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Space is full of radiation. It's impossible to escape. Imagine standing in the middle of a dust storm, with bits of gravel constantly swirling around you, whizzing by, pinging against your skin. That's what radiation is like in space. The problem is that, unlike a pebble or a speck of dirt, ionizing radiation doesn't b...
1. Identifying Barriers to Learning-- 2. Learning to Learn-- 3. Memory-- 4. Motivation-- 5. Reading and Creative Writing-- 6. Successful Learning-- 7. Whole School Approaches. (source: Nielsen Book Data) This book provides practical strategies for teachers on how to develop and encourage learning in the classroom and i...
Among the many intriguing aspects of the deep sea, Earth's largest ecosystem, exist environments known as hydrothermal vent systems where hot water surges out from the seafloor. On the flipside the deep sea also features cold areas where methane rises from "seeps" on the ocean bottom. It's extremely rare to find both h...
16th Century History origin of the Little Jack Horner story? Little Jack Horner was reputed to have been the Steward to Richard Whiting (1461 - 1539) the Bishop of Glastonbury. The Steward had an important role and was responsible for managing the household, collecting taxes and keeping accounts. The Church, the King a...
DIBELS is a very important literacy assessment tool that we use at our school in grades K-3. It stands for: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Success. It essentially just gives us an indicator if a child MAY struggle with reading in their elementary years. There are 4 tests that are given at the Kindergarten l...
Each year about 14,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with sarcoma, representing just one percent of all new cancer cases. What Is Sarcoma? Sarcoma is cancer that develops out of cells in connective tissues. It can begin in bones, cartilage, muscles, tendons, fibrous tissues, veins, arteries, nerves, skin, a...
Charlotte’s Web Activities and Lesson Plan Published in 1952, Charlotte’s Web is the beloved tale of the unlikely friendship between a pig and a spider. Though written for children, it contains some challenging vocabulary (like “idiosyncrasy” and “salutations”), and it even deals gently with the topic of death. Below a...
- About Us - Local Savings - Green Editions - Legal Notices - Weekly Ads Putting voice to their emotions Emotions are normal. Sometimes we are sad. Sometimes we are mad. Sometimes we are confused or irritated or scared. At times we are worried, delighted, upset, overwhelmed or loving. One of the lessons we need to lear...
The Online Teacher Resource Receive free lesson plans, printables, and worksheets by email: - 340+ Pages - Just Click and Print! - For Grades K-12 - Teachers Love It! The definition of distance learning can be regarded as fairly obvious, because this is when the tutor and the learner may not be in a physical environmen...
In the early 20th century, the farmers counted on the hog income to pay their mortgages and bills and to buy needed supplies. Almost every farm had several head of hogs. Now with the shortage of money to buy the farmer’s products coupled with the lack of corn due to the drought, the demand for the hogs declined drastic...
Your body breaks down the food you eat into a type of sugar called glucose. After you eat a meal or snack, that glucose makes its way into the bloodstream, causing the level of sugar in your blood to increase. Your pancreas responds by releasing the hormone insulin, which allows glucose to leave the bloodstream and ent...
The exciting potential of orbital rendezvous in future manned space flight had largely ceased to be a matter for dispute in NASA after the middle of 1961. Some planners still hesitated to endorse rendezvous techniques as the basis for a lunar landing mission in Apollo, but none denied its long-term importance. Theory a...
What is the relationship between media exposure and mental health? Because children and adolescents are in the process of developing cognitive, social, and behavioral traits, media exposure typically has a greater effect on the psychological, cognitive, and social health of young people than of adults. Studies have fou...
Create successful practice, explore a composer's historical lifestyle, learn about modern composers, experience local performances - Musical Notes will enhance your music education and capture your imagination. Be Inspired! It is said that perfect pitch or absolute pitch occurs in 1 in 10,000 people. What do people mea...
Date:October 21, 2015 Source:Central Ornithology Publication Office How do birds evolve over generations? How do different bird populations diverge into new species? Ornithologists have been asking these questions since the days of Darwin, but rapid advances in genetic sequencing techniques in the last few years have b...
