Death Toll May Climb in China Earthquake Aftermath

This article is about a city in China that had a huge earthquake and there were many deaths. The death toll has been estimated to become more than 50,000. The earthquake happened last Monday at 2:28 pm local time and measured 7.9 on the Richter scale. As many as 20,000 deaths have already occured and another 40,000 people are missing and probably are dead. The defence minister has ordered 101 helicopters to airlift people from devastated areas. Many schools, hospitals, roads have been hit hard. Aftershocks are devastating as well, in a high school, more than 1,000 students and teachers are dead or missing and in a middle school, 900 children are trapped because of a buiding collapse. This is the worst earthquake to hit China since 1976 when an earthquake measuring 7.5 at the epicenter, more than 240,000 people lost their lives.

This is devastating news and I am sure that if the Chinese government would allow outside help, people would be found more quickly and survivors would also get the help they need now instead of later.

Good night, Sloth

Scientist Niels Rattenborg of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, did an study with sluggish bears. He took some of this animals from their trees, so he could put a mini battery recorder for sloths in a lab.
The device allows monitoring of electrical impulses from the brain, but instead of keeping the animals in the lab, they put them outside, to know more about their lives.
What happened was that they sticked them in their hairs, and 3 days later they took the devices away and check all the results.
“I think this is the first to really do sleep in free-roaming animals — that’s what makes the paper interesting,” says evolutionary neuroscientist Paul Manger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The approach holds promise since miniaturization and data retrieval technologies are improving so rapidly, he adds.
This is something that is really interesting, because you can check animals in a lab and know results about them, but when they are in their natural environment things change, so you can actually know how animals act when there are predators near to them.
Even though this helps, animals can feel different when they have something stick in their heads, but the study says that at first the sloths were stressed out because of the device but later they went back to normal and that they didn't sleep a lot, they just sleep 20% of the day, and that is what humans normally sleep.
One interesting thing that was found out with this study, was that while this animals were sleeping it seemed like they were chewing something, so maybe they were dreaming about eating leaves.

From this article I have different opinions.
First I think that for understanding the behavior of animals it's something good to do, because we will have more information about the way they act with other animals of their kind and to see how similar or different their behavior can be with other animals and even humans.
But another opinion that I have is not that good, because I think that animals can feel different when they have something stick in their heads, because they are not used to it so it's not normal to them, their mood can change, they can act weird or rare because of the device, it might seem like it doesn't affect them, but they don't know what is going on, and maybe this particular device don't hurt them but later they can be some that would damage them and I don't think this is a good thing to do , because you are interfering with their natural way of living, and animals have feellings too.

Marcela Murillo Trujano

Earthquake in China, horrible disaster!

This article is informing us about the earthquake that occurred in China this Monday, and the consequences of it:
It was a 7.9 magnitude earthquake, that killed thousands of people, and thousand are still missing! This has been the country’s worst earthquake in three decades! So far, 11,921 people have died!
The worst part of this disaster is that this earthquake hit the hardest in remote areas of china (not in the cities), and there is millions of people in this area with desperate need of help but this areas remain inaccessible to rescuers, due to the remoteness and difficulty of the mountainous terrain, this is a huge problem that is causing more and more deaths!
This quake, that lasted several minutes, has collapsed buildings in cities and towns across the province as well as cracking buildings in the capital city, where thousands of people have been spending the night out of doors in fear of aftershocks the people are terrified and don’t know what to do.
More than 26,000 have been injured and at least 9,400 remain trapped in such levelled buildings.
Rescuers and troops worked without stopping and have been saving thousand of lives.
"It's a nightmare. It's a tragedy," said Zhao Mu, a student in university.

My opinion:
I am glad I read this article about this because I did not know about all this tragedy that is happening in China, I think this is so sad and it is terrible, I think that the worst part of it is that people in cities are receiving so much help, (and it is very good that they are receiving it), but the parts that need more help and have been destroyed the most are the ones where the rescuers cant get access to, and people there should be so desperate, I cant imagine how they must feel to be in such a disaster and now one being there with the necessary equipment to help them now! In the article it said that this is a natural disaster with a huge magnitude and that something like this had not been seen in so long, I really think that all this huge and horrible disasters that are happening in the world are due to global warming, there have been so many natural disasters lately and if the global warming situation does not get better, I think we are going to have natural disasters like this earthquake in China and other places often, and we are going to see the consequences and suffer so much! I am really glad I read this article because now I am more aware of what is happening in the world and more aware that we need to change our way of living or the consequences will be HUGE!
Maria Rubio.

