even whales have predators: ships

This is an article that is informing us of this new movement or solution that some people are trying to make to protect whales. It may seem that whales do not have to hide or run away from anything, but that is wrong, scientists have found a huge amount of whales dead around charleston harbour which is a place with a huge amount of shipping, and also a huge amount of whales that pass throught there every year, scientist founs so many whales like this because they were hit by ships, all whales have to go to surface and becasue of all the ships, the probability of them being hit is not small.

Why is it important to worry about this?

Whales are in extintion, they are very few of them, and they are a huge important part of the sea food chain and enviorment, we have to protect them, they are very important and consecuenses could come if they become extint, people cant let that happen!

Ships are one of the two leading causes of unnatural death among right whales, and scientists have warned that the unnatural death of even one breeding female has the potential to tip the species toward extinction. From 2002 to 2006, there were 17 confirmed deaths by ship strike, at least six involving adult females.



What is the solution that this article is talking about?

In an effort to stop this problem, the National Marine Fisheries Service has tried to impose speed limits on ships within 30 miles of port. But the White House has delayed approval of the rule, which is opposed by some shipping companies, it has been a year after this and still, the white house has not approved this rule and whales keep dying!

my opinion
I think this article is very good because it shows and makes you think about the whales, and how can they become extinct, this article made me angry because after reading everything about the whales and how they are dying, I found out that the government is doing nothing at all to stop it, when they should be the first ones trying to solve this! I think that the idea of putting a speed limit is very reasonable, because whales could see a ship is coming becasue like the article said, ships are going at a extrmely high speed and the whale goes out and doesent see anything and suddenly a ship with alot of speed comes, that is the problem, and the solution that the National Marine Fisheries Service is trying to apply is really good but people with shipping companies are too sellfish to accept that they have to have this new rule and even if they are loosing a little bit of money, they would be saving a part of the enviorment, and what gets me really mad is that they wont even consider it, people that care about it have been trying to accomplish this for more than a year, and they have got nothing, and I really do think that if this continues a little bit more, it will be too late, and then the government will realize it and will be willing to make some rules or to try to stop it, but maybe it will be too late and they will regret it, so I think if there must be a change it should be now, that it can still be controlled! I liked this artice because now I know that this is happening with whales and that we must protect them, i would like to learn more about it, its really interesting!!!

maria rubio!

Turning Pollution into DVDs

This article talks about the fact that scientists have found a new way to deal with carbon dioxide produced from coal-fired power plants. They have developed a way of turning the carbon dioxide into hard plastics. The type of plastic used for DVD's or soda bottles. There is one problem however. In order to do this, they need high amounts of energy that would produce more carbon dioxide which really wouldn't solve anything. So, to do this they need to find a way of using a different energy source such as solar. Another positive thing is that the pressure involved with the chemical reaction produes only one waste product, water.

My opinion is that this is a great new development. It will produce water which will help life overall. The fact that we will be able to get rid of carbon dioxide is also a good thing. We are destroying our planet and this will help greatly with the reduction of greenhouse gases.

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.

Paramount to release thousands of film clips on Facebook

Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make thousands of movie clips available for use on the internet, launching its VooZoo application Monday on Facebook. DVDs of the movies will be offered for sale through a button that appears after each clip is played. Eventually, the studio will be using the same method to market upcoming films. VooZoo is expected to attract a few hundred thousand users within its first two months. The task of selecting clips was time consuming. Paramount staffers worked for more than a year to archive and tag the clips being offered. Paramount officials say they're not sure how much they may reap through the experiment, and have no "revenue goals" attached to the project. I think that this new gadget on Facebook will atract lots of people and will make great publicity and it's going to be really cool to have this on Facebook.

Ban Bully video game, activists say

This article is about Young anti-bullying activists have asked the federal and provincial governments to ban a video game linked to bullying. Katie Neu and Robert Frenette, who founded BullyingCanada.ca, wrote to the political leaders on Tuesday, the same day that Bully: Scholarship Edition was released. They wrote the letters "on behalf of all the victims of bullying," said Neu. Based on their research, the students believe that violent video games promote bullying at school, she said. The game, an updated version of Bully released in 2006, features a 15-year-old student at a boarding school who has to make his way in a new environment, where there are cliques and bullies jump students in the halls. "This is an angst-filled game, a light-hearted simulation of the horrors of high school ... there's no blood, no guns, no boosting of cars," Hilary Goldstein wrote in a review of the game on IGN.com in February. The player has to deal with the the groups at school, by diplomacy or fighting, and can even win kisses, from girls or boys, Goldstein wrote. I think that it's good that they made a game to say that bullying is around the world and we got to stop it as soon as possible.

Do You See What I See? Translating Images out of Brain Waves

This article is about scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, report in Nature today that they have developed a method capable of decoding the patterns in visual areas of the brain to determine what someone has seen. Needless to say, the potential implications for society are sweeping. The scientists say that previous attempts to extract "mental content from brain activity" only allowed them to decode a finite number of patterns. Researchers would feed image to an individual (or ask them to think about an object) one at a time and then look for a corresponding brain activity pattern. "You would need to know [beforehand], for each thought you want to read out, what kind of pattern of activity goes with it," says John-Dylan Haynes, a professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences that was not affiliated with the new work. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance images (fMRIs) to record activity in the visual cortices of a pair of volunteers (two of the study's co-authors) while they viewed a series of images. They examined the brain by dividing the regions into voxels (volumetric units, or 3-D pixels) and noting the part of the picture to which each section responded. For instance, one voxel, or slice, might respond in a certain pattern to, say, colors in the upper left-hand corner of the photo, whereas another voxel would be set off by something in a different portion of the picture.

