paola New Snub-Nosed Monkey Discovered, Eaten

National geographic's team has discoverred a new specie ! It's called the snub-nosed monkey because of his rarely distinguished nose, that is literally just two holes in his face ! The scientists had named him as the snubby, and they say that even rainfall makes him sneeze.

This rare creature discovered in Myanmar, it's said that even if it just been discovered, it is now now endanger.
The monkey was founded deand and just the leftovers that some careless hunters left, after shooting the creature and eating him.
The hunters found the creatures in one of the jungle at Myanmar, in rain season why? because when the rain comes this poor animal has no choice than tug his face into his legs, because of his rare nose.
Based on talks with the Lisu hunters, scientists estimate tahat only about 300 of these monkeys remain, few enough to qualify as in "critical endanger".

MY QUESTIONS?
-the hunters, should they receive consecuences for this act ?
-do you think this specie remain by a long time, should the gevrnment act against the endanger of this rare specie ??

Predators gone, small fish get bolder

This article is about little fishes that naturally are scared and timid of predators.
But for the fault of human fishing Tuna and Sharks (the principal predators) shrink. Little fishes become bolder: what means that now they take bigger excursions to feed or to go find mates.
In waters untoched by humans, the researches found that the little fish were spotty in their feeding habits.
Using snorkels, scuba equipment and video cameras, a group of scientists captured the behaviour of more than 600 small fishes.
Some parts of the coral reefs, where fish fed on seaweed, where heavily grazed. In other areas, perhaps where predators lurked, there were large tufts of untouched seaweed.
But where fishing was happening, their grazing formed a more even patter across the reefs.

Questions:
Why if humans know about this, they still fishing where there are no supposed to?
Why are not rules in the counties where this happens?

Global Warming

This article is about how global warming is doing to the earth and what it did in Antarctica, and that the global warming is coming fast, It’s already in all 7 continents, it only take 3 years to get to all seven continents and that Google is now find out a lot more things on global warming.

Also in the picture of the penguins in Antarctica, it’s now too warm there and they couldn’t/wouldn’t be able to live in the environment. And so if they can’t some would die or try to live in the environment.

Questions:

1. If we didn’t/ don’t fix what’s going to happened to the world, what do you think is going to happen?

2. What can we do to prevent this?

3. How can we make other people do the same? Like as in how could we make people prevent this from happening?

Lyanne Carruthers

The Caqueta tiki monkey
The scientific name is callicebus caquetensis. This new species of monkey was discovered in Columbia. This is not the first time they’ve been seen, they where first spotted by a biologist named Martin Moynihan in 1976 in the southern Caqueta part of Colombia. Scientist could not confirm it’s existence until now because of frequent armed conflicts in that region. They estimate that less than 250 still exist because of the cutting of the forests which is their home. This is one of 20 different species of Titi monkeys. Thomas Defler, a primatologist, says that it is possible that there are other species that we don’t know about. The Caqueta Titi monkey has been recommended to be classified as critically endangered.

Questions:
-Can you think of ways that could help save them?
-How many new species do you think scientist discover
each year?

Algae

This article talks about how algae is so hard to classify, because there are so many forms of it. For example it come in green, red, yellow and brown some algae is huge and some you need a micro scope to see also some are made of one cell and some and made of multiple cells but the strangest thing is that some are like animal cells and some like plants, by that i mean the plant cell algae uses photosynthesis to make its food and the animal cell ones eat other organisms. This is why algae is so hard to classify scientist want to stop even using the word algae witch would be really hard because that word has been around for a long time.

Q1: How would you classify algae?
Q2: Why do you think some algae acts like animal cells and some act like plant cells?

THE CYTOPLASM

The Cytoplasm is the part of a cell that is enclosed within the cell membrane.

All the contents of the cells of prokaryote organisms (which lack a cell nucleus) are contained within the cytoplasm. Within the cells of eukaryote organisms the contents of the cell nucleus are separated from the cytoplasm, and are there called the nucleoplasm.

In eukaryotic cells also, the cytoplasm contains organelles, such as mitochondria, which are filled with liquid that is kept separate from the rest of the cytoplasm by biological membranes. It is within the cytoplasm that most cellular activities occur, such as many metabolic pathways including glycolysis, and processes such as cell division. The inner, granular mass is called the endoplasm and the outer, clear and glassy layer is called the cell cortex or the ectoplasm.

The part of the cytoplasm that is not held within organelles is called the cytosol. The cytosol is a complex mixture of cytoskeleton filaments, dissolved molecules, and water that fills much of the volume of a cell. The cytosol is a gel, with a network of fibers dispersed through water. Due to this network of pores and high concentrations of dissolved macromolecules, such as proteins, an effect called macromolecular crowding occurs and the cytosol does not act as an ideal solution. This crowding effect alters how the components of the cytosol interact with each other.

The secret power of youtube.

The secret power of youtube :
Ideas worth spreading.

Everyone thinks or at least almost everyone that youtube is a website for teenagers idiocy, mindless narcisism, watching funny videos making fun of other people.
But not everyone knows that it has now becamed a new form of communicating people news, its called : crowd-accelerated innovation. Which means that like before people have been innovating new types of communication such as printing (books, newpapers, magazines) internet is now one of them, not just youtube. What is really impressing about this new type of communication is that is now allowing the rest of the worlds talents (not just news)to be shared digitally, Justin Bieber is one example. Online video is driving astonishing innovation in thousands of different fields from the ultra-niche to the sharing of truly world-changing ideas.

