Science

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Science Technology in the 20th Century
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• New scientific concepts thoughts transformed
  human understanding of the world.
• Examples
• The theory of relativity
• Quantum mechanics
• The Big Bang Theory

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Medical Innovations

• Increased the ability of humans to survive
• Examples
• The polio vaccine
• Antibiotics
• The artificial heart

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Disease Epidemics

• Disease associated with poverty persisted
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis
• Cholera
• Other diseases emerged as new epidemics
• 1918 influenza pandemic
• Ebola
• HIV/AIDS

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• True or False?
• The 1918 influenza epidemic killed more people
  than WWI?

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TRUE!!!!

• WWI 16 million deaths
• 1918 influenza epidemic 50 million!

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• Changing lifestyles longer life spans higher
  occurrence of certain diseases
• Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Alzheimers disease
• More effective birth control gave women greater
  control over fertility transformed sexual
  practices

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Media Center Activity

• In the media center
• Using the Mac laptops, textbooks and partner
• Take the prompt from class and create an outline
  of notes that you will email to me
• ashleychastain33_at_gmail.com
• I will put all of the info together and create a
  class handout for your notebooks and review!

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You will need this so write it down

• Log in info for MACS
• codegaacfhs username
• Password student

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Media Center RULES

• NO EATING!!!!!!!
• WORK ON THIS ASSIGNMENT AND THIS ASSIGNMENT
  ONLY!!!!
• Failure to follow will result in a ZERO for this
  activity.