3. Eleanor Maguire is a
famous Irish
neuroscientist from
Dublin.
The study of the brain
is called neuroscience.
Neuroscientists try to
explain the where, how
and why of our brain’s
actions and workings.
4. A lot of Eleanor Maguire’s
research has focused on how
our memories work. For the
past 20 years she has been
trying to answer some of
these questions: What part of
our brain do we store our
memories? What happens to
our brains when we learn new
things? How do we learn
things? What does our brain
look like when we are trying to
remember or learn things?
5. One of her most
interesting experiments
involved London taxi
drivers. Maguire
discovered that a
particular part of the brain
(called the hippocampus)
changed when people were
learning the streets of
London. Because of
Maguire’s work, we can say
that the reason why we can
remember where our
school is because our
hippocampus was working
properly when we were
first learning our way to
6. Maguire’s interesting
work on how we make
memories has earned
her many awards and
prestigious prizes.
She is still continuing
her research.
7. Human Body Facts
• An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We
start off life with 350 bones, but because
bones fuse together during growth, we
end up with only 206 as adults.
• As well as having unique fingerprints,
humans also have unique tongue and toe
prints.
• Your nose is not as sensitive as a
dog's, but it can remember 50,000
different scents.
• You can go without eating for weeks but you
can only survive without sleep for 11 days.
• All babies are colour blind when they
are born so they only see black &
white.
• It takes food only seven seconds to go
from the mouth to the stomach via the
esophagus.
10. Explanation – Karen Nyburg
This is astronaut Karen Nyburg. She is a scientist
working on the International Space Station as an
engineer.
Karen sometimes makes videos showing ‘real life’ in a
space station and how it doesn’t always match what
the movies think life in space is like!
One video that Karen has made is about how you can
wash your hair in space with no gravity or running
water.
Click Here!
12. Explanation – The Waggle dance
These are the honey bees in their hives. The bee
surrounded in red is doing a ‘waggle dance’. The ‘scout’
bee performs the waggle dance for a hive when they
have found a good source of food for the hive.
This ‘dance’ is done in a figure of 8. If the dance is
fast, the food is nearby; a slow dance means far away!
During the dance, the scout bee will direct its stinger
in different directions. The direction of its stinger
indicates the direction of the food source. Watch a
waggle dance at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nga4Z_HRUsU.
These are the honey bees in their hives. The bee surrounded in red is doing a ‘waggle dance’. The ‘scout’ bee performs the waggle dance for a hive when they have found a good source of food for the hive.This ‘dance’ is done in a figure of 8. If the dance is fast, the food is nearby; a slow dance means far away!During the dance, the scout bee will direct its stinger in different directions. The direction of its stinger indicates the direction of the food source. Watch a waggle dance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nga4Z_HRUsU.