Human Aging Gene Found In Flies

Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have found a fast and effective way to investigate important aspects of human aging.
Scientists have discovered a gene in fruit flies that means flies can now be used to study the effects aging has on DNA. This is something really important because it can help find out solutions for things like aging at cellular.
Scientists also made an experiment, they were studying a disease that helps understand normal aging. What happens is if one gene changes, it means that then people will age quickly.
This can be test in flies, but there are still not results for developing this genes in human bodies, but if it works it can be very helpful to know more about human beings and a new way of discovered and preventing diseases, and changes with humans.
Dr Robert Saunders from The Open University added: "This work shows for the first time that we can use the short-lived fruit fly to investigate the function of an important human aging gene. We have opened up the exciting possibility of using this model system to analyse the way that such genes work in a whole organism, not just in single cells.”
This gene is known as WRN.

I think that it is really interesting to see how animals can be so similar to human beings, because I think this is not the first time that some kind of cells or genes are find in humans and animals, and with this, there are more chances to get to know why or how diseases can be cured, without experimenting with humans, it can be try in animals, even though sometimes I think that shouldn't be done either because animals are alive too and they can suffer as humans can, but in animals like flies, I think it's ok because there are a lot of them and they reproduce fast, and testing in them, can save lives, and help in science to make new discoveries.

Marcela Murillo Trujano

Spider named after canadian singer

wow...-_-


This must be one of the gobstopping thing I have seen this week. A spider...named after a canadien singer. This particular article is related to the study of insects and so this is why i am posting it. Other from the name of this creature, I was interested to see what kind of spider it was. The article I read was more mesmerized that it was named after a famous singer than that they actually found a new species of spider. The article did not mention anything about, if it is poisenous or any such information. The only thing they were interested in was the singer. I was disappointed.. but it is an interesting thing to read about. I would research this spider and tell you all the information, but all the articles say the same thing. It is not really information on the spider, it is a biography of the singer. I may be over reacting, and the only reason they don't say anything is beacuse there is no information, but from now on, when i read an article, I hope is sticks to the point (as I have not done) instead of sidetracking.

Platypus genome reveals links between reptiles, mammals

Scientist still don’t know what to do about the duck billed platypus it is a mammal that lyes eggs. They are saying that they are understanding this animal a bit better now after this genome. A time of scientist form the universities of Ornithorhynchus is comparing the platypus with other mammals so they mite find something. They are saying that the platypus appears as an animal looks. Francis Collins, the director of the U.S.-based National Human Genome Research Institute said comparing the platypus and other animals will help us understand our self’s better. They found out that the platypus contains about the same number of protein-coding genes like other mammals they approximately 18,500 protein-coding genes and it shares about 80% of its genes with other mammals. But the scientist where interested in the deferents. With matching the platypus genes with other mammals they found out that it was the crossroads between early mammal-like reptiles and of the other mammals we see today. They did a genetic analyzing and found out that it had slimmer portion milk genes that is just one of its many slimmer genes. They found out that males can give venom through the hind legs and it is slimmer to reptiles but independently. It was published form the newspaper company journal Nature and people on the time came from United States, Australia, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Spain.

I like this project:

Because they found out that the platypus is one of the few animals that are between reptiles and mammals. So they can now find more about the genes of it and of us because if they find out enough of the genes they can find out more about us humans that would revolve to a new area of understanding us humans.

Scientists Build Nano Hot Rods

This article is about university students making a way to mace microspic nanobots. They will be able to help people in their drugs and cleaning water from distant lands. A nanomachine is a small device that is less than one micron in size (one millionth of a meter). They hope that they will be able to help target the delivery of drugs in the system to the proper places. For example, if a patient has cancer the drugs would be directed to the cancer cells. The only problem is that the nanomachines aren't very fast. So more research needs to be done so that imporvements can be done to the machines. There has been money awarded to do more research on these tiny bots.

I find that this is a great idea because it could help people that are dying across the oceans and would just help with clean water. Also, it would help with drugs as well. If we gave trillions of these nanobots across the ocean it would be so helpful.