The computer that decides if we live or die

Can the computer really decide if we live or die? This article is about this guy named Wendler who hopes to build up a broader data bank of personal profiles, which will include age, gender, religious and ethnic background, to advance the software. He is confident that will enable more accurate patient predictions. New software should soon be able to predict more accurately than loved ones how comatose patients would choose to be treated, if they were able to make the decision themselves. The study compared how accurately their computer-based tool predicted a patient's preferred treatments compared with what loved ones said. Results showed both methods got it right around two-thirds to three-quarters of the time. I think that it could help people but is it going to be more accurate than what we already have?

Your thoughts can now be real images????

This article is informing about a new (and a little scary) method capable of decoding the patterns in visual areas of the brain to determine what someone has seen, meaning that this method and new technology can translate what the brain is thinking, (while dreaming, reading a book, etc) into images.
"This general visual decoder would have great scientific and practical use," the researchers say. "We could use the decoder to investigate differences in perception across people, to study covert mental processes such as attention, and perhaps even to access the visual content of purely mental phenomena such as dreams and imagery."
This is a huge step for technology, because for years scientists had been trying to make something like this, and the only thing that they got when they tried, was decoding numbers and patterns, but nothing specific!

How did they get from not having nothing, to getting images from the brain?
After a long time of trying, scientists started working with a new method, they asked a person to think about an specific object, and later a specific situation, while they thaught of that, they decoded patterns and numbers, after a long time of doing this, they started understanding and getting more related to the human brain, and after alot of studying, they got it.

But still, people should not get confused! This is an algorithm that can indentify images by translating brain activity, it is still huge for technology, but not as people think, it is not like a movie of peoples thaughts, it can only show some images,and it is still a far way from reading minds!

my opinion
I think this articule is awesome, I thaught it was very interesting, I did not know that such a thing that could actually put what someone is thinking in pictures could exist, I think that the people invented this, should continue studying about it and maybe invent something more, discover something new about the human brain, or maybe even discover a medicine or something related to the brain that has not been discovered! I really think this was an excellent idea, but I also think, they should do more experiments in this because it really is a new thing, and maybe it causes some problems that people are not aware of right now, I think they should test it before trying it with alot of persons and putting them in some kind of risk! If there is a problem with it, I think they should fix it, but still continue with this project because it is really cool and alot of good thinks could come out of it!! I thought this was a really interesting article!!I had never heard of something like this, and it impressed me, i think it is really cool!!!
**Maria Rubio

Paramount to release thousands of film clips on Facebook

this article is about putting paramount pictures onto face book.
it says that the paramount pictures will become the first major studio to make thousands of movie clips.
"The short clips for a movie that you've already seen before helps you relive the moment," as derek broes said, Paramount's senior vice-president of entertainment.
users on facebook will have access to footage from thousands of movies,including forrest gump and the ten commandments.Facebook users can send the video clips to others users on the site.
the clips last from a few sends to a few minutes.covering everything from Audrey Hepburn's monologue about her "no-name slob" of a cat in Breakfast at Tiffany's, to Eddie Murphy's signature chuckle from Beverly Hills Cop.
they say that dvds of the movies will be offered by pressing a button on the screen.
VooZoo is expected to attract a few hundred thousand users within its first two months.

i think that this is not really good,because i saw a comment on the page of he article that said i xant find it is it only in USA?..and i thought that wasnt really nice because if they post an article like this im sure everyone wans to check it out anywhere they are but if its only in the united states than thats not really nice. the other reason i dont like it is because it sounds like theyre selling movies that havent been out yet and isnt that stealing?

Grand Canyon Flooded to save one fish !

First of all before I say anything...O MY GOD I hadn't even read the article and I was jumping off the walls in rage of this foolish act. The humpback chub, it is being treated like a seismograph in the ring of fire, it needs unbelievable attention. I do not really like this fish and wouldn't keep it as a pet but the only reason I can understand this action is because of the all mighty food chain. Thankfully they had some sense and did not flood all of it and only a section... but still flooding such a mass amount of land is crazy to me. The whole grand canyon attracts enough visitors to produce enough money to build a machine that brings animals back from their fossils (not really ) and revive our little fishy friend. This is taking all the money away from this tourist attraction and just to save one fish, which frankly is really ugly. Imagine the minerals being washed away. The stone will be weak and will cause rock avalanches. All these horrible consequence just for one fish. I have knowledge of the chain effect and although it causes more devastating consequences it is my nature to go against the flow. This article struck my brother and I found it quite a good debating topic. These are my reasons of why this is a bizarre act

Ban Bully video game, activists say

An anti-bullying committee wants to ban a video game because it is related to bullying.

Katie New and Robert Frenette who founded BullyingCanada.ca. They rote for all the victims: “on behalf of all the victims of bullying” sad New. On research they found out that violent video games can provoke bullying said New. A teacher went to other country to not sell this video game. The group asked its members to approach retailers.

As a teacher she said if I can to anything against bullying or violins it is good.

Just like high school

The game, an updated version of Bully released in 2006, features a 15-year-old student has to make him self a way in the new environment where there are cliques and bullies jump students in the halls. "This is an angst-filled game this is a simulation of the horrors high school there are no guns, no blood and no boosting of cars says Hilary Goldstein. You have to diplomacy or fighting, and you can even win kisses, from girls or boys. This is similar to teen TV drama. The bully’s will say it is fun but it instant fun to hurt other people. It would be help full to sell these games. The Canadian federation is trying to go with a British teacher group to not sell this video game. The Bully games were developed by Rock star Games of Vancouver, which also sells Grand Theft Auto.

