The purpose of this assignment is to develop your ability to read and write about science.
The assignment:
Each week you will find an science related article that is interesting to you. It can be about any topic, not just whatever we are studying in class. Then you will write a report which has these three parts:
1) Citation: Here you will put the name of the article, the author, and where you found it (for example, the New York Times or Science News for Kids).
2) A brief summary: Here you will summarize the article in one or two sentences. This is to give your readers (including me) a sense of what you have read.
3) Reflection: This is the biggest part of your report. I am interested in your response to the article. Please address the following questions in your reflection:
a) What did you think about the article? Did you like it or not? Why?
b) What interested you or surprised you about the article?
c) What questions do you have about what you read? What would you like to know more about what you’ve read?
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IKE Strikes
Found: In the New York Times
Written By: Larry McShane and Rich Schapiro
About the article: The hurricane IKE in Houston Texas that killed 4 people and caused 8 billon dollars in damage!
Reflection: I don’t like this story because it is sad how this hurricane wiped out so many things and destroyed 8 billon dollars of damage and was only category 2 and the winds were 110 mph. IKE left 3 million people without power and 1 million were evacuated. 4 people lost there lives due to the deadliest hurricane this year. Officials in Houston recorded 1,250 911 calls in the 24 hour stretch. 50 planes we dispatched to locate stranded survivors as part of the largest search and rescue mission in state history. The brunt of the storm reached land at 2:15 am in Galveston home to the nation’s deadliest hurricane, witch killed about 6,000 people in the year 1900. it was very unfortunate to have this hurricane hit our country but they will always come back for more.
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Weekly Science Report #1
Citation: Oceans are ‘too noisy’ for whales
Written By: Richard Black
Website: http://www.pageflakes.com/
Summary: The noise level in the ocean is getting higher. It is causing problems for the marine mammal like whales and dolphins.
Reflection:
I think the article was good. It was interesting; I didn’t know that the marine mammals were getting affected by the noise. What was surprising was that whales and dolphins use sound in ways that are clearly important to their survival. I was wondering about how they can tell that the noise was affecting the animals?
Weekly science article report # 1
Citation: Oceans Are ‘Too Noisy’ For Whales by Richard Black
Website: www.pageflakes.com
Summary: The noise level in the world’s oceans are causing serious problems for marine mammals such as whales and dolphins.
Reflection: I really liked this article because I learned a lot from it about marine mammals. What I thought was interesting about this article was that dolphins and whales use sounds in ways that help them survive. I was wondering what they are going to do to stop this.
This article was very interesting to me. The title is called the tiniest serpent. I went to page flakes and the link was on there. The article is on science news for kids, a website. Here’s the link to get to the website…http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20080903/Note2.asp
This article is on a creature. This creature was recently discovered and is very small. It looks sort of like a worm. This creature set a record for being so small! This creature is a little less then four inches. It has stripes going down for its eyes to its tail. It has a category of its own because of its DNA. The serpent was found on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
I really liked this article a lot. I found it to be so interesting. The creature I read about is so small and in the article there is a picture of the serpent and it's compared to a quarter. The thing that I found really interesting is that it’s so unique and it needs its own category because it’s unlike any other creatures! One question I have is roughly how many are there in the world… are there a lot of them or not? Another thing I would like to no is where a lot of them are located besides the Caribbean Island of Barbados.
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Photo: Michiels etal
Author: unknown
Found: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/science-shots/
Summary: this story was about a fish that can change it skin color red. The fish can do this without getting spotted by other predators.
Reflection: what I really liked about this story was it was very cool how an animal could change its color within seconds. Certain species of fish can glow red like the nose of Rudolph, Santa’s reindeer. But when researchers used lighting designed to detect florescent lighting, they discovered 32 species of fish in reefs near Egypt and Australia that gave off a rosy glow. It would be really cool to maybe go snorkeling with this fish. I would like to see it glow and see what happens when the other fish see the red glowing fish. The color is visible only at short distances underwater, so researchers found out that fish use it for communication without having to worry about it attracting predators with the glow. I would like to ask the author, what does this fish eat, what kind of fish is it, does it have relatives and if so what fish.
