A Moment of Science:
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Vocabulary:
| shelf
fungus friend or foe? devastating fungi to prolong core heartwood layer dead cells bark spores to be carried by to lodge in wound threads dormant to age to consume rotted pulp | to
nourish if it weren't for...wouldn't to recycle nutrients over time to hollow to nest droppings to weaken resilient to decrease to fell rigid to bend to survive storms underwriting Office of the Provost |
Listening
comprehension questions:
1.
a. Explain the title. Is "amongus" a word? Why is it written
and pronounced this way in this broadcast? b.
What is the difference between fungus and fungi?
2.
What is heartwood?
3. How are spores different
from seeds? (Use the Internet to look for information.) What would be good keywords
to do a Google search on this question?
4.
People might expect shelf fungus to be mainly harmful to trees. List three good
things it can potentially do for an older tree.
5.
Is shelf fungus always good for a tree? Give an example to support your answer.
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I Hear Your
Hands |  |
Vocabulary:
| surprisingly flexible brain ability to modify connections as needed a study out of Japan to confirms to be anything but sense hard and fast subjects of a study Osaka University Medical School to apply PET scan 檢驗胴體(尤其是腦部新陳代謝的)斷層掃描 | technology to allow doctors neuronal significance non-deaf people region auditory cortex to activate researchers sign language images in a nonsense way visual to recognize to process |
Listening
comprehension questions:
1.
What is a PET scanner used for?
2. What
is the auditory cortex and what is special about it?
3.
Explain why meaningless hand movements and sign language are processed in different
parts of the brain of a person who knows sign language.