Technorati search

The first blog I found is titled, “Metabolism models may explain why Alzheimer's disease kills some neuron types first.”  This is related to my informative paper about iron levels and I thought it was very interesting.  It explains why people with Alzheimer’s disease suffer from different memory losses at different stages during this disease.  The author of this blog post is Daniel Kane and it was posted on December 6^th, 2010.  I can’t assume he posts regularly considering he posted this yesterday because I don’t see when he posted before that.  He uses pictures that have subtitles explaining more about the picture.  The links under each picture bring you to the picture along with a couple sentences of information.  Personally, the pictures aren’t very intriguing and don’t make me want to read the post, although he does utilize the media. 

The other post I found is about euthanasia, the topic of my persuasive paper.   John David is sentenced to be executed by the state of Oklahoma on December 16^th.  The drug normally used to euthanize has run out, and so they have decided to test this new drug on him called pentobarbital, which has never been tested on humans before.  I am against the death penalty so I think this is wrong, but I found it interesting how my topic of euthanasia could be related to another debatable issue.  This blog post was written by Jeff Neumann and was posted today, December 7^th, 2010.  He must be very dedicated to his blog because he has had 62 posts in the last 24 hours.  What a life he has!  This blog is more laid back and has the tone of the person writing it. He uses profanity and portrays his personality.  It is not informative and not persuasive; just states the issue and his views.

Blog 1:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/uoc--mmm120610.php

Blog 2:

http://gawker.com/5694160/oklahoma-wants-to-use-animal-euthanasia-drug-on-death-row-inmate