Fast food could betray criminals
Found: BBC news
About the article: Police have invented a new technique on scanning fingerprints.
Summary: On the basis that processed foods tend to be high in salt as a preservative, the body needs to excrete excess salt which comes out as sweat through the pores in the fingers. So the sweaty fingerprint impression they leave when they touch a surface will be high in salt if they eat a lot of processed foods the higher the salt, the better the corrosion of the metal. Which makes it easier to read.
Weekly Science Article # 1
"Whale Songs Are Heard For he First Around New York City"
Cornell University
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080916143906.htm
This article is about how recorders were placed 13 miles from the New York Harbor and they had recorded Whale songs from Spring 2008. Scientists at Biocoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
director, Chris Clark, says they're going to be studying them until February 2009 and they expect to find out much more about these endagered species, now that they're much closer to study and observe.
I thought that this article was very interesting and important. One, because whales usually never come around here and two, because it's kinda odd, no, very odd that whales are around New York City.
There's one thing that DOES really surprise me, it's that, why exactly would scientists put recorders there?Is there something we don't know that they do?Oh, and I'd alos like to know, when they're studying the movement of the whales right now, what are they thinking?Thats's something that they didn't mention. Are the songs of the whales trying to tell us something?Why are they here?Do they need to be?What's happening to their actual environment?
Citation: Title: Blooming Jellies
Author: Rachel Ehrenberg
Found: Science News For Kids
A Brief Summary: Jellyfish are swarming into places that there weren’t many jellyfish before. There are so many that they are causing problems for fisherman!
Reflection: (a) I really enjoyed this article. I liked it because in the beginning it exsplained what a jellyfish can do to you, and I never knew some of the facts, until now. Towards the middle of the article it really started to explain the big population of jellyfish. There are so many that they are clogging pipes that bring water into power plants, and even killing some fish, and damaging nets that boats use to catch a lot of fish at one time!
(b) The part of this article I thought was most interesting was that it showed a big picture of a jelly fish in Japan, and the paragraph above it said that a jelly fish could weigh as much as a grizzly bear!!which is over 500 pounds!!!!! I was surmised then I saw a picture that had a net full of jellyfish!
(c) the questions I have about what I read are:
Are all of these jellyfish going to make the population of fish decrease by a lot?
Where are all of them coming from?
I would like to know more about what the average size of a jellyfish would be.
Mr. Ardito, the small box in my refliction on section B was supposed to be 2 pictures but it ended up saying "foeo" heres the link if you want to see the pictures & my article
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20080409/Feature1.asp
Weekly Science Report #1
Title: Fast-food could betray criminals
Found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7617142.stm
About the article: Criminals that eat at fast food restaurants can now be tracked easily because of a new fingerprinting technique that utilizes the salt in their sweat
Reflection: I liked this article because it seemed interesting how the new finger-print technique can actually use the salt in their sweat to find and track criminals. Although the technique can only track fingerprints on metal, it seems like a very useful device and it seems amazing how far technology has come.
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Found: Wikipedia.com
Striped Bass
Striped Bass are found along the atlantic coast in North America. The amazing thing about striped bass, also found in salmon, is that they can regulate to their environment, from salt to fresh water and vise versa. striped bass migrate in huge amounts up the hudson and other rivers to lay their eggs and go back to the ocean. The striped bass that "hatch" spend almost all of their early lifetime in fresh water then spend their adult life in salt water. Striped Bass are very significant in sport fishing and is a reason why they are becoming an endangered species. You can go on party boats that fish specifically for a certain type of fish. When sailfish and Tuna are not available to catch, people go striped bass fishing because they tend to get very big. They are called striped bass because they have 6 to 7 stripes on each side of their body, stating from the gills to the base of the tail. They grow up to about 6.6 feet long and the biggest scientifically recorded striped bass is 125 US pounds. They eat eels, mackerel, blood worms, sand worms, clams and bunker.
