Vaccination and Public Health - Assignments

1.      Blog Assignments required this week: 

Ø    Should “parents take a more active role in designing their children’s immunization schedule”? 

Ø    Would you support making vaccination programs “compulsory”? 

Ø    Post a comment to a classmate’s blog entry 

2.      Check out the following links: 

Vaccines--How and Why?

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vaccines_how_why.html 

Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 

Measles (Rubeola)  CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/measles/

Assignments - Restoring the American Bison to its rightful range.

Blog Assignments required this week: 

Ø    How would you prioritize the reintroduction of the American Bison?

Ø    “World breaks temperature record for June after hottest May”  Are we doing enough to reduce global warming?

Ø    Post a comment to a classmate’s blog 

2.      Check out the following links: 

http://www.intertribalbison.org/default.asp

InterTribal Bison Cooperative

http://www.gprc.org/Buffalo_Commons.html

Buffalo Commons

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/buffalo/strength.html

A SYMBOL OF STRENGTH

Assignments for Ecosystems and Deep Ecology

Blog assignments for this week:

• What do you think about the “eight-point Deep Ecology Platform”?
• Can you explain why “Ecosystems are both strong and fragile”?
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry

Check out the following links:

http://www.bioregions.org/GYE.htm
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA

http://www.zulenet.com/see/newStuartHill.html
Social Ecology
http://uber.tv/g-one/archives/2005/03/005499.html
Making the Invisible Visible

Class Blog List

Here is the latest list of class blog addresses:

http://jessiehollandbiochem.blogspot.com/

http://lynnacchs.blogspot.com/

http://quietwatermajorwaves.blogspot.com/

http://sciencecircles.blogspot.com/

http://emilyrosetcm.blogspot.com/

http://www.naturallygazania.blogspot.com/

http://isabelsciences.blogspot.com/

http://arthurdy.blogspot.com/

http://blackdeer1026.blogspot.com/

http://tippilelu.blogspot.com/

http://claireasoper.blogspot.com/

http://johnny3333.blogspot.com/

http://acchsbio.blogspot.com/

http://saramiznerschemblog.blogspot.com/

http://october10.blog.com/

http://hilarybiochem.blogspot.com/

Assignments for Cell Biology: HIV and AIDS

Blog assignments for this week:

How do you feel about western approaches to HIV/AIDS?

Are we overly reliant on the expectation of the development of a "cure" for HIV?

Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry

Check out the following links:

http://www.alternativemedicinechannel.com/hivaids/tcmtreatment.shtml
alternative medicine channel

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC22/Zimmrman.htm
Introduction To Deep Ecology
 http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/DrengEcophil.html
Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement: An Overview