I like this project because:

This will help to stop bullying a bit. I like it to because it will be a violent game less. So more people can under stand not to play violent games because you mite start bullying.

randomness

Random

This article was about probability, randomness and how you can test it by flipping a coin. What I thought was that if you think really hard about what you want the coin to land on it will land on that face. Bu that’s just what I think. What I know is that everything relies on chance, and if you don’t think it does then you just try it for yourself. Take a coin and flip it 20 times and see how many times it lands on heads and tails. Then ask someone to take a piece of paper and write 20 random h’s and t’s then write both the lists on the board. After ask someone to try to guess which one is the random one and which one is the coin flip.

A new way to watch TV
Hulu the name of the company is trying to put TV shows on to the internet and see if they get lot's of visitors. Hulu CEO calls this a "defining moment". Fox the TV shows this is stupid. in one year's sallery Hulu will pay 15 million dollars. i don't think this is a smart idea. they are started already and they started in the debut of March. i think this a kind of stupid idea because they are just wasting 15 million dollars a year and 30 million in two years, when visitors can just go on You Tube for free and put on our watch video's
RYAN SMITH

Hair Detectives

The article talks about a new method to know where people have been because of their hair.
Our body is full of hydrogen and oxygen, and this elements end up in our tissues, and hair.
But as not all atoms are the same, they vary in how much they weigh. Different forms of a single element are called isotopes. And depending on where you live, tap water contains unique proportions of the heavier and lighter isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen.
Scientists made tests, they went to a barbe shop and collect hair from different people, they check it and realized that they all lived in the same area, so this metod works, not every time because water in different places can be the same, but this might help a lot in the future to know about crimes, and different types of stuff.

What I think about this article is that it's such a good way to find out where people have been and figure out about crimes, maybe not to find out who was the person that did the crime, but to be close, to know where he or she was and it might help a lot.
Or maybe it can't work all the time because the water, as they say can be the same in many different places or maybe the people just drink imported water, but who knows.
But it is really impresive to know that science is so advance and that by looking at your hair scientists can know where have you been and where are you from and maybe in some day in the near future they can know who were your great great great great great grandparents.
I would like to know more about this kind of stuff.

Girl Talk: Are Women Really Better at Language?

This article is scientifically about girls learning language easier than boys. They did language tests on both boys and girls giving them words to either read or were read to them. Then they had to decide different things about two words, such as whether they rhymed or if they were spelled similar. They studied different parts of the brain between girls and boys. In the end they found that girls would learn language more easily because they can learn both orally and visually but boys would learn only one way.

My thoughts about this were that this did not make me happy as I am a boy but on the other hand I agree with the study. In my classes, girls tend to get the answers faster than the boys but not always. There are some smart men in the world especially in history. I would like to think that all boys are smarter than girls but I guess this study proves that theory wrong!

Ban Bully video game, activists say

An anti-bullying committee wants to ban a video game because it is related to bullying.

Katie New and Robert Frenette who founded BullyingCanada.ca. They rote for all the victims: “on behalf of all the victims of bullying” sad New. On research they found out that violent video games can provoke bullying said New. A teacher went to other country to not sell this video game. The group asked its members to approach retailers.

As a teacher she said if I can to anything against bullying or violins it is good.

Just like high school

The game, an updated version of Bully released in 2006, features a 15-year-old student has to make him self a way in the new environment where there are cliques and bullies jump students in the halls. "This is an angst-filled game this is a simulation of the horrors high school there are no guns, no blood and no boosting of cars says Hilary Goldstein. You have to diplomacy or fighting, and you can even win kisses, from girls or boys. This is similar to teen TV drama. The bully’s will say it is fun but it instant fun to hurt other people. It would be help full to sell these games. The Canadian federation is trying to go with a British teacher group to not sell this video game. The Bully games were developed by Rock star Games of Vancouver, which also sells Grand Theft Auto.

I like this project because:

This will help to stop bullying a bit. I like it to because it will be a violent game less. So more people can under stand not to play violent games because you mite start bullying.

Bill Gates sets up his own Linked In profile

Bill Gates is helping a web companies to be successful. Will more people be encored to pursue careers in science and technology? They have a new teal that will let them bracts there work of over 19 million people. This allows them a lot more then linked casebook. Gates is planning the company’s footer. Microsoft solvent try buying Yahoo instead they should try to by other ones that aren’t so expensive. It has a take over that they goon to make a public stock in one ore tow years. Microsoft has invested $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Palo Alto-based Face book Inc., whose 66 million members make it the Internet's second largest social network behind News Corp.'s My Space. He stop looking using this web site because to many people try to become bill gates friend. They are gent block people to connect to him. The people like to look up UN him so he is gone to you this.

I like this project because:

Bill gates dose some thing help full for these people. So more people have jobs and other things.

MISSILE MAYHEM

MISSILE MAYHEM

When I read this article I was a little surprised by the fact that the U.S. is going to have to blow up a satellite or it will crash into earth. And also the fact that China and Russia have proposed a declaration saying no space weapons is pretty suspicious. But I think they should send some people onto the station with a bomb and blow it up, then they wouldn’t be breaking any declarations or promises. But of course they would be polluting the air more with the explosion from the bomb so either way it is bad.