Quake Shakes Tokyo

Japan's capital was hit Thursday morning by a nearby 6.8-magnitude earthquake that injured two and left some 2,100 residents in the dark.
Japan was rocked by a series of earthquakes thursday about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Tokyo that injured two, cut off power to some 2,100 homes, and left the country on high alert for possible aftershocks. The largest quake hit at 1:45 a.m. local time in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Ibaraki Prefecture and measured 6.8 on the Ritcher Scale.
No major damage has been reported, and the two injuries are not believed to be serious. Highway officials lowered the speed limit as a precaution, although they had not detected any cracks in roads from the quake, which struck offshore at a depth of 25 miles (40 kilometers), according to the United States.
In mi opinion
I think that this is a very serious natural disaster that oviosly can't be controled, but what we can do is to send money or food to all this people that got homeless.

Skeletons found near Plains of Abraham

This article is about two nearly intact human skeletons discovered near the Plains of Abraham last winter date back to the 19th century or earlier.
Construction workers found the bones last February while breaking ground for new washroom facilities on the plains, a natural plateau outside Quebec city's fortified walls.
Archeologists confirm the remains belong to a teenaged boy and an older woman.
the bones of the teen ege boy are in perfect conditions, the team of archeologists hired by the National Battlefields Commission to investigate the bones.
It's the first time a burial site has been discovered on the plains. There are no official records of any burial grounds in the park, where British troops confronted the French in the 1759 Battle of Quebec.
mi opinion
in my opinion i think that is really cool thet is the first time they had find this kind of stuff in Quebec, and that they should keep searching about this because with this kinds of stuff we can learn more about the past and think more like our ancestors.

In the Plains of Abraham two skeletons were found by to drain pipes when they were digging into the ground. The skeletons were of a teenage boy and they think her mother. They think they were buried in the 19^th century which a long time ago was so they probably will not fined the killer. The construction workers found them why making a new washroom for the homeowner, the police think that they weren’t murdered but they died and got buried in two coffins, the construction head has never seen anything like this. What do I think of this? I think it is good that they found the bodies because maybe someone was looking for them or something else, but I think this story is kind of gross.

Ryan

Connections to an untethered future

The new Iphone from apple is a great new invention because it has all kinds of features like a phone and music, games, videos, internet, GPS system, text messages and a touch screen and more on it. But you can’t get this awesome apple feature for cheap, this cost 600$ dollars. They say that it changes how people monitor the world. The inventor of this Iphone is Marin Solijacic from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Why would you by this? It is better then carrying all those features around when you can carry it in one. Why would I buy one? Because they are really cool and a good piece of machinery too. What do I think of this? I think it is an awesome idea and apple is making tons of money off of it and there other things they are selling, so yes I think it is a good idea.

Ryan

Climate change claims caribou calves: study

Fewer caribou are being born and dieing in west Greenland because of warming. That what a US biologist said. Penn State biology professor Eric Post started to collect data in 1993 and found out that the timing of food and birth and don’t correspond any more and that roughly 75 per cent mange to get to adulthood. They are going to translate the publish meant in and it is going to get publish at 12, 2008 July. When the babies are born and they go look for food the plants are starting to grow and then most of them can’t grow next year again and scientists call this a "trophic mismatch." In the winter the caribou dig in the snow where they find lichens and then in spring they switch to grassing and growth of willows, sedges, and flowering tundra herbs. Now that the birth rate increases they go to the areas where there is plenty of food for them. But now they nodes that there plant that they eat are already peeking it doesn’t depend on day light it depends on heat and if it hotter they grow faster so the caribou don’t have nothing more to eat. There is some miss matches already with some Dutch brides and there food is caterpillar prey that’s the same thing like by the caribou. It is happing so often now that you could say that it is like a eye blink that some thing like that happens.

What I don’t like about this:

That Clemet change is killing more and more animals. That these miss matches are happening so fast that more things will change faster then we will expect. That will mean the caribou cloud die out ore the plant that they are eating rate now and that goes for almost every animal.

fish in problems, humans too!!!

We know everything that global warming is doing than include the oceans, we know that currents are changing, natural disasters are occurring, and in some time the ocean can cover almost all the land we live in, but did you know that thanks to global warming also most of the marine life in it can be in total danger?
Warmer oceans contain less oxygen, as the globe has warmed, this warm oceans have less and less oxygen, meaning that less and less sea animals that can live in their natural and healthy environment, meaning more and more sea animals dying!
This is a huge chain that started from the humans not taking care of the Earth and because of that, the global warming, then to the oceans, after, to the marine life in the oceans and then back again to the humans because if there is not enough fish, then the whole marine animals food chain will be messed up, allot of this sea species in danger, the millions of industries of fishing and selling fish will be in problems and this is a chain that goes on and on.