Whooping cough is a very contagious disease that can affect persons of all ages. It is caused by a bacterium called Bordetella pertussis and is spread through the air by respiratory droplets. The bacteria are found in the mouth, nose and throat of infected persons. Historically, whooping cough was a major problem and l...
Discovery of Mariana Trench The Mariana Trench was discovered by a group of scientists working on marine beds in the second half of the 19th century. On March 23, 1875, the Mariana Trench was found by the HMS Challenger in the south-western side of the Mariana Islands and north of the Caroline Islands, at 11 ° 24 north...
25th June 1885 Redistribution of Seats Act The 19th century saw a great deal of parliamentary and electoral reform in Great Britain and Ireland. At the start of the century, Parliament was made up of very rich landowners or their representatives. Only a small section of society was permitted to vote in parliamentary el...
In biology, sexual reproduction is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells (gametes) to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents. Gametes ...
In the Montessori class, all disciplines are integrated. Math and language skills, knowledge of scientific principles, geography, and history complement each other and are applied together to make each lesson meaningful and interrelated. Each lessons employs all three modes of learning – visual, auditory, and kinesthet...
Author’s note: This is part of an installment on how many methods and techniques in biological sciences work, written for educational purposes! Hopefully, this blog will rise to be something more than silly short stories. If you’ve ever worked in a biology lab, you’ve probably heard professors, researchers, or even oth...
Chasing Bookworms: What Missing Art Can Tell You About Insects Between the 15th and 19th centuries, Europeans illustrated their books mainly with woodcuts. A woodcutter would etch a block of wood with an image so that when the block was dipped in ink and then stamped on a page, the areas that were cut away would leave ...
The origins of the Jury system are up for debate; however it may be said to be founded in the Frankish inquest, and transplanted into England by the Norman Kings. It was meant to replace rather dubious and barbaric methods of trial, such as Trial by Ordeal, or Trial by Combat. Today, the jury does not know beforehand t...
Money is historically an emergent market phenomenon establishing a commodity as money, but nearly all contemporary money systems are based on fiat money. Fiat money, like money equals happiness, any check or note of debt, is without use value as a physical commodity. It derives its value by being declared by a governme...
This article is about how deforestation will likely reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in different countries around the world that are investing a lot of money to create power to support economic growth. In the past years, scientists and engineers have realized that the river flow has significantly inc...
There wasn't a lawn in the city. But some people went without baths so they could water their pet shrubs. Everybody with money left town. Those who remained became water experts. – Fred Heilbron, San Diego councilman With a population of less than 18,000 at the turn of the century, San Diego's water needs should have b...
The study, published Thursday in the journal Cell, explained how cephalopods and octopuses, in particular, possess the ability to disregard the rules of their genetic information. Most mollusks create proteins by converting DNA into RNA, but the cephalopods can recode their RNA allowing one gene to create some types of...
We’ve seen time-lapse video of trees growing or mountains forming, even of the surface of the Earth sped up to show how continents moved to their present-day configurations and will move in the future. Now, we can see time-lapse imagery of the universe evolving—13 billion years of cosmic evolution, all within a cube 35...
Monoids by Mark Seemann Introduction to monoids for object-oriented programmers. This article is part of a larger series about monoids, semigroups, and related concepts. In this article, you'll learn what a monoid is, and what distinguishes it from a semigroup. Monoids form a subset of semigroups. The rules that govern...
Drawing is a basic way of communicating, developing, investigating, and researching ideas. Observational drawing is a central component for most high school and introductory art courses. While there are many different drawing styles, including non-representational drawing which can play an important role in student por...
Scientists at Durham's Institute for Computational Cosmology and their collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, in Germany, and Groningen University, in Holland, ran huge computer simulations to recreate the beginnings of our galaxy. The simulations revealed that the ancient stars, found in a stellar...
Children are inherently curious about the natural world (the sciences) and how things are put together and work (engineering). Based on these intuitive inclinations, it is our vision at Parkview S.T.E.M. School to incorporate these ways of knowing into the daily experiences of our students so that they come to see them...
