Friday, November 18, 2011

Extroverts & Introverts

I believe that I am an extrovert. I think that introverts have it easier because they don't have to worry about people & they mostly have to focus on what is important to them. If everyone was an extrovert this could possibly be a problem because everyone would try & be a leader but there would be no followers. If everyone was an introvert, this would also be as problem because people would rarely interact with each other & no one would ever take charge so nothing would ever get done. I prefer to have extroverts as friends because I think they'd be more fun to hang out with where as an introvert would not talk very much & may not want to hang out very often. Extroverts are better leaders because they can talk to more people. Introverts might be better writers because they spend a lot of time by themselves, giving them time to think more. Either could be a good neighbor, some people like to get to know their neighbors, in which an extrovert would be good, but others just like their neighbors to be respectful & quite, in which an introvert would be good. Extroverts would make better teachers because they would talk to the students more & be more of leaders. Extroverts & introverts matter a lot because they make up who we are & give us a more diverse society.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Your Living Conditions as a Child May Be Detectable In Your DNA for Life

Epigenetics- the study of heritable changes that occur without a change in the DNA sequence  

Examples of such changes might be DNA methylation or histone deacetylation, both of which serve to suppress gene expression without altering the sequence of the silenced genes

three interesting thing I've found in this article were that the geneticist name was Snoop Dog, that


future research could peg where certain methylation differences are associated with specific diseases, & they found that 1,252 methylation differences were associated with socio-economic circumstances in early life while just 545 were associated with socio-economic circumstances in adulthood.

I do not see this in my family. 

You know their name, not their story.