Chewing Gum helps post surgery

A doctor came up with an idea that chewing gum after colon surgery may help you recover faster. It is believed that the chewing gum helped the people who had colon surgery heal fast then the people. Who didn’t chew gum while they where in the hospital.
The way it works was that the chewing gum triggers the hormones in the intestine to release faster. That causes it to heal faster.

What I thought about it

I thought that it wouldn’t help at all because it didn’t make sense that chewing gum would help you heal. And I thought that I was really stupid to believe that chewing would help you heal faster.

Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss

A kiss triggers a cascade of neural messages and chemicals that transmit tactile sensations, sexual excitement, feelings of closeness, motivation and even euphoria.

Kisses can convey important information about the status and future of a relationship. At the extreme, a bad first kiss can abruptly curtail a couple’s future.

Kissing may have evolved from primate mothers’ practice of chewing food for their young and then feeding them mouth-to-mouth. Some scientists theorize that kissing is crucial to the evolutionary process of mate selection.
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my opinion

i think that all of the bove is really true,and that kssing is healthy..until people get over excited,hehe.
not all kisses are the same,theres alot of differnt kind but it would to long of a list to write it all down soo..on to it.
kisses can also mean alot of different things.Some people dont really take kissing seriously when its really supposed to be handled well.i think u have to find that 1 special person.

"Kissing may even reveal the extent to which a partner is willing to commit to raising children, a central issue in long-term relationships and crucial to the survival of our species."

i think this could be true sometimes because kissing is very atractive and most people like doing it and it could lead on to something serious.

What i think pheramore is that its a type of thing athat travels through your body or something and can tell when your kissing someone.
i really do think kissing is healthy.

Is Old Age Memory Decline Reversible?

This article is about haw neuregenesis that is the nerve cell reproduction goes down with age … it's known that with old age there's a decrease in short- term memory,"
So they made experiments based on learning out of fear, such as associating a sound or light flash with a shock to a paw.with mice to see haw they remember stuff depending the age , so thy put the mice in a learning room to see haw they learn.
my opinion!!
I think that this article was really good i don't really like to do experiments with animals but this can really help old peopole and known haw the reack with thifirent kind of learning .

self powered nanotech

Self Powered Technology

Today we are beginning to create extremely small energy harvesters that can supply electrical power to the tiny world of scale devices where things are measured in billionths of a meter. They call these power plants generation. The ability to make power on a minuscule. They have been working on technology since 1990 when this type of technology interested researchers. They experiment in Massachusetts institute of technology’s media. They got these ideas from writs watches. The self powered technology is the size of a blood cell. What do I think of this? I think it is kind of a cool idea do be doing, maybe they should of started sooner because the researchers did not recognize it until 1990 which I do not like.

mystery illnes attacks bats!!!

this document is about this new illness (white nose syndrome) that it is attacking bats, before, scientists saw this same illness in bees, now it is found in bats, this is caused by a mysterious aliment!
white fungus was found around many of the affected bats, the plague claimed 13,500 (90 percent) of 15,000 bats over two years, and since last January has spread from four caves west of Albany, New York, to four other sites including, now Vermont.
After research they discovered that the syndrome kills the bats while they hibernate (taking away their fat reserve months ahead of schedule)!!!
specialist Alan Hicks called the illness "the gravest threat to bats [we] have ever seen."
my opinion!
i think this is very interesting and important, and i think their should be more research and scientist should try to find some way to avoid this disease, because even though i really dont like bats, their still animals , and something really wierd is happening and its changing everything because bats are important in the food chain and this venenous aliment can go from bats to another animal, and it could keep going on, because this had already happened in bees! i think this could be a very very dangerous and scientist should find the cause and find a way to stop this!!!!!! i think this article was veri interesting and i would like to learn more abou this!!!!!
**maria rubio

atlantis two close shaves

ATLANTIS… TWO CLOSE SHAVES

When I read this article I was appalled by the fact that workers at NASA (yes the place that makes space ships) had forgotten to straighten out one hose. Now if the shuttle was sent into space with that hose bent something terrible would happen. And also they forgot to check a malfunctioning fuel connector that links the gauge to the shuttle. Now if they were to go into space without enough fuel then they would not be able to re-enter without more fuel. Therefore they would be stuck up in space until they died. So NASA should really take more care in their work because if they don’t then they will find all kinds of problems with their ships like: crashes, impossible re-entry’s, death, explosions and horrible injuries.

new languages rapidly spring from old ones!!

Scientists for decades have clashed over whether evolution takes place gradually or is driven by short spurts of intense change.
In the latest chapter in this debate, researchers report in Science this week that it appears that when new languages spin-off from older ones, there is an initial introductory burst of alterations to vocabulary. Then, the language tends to settle and accumulate gradual changes over a long period of time. The team believes this discrete evolutionary pattern occurs when a social group tries to forge a separate identity.
"We treat the words that different languages use almost identically to the way we use genes: … The more divergent two species are, the less their genes have in common, just as the more divergent two languages are, the less their words have in common."