Threat to frog population prompts Vancouver exhibit

This is about the that a number of frog species will become extinct within the next ten years has prompted the Vancouver Aquarium to hold a special exhibit to highlight the threat.
As a result, up to 2,000 frog species are expected to disappear during our lifetime, Nightingale said.
In vancuber they are going to make a exibition of frogs ,they hope the exhibit will inform the public of the threat to the global frog population.

They will be talking about how frogs and human lives interact , what we can do, each one of us, not just the aquarium but each one of us in our normal lives , to make the Lower Mainland a little more frog friendly.

my opinion

I think this is really good becose i thinkpeople dont know the importans of the animals they think there are problems more important but frogs are also in danger becose uf auer polution so we really need to care abaut them becose it could be posible that in 20 years frogs deapierd

Do Microbes Make Snow?

They are saying in this article that microbes are the cause of snow. In fact, they are a key part to the man-made snow found at many ski resorts, helping snow form at lower temperatures. They have done research throughout different parts of the world and they found many different types of microes such as; Pseudomonas syringae which infects crops such as wheat and corn. They have found more than 2,00o different microbes in the air above Texas alone. It is clear that there are definitely microbes in the sir but where they are coming from they aren't.

I think this is a good thing because if they could be used to make snow, possibly in the future they could make fake rain to help grow crops for many places that need it if they are in a drought situation. Perhaps if they can make snow, they could make snow back in the arctic and help the wildlife that is dying because of the melting polar ice caps such as the polar bear.

gastric bypass: a life-saver? or a danger?

This article is informing about gastric bypass which is a major surgery, the final objective of it is loosing wheight! This surgery is basically taking out part of the stomach and the small intestine to make them smaller so the capacity of them is much less, this eventually makes people eat much less food because the stomach will be filled up in no time, after gastric bypass surgery hunger or eating to much will not be a problem. When surgery is done, patients lose about two-thirds of their excess weight within a year of surgery!
This surgery sounds like the perfect solution for over wheight problems doesent it? But that is not that simple it also has alot of risks, its not an easy surgery, after all its taking away a big part of your stomach and small intestine! The operation fails in 15 percent of cases, the list of possible complications includes blood clots in the lung, pneumonia, infection, leakage from the reshaped intestinal tract, and in extremely rare cases -death.

my opinion
I think this article is really, really interesting, I really believe its stupid for people to do this dangerous operation which includes taking away part of the stomach and which is really risky, i think people should stop thinking of the easy way out of over wheight problems and solve them with excersice, healthy eating, a nutrisionist etc, which includes alot of hard work but at the end its healthy and its what people should do.
As the article said, only people with severe severe over wheight problems should do this surgery, because its more dangerous and they have more risks of diseases by their overwheight than by the actual surgery, i think in this cases the surgery is good, but in other cases with people which could easily solve over wheight problems by exercise and healthy eating are too lazy and prefere doing surgery (the easy way out), i think that its a bad desicion that could cause so much health problems after!!! Although my opinion is that bypass surgery is a risky and extreme operation (I dont think its good reducing and taking away part of someones stomach) I also think its really good people are coming with new ideas to control over weight which is a huge problem now a days in so many places, and maybe with more study about it they could come to a solution with no risks!!! I liked alot this article ,i didnt know about this operation and I think its really interesting!
** maria rubio!

Genetic Cancer Link Between Humans And Dogs Discovered

The article that I read talks about dogs and humans. Recent studies say that they share the same genetic basis for some types of cancer.
A lot of types of cancer are caused because they are alterations in the order of chromosomes and the genes that they contain, and they saw that the same thing happens with dogs.
Certain cancers of the blood have the same abnormalities in dogs and humans, they think this is happening because of consecuences of genetic evolution that has ocurred in similar ways in dogs and humans.
Now that scientists discovered that the cancers are base on the same things, there can be more tests in dogs and later can be compared with humans.
According to some scientists, dogs get cancer spontaneously, and some breeds that are more "pure" so they stay with the same genetics from generation to generation, so this makes it easier to study genetic changes that are related to cancer.
"The human genome has 46 chromosomes and the dog genome contains 78 chromosomes. Sometimes, in the normal duplication process of cells, chromosomes can become rearranged or relocated. This rearrangement or relocation is called translocation. It can lead to a cell losing its normal function, becoming abnormal, and possibly developing into cancer."

I think that this discovery is great. Because more studies can be done with the fact that dogs may shar the same type of cancer as humans, so find a solution for it.
But for one side I think it would be good if scientists can do more testings with dogs and maybe get close to the cure of cancer, because a lot of people suffer a lot and die because of this, and I know how they suffer because I've been with a lot of kids that have cancer and it's really sad seeing them like that, because they are really small and they know that some day they are going to die, and it's really sad because you want to do something, like helping them with therapies, but it just makes me feel like doing more for them, so for that side it is ok.
But in the other side, if they test in dogs, then it would be really cruel too, because if they test it in dogs, then they can also test in humans, I mean it can sound really bad and mean but animals also live and feel and have the right to live as everyone else, so I can have different points of view from this article.

