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Post # 1      Assignment 1       Made by Kayla Jeanes Rachel Vanderburg and Mathew Mizzi

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Post # 1      Assignment 1       Made by Kayla Jeanes Rachel Vanderburg and Mathew Mizzi

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Post #2 Confirmation bias-

Definition: The red flag of Confirmation Bias is a bias within our thinking, and causes us to accept, and remember information that proves the beliefs we have. And  forgetting, or  ignoring data the may prove this believe to be wrong. It creates illusions

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In  this article is shows Confirmation Bias red flag as it is explaining how in  Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute how the moon has affected the children and their way of sleeping and how the children act.

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The moon's effects on life on Earth extend further than the tides. Myths and legends relate the moon's phases to humans in a variety of ways - from transformations into werewolves to sleep deprivation. A new study from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute dives deeper into two of these theories: whether a full moon disrupts sleep and whether it causes children to be more hyper.

While it's long been thought that the full moon affects children's behavior and sleep patterns, this study only found a correlation between one of those factors and this particular lunar phase.

"Sleep duration was 1 percent shorter at full moon compared to new moon, while activity behaviors were not significantly associated with the lunar cycle in this global sample of children," the researchers wrote. That amounted to about 5 minutes less sleep.
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Overall, researchers didn't find a causal link and the correlation was relatively weak. The sample of more than 5,800 children aged 9-11 years from all around the world directly recorded sleep data using accelerometers. But the study only lasted seven days, starting with a full moon and ending with the new moon. It was not long enough to show any pattern over time, let alone over a full lunar cycle.

Why did the children get slightly less sleep? It's possible that the brightness of the moon could have caused some interference, Live Science reports, but since there are often lights on in the house and in the distance, it's not a particularly compelling theory.

Still, the researchers concluded they had "solid evidence" that the moon doesn't affect the behavior of children the way we thought it might.
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"The associations between moon phases and children's sleep duration/activity behaviors are not meaningful from a public health standpoint," the researchers wrote.

The study adds to an ever-growing mass of research debunking myths about the moon's effects on human biology.

No peer-reviewed studies have found any notable relationship between the full moon and epileptic seizures, visits to psychiatric hospitals or emergency room visits. Even when it comes to menstruation, there are no studies that find a meaningful correlation across a wide sample of participants.

As Live Science points out, even the noticeable effects that the moon has on the ocean aren't only notable during the full moon; the tides are also highest during the new moon.
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How Does the Full Moon Affect Kids? | The Weather Channel

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A new study looks at the moon's effects on sleep and hyperactive behavior. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

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Post #3 Ancient Wisdom

Definition:The red flag Ancient Wisdom incorporates all things to do with ancient beings, knowledge and practice.

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This video demonstrates the Ancient wisdom red flag because it references that every 26,000 years our solar system passes through the 12 zodiac signs, ancient civilizations such as the Hopi, Egyptian cherokee apache and the mayans were aware of this great cycle and developed calendars according to it.

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Ancient Wisdom and Truthful Knowledge Part 1

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Post #4 Appeal to Authority

Definition: The red flag Appeal to Authority is when people of a hierarchy influence people whether it be correct or not.

Connection: This image demonstrates the Appeal to Authority red flag because Doctors and other professionals who have gone to school for many years have a strong influence on society.

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Post #5 All natural

Definition: The red flag All Natural is that even though the bottle/label says “all natural” that does not mean that it is always good for you. A lot of natural things are bad for you too.

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This video explains how All Natural is good and  having Genetically Modified Organisms will help reduce the cost for farmers and that there are benefits for eating the food. And gives proof of how it is good and all natural when really GMO is not good for your body.

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Post #6 Mystical energy

Definition: The red flag Mystical Energy is when you think of a feeling or thought of negative or positive emotions. The brain will make you second guess what the thought or feeling is.

Connection: This image shows Mystical Energy because it explains that there is other things from a different part of our subconscious mind and is showing all of what some people have seen and experienced.

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Post #9  Reason for belief: Agenticity

Definition: Having the belief of something that is not there or do not have proof that the object or thing exists.

Connection:  In this website it explains how that there is proof of other life out in the universe but they could be small or not but have very string technology which we can never think of within our life.

