So I wasn't in class at all last week:( My mother-in-law was visiting from Ohio and since I hadn't seen her since June I thought I better go to dinner with her at least on Wednesday and then on Saturday I had a class field trip for Age of Irony. The history musuem in Tacoma is pretty interesting and fun if any of you are into that stuff! But, I was hoping someone could kind of fill me in on some of the discussions that went on. Terri started to on Thursday but we didn't really have time to get into it fully. Thanks guys! I promise to be a better classmate this week:)

Everyone can go to this website and take a quiz on their relationship attachment!  Have fun:)

So last night I caught the first half of True Life on MTV. This week it was about three teenagers/20 somethings who are all living with Tourette's disorder. During middle school I had a subsitute teacher that had a fairly severe case of it. He had the twitches but he also didn't have control of saying curse words and would mutter certain four letter words fairly often. He was an amazing person though and none of my fellow classmates ever made fun of him or anything, but we did always wonder why the school system hired a person who had no control over cussing around 11, 12, and 13 year old kids. This past year I've realized that they maybe looked past it or used it as a tool to make us more tolerant of people who have disorders such as his. I find it pretty amazing though that at the time we didn't make fun of him. The school I went to was pretty intolerant of anyone who wasn't what we considered to be "normal".  Thats enough of my rambling about this. During the show last night one of the girls was having experimental brain surgery and I didn't catch the outcome of that. Does anyone know what exactly this brain surgery is and if it has had any success?

I just finished reading We The People for tonights class and had a hard time following it. I think part of the reason is because its a transcripted radio broadcast and I'm sure it was easier to understand the different people speaking while on air. It did leave me with a few questions though that I am sure will be answered tonight:) I was having a hard time really grasping what Illich's ideas were about school and such. Does he just believe that public and private schools of all levels are part of the reason we have such an emphasis on hierachy in our society? That was what I grasped from it but perhaps I wasn't really understanding it. I can't wait to fully understand after tonight is over though!

Jen

In my seminar group the topic of feral children was briefly brought up. I found this documentary on YouTube that is pretty interesting.

You can also go here to watch it.

Women's skin ages faster than men's: study

October 3, 2006 05:21:54 PM PST

Women's skin ages faster than men's, according to a German study using a new laser-based technique to measure damage from sun exposure and aging.

The study, published in Optics Letters, a journal of the Optical Society of America, was based on a new technique in which doctors shine pulses of infrared laser light to look at the deeper layers of the skin and measure aging.

The imaging of collagen and elastin, whose degeneration causes wrinkles and loss of smoothness, found that women lose collagen faster than men.

"The dependence appeared to be sex-dependent, with women's skin losing collagen at faster rates than men's," according to the researchers from Germany's Freidrich Schiller University in Jena and the Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology in St. Ingbert.

Collagens are a group of proteins in the dermis, the connective tissue layer of the skin, and are responsible for the strength of skin. The human body makes a lot of collagen in youth but production declines with aging.

Currently, dermatologists who want to examine a patient's collagen network in the dermis have to remove a sample of tissue and look at it under a microscope.

Authors of the study said this new non-invasive test might one day help in testing anti-aging cosmetic products as well as in the study of skin diseases that affect the collagen structure.