Friday, May 2, 2008

Infinity M

The new Infinity M has 30 technologies. What is it? It is a car that was made by Infinity in 2007 I think. Some features, very comfortable, leather seats, very powerful it has 325 horse power v8 engine, they say in there test it goes really fast and can get you to places very quick ( if there are no cops out). Why did they name it the M, because it is a uniquely enigmatic feeling. What do I think of this? I think I would bye one so I could drive very fast and it is really good looking to.


Ryan

Next decade may be cooler, not warmer

In this article you read about the changes of temperature that are going to happen in the next decade in the planet. As we all know, Global Warming is a huge problem that we heard about every day, but according to recent studies that scientists have made, the next decade is going to be cooler, because "they believe is an impending change in the Gulf Stream, the conveyor belt that transports warm surface water from the tropical Atlantic to the northern Atlantic and returns cold water southwards at depth."
This is a good thing because it will make the temperatures cool down in places like North Atlantic and in North America and Europe, and the temperatures in the Pacific will stay stable.
But there are also bad news, because in the next 20 years alone, the global climate would warm by around 0.2°C per decade.
The main reason for this is that the oceans, the biggest store of heat, go through natural cycles of circulation.

What I think about the article is that we could still have some hopes on the planet not getting warmer that it is now, to know that maybe the things will change if we really try to make a difference so that all the animals, and natural places that are being in danger because of GW can be back to normal and things in the planet wouldn't be as bad as they are now.
So I think we can stil make a difference to stop all the changes that are happening with the temperature of the planet right now, so we can have a better way of life and live in better conditons.

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Life on Mars?

This article was about if there is life on Mars. It said that the Mariner landed on mars and scooped up some dirt and then did some research on it. The first test was a success but the second one showed traces of hydrogen peroxide in the dirt. Leading scientists to believe that there is no life on Mars. I think they could have done just a little more research on the dirt. I mean think about it, it would be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind actual artificial life on another planet. We could communicate with them learn their ways. Or we could make everyone’s worst fear come true, war with aliens. Life on Mars?

This article was about if there is life on Mars. It said that the Mariner landed on mars and scooped up some dirt and then did some research on it. The first test was a success but the second one showed traces of hydrogen peroxide in the dirt. Leading scientists to believe that there is no life on Mars. I think they could have done just a little more research on the dirt. I mean think about it, it would be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind actual artificial life on another planet. We could communicate with them learn their ways. Or we could make everyone’s worst fear come true, war with aliens. lol
Life on Mars?

This article was about if there is life on Mars. It said that the Mariner landed on mars and scooped up some dirt and then did some research on it. The first test was a success but the second one showed traces of hydrogen peroxide in the dirt. Leading scientists to believe that there is no life on Mars. I think they could have done just a little more research on the dirt. I mean think about it, it would be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind actual artificial life on another planet. We could communicate with them learn their ways. Or we could make everyone’s worst fear come true, war with aliens. Life on Mars?

This article was about if there is life on Mars. It said that the Mariner landed on mars and scooped up some dirt and then did some research on it. The first test was a success but the second one showed traces of hydrogen peroxide in the dirt. Leading scientists to believe that there is no life on Mars. I think they could have done just a little more research on the dirt. I mean think about it, it would be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind actual artificial life on another planet. We could communicate with them learn their ways. Or we could make everyone’s worst fear come true, war with aliens. lol

Monday, April 28, 2008

150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life [Slideshow]

Designed nearly 150 years ago but never actually built until recently, the Difference Engine No. 2 designed by Charles Babbage (1791 to 1871) is a piece of Victorian technology meant to tussle with logarithms and trigonometry long before the first modern computer. Technophiles have a rare opportunity beginning May 10 to see one of these devices (only two exist) on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Babbage's automatic computing engine consists of 8,000 bronze, cast iron and steel parts, weighs five tons, and measures eleven feet (3.4 meters) long and seven feet (2.1 meters) high. Museum guest curator Doron Swade used Babbage's own plans to bring the engine to life. Babbage is also credited with inventing the cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge and heliograph ophthalmoscope as well as uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses and Greenwich time signals.

My Opinion

I think that It would be fairly impossible to make a 150 year old computer come back to life because its inside mechanism is so old that I think it would be mote impossible to fix it because of how old it is. But I still think its amazing as to how he made the computer come back to life.