My opinion:
I think this is a very important article, and it really makes you think because it shows you the consequences of the human’s actions (not taking care of the environment), it shows you that because of the humans a problem was made, and that problem lead to another one and another one etc... I think if we don’t stop this, later it is going to be too late, and huge consequences will come! I thought this article was shocking because it reminded me of all the things that could happen if we don’t put a stop or come up with a solution! I thought this was a very interesting article and I liked it a lot!
Maria Rubio

BlackBerry shares rise on SAP partnership, product rumours

This article is about how the Blackberry new flip-phone is making stock prices for shares of the software company SAP at a record high level.rising 2.8 percent. The company RIM sais they were teaming up with SAP to promote a new wireless service through the Blackberry. There was a rise in in the market over this possible new version of the Blackberry. This new phone would expand markets for both companies.

My opinion is that this is a great idea because of the new flip phone will be very popular because lots of teenagers will want to buy this product even though it is designed more for business use.

Infinity M

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

Ryan

Next decade may be cooler, not warmer

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

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

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano

Life on Mars?

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

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

Life on Mars?

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

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

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

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

My Opinion

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

Coldplay to give fans free taste of new album

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

150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life

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

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

Praise or Cash?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What I liked about this project:

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

ryan

A Solar Grand Plan

Some people think that that electricity should be used more and less gas because we are eventually going to run out. One quick fact in 2050 the whole usa could be powered by solar power. They would put in the desert one because pretty much now one lives there and two there is a lot of sun. In 2007 there were 6.9 billion barrels of oil if we don’t change in 2050 there will be 10.9 but if we do change there will be 2.7 that is a lot better. Another one, in 2007 there was billion tons of carbon dioxide was 6.1 in 2050 if we don’t change 9.4 and if we do change 2.3. What do I think of this? This will help the world so much it is the best idea ever.

Canadians increasingly chatting it up on cellphones: StatsCan

this article is about how many Canadians are using cell phones.

Less than a quarter of Canadian households now rely solely on land-line phone service, as the steady shift to cellphones and other alternatives continues, new figures show.
Only 3.1 million households 24 per cent of Canadian households had just land line phone service in December, according to the latest residential telephone service survey by Statistics Canada. That's down from 3.7 million households, or 29.6 per cent, a year earlier.They say that most households still use land line phones but the number is going down as more consumers switch to alternative forms of phone communication.Stats canada say that 72.4 per cent of households are now using at least one cellphone, up from 67.1 per cent in the prior year's survey. it says that more people are using cell phones and abandon their land line phones.surveys found 6.4 per cent of Canadian households rely on cellphones as their only form of telephone service, up from 5.1 per cent in 2006.
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i think that this isn't really a bad thing, because u don't want to be stuck at home all day waiting for a call to come in, what if they never even call, and u want to go out,but you cant because you have to wait for the person to call. just get a cell phone and thats how they can reach u if they really need to.

maybe im to addicted to cell phones but thats what i think.

Saint John zoo pleads for return of baby monkey

this article is a about a young monkey getting stolen from a zoo in saint johns.on tuesday night a young Callimico goeldii monkey was stolen from the cherry Brooke zoo in saint johns.this monkey was not even one.The staff say that this isn't just monkey business. The theft of this incident has appeared to use a hacksaw and kicked a heavy, padlocked door open. They say the monkey is black and really tiny obviously,because it is not even 1 years old. This little monkey was part of an international breeding program,adding,the zoo wont press any charges if the monkey is returned."We will not give a name, just please, please bring this animal back," Collrin said.They say that the little monkey needs special feed and should be with parents and siblings.it can also carry disease, It has upper and lower canine teeth. It can inflict damage and it's terrorized right now," she said.
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in my opinion i think that whoever took the poor little monkey should take it back because it has to have special food for itself and needs parents and siblings just like we do,plus their saying it can also have a disease, and in case they brought it to Canada i don't want to be diagnosed with monkey germs..hehe..