Marcela Murillo Trujano

The Smallest Pterodacty to Ever live

This may seem like a diversion from my space theme but to me dinosaurs are the next best thing. This dinosaur is one third dinosaur, one third bird, and one third mouse. It is a Pterodactyl... but not just any Pterodactyl, it is the smallest Pterodactyl to ever live (one third mouse). Normally Pterodactyl have a wing span of thirty three feet, but this Pterodactyl is twenty five centimetres ! That is the size of my head ! This tiny creature had no teeth therefore pointing to the fact that it was somewhat like a snake, this is my own guessing, and it is probably incorrect but it is my "hypothesis" or educated guess. This bird is so small that even if it were doubled to fifty centimetres it would still be the smallest dinosaur ever found. These people don't just call this bird a small Pterodactyl, they made a fancy name for it which is Nemicolopterus crypticus which means "hidden flying forest dweller" which is pretty specific for just two words. So now I have explained about this small animal but here is something that might just spoil it. When the fossil was found the bones were small and somehow they could tell that it was not fully grown. They do not know how much it could have grown. For all we know it could be a new born baby, then when it was an adult it could have been as big as a normal Pterodactyl. I do not know the chances that something like the could happen but it is just something to think about. I think that this article is interesting and I recommend it to all the dinosaur lovers out there.

Florida probes how small mishaps caused massive outages

This article is about Florida authorities investigating how a small fire and a switch failure at an electrical substation outside Miami triggered a power failure that affected millions of people. When a nuclear power plant sensed the disruption, it shut down. In turn, the state's power grid triggered rolling blackouts Tuesday across the state.
More than 2 million people lost power at the peak of the outages, but electricity quickly was restored to most parts of the state.
Authorities said no injuries were reported.
Florida Power & Light President Armando Olivera said a disconnect switch failed at 1:08 p.m. ET Tuesday at an automated substation west of Miami, and a piece of equipment that controls voltage caught fire about the same time. Neither failure by itself would have caused a widespread outage, he said. The affected region ranged from Miami to Tampa, throughout Orlando and east to Brevard County, home to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. See a map of the areas affected »
The substation trouble set off a sequence of events that within two to three minutes had knocked numerous power plants off-line -- including the Turkey Point nuclear power plant south of Miami.
Olivera said Turkey Point's two nuclear reactors and a natural gas-powered generation unit automatically shut down when the plant's systems detected a fluctuation in the power grid.
"In a fraction of a second, the demand was far greater than the power plants that were online generating electricity could handle," he said. "When you have that kind of imbalance, we have a system that kicks in and it starts turning people's lights off, essentially balancing the demand with what's available." Miami International Airport, which has emergency generators, reported fewer than a dozen delays and had normal electric service back on within half an hour.
Schools remained in session during the blackout, said Cmdr. Charles Hurley, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade school system's police department. And Delrish Moss, a county police spokesman, said no major traffic problems had been reported.
"Most of the calls that we're getting have to do with people being stuck in elevators and things of that nature, and people concerned about what is going on," Moss said.
The outage struck as a strong cold front and scattered thunderstorms passed through the region -- including one that prompted a tornado warning for Fort Lauderdale, the National Weather Service said.
Stan Johnson, a spokesman for the North American Electric Reliability Corp., said eight generating units were off-line across the region.

My Opinion

I think its quite crazy to see that just a small accident could cause such a huge ruckuss. It affected so many people this disaster because of what happpened. I would be scared 2 if that happened to me. I just hope it wont if I'm stuck in an elevator or something i can't get out of at the time of the accident.

Bill Gates sets up his own Linked In profile

This article is about Bill Gates helping out LinkedIn Corp.'s online professional network by setting up a profile on the service and posing a question to help draw more attention to a makeover of the Web site's front page. Microsoft late last year invested $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Palo Alto-based Facebook Inc., whose 66 million members make it the Internet's second largest social network behind News Corp.'s MySpace. Bill Gates is among Facebook members, although he reportedly stopped using the site recently because he was tired of sifting through the thousands of requests from requests from strangers who wanted to befriend him. Microsoft declined to comment Wednesday about Gates' status on Facebook. Meanwhile, LinkedIn will encourage its 19 million members to try out a new tool that will let them broadcast their daily activities to their connections.

My Opinion

I think that you shouldn't have to pay to be on sites which are almost like facebook and Myspace. I personnally think that people should try out new sites that are free instead of paying a fee on sites. People are on these sites to make new friends communicate with their family and send photoes and such and such.

Apple to reveal iPhone strategy for businesses, developers

This article is about Apple Inc. revealing software plans for its popular iPhone handset on March 6, including new features aimed at business and details on allowing outside developers to create applications for the device. A hit with consumers for its sleek design and web browsing capabilities, the iPhone has had a reputation for being less appropriate for business because of its lack of a physical keyboard and concerns its email programs lack the necessary security features and functionality. The iPhone so far runs only Apple software, though software made by outside developers can be accessed through the web. "There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network," he wrote. "As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target." The iPhone, which launched in the United States in June 2007 and has made its debut in a number of European countries, is still not available through a wireless carrier in Canada.
Some Canadians, however, have been able to purchase grey market versions of the device that are "unlocked" and thus free to run on Rogers' wireless network, which uses compatible technology.

My Opinion

I think that the Iphone is just like someother gagget that we don't really need in life. What purpose do we need it for? Sure, you can browse the internet, listen to music even call people, but really you could just buy a cellphone or an ipod for that kind of action. I also think that the internet in the Iphone is a target for viruses because who knows who can be watching you doing things on the internet. Some one can hack onto those things and watch you. Just like third party wedsites that are really not safe and could transmite a virus in your internet.