My article is called Photographs of fluorescent fish. I got the article by going to www.pageflakes.com and found an article that interested me was this article that was science daily .com. There was no author by in my article that I read. The article was about Fluorescent fish that communicate by red glow like bees expect bees do little dance and you can see the red glow at depth. The scientists think it’s a private conservation with fluorescent animals. I thought my article was interesting how the fluorescent fish can glow under water and communicate with other fish. What surprise me? Was that fish can communicate with other fish? My questions are what can they eat or can’t and what makes them glow inside.
Near New York Harbor, the Song of Whales
By KENNETH CHANG (New York Times)
Summery: The Whales have come to New York in the Harbor ad are gettin all the attention.They are being tracted down for reseach.
Reflection:This article is interesting to me because, i really didn't think thst whales would come around to New York! I really liked the topic they discussed. It was really surprising to hear about the whales. I would really like to know or find out about the other types of creatures and/or animals found in the Harbor or maybe just near croton in the hudson river.
More info got to
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/science/17whale.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.
1. by: Susan Milius
from: Science News
2. They found these fishes under water that glow red. Now they explain how they glow red.
3. I thought it was great. I really like the fact they would really find glow in the dark fish. What interested me is that the fish would turn a bright red. I thought it could be any color. My questions were how or what do they have inside them that makes the fish turn red?
Title: Permafrost May Not Thaw Even During Global Warming
Source: New York Times
Written by: Henry Fountain
This article is really about why Global Warming will not affect Permafrost as much as expecter to.
I thought that the article was a little decieving by the title becuase it said that permafrost may not melt, but there is a few key facts on how it will melt.
What suprised me was that there were hundreds of years of ice from the spring when the snow melted in the permafrost.
I dont really have any questions on this article because it was pretty straight forward, but short, those are the kind of articles that I like, straight forward and short.
well, now that i have done my HW, im gonna play my PS3!!!!
Citation:
More Than Skin Deep: There's No Such Thing As A 'Safe' Suntan, Researchers Warn. ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2008)
Website:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080918081046.htm
Written By:
Adapted from materials provided by Wiley-Blackwell, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
About the Article:
This article says that exposure to ultra violet rays either by sun bathing or the use of tanning beds is damaging to the skin of humans. They both can cause deadly melonoma skin cancer and can be avoided.
Reflection:
I liked this article because it was very informative and in the same time interesting and provided life saving advice.
I found surprising and alarming that melonoma skin cancer can be so deadly. I also learned a valuable lesson to stay away from tanning beds and don't spend too much time sunbathing and you proper suntan lotion.
I would like to learn more information about the best and safest suntan lotions and products available to the public that can prevent skin cancer for me and my family members and at the same time allow us to enjoy the sunshine.
the chemistry of sleeplessness
(doesn't say author's name)
science news for kids
dopamine, a chemical in the brain, keeps those who don't get enough sleep from not falling asleep during the day.
I think this article is really interesting and how it had so much information about sleep in it. I liked it because I learned a lot about how you can be affected by lack of sleep. and there is a chemical in your brain that keeps people who got less sleep, awake during the day.
It's really interesting how the dopamine keeps you awake even though you feel tired.
I wonder how long the dopamine can keep you awake.
The anonymous was me.. my bad.
the chemistry of sleeplessness
(doesn't say author's name)
science news for kids
dopamine, a chemical in the brain, keeps those who don't get enough sleep from not falling asleep during the day.
I think this article is really interesting and how it had so much information about sleep in it. I liked it because I learned a lot about how you can be affected by lack of sleep. and there is a chemical in your brain that keeps people who got less sleep, awake during the day.
It's really interesting how the dopamine keeps you awake even though you feel tired.
I wonder how long the dopamine can keep you awake.
From:Sunday Times 12/18/05
Written by:Will Iredale
Polar bears are almost all dead. Their drowning in water trying to find food.
I liked this article beacause it in formed me on what is going on with the polar bears.
The that interesting for me was that the polar bears almost have no land to stand on and are drowming to death because their trying to find new land or trying to get food.
I wonder when polar bears are suposed to be exinct and what I can do to help the polar bears. I would defenetly like to know when this all started to happen and what is going on with the polar bears in 2008.
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