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.