This is the smallest marmoset and one of the smallest primates. The size of these primates allows them to feed off slender branches that are out of the reach of their relatives. Pygmy marmosets use their teeth in an unusual way, cutting notches in the bark of trees, which allows them to reach sap. They live in the low ...
Atmospheric scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured. This unexpected result will help researchers improve how they portray clouds in climate models. Additionally, the researchers found that s...
When we think about the difficulties of colonising another planet, the last thing we probably worry about about is sex. However, for our species to survive beyond Earth it’s a fundamental issue. While no astronauts have admitted having sex in space, plenty of reproduction has been going on. This is because a range of a...
Reasoning in maths has become a big focus in the UK classroom and is now encouraged in maths lessons across primary education. As a Year 6 teacher I am aware of its importance for the SATs. Reasoning in maths has to be embedded in every lesson and Reasoning can be best achieved through talk-and lots of it. We are extre...
Clawed lobsters comprise a family of large marine crustaceans. Highly prized as seafood, lobsters are economically important, and are often one of the most profitable commodities in coastal areas they populate. Lobsters are invertebrates with a hard protective exoskeleton. Like most arthropods, lobsters must moult in o...
The Crimean War was a struggle over supremacy in the Middle East and the Black Sea area, involving the Ottoman Empire and most of the major powers in Europe. The war lasted for just three years, but the results of the war had long-ranging consequences for all parties involved, as well as their territories and internati...
If water is fundamental to life and human dignity, no issue is more pressing for 663 million people for whom access is still lacking (United Nations, 2015). As World Water Day (March 22) reminds us, safe and readily available water is a human right and an important contributor to public health, whether it is used for d...
Determining text structure is a great strategy for comprehension! If you can figure out how information in a text is organized, that will help you understand it–because you’ll be thinking not just about the ideas, but also the relationships between them. Key words like reason and result let you know that what you’re re...
Hygiene refers to behaviors that can improve cleanliness and lead to good health, such as frequent hand washing, face washing, and bathing with soap and water. In many areas of the world, practicing personal hygiene etiquette is difficult due to lack of clean water and soap. Many diseases can be spread if the hands, fa...
The ball game which Europeans would call lacrosse was played by Indian nations throughout the Great Lakes region. While the rules of the game, including the number of players, varied from nation to nation, it involved two teams who attempted to put a ball through one of two goals. Lacrosse was often called the little b...
Computer software or simply software is any set of machine-readable instructions that directs a computer‘s processor to perform specific operations. Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Computer hardware and software require each other and n...
This was an imperialist fighting which mainly involved European powers and other parts of the world such as Japan in Asia and African colonies like Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia in northern Africa. The war started September 1939 and ended in 1945. Groups which fought the war was the Axis forces which included Germany, It...
Types of Plate Boundaries In this plate boundaries worksheet, students fill in a chart describing the four types of plate boundaries. They include a drawing of each, the direction of movement, the description of the plate boundary and an example. 29 Views 84 Downloads Geological Effects of Plate Tectonics Don't get you...
Our sequencer uses a modified PCR reaction to determine an unknown sequence by building the complementary strand out of fluorescently marked nucleotides. The process used can be taught to students in varying amounts of detail and all the activities on this page can be modified to suite the level of your students. Bold ...
It was a great question and so today we started exploring it. We reviewed together what we had discovered about finding the area of a rectangle and a triangle. I then drew this type of trapezium on the board and the children had some time trying to figure out how we could measure its area. After hearing quite a few 'wo...
Close-up views of asteroid Itokawa taken by Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft at the end of 2005 continue to puzzle scientists. They debated nearly every aspect of the asteroid – including its formation, age and composition – during the first major release of mission data on Friday. Hayabusa was designed to bring the first a...
What is a dam? A dam is built to control and store water. Dams are made from earth, rocks or concrete and are usually constructed on rivers to store the water in a reservoir. Click here to view and/or download the International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD) publication “Dams and the World’s Water” an educational Book...