Consumer Alert: Plastics in Baby Bottles May Pose Health Risk

The reason: a growing number of studies show that exposure to low levels of BPA during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood may affect normal development and "sensitivity to onset of disease later in life, most particularly the potential for mammary and prostate cancer," says NTP associate director John Bucher, a toxicologist. "Exposure to BPA in utero tends to cause the differences between males and females you typically see to diminish." BPA has been used in the U.S. and worldwide since the 1950s as an essential building block of the polycarbonate plastic in water bottles as well as in epoxy resins used to line cans to prevent corrosion and food contamination; more than 2.3 billion pounds (one billion kilograms) of BPA are manufactured annually in the U.S. and more than three million metric tons of it are used worldwide in a year. The NTP found that, contrary to manufacturers' previous claims, humans are exposed to significant levels of BPA. Hentges admits that "there are several studies where there's limited evidence [of harm in animals]," but adds that he doesn't believe "there's a scientific basis to take action." Canadian officials say that more studies will be done, including monitoring some 5,000 pregnant women and their babies for BPA exposure levels. In the U.S. industry, academics and government officials also plan to conduct more research, including analyses of how BPA interacts with the human body and its effects on development in pregnant macaques.

polar bears dying becasue of global warming, global warming because of humans!

This articele is telling us about polar bears in the artic dying every day, because of global warming!
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at almost twice the rate of that of the rest of the world, and it is threatening to place the entire Arctic ecosystem in jeopardy. For the polar bear, an irreplaceable symbol of the Arctic, climate change could lead to their extinction.
The polar bear depends on sea ice to survive, hunting for seal until the ice disappears every summer. As climate warming reduces the ice, the polar bear loses precious hunting time, and ends up dying or the polar bear has no place to rest after a huge amount of time swimming, and finally dies because there was no ice and ends up drowning, the number of polar bears is declining every day!!!
How can this stop? Global warming is the reason of this happening, and who can we blame for global warming? Only us, all the humans. Since many many years ago, people (scientists etc) started warning people about global warming, and all the consequences it would bring. People did not listen and continued living the same life without worrrying a bit of what would happen, and today, people are seeing the consequences and if it is not too late to change, people should change or soon its going to be too late, and we will regret it and maybe will not be able to do anything!

MY OPINION:
I think its really important to think about what this article is saying. Global warming is actually happening, and sometimes with the life we have, we forget everything that is happening outside the bubble we live in! I think this kind of article is really good because it makes you think, and remember that people and animals, and pretty much the whole world is suffering so much because of global warming even if we dont notice it! I think everyone should do something to help, or not to get things worse than they already are, because for me, everything that is happening and that may happen really soon because of global warming, is very scary, because maybe today we live a perfect life but in a few years, maybe we will be suffering so much! I think everything that is happening to polar bears is really sad, and we should do something, maybe even if it is small, to try and stop this! I liked this article alot because it made me think!! I thought it was really interesting!!!
Maria Rubio!

Patrick Breaks Auto Racing Barrier

This article is about the first american woman danica patrick wining the major auto race on sunday.
she used a successful fuel stragady to capture an Indycar series event in motegi, japan.It says she won the race by almost 6 seconds over helio castroneves, the 2 time indianpolis 500 winner. Patrick who is 26 in 2005 became the first woman to lead the Indy 500, won in her 50th IndyCar Series start. Three drivers ahead of her had to stop for fuel late in the race, and Patrick took the lead from Castroneves on the 198th of 200 laps.
Patrick that is 5 foot 2,hundred pounds, moved to the poweful team co-owned by michael andretti last year won the third race of the IndyCar Series season. She credited her team for implementing the fuel strategy she needed to win the race.She said “Finally! This is a long time coming,” in an interview in Victory Lane.she said it was a fuel stragady race, but my team called it perfectly for me.I know I was on the same strategy as Helio and when I passed him for the lead, I couldn’t believe it. This is fabulous.”said patrick.

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i think this is a really good thing for a woman to win a really big race like this.There should be more woman drivers in america even in canada,because people dont really think woman can do this ind of thing. i have to admit i like cars and i would race if i could.

