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Welcome to the Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter.
In this issue:
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Neuroscience for Kids had several new additions in March including:
A. March Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter was archived
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/news2703.html
B. New Neuroscience in the News
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/inthenews.html
C. Visit or follow my Instagram site with neuroscience facts and trivia:
https://www.instagram.com/ericchudler/
D. New Shape Stroop Test
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/pdf/shape_stroop.pdf (Test sheets)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.html (Instructions; Stroop Test background)
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The Neuroscience for Kids "Site of the Month" for April is the "National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine Collection, Prints & Photographs" at:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/photos.html
Need a picture or photograph about science or medicine for a project? Look no further than the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Collection. This online database has more than 70,000 images including portraits, photographs, caricatures, posters, and graphic illustrations about the history of medicine. Try a search using the term "brain" to see images of how the brain has been depicted through the centuries. Many of the images are in the public domain, so you can use most of them without copyright restriction.
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The International Neuroethics Society and the International Youth Neuroscience Association are sponsoring a Neuroethics Essay Contest for high school students. Essays must be submitted by July 7, 2023. For rules and more information, see:
https://neuroethicsessaycontest.com/call/
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The National Eye Institute (National Institutes of Health) is sponsoring the Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest for high school students. Videos entries can be submitted in three categories: A) Science in Your World, B) Science in the Field or Lab and C) Science in Your Future. Entries are due on April 16, 2023. For rules and more information, see:
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2023/03/nih-teen-video-contest
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Last month I spent about 10 days in northern India teaching neuroscience to a group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. You can read more about my adventure in Dharamsala, India, on my travel blog:
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A. "How Migrating Birds Use Quantum Effects to Navigate," "How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World" and "The Neuroscience of Reality" (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Special Edition, March, 2023).
B. "No One Knows How the Biggest Animals on Earth - Baleen Whales - Find Their Food" (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, April, 2023).
C. "The Early Years of Brain Imaging" (AMERICAN SCIENTIST, March-April, 2023).
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A. "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains." -- Quote from Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890.
B. The brain of a porcupine weighs about 25 grams.
C. There are 2.2 to 2.9 turns in the cochlea.
D. There are no nerves or blood vessels in the eye (Source: Riordan-Eva, P. and Whitcher, J.P., Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, 17th ed., New York: Lange Medical Books, 2008).
E. The total length of capillaries in the human brain = ~400 miles (Source: Cipolla, M.J., The Cerebral Circulation, San Rafael (CA: Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences, 2009).
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Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.