Questions :
Do you think youtube should be used only for entertainment ?
Can you think of other to come forms of communicating ?

Super power spiders

Summary

We have all seen spider webs – on the trails we walk on or in the corner of our bedrooms catching flies and other insects. Author Rachel Ehrenberg writes about the other known and possible uses of animal silk. The material insects use to spin webs or create cocoons is called silk.
Silk from insects like spider or silkworms is extremely strong and natural. Researchers are looking into ways to use natural silk for additional uses. Bulletproof vests and parachute cords are two possible ways. But the silk could also be used inside our body – to protect cells, like bone or nerve cells while they regrow and repair themselves.

Spider silk is so valuable that scientists are trying to find additional ways to produce it – like altering the DNA of a goad so that it produces silk proteins in it’s milk. I suppose that this would make it a lot easier to harvest than getting it from the spiders.

I think this is a really interesting topic – but I think I would be nervous to let them plant silk producing spider genes into my body no matter what the possible positives are!

Read the article and see what you think for yourself.

Discussion Questions:
1. Can you think of additional ways that strong and stretchy fibers could be used to help us on the outside of our body?
2. If the science was mastered – do you think you would use silk fibres to help your body from the inside? Say it could help repair a broken bone?

Blogging Assignment 2010

The purpose of this assignment is two-fold: to have students research current scientific topics occurring in the media and, to create an environment wherein students can engage in a healthy discussion related to science.

Please Note – Participation in this assignment occurs on two levels.

Level One: Each week, TWO designated students will be responsible for choosing a scientific issue currently covered in the media (a list will be provided indicating each students designated date). After reading the article, the student will create a summary of the information presented and create TWO thought-provoking questions for the rest of the class.

On the blog, you will find links to numerous media sources for scientific information. You can use these sources, or identify your own, for your respective article.

Due Date: Your summary and questions are due on the Sunday, at 8:00pm of your specified week (please consult the schedule for details).

Level Two: Once the designated student has read the article, summarized the information, and posted the two questions, each remaining student in the class will be responsible for responding to or commenting on the questions.

You MUST comment at minimum ONCE each week. However, bonus marks may be given if you discuss and respond more frequently.

Whales may round up squid for dinner

if you were swiming in the ocean, it would be hard for you to miss a sperm whale swimming by. they're no longer than the average of a school bus. males can grow as long as 62 feet and once every or so they come to surface and breath.
sperm whales usually feast for squid, but to catch these animlas the whales sometimes have to dive thousand of feet below the ocean surface.
the whales take turns doing the deep dives because is very difficult to dive that deep.

how do you think whales keep their breath that long?

What is a ipad?

You must all have heard about the new apple machine and think that it was good and you it's was better than a ipod touch but it's almost the same thing it's just that it's bigger and it use more batterie than the ipod touch. The batterie is good only during 10 hours because you need to recharge it after 10 hours. Almost every body are asking there self the same question `How many dollars does it cost ?' the answer is that it cost $499 for each ipad. I think that it's to expansive because we canhave almost the same thing for only $299 or something like that.

QUESTION:

What do you think about the ipad?

When it's going to come out are you going to buy one ?

Dino-bite!

Questions:

1) How do you think that this information about dinosaurs could help scientists?
2) Do you believe that there may have been other kinds of dinosaurs that held pockets of venom in their teeth?

Dino-bite!

A paleontologist called David Burnham and his team were studying a kind of dinosaur called Sinornithosaurs that had feathers and looked like a turkey.After a careful study, his team concluded that the dinosaur was probably poisonous.
They were trying to prove that, so they started examinating the teeth, in the upper jaw. The scienctists observed small pockets in the bone. These pockets probably held special glands that made venom (poison).
They also saw that their teeth were long and narrow. Burnham said that the long teeth were probably used for them to bite and hold their prey (an animal hunted pr caught for food).
By studying the shape and size of the teeth and jaw, the paleontologists were able to learn a lot about how Sinornithosaurs probably ate. Of course, there's no chance this turkey-size dinosaur ever ate a human, since dinosaurs and humans never lived on Earth at the same time. Thank God!

Earthquake has killed in Haiti

On tuesday (the 12th) morning a very bad Earth Quake hit Port au Prince (in Haiti).
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN Wednesday the death toll from the earthquake that rocked his country could be "well over 100,000."

The 7.0-magnitude (accourding to the Rechter Scale) quake struck Tuesday afternoon, and has left Port-au-Prince, the capital city, in dust.


The Haitian President René Préval told the Miami Herald, today (13th), he has been stepping over more than thousand dead bodies prettly much everywhere.


"We have to do an evaluation," Préval said, describing the scene as "unimaginable."

"All of the hospitals are full with people. It is a catastrophe,'' he said.

"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed,'' he told the paper. "There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.''

Shattered communication systems in the Caribbean country made it impossible to immediately determine the number of dead bodies from the Tuesday afternoon quake, but an International Red Cross official estimated that three million people in the impoverished country of nine million may have been affected and could need emergency aid.

Question

1. What could be done to protect people from dying in these aggressive earthquake?

2. Which region do you thing suffer more of earthquake than other and why?