Understanding the nutritional content of a meal is important. To help determine the nutritional content of your meals, most foods, with the exception of fruits, vegetables and some prepared foods, have a nutrition facts label as a tool to help you figure out what you are eating and if that is an appropriate amount for ...
Name: Marlaina Barney Data sheet for each group, pencil for each group, A visit from a local postal carrier and a mail truck, 17 rulers, clipboards for each group 1) I will begin this lesson by reviewing with the children the different things we have learned about Postal workers. I will show t they use?" 2) Facilitate ...
and sharing books with your child is very important to developing their reading, comprehension, writing and spelling skills. As your child matures and gains independence in their reading they may not necessarily want to read aloud with you and consequently the opportunity to share in their reading experience and suppor...
Lesson Plans • Resources • Activities The Pumpkin Book Super Pack The Pumpkin Book is a nonfiction story that explains how a pumpkin seed grows into a full-size pumpkin. Readers will also learn the most common uses for a pumpkin and its significance throughout history and culture. Students will enjoy practicing compreh...
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Antarctica: North Pole Adjectives Worksheet In this descriptive words instructional activity, students practice using adjectives. Students describe The North Pole by writing six adjectives and then writing a sentence using each adjective. 3 Views 10 Downloads Practice Book O Whether you need resources for reading compr...
By Rachel Ellen Simon The United States may be thought of as the good ol’ “Red, White, and Blue,” but in the minds of many, Appalachian America is simply “white, white, white” — racially, that is. The stereotype of Appalachia as a strictly white Anglo-Saxon region has been perpetuated by journalists, novelists, social ...
It is not the first time that fragments of bronze statues have appeared, and archaeologists believe that there are at least seven large statues buried beneath the stones. Although the main hypothesis is that the buried fragments of metal are most likely the remains of statues, scientists do not rule out finding new pie...
Because the density and viscosity of water are higher than air, the structures in the ocean span shorter distances and last longer than similar structures in the atmosphere. The space-time diagram above shows that the speed of the ocean is about 100 times slower than the atmosphere. This difference in the speed of the ...
Fishes have an ability to communicate with each other to swam closer together, when they want to escape from dangerous predators. In a study, researchers worked on Bigeyes (Pempheris adspersa) – a fish that is active at night. Researchers used a special kind of sound that is commonly used by Bigeyes, and was considered...
Aristotle has just finished discussing how differences in genera can show a difference in meaning. He continues his discussion of the second tool by explaining how differences in definition can also do this. He does this in Topics, Book 1. It is useful also to look at the definition that arises from the use of the term...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Definition - What does Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) mean? Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging procedure used for diagnosing a disease or an abnormal health condition. It is used in radiology to examine the anatomy of body parts and organs that cannot be properly se...
A linked list is much like any other list implementation in computer science but for the fact that the nodes carry references (also called pointers) to their next (and sometimes previous) nodes as well as the value attribute (also called the cargo or payload). Linked lists are one of the most commonly used data structu...
Powell, noted for a three-month expedition in 1869 down the Green and Colorado rivers which included the first known passage by Europeans through the Grand Canyon, produced the map while he was the head of the Bureau of Ethnology, as part of an 1890 annual report. He stated that the map plotted “linguistic stocks of Am...
The relational database model is all about tables. All of the data is stored in a tabular format, and relationships between tables are expressed through data shared among those tables. Tables in relational databases are just like tables in HTML. They consist of rows and columns. Each row represents a record in the data...
The first permanent British colony on the territory of what is now the USA was called Jamestown. It is interesting that the first three ships with colonists contained no adult women, but only men and children. The British colonists who founded the first permanent colony in North America set off on their voyage in late ...
Florence Nightingale Biography Florence Nightingale was a writer, nurse and statistician that cared deeply for those around her. When Florence was born, she was very well blessed and she was also born in the city of Florence. Her parents decided to name her Florence after the very city she was born in. On a very normal...
Did you know? Henry VII was the first king to be called “Your Majesty.” Before that, Kings were known as “Your Grace.” Until 1485 the king was “primus inter pares” (first among equals) but the Tudors lifted royal status much higher. However, “Most Gracious Majesty” was only used in the most formal of occasions. King He...
