The Other Side of the Zoo Fence

The other side of the zoo fence

This article is about the design of homes for gorillas, tigers, monkeys etc.

The role of a zoo designer is to think as much as possible about make each animal comfortable, happy, and active.

Must zoo visitors focus on the animals, not on the habitats and barriers that fence the animals’ in. but details like these have received extra attention since December, when a female Siberian tiger escaped her enclosure at the San Francisco zoo.

Opinion

I think that is berry important that the animal live comfortable in the zoo and that they fill protected and like if they where at home.

When I go to a zoo I don’t really like to see the animals in caches and watching them living like a fake life , for example they give then food in plates and stuff, the fun of watching in the zoos it’s the animal doing what they do in real life , catch its on food , survive of others depredators etc.

What I like about this project is that they are trying to do what all people what see them in their one habitat , caching his food etc..

New rubber mends itself when broken

This article is a about a created rubber band that mends itself when broken, it is made by a new “material B” that can stretch to several time its original length like regular rubber but once broken the pieces “self heal with out heat or press strong”

The healing scars are not visible, but the rubber will brake at the same point it heals for berry long time.

Time improves the healing but even after 15 minutes, a sample can be stretch up to about 200 percent without braking. It will reconnect up to 18 hours after is broken

Opinion

I think this article is really cool and that this discovery will help us a lot because there are a lot of stuff made out of rubber like toys and stuff and if it breaks its really hard to heal so almost every time it happened you have to buy a knew one now, if you buy stuff with this material it can last for ever.

new rubber mends itself when broken

This article is about french scientists creating a rubber that can mend itself when broken.
The rubber is called material B, and it can stretch alot more than its original length,and when breaks it can mend its self together.After 15 minutes it should be okay to stretch again.a sample can be stretched about 200 per cent without breaking.
The scientists sayd you can fel the mending of the ruber when u hold each side of the fractured rubber,and they say its a very strange feeling.
They say that it could be used for childrens toys.When the rubber is back together,the rubber is not visable there it was teared,and it will break again at the same place unless it heals for a long time.The cycle of breaking it and reparing it can be done alot of times said the researchers.


my opinion
i think that the rubber that can mend itself is really cool,i never thought they would come up with something like that in the world.i dont really like the urine part of making it i didnt expext to read it like that and that they would use anything like that.
but its really cool the rubber it self.
i like it.

-cherishh

HD DVD on life support as Wal-Mart backs Blu-ray

This article is about Wal-Mart getting rid of HD DVD and only going to sell Blue Ray Disk DVD's. People are saying that Blu-ray disk is better than HD DVD because its cheapper and has better image of the screen than what HD DVD has. When Wal-mart is going to sell Blue-ray disk it may be costly at first but then the prices are going to go down because its "Wal-Mart. Also "History tells us that as more people move to a new technology, prices typically go down,"

My Opinion: I think that Blu-ray disk is better than HD DVD because as the people say the image is clearer and better and its cheaper. This article caught my attention because maybe we should get rid of HD and start using the new technologie A.K.A. Blue-ray.

Megavoltage Ct Imaging Unlocks Fossil Mysteries

Megavoltage Ct Imaging Unlocks Fossil Mysteries

There is using novel radiotherapy technology cold helical tom therapy. The marriage of tow technology computerized tomography cal CT scanner and a radiotherapy linear accelerator James Welsh, associate professor of medical physics and human oncology at the University Of Wisconsin School Of Medicine and Public Health, and a group of colleagues have created images of fossil specimen of various types and ages.

They have Tom Therapy that is a Hi Art radio shin machine developed at the Universidad of Wisconsin–Madison. They have a new treat for cancer patients with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). The CT component provides the place where the tumour is so the doctor knows each day how to do the treatment by this he a void killing health cells. The Hi Art is rotating a round the object or a human. It doesn’t harm healthy tissue and delivering narrow, potent and precise doses of radiation to tumours. That process takes about 15 to 25 minutes. "I was fortunate to be the first MD to ever treat a patient with this technology," Welsh say. "I suspect these are the world's first megavoltage CT images of rocks and fossils from such a unit."

The use of this new technology has shown them new treats for cancer. Tom Therapy should be expecting competitors. There are about only 30 medical facilities using this technology. This is expecting to change in Varian Medical System. Elate in Sweden offers these images to.

miss here is more

in the little text it says's that it has so much more affects in it like new parts in it about six new ones. this text is about this brand new spark that has just bin invented by pulstar and i said the rest in my old text.
ryan

shirts replace ipod chargers??

This article is informing us that nanotech researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing one shirt made of DuPont Kevlar fibers covered with zinc oxide nanowires designed to harness energy from your body's motion and convert it into enough juice to charge your iPod or cell phone!!!
This sounds pretty cool but theres a little problem:
be careful not to toss the shirt in the wash or get too sweaty: zinc oxide is sensitive to moisture, and the nanowires won't work well or at all if they are soaked and shorting out!
my opinion
I think this article is very cool, but I think if they selled this shirt i would probably not buy it because I don't think its necessary to charge your ipod or cell phone with a shirt if you can plug it in, i also think it would not be very nice not to be able to sweat or to wash your technology shirt because it would get ruined! But my opinion is that its really amazing that people found the technology to do this and that with this information they could create other stuff and could make more discoveries about the same subject! i liked alot this article and i would like to learn more about this because its amazing!!!!!
maria rubio

Why does my cell phone make screechy noises when I place it near my computer?