The team focused on three of the world's major language families in its study: Bantu (Swahili, Zulu, Ngumba, for example), Indo-European (English, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit) and Austronesian (South Pacific and Indian Ocean languages such as Taglaog or Seediq). They constructed genealogical trees—this time the trees traced existing languages back to their common roots; the length of a "branch" indicated the extent of word replacement that took place as each old language morphed (possibly with new languages splitting off) into its current form.

offers a few examples of these sorts of events, such as the sudden emergence of American English when Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828. More recently, he says, black American English could fit the bill as an emerging idiom.
"It's plausible to think of black American English as having diverged from standard English as a way of establishing a distinct identity," he says. "I think everybody's impression is those differences [between the two languages] are greater than one would expect for people who live in the same area."

my opinion
i think this article was a little confusing to understand, but i think it is very truth, because after reading the article it makes alot of sense for me.
i think to understand this article you should read it two or three times because its a little bit confusing, but after understanding it is very interesting and it makes sense!!!!
maria rubio

Heart Revival

The experiment was about rats that have been dead not more than 18 hours, and what happened was that the scientists took the hearts from the rats and but them in a beaker, there they cleaned them with detergent and later on they injected new living cells from rats that were just borned. Finally, 8 days later the hearts started pumping again. This is very helpful, because instead of needing a new heart from another "rat" in this case, the rats could still have their own hearts and it will be easier that the body accepted it better than another heart from another "rat".

I think that if scientists try this out more times, it can be a way of saving many people's life, because it is giving a better way of having more opportunity of life if the heart of a person stops working, and it can have good results or maybe bad ones, but I think because of all the advantages that science is having today this can be possible and I agree with it, but before it is better to have different tests with different animals also, because maybe it can work with a rat, but a rat's body and system is different from all the other animal & human systems, so it just takes time and more testing to see what are the results.

Marcela Murillo Trujano

New Zealand: ‘No Tears’ Onions

This article says that they have developed a new type of onion that when it is sliced it will not make people cry. They do this by "turning off" the gene that produces an enzyme that makes people cry when they cut into it.

I would think that's great but when I slice an onion I do not cry at all but if these onions have hormones that make cells less powerful it would probably make the onion taste different. That means that people should know what's happening to the onion. Generally when they change something in one way, it affects it in another way. So they shouldn't "turn off" the gene because what makes you cry is probably the thing that makes it taste good.

Proof New Zealand is the Best, invention of onions that don't make you cry

I always knew New Zealand would do something important soon. I wasn't looking for something of this magnitude but still, it is an important invention if you ask me. How many people are cutting an onion and cry, then your mum comes in the room and says, "are you crying?!" With New Zealand's beautiful invention that will never happen again. Now i would explain but the research New Zealand has put into this invention surpasses my knowledge. Unfortunatly this onion will not be in stores for a while yet, more like a decade, but when it does i will be there, not because it doesn't make you cry, because i am proud it comes from New Zealand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/asia/02briefs-onion.html?ex=1359781200&en=2f2de89edfa942d0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Is Old Age Memory Decline Reversible?

well this information is great because if there cells stop reprodusing then they shoudent have there drivers licence because for example in stanstead there was a old ladie and she was driving on the rong side of the rode. that should show that they should not have there drivers licence. they sould not give them class to help there brain they should just live there lifes.

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sorrrry.

900 jobs affected as Dell closes Edmonton call centre

Dell Inc. announced Thursday that it is closing its Edmonton call centre, a move that will affect more than 900 employees...

When i read this article..i didnt really like it because i feel really bad for the people that just joined the company,they're only gonna be there for another ew months and its gonne shut down.

they say its the second time in a week they close down a computer company in canada.
i dont really think they should shut it down. Because they're are people working there that just got their job there.instead of shutting it down in may i think they should shut it down in a year instead if they want to do that.

I DONT THINK THEY SHOUT SHUT IT DOWN!

Smog Can Make People Sick, Even Indoors

This article that I read is about the smock in the cities and that this smock affect you in a lot of ways ,also indoors .

They found that outdoor air pollution, ozone, is associated with symptoms of lower-respiratory and upper-respiratory stress that occur in buildings to workers,"

Sick building syndrome is a term used to describe a broad range of ailments, including dry eye, congestion, difficulty breathing, fatigue and headaches that strike workers inside office buildings but disappear when they leave the premises. This studies shoes that the smock is really bad for your body and the problem is that this is almost in every part of the world .

i think that this research in indoors smog really helps the community because it hurts everyone and we really need to take care of our world our people and also we have to take care of us with this smog that we are doing we can get worst diseases.

i really like this article it also shows you that the smok is not also affecting peapole aut side also in buildings an inm your oun home , we should research more abaut this to know more stuff and try to reapear the damage.

virtual video games educational

VIRTUAL VIDEO GAME EDUCATIONAL? NASA SAYS SO.

