Criminals since childhood

(TIEDE 3/2011)

Tuula Kinnarinen wrote an article about Adrian Raine’s and Nathalie Fontaine’s research, which deals the fact that there could be a sign of criminality already in childhood. Raine and Fontaine are criminologists and they believe that some of us born as criminals.

Brain investigation has proceed so much that soon we are able to see criminality from six-months-old baby’s brains. Raine believes that fish oils help child’s brains to grow normally. When brains are normal, there won’t be any behaviour disorders.

Nathalie Fontaine presents a research result which says that very often behaviour disorders come from gene errors. Gene errors aren’t still the only reason for criminality. The research says that the impact of the environment is at least 50% of becoming criminal.

Researchers aren’t saying that biology judges people. They are saying that biology can help to prevent becoming problems. Adrian Raine thinks that we should begin to locate possible new criminals and prevent it somehow.

We think that one research isn’t enough to cause any kind of activities. We need more evidences before we can start to manipulate children’s brains just like that. Kind of brutal, we think.

Aleksanteri & Eetu

A summary of Tuula Kinnarinen's article Tulevaisuuden siemen löytyy Tuomiopäivän pankista - Tiede 12/2009

In her article, Kinnarinen tells us of a remote seed bank located in the depths of Svalbard's mountains. The Global Seed Vault, which is also the station's official name, is not an ordinary seed bank: it is a reserve stockpile. At least 200 million seeds have already been stored in Svalbard's bank, which equals about one tenth of the bank's actual storage capacity.
 
  The project is funded mainly by the Norwegian government and the Nordic seed bank, NordGen. The idea of the project is to store the seeds of important agricultural plants as a certain type of "backup" for the years to come.
  In fact there are at least 1500 seed banks of similar fashion located around the world. They may, however, not prove as reliable as needed, because most of them are located in developing countries or areas that are vulnerable to natural disasters. Svalbard, on the other hand, is ideal for this purpose, being geologically stable and yet easily reachable.

  Many of the stored species can survive for centuries when properly packed and frozen. Even ordinary plants, such as wheat and rice, can remain in good shape for well over a thousand years.

  In my opinion, it is indeed a respectable idea to prepare for a future that may not always look as bright as we wish. Thinking of the following generations indicates a great love for nature, as well as an interest in sustainable development.

©Juho

Bond's physique does not fail

Bond's physique does not fail (6/2010)

Bond would have not survived so long without knowledge of physique. 007’s tricks are full physique.

Bond wants his drink ”shaken, not stirred”, why?. Well theres an answer. When the drink is shaken, molecules of the drink come up close the surface so when Bond drinks, the taste is strongest at the first gulp. Mostly, a busy agent isn’t able to drink the whole glass.
In difficult situations, Bond finds the right way to survive. For example, if theres a narrow way, Bond can drive a car using only two wheels. In physics, it is proved that it is actually possible.

Bond can sometimes overstate to save his and his girls’ lives. Like he did in the movie ”007 and a goldfinger” in the airplane when Pussy Galore were going to shoot him. Bond said that if the girl shoots him, the bullet will also make a hole to the airplane and drag everyone out of the plane, if the window breaks. In this situation, its proved, that the technology today would prevent from the disaster. But Bond was bluffing and saved his life.

In the movie ”Live and let die” James Bond used his watch to grab a spoon from the table. The spoon was one meters away. It is proved that Bond would need 4,5 billion-ampere current. And basically, it is possible, but it would make the watch 250 degrees hot. And even that would not stop a super agent like Bond. The Q is the one who manufacturers Bond’s equipment.

Bond also has super glasses to prevent reflections in sunny days. Nowadays, it is possible to make such glasses. The glasses of the secret service of Britain can filter a light aimed on any direction only by turning the lenses.

As you can notice, most of the equipment and ”stunts” done in the movies, aren't really possible. Still some of the stunts are possible to be done. However, the Bond -movies are entertaining, no matter if the stunts are possible to be done or not.

In our opinion the Bond –movies have always been unrealistic but this research opened our eyes, that there are some possible things behind the curtains.

©Okko Karsikko and Sami Siljoranta

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