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The distances separating the stars are so vast that it would take a very advanced civilization-perhaps thousands or even millions of years more advanced than ours-to bridge those distances. In other words, any extraterrestrial civilization that visited us, hypothetically or in reality, would be using a technology that we can only dream about here on planet Earth.

Most life forms in outer space are probably microbial, but a handful of them may be advanced enough to actually reach us. Now, from their perspective, we humans are the microbial life and we would simply not be that interesting to them. I think this is one reason aliens don't come here and say, "Take me to your leader, Earth man." An extremely advanced civilization visiting humans would almost be like humans going down to an ant hill and telling them: "I bring you computers, I bring you nuclear power, I bring you knowledge..." Most of the time we simply step on them instead.

Stephen Hawking's recent statements in his new series "Into the Universe" on the Discovery Channel have stirred up quite a few news stories in the past week. In fact, I will be appearing on Larry King Live tonight (4/30) at 9 p.m. EST to speak about these statements. In the series, Hawking says: "If intelligent alien life forms do exist out in the vastness of space, they might not be the friendly cosmic neighbors the people of Earth are looking for. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach. If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for material to build more spaceships so they could move on. Who knows what the limits would be?" Hawking adds: "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships...having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach." In closing, he says that all of our efforts to search and contact aliens could ultimately end in our own destruction.

So how many advanced civilizations could there possibly be? Back in the 1950's and 60's, astronomer Frank Drake had the idea of searching for radio signals from intelligent life (intelligent enough to make radio broadcasts, that is) in outer space. Drake's equation is taught in every elementary astronomy course as a reasonable scientific estimate of the probability of intelligent races throughout the galaxy. It tries to estimate (N), which is the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication may be possible.

In order to calculate this number, a variety of factors come into play, such as:

The average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy

The fraction of those stars that have planetsThe average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets

The fraction of the above that actually go on to develop lifeThe fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life

The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space

The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space

As Carl Sagan explained the Drake equation in his series "Cosmos," the number of technological civilizations should literally number in the millions (in our galaxy alone). This view is challenged by the Fermi paradox, which contrasts that expected number with the fact that ET hasn't phoned us yet, and perhaps suggests that technological civilizations tend to destroy themselves rather quickly.If Hawking's predictions haven't scared you off, there are a variety of projects which allow you to aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

One of the most popular is that of which is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data, "donating" your idle computer time to the task. Originally intended as a short-run project with hopes of attracting 50,000 participants, it ended up achieving over 5 million downloads, with 1/3 of those users using it at any given time. Thanks to this program, SETI can use millions of computers around the world to analyze data from telescopes in real time-a feat it could never have performed otherwise because its researchers are limited by the computing power they have on site. If you are interested in helping narrow down the search and using your home computer to help analyze signals from outer space, please download the BOINC program and start searching today. Who knows, your computer could be the one that discovers the signal that ultimately proves the existence of advanced life forms in the universe.

So why haven't they visited or conquered us? No one knows, but I think:

There are plenty of uninhabited planets with valuable resources to exploit, so they will likely leave us alone.

They might be benevolent since they have had thousands to millions of years to work off their aggressive tendencies.

Most likely, we are not on their radar screen. We may be too insignificant for them to make formal contact.

We've all seen the portrayals of aliens in the movies-including "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Fire in the Sky," "The Alien Trilogy," "Predator," "Independence Day," and "War of the Worlds"-and how most are unpleasant, making for much more interesting plots on the big screen. Let's hope that if in fact we have a visit from an extraterrestrial civilization, it's more like the one in Stephen Spielberg's "E.T." than one in which aliens try to blow up the planet and consume all our natural resources before we even have a chance to finish eating our popcorn.

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Is There Intelligent Life in the Universe?

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Post #7  Reason for belief:  Unexplained

Definition: Something that is not made clear or can not be described.

Connection: The connection of Unexplained is a magician is that it plays tricks on your mind when performing tricks.

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Post #8  Reason for belief: Patternicity

Definition: Finding meaning in something that has no meaning.
Connection: This sink looks like a it has a face but in reality it is just a sink.

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Post #10 Critical Thinking Process Question Responses 

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Post #10 Critical Thinking Process Question Responses 

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Critical Thinking Step-by-Step Process  Assignment 1 Sample (Exemplar) (1)