Developing Number Concepts is designed to help young children develop important foundational mathematics concepts. The three instructional books and planning guide include cohesive and organized sets of experiences focused on particular mathematical ideas. Every concept is developed both through teacher-directed and in...
In Ontario, grade 7s are introduced to operations with fractions. Addition & subtraction and multiplication & division with whole numbers. The premiss here is fairly simple. Students are presented with multiple cards of questions (in this case of adding and subtraction of fractions (with a little of division and multip...
•During this time, William Shakespeare, regarded as the greatest playwright of all time, wrote many of his most famous plays and works. •Many women tried to get girls to go to school as well as just boys, and they started the movement, but this demand wasn't achieved until several centuries after the time. •Most of the...
This article was compiled and edited by Claudia Mignone, science writer for ESA, with contributions from Mark McCaughrean, Senior Science Advisor at ESA. It originally appeared at the Rosetta blog and is reposted here with permission. Ever since early August, when Rosetta rendezvoused with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimen...
Until recently, children were rarely included in studies of medical treatments. As a result, much is still unknown about how children respond to drugs, some biologics (such as gene therapy) and medical devices. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), only 20-30% of approved drugs have actually been la...
New Hubble Study Reveals How Black Holes Get Their Kicks When black holes collide, look out! The "kick" from an enormous burst of gravitational radiation that occurs during the collision could knock a black hole clear out of its galaxy, rather than resulting in one massive black hole, as commonly thought. When black ho...
Rosh Hashanah is unique to Jewish holidays in that its history extends back to before we were a people. Pesach, Sukkot, Shavuot, and Yom Kippur all commemorate events that happened at or around the Exodus from Egypt. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of Adam. It is certainly reasonable to believe that Rosh Hashan...
Minor volcanic eruptions substantially slowed Earth’s warming between 2000 and 2013, a new study suggests. The small particles, or aerosols, were spewed high into the atmosphere and scattered sunlight back into space, preventing the global average temperature from rising from 0.05°C to 0.12°C. That cooling effect repre...
What is mindfulness? Perhaps the best-known definition of “mindfulness” is from Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School: Mindfulness “means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and...
Did you know that you can see the layers of the atmosphere? The layers of the atmosphere appear as different colors in this image from the International Space Station. The atmosphere is layered, corresponding with how the atmosphere’s temperature changes with altitude. By understanding the way temperature changes with ...
Children are taught about: Number: counting, calculating, solving simple problems and making simple lists, tables and charts Shape, space and measures: looking at, handling and describing the features of common shapes such as triangles, rectangles, squares, cubes, hexagons, pentagons, cylinders and spheres; describing ...
A new study simulating stars as they orbit a black hole might provide the best explanation for how the Andromeda galaxy grew its lopsided nucleus. The Andromeda galaxy appears to have two nuclei for the price of one. Deep in the spiral galaxy’s heart, the clump of stars surrounding the supermassive black hole looks odd...
Tech moves fast! Stay ahead of the curve with Techopedia! Join nearly 200,000 subscribers who receive actionable tech insights from Techopedia. In computer science, a float is a data type composed of a number that is not an integer, because it includes a fraction represented in decimal format. One of the most common de...
Types of Learning Styles Learning styles are often categorized and explained in the following way: - Visual: You learn well when aided by images, pictures, and spatial organization of elements - Auditory: You learn well when aided by music, sound, rhyme, rhythm, speaking or listening - Reading/Writing: You learn well b...
Objectives • Explain how opposition to the war caused problems for both sides. • Identify the reasons that both sides passed draft laws. • Describe the economic hardships the war caused in the North and the South. • Describe the contributions of women to the war effort. Terms and People • habeas corpus – constitutional...
Image taken from: https://pixabay.com/en/clouds-female-game-girl-model-1845517/ (Creative Commons) Remember this article about virtual reality and how it helps teaching? The main point was that it makes teaching more enjoyable and memorable, therefore it allows the content of the lesson to be memorable for years. Now y...
