turning pollution into a DVD ? is it possible?

This article is informing us about what could be a great new discovery that could help the enviorment so much, researchers announced this week that they are perfecting a procedure designed to turn pollution into a type of plastic used to make everything from DVDs to eyeglass lenses! What they are finding is a way to capture pollution which includes: carbon dioxide, emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources, the goal is instead of releasing all this bad stuff into the atmosphere or burying it underground, put it into the materials to make a dvd, eyeglass, or a window!

Reaserchers said that the only waste product of these chemical reactions was water, which is awesome, the wnviorment would be so much better ,But the processes its not all perfect for the enviorment it does have a downside: coaxing the carbon dioxide molecules to form longer chains (capturing pollution) requires high temperatures and great pressure—and, so, extra energy, so what this means is that even if they are taking huge amount of pollution, in the process to do that they are making so much pollution because of the energy used. So what is the solution?
If they could manage to produce this energy with other good for the enviorment energy alternatives like solar or wind power to fuel it, this would be the perfect solution!

"We need alternative sources for energy, in that event, everything from soda bottles to police riot shields might one day help sequester some of the most common greenhouse gas currently warming and affecting the planet"

my opinion:
I think this is awesome! i think this research should continue until they finD the right form of energy, because if they did, so much of the pollution we have would dissapear! I think the person who thaught about this and started the research, should be really proud of him or herself because maybe thanks to this, the worls and enviorment could go from where it is (really bad) to a much better and healthier place! I really think there should be more people trying to find solutions like this one, because the enviormen is worse and worse every day , and we should try to find solutions now that we still can before its too late! i think this is really cool and really interesting! i liked this article so much!!
maria rubio!

Blooming Jellies

In the article, you read about jellies that are being found in different places of the world where they were not before or where there weren't a lot of them.
Scientists are trying to find out why is this happenning because jellies are causing major problems to some people that are in constant interact with the sea. \
Like fishermen, they try to catch fish but they can't because jellies are killing the fish, so when fishers try to catch them, they can't use them or they just catch jellies, and that is not really usefull for them or for the jellies themselves. Because if they catch them, and just let them die, then they would be in danger of extintion, so one problem takes to another.
And they also discovered that jellies are so big, and that they are trying to find an answer for them to being so big.
One of the reasons because they think they are in different places is beacuse of the weather, the cahnges that the weather has, like the cold currents of air, that makes them move from one place to another.

I think that this problem is just one of so many from climate change, because the jellies are moving because of this problem, to find a new place where they can live and have a better way of living (for saying it in some way), so if fishers keep cathing them, then that takes into more trouble, so what I think should happen is that there should be a law to tell that if there are some type of those animals, then fishers shouldn't be able to catch them.

Marcela Murillo Trujano

Aztec Math Used Hearts and Arrows

This article is about the numbers that the Aztecs use they say that the Aztec had much more numbers that we do and in the numbers they used harts, hands, arrows a lot of things that have to do with science.
mathematician Maria del Carmen y Jorge of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M) channeled the mind of an Aztec land surveyor. That meant retraining herself to use a different numerical system and combing through the Codex Vergara, one of two remaining books that record Aztec life.
she is searching for more information in this book she is searching about fields were they lived etc...
Roughly 60 percent of these fields had areas that matched the basic mathematical rule of length multiplied by width or other common surveying calculations.

in my opinion i think that they are doing good by reserching about the aztecs that are really smart people and we should all learn about them

Girl dies after being beaten with video game controller

A 2-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother's boyfriend, and new charges are expected, police said Tuesday. The girl's mother, Neida E. Baez, 19, called for an ambulance Sunday, saying her boyfriend, Harve L. Johnson, had brought the unconscious child to her, limp and wet from an attempt to revive her in a bathtub, a police affidavit said. Johnson acknowledged beating the girl with a video game controller but did not say why, police said. Baez said Johnson had abused the girl in the past and said she heard the girl scream after Johnson beat her Sunday, according to the affidavit. Johnson and Baez remained in custody Tuesday. His bail was set at $200,000; hers was $25,000. Baez was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Detective Dana Ward said Baez was charged because she did not intervene or try to get help for Darisabel.

fireproof paper, possible?