Coldplay to give fans free taste of new album

This article is about a band that is named ColdPlay, Starting Tuesday morning, the hit British band's new song, Violet Hill, will be offered as a free digital download from its official website for one week.
Violet Hill is the first song off of Coldplay's new 10-track album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, which will hit stores June 12.
they are also saying that there will be a free consert on monday you can find more ditails in their web side.
They also say thet they are giving a knew copy of their album to every perso who buys a ticket for the concert.
In October, British rock icon Radiohead shocked the music industry by debuting its newest album, In Rainbows, as a digital download on its website for whatever price fans chose to pay including for free, before eventually releasing a physical CD.
The British group is seen as the highest profile recording.
This group have a large amount of fans.
In my opinion this is a really good article because musik is something i really like and care about, and havig articles of a famous band in the sciense blogger makes it really impotant and make us also thing that sciense is not just tecnology its also what you like.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life

This article is about people building a computer from 150 year old design by Charles Babbage. Now they are able to see what they did back in the years of 1791-1871. The "old" computer is now on display in Mountain View, California in the museum of computer history where it was built by the museum's guest curator, Doron Swade. It weigns five tons with copper and cast iron parts. It is measured seven feet high and eleven feet long. It is in working order. Babbage has also been credited with inventing many other things such as; cowcatcher, dynamometer, and standard railroad gauge, among many others.

My opinion of this is that this is great news. We can learn about things that our ancestors thought of and planned. it turns out that they were much more advanced than we thought. Wow, imagine a five ton computer on your desk! That could be interesting to write an essay or even a blog!

Praise or Cash?

This article talks about how your brain reacts in the same way when you get money, or when someone gives you a compliment.
The study was made by a japaneese doctor and his group of scientists. They gave 19 healthy people cards, telling them that if they won they were going to get cash, and later they gave other people a compliment, and their brains reacted in the same way. For example, "Musicians' brains light up the same way whether rewarded by a crowd's applause or money. It's all part of wanting to belong, new research suggests " This was proved because they used a brain imaging technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI.
With both of them, triggered activity in a reward-related area of the brain.
This is something really important, because it helps to find out the social behavior of people such as altruism, saying that "the need to belong is essential for humans".

I really liked this article because I never imagined that something like this could be tested. Even though I think the results were kind of predictable because of the time that we are living on. People care a lot of how people treat them, and also about money, I think those things are some of the ones that people care a lot of, even though there are a lot of other things that are more important than that.
But it is really interesting knowing about how the reactions on human beings can be showed and tested, to see how our brain works, and that with technology we are going to be able to know a lot of things that we could never imagine we were able to know about.

can eating decide if a baby will be a boy or a girl?

This article is informing us that Biologist in England experimented 740 first-time mothers on their pre-pregnancy eating habits and found that:
56 percent of those on high-calorie diets had sons
compared with 45 percent of those on leaner menus.

They also found out that it was not only calories that helped; but specific foods. "Prior to pregnancy, breakfast cereal, but no other food, was strongly associated with the childs sex" "Women producing male infants consumed more breakfast cereal than those with female infants."

Why does this happen?
It is really a mystery, that scientist are trying to find out but a scientist thinks that glucose may be the answer. Women who do not eat breakfast usually to have low levels of glucose, and other studies have shown that glucose helps the growth of male fetuses in vitro.
This scientists says that low glucose levels may indicate to the body that food is little (not enough), signaling that it would be better to produce a female fetus, which has been found to need less energy to grow. Scientists have also found that cows, deer and horses produce more male babies when they have bountiful diets.

my opinion
I think this is an interesting article, though at first I thought that it was not real, and I thought that it was not possible to have a babie and the sex would be different depending of what you ate, but after reading all the article, and thinking about it, it doesent seem that impossible, because if you think about it, the babie recieves almost everything you eat if you are pregnant, and the food helps the babie grow and develop, and in the article it says that it is prooven that a female fetus needs les energy to develop or grow. So after reading the article I think that it is really interesting and i think that it can be true, though i dont think food can affect or decide completly what sex the babie is going to be, i think it can affect, and it is really possible! I did ot have an idea of this and i found it really interesting, I likes the article alot and would like to learn more about it!
Maria Rubio

150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life [Slideshow]

150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life [Slideshow]

A man design a computer a 150 years ago but they never built it and he cold it the Difference Engine No. 2 design by Charles Babbage (1791 to 1871) piece of Victorian technology meant as an big calculator toy for rich people. This computer was long built then any modern computer. Technophiles have a rare chance of seeing one of them only tow exist. They can see it on display in the computer history museum in Mountain View, Calif. Babbage's automatic uses 8,000 bronze iron pieces and steel parts, weighs five tons, and measures eleven feet (3.4 meters) long and seven feet (2.1 meters) high. Doron Swade used the plans of Babbage to bring it to live. Babbage is also crated for the cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard gauge and heliograph ophthalmoscope and some other once but his best is the computer.

What I liked about this project:

That they brought a 150 year old computer back to life and that a lot of people can see what they did 150 years ago whit out the things we have know. What I found good too that they went after the plan of Babbage so it is the real one that was dissent a 150 years ago and we can learn a lot form this computer. Because of that wee can see how some of them fourth 150 years ago.