Instructional Materials are a key component in most language programs. Whether the teacher uses a textbook, institutionally prepared materials, or his or her own materials, instructional materials generally serve as the basis for much of the language input learners receive and the language practice that occurs in the c...
Researchers in Switzerland have discovered the impact of a longevity gene in mice which is crucial in unveiling the secrets of aging. Their findings led to an experiment that extended the life-span of worms by 60% through use of basic antibiotics. The goal of the research (which appeared in the scientific journal Natur...
For our fourth unit of Reading, we will be learning how to read and understand persuasive and opinion texts. Students will continue to build their understanding of nonfiction texts. We will be learning to - Identify between fact and opinion - Identify the author’s purpose for writing a given text - Use context clues to...
Writing begins in our reception classes. The teaching team in reception use story scribing as a technique to inspire children to write. Whenever the staff feel that it is appropriate they will offer to scribe a story for a child. This story then gets acted out at the end of the day. Other types of writing are also scri...
- CLASS: Aves (Birds) - ORDER: Psittaciformes - FAMILY: Psittacidae - GENUS: Rhynchopsitta - SPECIES: pachyrhyncha Snow parrots: Think parrots live only in tropical climates? Endangered thick-billed parrots prefer higher elevations and make their home in the pine forests of northern Mexico. Because of their choice of h...
The following County Durham Schools have been learning about climate change, and what they can do to combat it. Cleves Cross Primary School Children from Cleves Cross Primary School found the science behind climate change fascinating and are keep to try to save our planet as best they can. They created green screen fil...
Pennsylvania health officials reported the first human West Nile virus (WNV) case of 2019 in a resident from Philadelphia. “While we encourage Pennsylvanians to enjoy the outdoors, we also want them to take proper precautions from mosquitoes while outside,” Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said. “With the first hu...
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Join Britannica's Publishing Partner Program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work! Open stage, also called thrust stage, or platform stage, theatrical stage without a proscenium, projecting into the...
One power granted to the federal government is the ability to declare war. The power to declare war is granted to the national government through the Constitution. The Constitution affords the national government the right to declare war along with several other duties and reserves some rights to state governments as w...
The velocity of flowing water determines which particles will be suspended in the water. Fast flowing water can hold very heavy objects while slow water only holds very light particles. Every material has its own suspension and settling velocity. The suspension velocity is the speed of water above which the water will ...
Phonics Pathways is a complete phonics program, self-contained within one large book so you do not need a separate teacher’s manual. The program will work for all ages as well as for remedial readers. Sounds of the letters are taught, beginning with short vowels. As each consonant is taught, it is immediately used to b...
Due to the state of emergency in Massachusetts regarding COVID-19, the MHS is CLOSED until further notice. Library staff is monitoring e-mails and voicemails. Please check our calendar for programming updates. [[ ]] This drawing from the Civil War diary of sailor William B. Gould depicts the fearsome Confederate ram St...
English grammar has three main tenses: the present, the past and the future. Each of these tenses has a progressive/continuous aspect, a perfect aspect and a perfect progressive aspect, which adds up to 12 different tenses. The four English present tenses are the simple present, the present progressive, the present per...
The 1948 desegregation of US armed forces can be partially attributed to a bellwether protest at Indiana’s Freeman Field in the spring of 1945. Here, officers of the African American 477th Bombardment Group challenged the unlawful exclusion of blacks from officers’ club, resulting in their arrest. The uprising immediat...
Plate tectonics have long been thought to have been necessary for the development of life on Earth, in part due to making it easier for volcanoes to release essential gases into the atmosphere. But now, new research suggests that may not be the case after all, which could also mean a greater chance of planets without p...
DK History: Colonial America From the 16th to 18th century, European nations invaded and settled large areas of North America. The colonists often attacked and dispersed the American Indians, and fought each other for control of the territory. The Spanish reached Florida in 1513, and in 1565 founded St. Augustine, the ...
Sometimes it is very important to know which brain functions are in the neighborhood of a lesion, particularly if that lesion is going to be removed by surgery. In lesions formed before birth, such as blood vessel abnormalities and some tumors, the areas of language and other mental process can be misplaced. fMRI shows...