it up in more than just two steps because I like step by step things and this has two steps with like a paragraph of information. I don’t like that! A lady named Jenny, now who ever Jenny is I don’t know, left this recipe. The comments people have left her are all positive and they all say how good it looks and how they can’t wait to try it. I would love to try it and attempt to make it but first of all I don't have a kitchen, and secondly I know it will not turn out to look like this!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1BleFo/www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/14/showerhead.bacteria/index.html/

The last article I stumbled upon was an article about “Showerheads may deliver blast of bacteria.” Now this made me turn up my noise, because we all have a showerhead on the shower, and I hate the showers in the dorm anyway so this article just makes it 20x’s worse!!! This article states that potentially disease-causing germs can get trapped in showerheads and grow into biofilm, or coats of slim that deliver a bacteria blast along with your hot water. Than it goes onto say “the bacteria probably doesn’t pose a threat to most people, although they could be problematic for those with weakened immune systems.” That kind of scares me because I know A LOT of people are on campus which means that there immune systems aren’t strong. So in other words keep healthy and you should be just fine! Keep your self clean, and WASH YOUR HANDS!!! I just have one question how can you and the researchers be certain that the bacteria coming from the shower heads won’t effect you?

This article was posted by CNN.