CRTC tells telemarketers not to fear do-not-call list

This article is about people who are complaining about getting inconvenient calls that they don't want. Companies that violate the list could be fined up to $15,000, while individuals could be fined up to $1,500. Consumers will have 14 days to file a complaint. The list is a list of phone numbers that are only important fot the people who you want to call you. In 2006, $4.1 billion was spent on telemarketing in Canada, generating $26.1 billion in sales and creating 155,000 jobs. Hill said hundreds of thousands of businesses in Canada engage in telemarketing annually.
In 1993, the CMA set up its own do not contact program, in which consumers register for free and CMA members risk being expelled from the organization if they do not comply.
But Hill said it is a not "comprehensive solution" and that is why the CMA urged the federal government to set up a national do-not-call list.

My Opinion

I would get frustrated to if I got calls that i didn't want. But I think that this list will help in some way because it will cut some of the calling numbers that you don't want to call you. I hope that they do make this likst because it will improve the situation.

Jumbo Jet No Longer Biofuel Virgin after Palm Oil Fuels Flight

This article is about about a 747-400 plane that traveled from London Heathrow Airport to Shiphol Airport in Amsterdam on a 40 minute flight burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum-based jet fuel. Technicians from Virgin Atlantic, Boeing, GE Aviation (maker of the engine) and fuel provider Imperium Renewables now plan to analyze data collected during the flight to assess the engine's performance and pollution emissions. The Virgin Atlantic flight "is just to prove to industry that you can make fuel that has these cold-flow properties," (does not congeal at lower temperatures), says David Daggett, Boeing's technology leader for energy and emissions. As Boeing's Daggett says: "There are still a lot of hurdles to overcome, but 10 to 20 years is a reasonable time frame for production of biofuels from algae."

My opinion

Some may think "wow were putting about 20% organic gas fuels in the airplane so it will consume less toxic desel. But i dont think its going to help the planet that much because even if you would do this for a very long time, sure it would an impact but not a very great one like stop the path of global warming. But its a possibility of trying this new action and only time itself can say if it will help the environment or not.

Bill Gates sets up his own Linked In profile

Bill Gates is helping a web companies to be successful. Will more people be encored to pursue careers in science and technology? They have a new teal that will let them bracts there work of over 19 million people. This allows them a lot more then linked casebook. Gates is planning the company’s footer. Microsoft solvent try buying Yahoo instead they should try to by other ones that aren’t so expensive. It has a take over that they goon to make a public stock in one ore tow years. Microsoft has invested $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Palo Alto-based Face book Inc., whose 66 million members make it the Internet's second largest social network behind News Corp.'s My Space. He stop looking using this web site because to many people try to become bill gates friend. They are gent block people to connect to him. The people like to look up UN him so he is gone to you this.

Do Microbes Make Snow?

this article is about finding out if microbes make snow.Microbes may be responsible for snow—and rain for that matter. They are certainly involved in much of the man-made snow that ski resorts use to cover for Mother Nature's winter lapses.Microorganisms is bacteria that produces proteins in their cell walls that bind water, even when they are dead...as a result bacteria can help snow form at warm temperatures. Because that’s how you would know that some ski resorts add dead microbes to the mix in they're snow making machines. Now scientists discovered that such biological precipitation catalysts in natural snows such as Montana and Antarctica.in the article it says that microbiologist Brent Chirstner collected snow samples from 19 different sites.They found microbes in all of the samples, and the highest concentrations in the least remote areas.in an attempt at gauge weather those microbes were catalysts of their snowflake vessels, the team exposed them to heat as well as an enzyme in tears that punctures bacterial cell walls both of which reduce the ice forming ability of many microbesThan they put the particles into purified water and discovered that they were no longer to freeze water as affectively at warmer temperatures.

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-my opinion
they’re saying that there’s a bacteria that’s causing it to snow in Texas and Florida where it never snowsI don't really know what they're talking about but it sounds really cool. What I mean is that I like what they're saying about it and the microbe thing with the snow it’s really cool.I like everything that has to do with snow, I love snow.
Its natural that it snows. But for it to snow in Florida its not really good because if they grow plants or oranges and anything else they grow is going to die because of the snow.

Life under Ice

Scienceist found a big block of ice that was floating in the ocean that had a bunch of sea creatures in the block of ice… there where living at the sea floor when I guess the water froze and the sea creatures died and froze but they don’t know why they died… I think that this is an amazing thing that they found and that this could explain why the earth is getting warmer and stuff you know I was amazed bye what they found here and that they should keep studying this they might tell people what happened a long time ago… and stuff so that they know what went wrong and stuff that’s why I think this thing is important.. This idea over all is really cool. Well that what I think about this project… and they should keep studying they sea life back then… and what they looked like and what the sea creatures today evolved from…

Do Microbes Make Snow?

They say that microbes make snow in some skiing hills they add dead microbes to there snow making machines… the microbes bind the water together to make snow.. So there saying that microbes make snow in a way but not natural way though. But this can be really use full because global warming is causing snow to melt so yeah ski hills can use this to make there snow and not go out of business.. I think that the idea of this is really cool because I love to snowboard. And yeah global warming is going to take that away so yeah I think that its really cool idea… and like people who like ski and snowboard for a living well like this idea too because with out no snow no skiing and snowboarding.. so yeah that’s why I think that this idea is a really cool idea..