Fireproof paper

This article was about Japanese scientists who are trying to invent fireproof paper to send into space in the form of paper airplanes. I find this really interesting because both you and I now that paper will burn but if they make it fireproof it will be a huge breakthrough. Just think if a house catches on fire the pictures wont burn. But if they send it into space they will have the problem of cold. If they let it out of the shuttle it will freeze solid, it will become so cold it will be hot. And another question is how long will it take to make the paper and how many natural resources will it use. Also will it pollute, will it spread disease what will it do to the environment.

Why Some Smokers Get Lung Cancer--And Others Are Spared

This article is about why some smokers get lung cancer and others are sparred. Smoking is the most potent known cause of lung cancer. Two new studies link a variation in a gene residing on chromosome 15 (of a person's 23 pairs of chromosomes) to a heightened risk of developing lung cancer; a third study suggests that the same mutation affects a person's tendency to become addicted to smokes and, by extension, develop the dreaded disease. Lung cancer is diagnosed in some 200,000 Americans and kills more than 150,000 each year. people with this genetic flaw have a 30 percent greater chance of developing the often-fatal illness. But the studies differ on the potential added risk of addiction. individuals with two copies of the altered gene had a whopping 70 percent greater chance of developing lung cancer; those with one copy had a 30 percent higher risk. "There's not a public health message here that you can find out what version of the gene you have and decide whether to keep on smoking or not," he says. "You have to bear in mind that there are so many other disease[s] that are caused by smoking."

Smart car doesn't ace crash tests

The tinny Smart car gets low marks in national Highway Safety. Smart recently got intrudes by in the US and gave a less-than-stellar performance in its first crash test by the federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Fort Tow gout four out of five possible stars for protecting the driver in a front crash and three in protecting passengers. Three star aren’t so often given to new cars knower days. Three stars means that there can be a 21% to 35% of an serious injury in a front crash similar seized vehicle and a higher injury by a lager vehicle. At nine feet long the Fort Tow is the smallest car on the mass market sold in the US. In the side impact it got five out of five stars but after the test the door pooped of. For rolling over the Fort Tow got three stars the chance of rolling over in a crash is 21%. No other passenger car has a rate under four stars according to NHTSA. The cut of rollover resistance rating is a 20% chance of rollover. All Smart cars are equipped with electronic stability control a system that helps cars prevents that they rollover and skids during quick manoeuvres. NHTSA's three-star score takes that into account if it can complete the test with out tipping. A Spokesman said that they expected the results to be four stars. Smart is a product of Germany Daimler which also makes Mercedes Benz luxury cars.

What I like didn’t like about this project:

I didn’t like the fact that it got low marks on security because it means that the secure inset weary high. So in crashes people how drive this car can get badly injured in a crash. I wouldn’t drive this car if I none that it is not secure.

Water levels rising in Mackenzie Delta lakes, scientist warns

This article shows the effects of water rising in Arctic Ocean due to most likely global warming. Many freshwater lake levels in the Northwest Territories in the MacKenzie Delta seem to be rising at an alarming rate, almost 60 percent of the lakes are showing this. Some lakes have risen up to 30 centimeters. This is causing many problems such as; floods, salt-water mixing with the freshwater, a change in hunting and trapping routines and most importantly, storm surges. It may affect fishing habitats as well but that may be a positive thing.

My opinion to this article is that we need to do something to stop global warming, everyone needs to do their part, reducing garbage waste, composting, re-using items, and recycling. If everyone begins to do their part, it will help everyone even those people up north that are struggling with these types of issues. Maybe more serious fines should be handed out if they throw garbage in the wrong places. We all need to do our part to save our planet.

Should we let Computers Compute? Is it the age of the right side of the brain

Now I'm not just making this blog because I am the most inartistic person you would ever meet but because I fear the destruction of earth by robots. Not to the point I am a left sided guy meaning I'm not so good at the things that require no studying. If you become to dependent upon computers all your knowledge will go to waste. Albert Einstein once said the imagination is more important than knowledge. To that i say "BA HUMBUG!" (load of rubbish) and there is no way to execute an image in you head if you have no knowledge of how to do it. Without knowledge we can't do anything. If you were doing pottery and you decide to make a pot and you have e beautiful picture in your mind, you go to start up the wheel and you have no idea how to because you spent too much time thinking of fairies and whatnot instead of gaining the knowledge to do a simple task! My quote to counter the honourable Mr. Einstein is knowledge is power.... Even if it is the age of the right side... instead of doing it on a computer, just do it on paper because if we get to dependant on technology we will loose all of our skills. Maybe my most important reason would be that we will get computers to do everything else for us, then they will get a mind of their own and take over the world. I really don't want that in my future.