I found it interesting to learn about the different units of radioactivity. The becquerel, sievert, and curie are units that are all brand new to me. It's a bit difficult to fully process in such a short amount of time, but how it was broken down made it understandable. And I was shocked to find out bananas are radioactive! One of my favorite fruits!
I looked at http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/virus.html and I find it interesting the whole structure of a virus. It's often something that we just hear about and we only experience virus' as a whole versus thinking of it as an individual thing. We see the effects that it can have on living organisms. It also discussed the 2 most common viruses that people often think of: influenza and HIV
Briefly glancing at the other sites, I like how the pictures are illustrated. It breaks it down into visuals that are easy to understand and labels each part!
Hey Noelle!
ReplyDeleteI love bananas too, but I do recall when I was working at the Duke HIV lab the summer of my freshman year. I was subleasing (subrenting? subletting? who knows!) a room from a nice lady about 7 minutes off campus. As she was packing up, I was cleaning out the fridge when I discovered a bunch of bananas sitting at the back of the freezer. Now, you don't ask for a woman's age, but these bananas... I would certainly not ask their age either. They were black as the night in the countryside and smelled... really good actually. I was later told that you use these to make banana bread - the more terrifying the banana, the better the bread, apparently.
Anyhow, bananas are so terribly fascinating because they were pretty much the only fruit that would continue to ripen after being picked, and as such, were invaluable for the first humans' migration across the Sahara. And then past the Middle East. I wonder how they all got irradiated.