Assignments for Week Eight - Cell Biology: HIV and AIDS

Blog assignments for this week:

• How do you feel about western approaches to HIV/AIDS?
• Can TCM strengthen our immune systems?
• What do you think of “the deal that saved the whale”?
• 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

Assignments for Week Seven - Cell Biology and Cancer

Blog assignments for this week:

• How sophisticated is our understanding of cancer?
• How does a TCM approach to cancer differ?
• Are our genes still being shaped by natural selection?
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry
  

Check out the following links:

http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/cancer/cancer_13.html
Rediscovering Biology

http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/hiv/hiv_1.html
HIV and AIDS

http://www.stemworks.org/digests/EDO-SE-02-07.pdf
Teaching About the Life and Health of Cells

Assignments for Week Six - The Nature of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• How do you distinguish between living and nonliving systems?
• What do you feel is the significance of the use of language and tools in chimps?
• "Chinese Medicine Gaining Respectability in West"?
• Post a response to a classmate's blog
  

Check out the following links:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/cell/
Plant Cell Anatomy

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/plantbio/cell/cell.cgi
Virtual Cell

http://www.mandalazone.com/essay-0507.html
Thinking Through: The Mind and the Mandala
by Peter Barreda

Assignments for Week Five - The Complexity of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• Can diversification save species?
• Do you vote for the chicken or the egg?
• “I always eat my broccoli!”
• Respond to your classmate's blog entries

Check out the following links:

http://www.reed.edu/~mab/papers/4.puzzles.htm
Four Puzzles about Life

http://www.combusem.com/CAPRA2.HTM
The Web of Life
by Fritjof Capra

http://www.mooseworld.com/
Mooseworld