This article is about why does the cell phone make noise when you put it next to a computer?
Well most electronic devices act as a radio transmitter. An explanation for this is that your
computer unintentionally emits radio waves in the range of frequencies reserved for cell phone
communications, typically around 800 megahertz (MHz). If the signal coming from your computer is strong enough, your phone could mistake it for a cell phone transmission. Computer noise, however, does not contain the sort of information that your phone's onboard computer is programmed to expect. Thus, it responds to the resulting cascade of communications failures by creating a series of audible alerts. Also a cell phone has an audio amplifier that drives its speaker, and the radio waves emitted by the computer may induce currents in the wiring of the amplifier itself. The resulting audio output then would reflect what your computer is doing at that moment but would sound to a person like random squeaks and squawks. The only way to prevent EMI is to keep spurious radio waves under wraps. I think this article is very interesting because this kind of happened to me. I had my cell phone with me and I put it next to the computer and it started to make these weird sounds and I thought my cell phone was busted. Turns out it was emmiting EMI from both the cell phone and the cell phone. This article surprised me and made me very interested. It made me learn why you get these noises when you put a cell phone next to a computer.

nasa makes grave mistake

NASA MAKES A GRAVE MISTAKE

When I read this article I was astounded by the fact that they could look over the tiny detail of a divot by a handhold by the airlock. And even when they know that the smallest rip or scratch could really make a guy sick or dead. And when they are asking for 2BILLION DOLLARS from the government. And when they say that they didn’t have time to fix the divot beside the airlock I mean really people could DIE. And also they have a joint clogged with metal shavings I mean they should really check these things before launch. And it’s ridiculous that they are going take four spacewalks before it will be fully clean. All I’m saying is that they should really check these things before they launch.

Pulstar

Pulstar

This article is about this brand new spark plug

They say that they haven’t change spark plugs for the last 100 years. They thought that they should make a new one that is a lot more powerful and works more efficient. The spark is about 10 times much stronger then the older ones, it has more torque, more horsepower and it doesn’t take as much gas. They look the same on the outside but on the inside it is much different. They say that it won’t harm your engine a bit and if it does you have manufacturer’s warranty. And if you don’t like it you can get your money back guaranteed. I think this is probably a great idea because they say it is fuel efficient so that could save gas a lot and if gives you a lot more horsepower.

ryan smith

Scaled-Down Solar System Found 5,000 Light-Years Away

In this article astronomers have discovered a pair of planets around a star 5,000 light-years away that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, hinting that solar systems like ours may be unexpectedly common.
They discovered the planets over two weeks period in April of 2006 .

my opinion !!! I think this is really cool and they should search more about this because maybe they can find life in other planets and a planet really similar as the earth with life and stuff i really like this article ,I think is really interesting life and planets and stars etc..

Scaled-Down Solar System Found 5,000 Light-Years Away

They have found another solar system 5,000 light-years away, this one quite similar to ours. They found it with en effect called, "gravitational microlensing" where the gravity of a nearer star magnifies the light 500-fold from a more distant one. The solar syatem contains two planets that are similar to Jupiter and Saturn. This new discovery tells us that the possibility there are solar systems like ours is more common. The ratios of the planets in size and their orbiting distances as compared to the star also are like ours.

This article is very interesting because it shows that we now have the technology to be able to see further into the universe and take pictures of other solar systems. It also shows that with this new technology we can perhaps we reach these planets and learn more about them. Since there are other solar systems out there like ours brings two questions to my mind. Could we live on other planets outside our solar system? Is there other life out there somewhere?

Hearing Whales

In the article, I read about an study that is being done in whales to see how they communicate with each other and see with which part of their body they hear. Also how underwater sonar affect animals, because their way of listening is different from the ones in humans so it is a good that scientists research on it.
There is some radar technology that is use by ships to research for the underwater objects, so this is the underwater sonar that might affect some or all of the animals that live underwater.

When whales are hunting their food really deep underwater, they produce sounds that bounce and then they return back to the whales, and this is what helps them to "see" how their prey looks like when its really dark in the night.
So researches in San Diego did some kind of X-Ray to some whales that were dead so that they could have a better understanding of how they hear, what they did was made a computer model from a head of a whale and saw the process of how the sound moves and travels around the head from the whales.

My opinion in this article is that it's a really good idea to make tests in how things that people do can affect a lot of the animals not only in the sea but anywhere. Because sometimes for our own good, we do things not thinking about others, like the underwater sonar can affect in the way whales listen, and this can be a really big problem because without listening it is going to be harder for them to hunt, and to be protected from other kind of animals that can hurt them.
And also by making this research we could know how whales listen and to understand better the way they live and how they communicate. I find this really interesting because sometimes we can think that we are smarter than all the other animals and that we are the only ones that communicate with each other, but is not only us that have a way of communicating, so it will be awesome if we can know how the other animals live and communicate with each other and see how they live.

Marcela Murillo Trujano