When I read this article I agreed completely with NASA’s proposal to make a MMO that simulates how different scientific and mathematic problems work. But of course there are people who will try to abuse and take advantage of this. And of course this will be better than just reading a book or getting taught by a teacher. It will also help with as it says in the article building teams, solving problems and cleaning and handling equipment. Because the reality is that virtual games are the next big thing. In say 10 years time, maybe less the big game system on the market will be a virtual head set. The Wii is an example of this, just imagine a system that actually reads and responds to your actions. I a few years people will say “hey you wanna come over and play my new system it’s virtual”. But I think that it could be a new revolution in technology and the military is already using it so why shouldn’t NASA. Yes the military uses a steel circle that rotates and they give the soldier a helmet and a fake gun, they power it up and he is in a virtual world with virtual enemies and allies. So all in all this is an amazing thing and it will be on the market in the next ten years

more activity= slower aging.... being lazy=getting older faster!

recently, specialists discovered, a big cause of premature death and fast aging.
they experimented with blood samples of some 2,400 twins after making experiments and proving them they got to the conclusion that the ones who exercised the most (an average of 199 minutes weekly) had in average a decade biologically younger than the "lazy ones"(which did 16 minutes or less a week).
The scientists speculate that stress, inflammation and oxidative stress (cell damage caused by oxygen exposure) may be responsible for aging faster in people that dont do exercise. Exercise is among the factors found to help alleviate stress (oviously helping aging). Previous research has linked regular workouts to lower rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity and osteoporosis.
The researchers note that their findings support U.S. guidelines calling for individuals to exercise moderately for 30 minutes at least five days a week. "Our results. . . show that adults who partake in regular physical activity are biologically younger than sedentary individuals," they say. "This conclusion provides a powerful message that could be used by clinicians to promote the potential anti-aging effect of regular exercise."

my opinion:
I think this is very important and true because usually people that dont do exercise are more weak and get more diseases that people who do exercise. i think everyone should find time to do some exercise a day or maybe only resting the weekends because it helps getting rid of the stress, the fast aging,the diseases and after getting used to the sport it gets really fun and entretaining!! i think this article is very interesting and important and i agree that exersice is very important in everybodies life!
maria

Mercury, As Never Seen Before

Mercury, As Never Seen Before

The article is about the Nasa's Messenger going to see mercury from a closer view, the trip was made on January 14.

This was really impresive, because not a lot of trips to the space go to "visit" Mercury. They were really, really close to the planet (that is the closest to the sun) and they were able to see the crater, and even though there was an expedition to this planet a long time ago, the sun iluminated another part of the planet, so when they went the last time they took pictures but were not able so see as good as this time, because of the light they could see different features from the planet that they didn't know before, they saw that the texture was different, they were able so see more about this planet.

They also saw that Caloris basin that is a crater in Mercury is one of the biggest from all the solar system. Other thing they saw is that in the atmosphere of Mercury that is really thin there is sodium, that is also in the Earth.

Other thing that the expedition did was the topographic measurements of this planet.

I think that is really interesting that people do this kind of expeditions, to know more about the other planets that are in the same solar system as our planet, because for me it's really interesting getting to know how all the planets are different and how they can have some similarities, and we just can know this if expeditions like this one are done, so I really like that they went there, and that they researched more about this planet, that not everyone know about because I think people talk more about planets like Mars, thinking if there is life there, or that water was found there, but how can we know about the other planets if there are no expeditions to research them, and I know it's difficult because of a lot of things, like just going out of our planet, and also because of the positions of the planets, that Mercury is the closer than any other planet to the sun so this makes it more difficult, but I really like all the research and pictures that was done.

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano

Satellite may flail towards earth

I have always been interested about space, and was interested to read this article. I have read in many books that space junk is becoming a serious problem... I'd rather have junk in the middle of the universe than having it crash down on earth. It is actually very often that a satellite falls out of orbit and plunges towards earth but most of them burn up in the atmosphere. The debris that makes it through the atmosphere usually lands in a remote area and cause little or no harm. I thought that I knew a lot about space, but only through this article i learnt that the biggest satellite to fall to earth was named "Skylab" and was 78 tons. 78 tons is 70760.4097 kilograms and a heavyweight sumo wrestler only weighs 150kg +. I wonder why i have never heard of this before. It is probably because it happened in 1972 but still it is really interesting and i wish i knew about it earlier. What amazes me is that they already know about this incident and it is due to fall to earth in late February or early March. That is quite a long way away. My one last thought about this is, I hope it does not hit Stanstead Quebec.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/us/27spy.html?_r=1&ex=1359176400&en=07135437a9e09924&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

The Big Clean

ryan smith about flouride

Fluoride

People are having second thoughts about fluoride in water systems. Research shows that too much fluoride can rise of disordered affecting our teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid glands. National research council recommended that the government lower the limit for the amount found in many foods and beverages and tooth paste. Beverages like juice, soda, ice pops, fruit, and processed foods. When teeth come out UN evenly colour or pitted and stained brown.

By: Ryan Smith