Friday, March 25, 2011

Do you think that all people should have free will?

I think that all people should have free will, we live in America so we can be free. Free will lets us have a choice in our life and lets us have the ability to take life how we prefer. I don't think that life would be as exciting without it. If all of our choices were already predetermined would that really be considered a choice? No. What if that's how life was, predetermined? That really wouldn't be life would it? No. That's why I think everyone should have free will.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Limitless

"I was blind but now I see." That's what it feels like to be limitless, like you were blind and now you can see. In the new movie limitless, they tell you that humans can only access 20% our brains. But there is a new medication that will let you access all of it. Could you image what it would be like to access all of brain, all the opportunities we could have. Math would be easy, we could do anything we want like speak other languages. A tablet a day and we could be limitless.
With an amazing idea for a movie like limitless it is no surprise that it got 3.5 stars. This movie also made 19 million dollars the first weekend. Limitless is currently number one on the charts. I will be seeing this movie sometime soon, it sounds really cool. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/movies/limitless-and-rango-lead-the-way.html?ref=movies  

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Are all people with blue eyes related?

There has been a lingering question, are all people with blue eyes related? The answer is yes in someways, we are not like brother and sister but a distant cousin maybe. Danish researchers have recently concluded that somewhere in between 6,000-10,000 years ago everyone on the earth had brown eyes. The gene for blue eyes came after a genetic mutation  affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a switch, which literally 'turned off' the ability to produce brown eyes. It didn't really turn it off but rather limits its action to reducing the production of melanin in the iris effectively “diluting” brown eyes to blue. If the OCA2 was completely turned off the production of melanin then we would have no pigment in our eyes, hair and skin, also known as an albino. The OCA2 gene is what controls all pigment in us including hair, skin, and eye color. In the study everyone with blue eyes had this mutation in their OCA2 gene. During the 6,000- 10,000 years ago time period someone had this mutation and passed it on to all of their kids passing it on all the way down to our generation. All people with blue eyes have a single common ancestor, the person who was the first to have the genetic mutation thus originating the blue eye gene.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Can human beings ever be truly equal? What would the would be like if we were?

Equality is something that people dream about, so everyone is equal and there is no competition. But would that be a dream or a nightmare? That would be a nightmare to me; for one that would mean we would lose all our personality. Everything that makes you, you would be gone. It may seem great for everyone to be equal from afar, but if you take a deeper look you begin to notice people can't be themselves all uniqueness is gone. We are supposed to be the land of the free that's why our ancestors came over, so we can be free. But if we were all truly equal we would not be free, we would have to hide who we really are and pretend to be something we are not.