Google launches website-building application

what this article is about
google launched a website building application that allows anyone too edit or create web sites

im thinking about this in 2 different ways.

i think that this is for people to have more fun on the internet,i dont really think its good because wut if people put wrong stuff on their websites,im not really gonna name anything you must know what im talking about,i think google is okay that way it is now.

the other way i look at is that the website they make if it can connect with their friends it would be a way to do it, or other stuf like that

News Bytes Of the Week—Robot Race to the Moon

The first one to get robot on the moon well win $20-million prize… deferent people are competing in this event people from different universities and stuff.. I think that this idea is really cool but then really stupid because the one who wins the prize well be hated by other people that worked on there robot for a long time well probably get mad and like hire a hit man to kill him or something… but yeah in a way its really cool but if you look at in bad way it’s a really stupid idea… well that’s what I think about it. And its hard work to get a robot in to space and it cost a lot to so yeah it might cost a lot so the loser well have no money.. so yeah there’s a lot of down sides to this thing.

Polar research ship returns to Europe after 'fantastic' 1½-year journey

Google launches website-building application

There is a new soft where on Google what allows multiple users to make there on website. This will help people to make there website whit out having a lots of problems whit it. It allows the user to get information from other sites and post it on to that page and you need no knowledge of HTML or web designing skills. They are literally adding an edit batten on to the web site. Google ethnologic is developed from Jot Spot a company a company Google acquired in October 2006. Jot spot allows the put on wikis that multiple users can do what they want on that site. They are bringing the wikis out of the land of the nerds and try to publish it for more people. There are three versions al free with ten GB with different where hens, and there is a fourth one that cost 50$ per year per user. It was relates when Google had a confers in Seattle. Google and Microsoft are computing agent’s echoer and Google broth some thing new out that makes Google better. Microsoft is entering in to the web and they are trying to by up yahoo for more then 40$ billion us.

I like this project:

Because they make it easer for you to make a web site. If you friends want to some thing on the site they can it is very help full.

Quebec ponders electronics recycling law

The Quebec government is making new laws to recycle their electronic materials. They want to set up a recycling program for cells phones and MP3 players and others. Said environmentalists that there should be programs for that kind of things said David Suzuki. What you can repair you should because it is better for the environment. "It's crazy to develop a new product that is made to be thrown away." The companies should make more things that are ease to repair and it should hold longer to. Some companies have started it already to recycle there things and let them hold longer. They want to get this law as son as possible up.

I like this project because:

They try to help the environment.

NASA shows off rover armed with Canadian-made drill

They have made a new robot and to find water and it has a Canadian drill. This is one of the tow robots they want to talk about in there conversayshin. This robot was built by researchers at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and tow Canadians included there work to this to. They hope that it gives them information to now how strong the drill has to be to dig in to lunar soil and rock because rover won’t go on the trip. It is hard to build a rover like this because it has to run on lo battery but has to be heavy enough to support drilling. This is the first step of understanding the potential for lunar resources and developing the knowledge needed to understand it better, said NASA's Bill Larson. It is distend to go one meter in the earth the regolith it was built by northern instituted. A camera is put in whit lacer light that allows the rover to see where it is drilling. Notec is best known for building the 3D laser camera. Later in 2008 it will have a partner that allows crushing the rock and heating it to get water out of it. They are testing other wheals rate now to at Exploration Conference in Denver.

I like about this project because:

They are searching for water so that would mean they can youse it in poor countries and help them to get more fresh water.

Google launches website-building application

Google launched a website building application that allows anyone too edit or create wed sites the reason for this is that so people can have more fun with the internet… as they say so agree with this so don’t I don’t really think that there should be such a thing because this can causes a lot of problems like bullying because if you allowed to edit so website you can out mean stuff about people to so that’s one of the problems that this thing could cause.. There service comes in there different services.. but over all I think that if there where no problems In the world this would be a really cool idea but with the problems in the world I don’t think this thing should even be there……. But that’s what I think of it but people well thing in a different way so yeah….

Polar research ship returns to Europe after 'fantastic' 1½-year journey

The ship was stuck in the high artic because it got stuck in the ice they had to wait tell I t melted before they can go home… while they where there they studied the ice and they could see that the climate was changing because of the different types of ice I don’t know how they do it but that’s what they said they where doing. I think that they should go back and study that ice more to tell people more people that global warming was real. It took them a 1 ½ to get back home because they froze in while they where studying the ice… its really cool that they can tell what’s happing to the climate bye looking at ice.

NASA shows off rover armed with Canadian-made drill

The Canadian-made drill is a small robot... It’s used to find water and drill dip in the gowned for rocks and minerals. It’s a really cool small robot that the Canadians came up with and that they should send one to the moon or other planets to find water and if there water there has to be life on the planet so that would be a really cool idea. But the reason there not sending it is because they don’t know if it well be able to go in to space I don’t know why but they said that is can with stand cold heat so I think It would be able to go in to space. This idea is a really good one because with this robot you would be able to find water and stuff so that’s why it’s a cool idea.