Salty, Old and, Perhaps, a Sign of Early Life

In this article, it talks abouit how scientists found out that where the desert is now in New Mexico there was a big ocean, that dried but that left salt that has molecules of cellulose in it, that is what makes up plant-cell walls, so with this they can look at stuff and things that existed even before dinosaurs.
So Because the molecule is made by living organisms, its presence in the salt deposit is evidence that some kind of ancient organism made the cellulose trapped inside.
To find out the molecules, scientists took materials from the salt to put them in a solution that would kill everything exept for cellulose. So The research team used radioactive dating to determine that the salt crystals—and the cellulose inside of them—formed more than 250 million years ago. In all that time, the crystals have hardly changed.
The findings tell the research team that ancient salt deposits like these might be ideal for preserving ancient molecules, which are signs of early life.
The evidence says that the organisms that live before and that the molecules that their bodies had, broke down really easily because of sunlight, or other living things that diggested them.
So there is a special name for scientists that study this kind of things, like the molecules, and the science they study is call astrobiology, that means the study of life in the universe, so they are trying to look for things like life in other planets, and in other universe, and to answer questions about life in space, like does something exists now, or does something existed in the past? and that kind of stuff.
Because they are interesting things that make this posible like Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa once had oceans, so maybe they had the salt depossits too, so maybe there was life in those planets too, but theres nothing that we can know for sure...

What I think about this research, is that there are a lot of things that can be connected between out planet Earth and some other planets in the Universe, just like Mars, so I think that if more research like this is done, maybe a lot of more proofs can be find to know if there has been life in some other planets and to compare them one to another, to see how different one planet can be from another one.
But I also find this really interesting becuase I didn't have any idea that the molecules in the salt could tell you more about life a long time ago, of the organisms that lived before we did, so I find this really interesting, to find new ways of discovering life in the past, to really now more about how was it before we (humans) started living in Earth, and how was life before, and to know the reasons because it changed and how and why did things happened.

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano

Unleashing the Bugs of War

This article is about people trying to take over the world with bugs. DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) will use bugs as aweapon against every single person that they go to war with. They will be able to watch every single move the enemy makes by using these cyborg bugs. They put mechanical components into bugs in their early stages of life so that as they grow they will heal and adapt to their new parts. These cybog bugs can be used for watching enemies as they will be like small cameras. I think what they should use instead of flying bugs they should use cockroaches because they can't die from nuclear bombs.

My opinion about this is that this is a great idea because these bugs could be planted everywhere and check on anyone. It could be a type of defence so that they can find out in advance if for instance there is an assassination attempt on the President. The United States, what will they think of next?

Better Sleep Aid

What is it?

It is a sleeping pill that is not dangerous, see about nine years ago researchers discovered that the sudden spells of sleepiness which is called narcolepsy were caused by a deficit of a brain peptide called orexin. It was discovered in Allschwil, Switzerland, 0drug test say that it works on human’s fine. What do I think of it? I think it is a big help because if people did not get enough sleep then they would not have any energy then in awhile they would die because they were too tired.

Ryan smith

The Kawasaki teryx 750 recreational utility vehicle

What is it? It is a four wheeler with a roof, it has a v-twin engine it has 749cc,

it is a single cylinder engine. It can travel through a lot of things, how do they now, because they did a test run in southern Utah and it worked really good. What do I think of it? I think it is really cool and I would bye one but only if it did not have a roof
ryan smith

Antibiotic aligator

I have come across many weird things in my days but this is at the top of the list. An alligator that contains proteins in its blood that shows promising signs of fighting blood diseases. This is an extraordinary discovery partly because it is inside an alligator. I can get finding a cure but having found an alligator that contains blood that may save peoples lives. That is two things to me...weird and cool! This could mean a treatment for E. Coli. I know I always bring this somewhat annoying topic up but hopefully this does not turn out like I am legend. Now when read about cures I'll think twice about rejoicing and letting my guard down. They found traces of antibiotics which can treat yeast infection which is a big problem in Canada. This is a simple solution for these diseases but if it works I fear the worst for the unlucky alligators who have to be taken into confinement to harvest their blood to help us. This is a great discovery but lets not get carried away and destroy the alligator population.

People trying to rekindle Pluto for a planet

First of all I think Pluto should have never been a planet in the first place and since its two moons are almost the same size it will never become a planet for years. A planet has a an atmospere, it orbits the sun. Although pluto does do this it does it at an extremely small rate. It is not a planet but it is a dwarf. If you want Pluto to become a planet don't arrgue with me, ask the astronomers and they well tell a whole lot of reasons that I will never think of. Pluto's moons are almst bigger than Pluto itself showing that it should not have been a planet in the first place. There is not alot I can say about this topic but let me leave you with this. PLUTO WILL MEVER BECOME A PLANET

Can the Brain Be Rebooted to Stop Drug Addiction?