Neutron oddball

Neutron Oddball

In our galaxy we have lot’s of star and other things but the neutron star is the most weirdest out of all of them in a picture it shows that on its own the magnetic field lines surrounding the ultra dense stellar remnant. It is really weird looking from the picture in this magazine. The neutron star is 205 and 1000 light years away from earth. They are also studying 10 other stars that are also weird but now the Neutron star is the weirdest out of all of them. What do I think about this? I think who ever wrote this wrote it well and I think it is a very exciting topic.

robot race to the moon. - Reward-20 million dollars

This will be a rather amusing event for me to watch as i see through this so called 'scam'. Now, ten million dollars is not a lot of money dealing with rocket ships and moon data. This Google lunarX program are using people to get their information. They don't even have to pay for built of the ship so if there is a problem it doesn't effect them in any way. A satellite that does the exact same thing costs around... 300 million ! Google's spending-20 million. Percentage of things going wrong-0%. Things might go wrong with the builder but this is not the problem of Google now is it. If they were to build it and something went wrong it would be a waste of 300 million dollars! I could think of 300 million people that need that money (including me). A few million to New Orleans, i few million to the Afar people. These guys maybe be rocket scientist but obviously they have to economic skill. Sorry to say but Google... you finally did something wrong.

jumbojet biofuel good or disastrous

Airline flies jumbo jet powered by biofuel
When I read this article I was so happy that they have finally found a way to stop using gas for planes but then I read that it has more emissions of greenhouse gasses, which is very bad. Of course if some work was done on it, it could have good effects on the environment. But if they think they made it right and they didn’t, they would destroy the atmosphere or something else horrible like that. Of course if they do make it right it will be a huge step for man I mean actual artificial fuel. And if they can do it with planes they (of course) can do it with cars and any other gasoline run vehicles. So all I’m saying is that they should make sure the fuel is right before they use it.

wind replacing oil in texas and maybe in the the world?!

This article is informing us that:
The wind turbines that recently went up in Texas are twice as high as the Statue of Liberty, with blades that span as wide as the wingspan of a jumbo jet.
Texas, once the oil capital of North America, is rapidly turning into the capital of wind power. IN the last three years, Texas has reached the point that the electricity enough to supply power to one million homes, comes from wind turbines!!!!
Texans are even turning tapped-out oil fields into wind farms,oil is turning into an alternative energy!!!
Wind turbines were once a not considered form of electrical generation. But with the huge concern about greenhouse gases from coal-burning power plants, wind power is booming!!!!
“Texas has been looking at oil and gas rigs for 100 years, and frankly, wind turbines look a little nicer,” said Jerry Patterson, the Texas land commissioner

My opinion:

I think this article is very important, i think these changes are really good, and they will make a really really positive and good change in the world!I think it would be great if wind turbines keep expanding to more cities and places; like the article said they would!

Why do i think that?
Because oil, gas and coil are the main forms of producing energy, all of this are extremely bad for the enviorment because they cause alot of pollution, and damage to people, also, we are basically finishing them up, and we need them and use them every day, I think its really good that people are finding other options and ways of replacing and not wasting oil, this options are also much healthier options for the people, the enviorment, the animals etc!!
I really hope wind turbines keep expanding!!! I thought this article was really interesting and really important!!

Maria Rubio!

Cool Penguins

This article talks about one kind of damage that Global Warming is causing.
The penguins that live on Crozet Archipelago in the Indian Ocean are suffering and are leaving less because the water is getting warmer. This animals are use to live in really cold climates and they are adapt to this kind of environment, they get their food from fish living in these oceans and also have their babies there.
But as all animals, this penguins take care of their offsprings for a while when they are just born, they give them food and them they go and leave them there so the babies have to survive by themselves and get their food, but this can't happen if the climate is not adecuate for them, so this brings a lot of consecuences, like making the penguin population go down and if later on this keeps going then the life of teh penguins would be shortened and if this keeps going on the penguins can be extint as many other animals that are in danger because of global warming and many other issues.
So what scientists are doing is puttin electronic ID tags to the penguins to know where they are and to identificate each of them and see how long they live and if they go back to take care of their babies or to see how the population is growing or coming down.

My opinion: I like a lot all sea animals so this article makes me feel bad because it's letting me know that the life of this animals and many other is in danger and that it can only be stopped if people care enough about them so that they can change they habits and make global warmind don't act so fast, so knowing that there is people that cares about the life of the animals makes me feel better and also makes me want to do something about it, like telling other people that don't believe in Global Warming that there are a lot of things going on that are true and that can be prevented, not just for the animals but for everyone.

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano

Global Warming, Up Close and Personal

This article is abaut global warning , haw peapole dont really know that this is sereaus .
You think you know climate change. You've seen An Inconvenient Truth. You've noticed the changing and warming weather patterns in your part of the world. You're beginning to suffer from acute ecoanxiety. But to really see global warming in action, you'd need to travel to the Arctic, where climate change is already kicking into high gear.
But some peapole really care abaut the gloval warming, and they are encouraging us to help.
To help raise awareness of the damage climate change is wreaking on the polar regions, next month Steger will be leading a team of six young adventurers on a 1,400-mile, 60-day-long dogsled expedition across Ellesmere Island, in the far Canadian Arctic.
my opinion
i think thet we souuld really think abaut the gloval warming , this is not only in the antartic , this is happening in all the world and this will affect you to , in mexico there is not inofe water so people are dying of thirst and you are waisting it.
also , dont use your car every time you need to go out .
we really need to help the world and do some thing about it , help rise mony etc ..

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1715522,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

News Bytes Of the Week—Robot Race to the Moon

This article is about a contest where private companies are fighting for the Google Lunar X Prize. It is a $20 million dollar prize for the first privately owned spacraft that launches and lands on the moon. Then must rove on the lunar surface for at least 500 meters then transmit video and pictures back to Earth. If no one completes the mission by the year 2012, the prize is reduced to $15 million. The contest closes by the year 2014.

I think that this is a great idea because it shows that companies can make their own launch sites and robots in order to do this. Maybe then the Government will realize that other people are capable of doing the kinds of things. On the other hand I think that the $20 million could be used for something else like feeding starving children across the world instead of redoing something that has been done already.

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