Scientists for the first time have identified long-term changes in mice brains that may shed light on why addicts get hooked on drugs.
Researchers, using fluorescent tracer dye, discovered that mice given methamphetamines for 10 days (roughly equivalent to a human using it for two years) had suppressed activity in a certain area of their brains. Much to their surprise, normal function did not return even when the drug was stopped, but did when they administered a single dose of it again after the mice had been in withdrawal.
Previous research has shown that the drug stimulates nerve cells in the midbrain to release dopamine into the synapses (connections between neurons) in the striatum. Dopamine (which is connected to reward processing, motivation and attention) is one of the brain's primary neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers by which one neuron triggers its neighbor to fire a nerve impulse.
In my opinion drugs are something really addicting.
I think that the peapole doing this are really helping the world because drugs even do you dont take them they afect everyone.

Gasp! Scientists find first lung less frog

Researches working in Borneo have found the only lung less frog. In the national university of Singapore biologist David Bickford said that the frog has an amazing ability to breathe through it skin. The tiny frog measures 40mm and it weight 6.5 gram was found in western Kalimantan, Indonesia in August. The frog lives in clod, rushing water and is so rare that only two specimens had bin found previously. They don’t want to sacrifice the frogs that they find so Bickfrod’s team where the first to find out that the species was lung less. They didn’t use the traditional way of finding frogs Bickfrod said and they aren’t sure about seize of the population. They accidentally found it Bickfrod said in an e-mail to take some samples to do some DNA work with it. When they found the frog they all where septic about it bout when they found out they all where shocked. They looked at four of them and all four had know lungs. The frog gets all its air thought it skin and only amphibians are known to have know lungs.

Frogs may have lost lungs for survival

They say it adaptation to it environment because of where it lives it is hard to sink with lungs full of air. In cold water there is more air in the water then in warm water so that means that the frogs skin get more contact with the air in the water. It would have gotten swept away with lungs and cold blooded mammals don’t need so much oxygen. The finding clouds help to learn more about lung development and the genes that regulate tumour suppression. If it sill has the building blocks of organs then could find useful applications of the genes they could go under novel and unique mutation. Now it is guess work for them but it could work.

Frog’s future is ‘grim’

The illegal gold mining can kill them. It is interiorly our flout if we want to learn some thing from it we should help protect it. We know shockingly little about these animals.

What I like about this project:

That they found a new species of frogs and that it has know lungs. That it can brief thought it skin and that we can loran a lot from it because of its body built.

What I don’t like about this project:

Is that we are killing it by getting gold. That we don’t know much about them.

Foul Play?

The article talks about how scientists have found out that genes can affect with athletes when they take steroids to better in sports.
It explains that some persons don't produce proteins because of some gens that can be missing, so at the time that the drug tests are being done, then it can happen that the people that took them don't get in trouble and that the person that doesn't can: "That's what happens in this case. Scientists in Sweden found that some people completely lack the gene that produces the protein UGT2B17. It's an enzyme that prepares testosterone to be flushed from the body in the urine. They then showed how this genetic variation could affect the outcome of doping tests."
It also explains that testosterone is hormone that makes changes in boys when they are passing throgh puberty, so that a lot of steroids are made of it.
To know if testerone is from steroids or if it is from the normal one produced by the body, scientist check the ratios of chemicals in the urine.
So this is a way to find out if athletes are cheating or if it's just a confussion.

I think this is a really good idea, because if one athlete is taking drugs to be better and be a cheater, but he doesn't get caught because of the natural production of testosterone in his body, and he gets in trouble because of that, is something really unfair, especially if another athlete that has been doing drugs doesn't get caught.
So this method can make it all a lot more fair for everyone, knowing that the results will be exact so that they wouldn't be any more injustices, because I think that by now, some of these things are already happening and it has to be stopped, because if someone is trying really hard and always practicing to be better, it would be really unfair is he or she gets out of a competition, and a cheater wins.

Marcela Murillo

beer bellies and thunder thighs

Beer bellies and thunder thighs.

This article talked about why some men have “beer bellies” and some women have “thunder thighs”. It said that most women have fat around their reproductive organs because they need it if they are going to have a child to make good milk. I think that it is true, but they don’t need to become totally overweight and they should get into shape after they have the child. The article also stated that a “beer belly” is not actually from to much beer. It has to do something with when humans were gatherers; if they got attacked by a bear the fat would protect them from harm. I think this is absolutely ridiculous because the bear would kill the person before the person could kill the bear.

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!