This week, you will put together our last weekly science article report of the year!
Your reflection should be at least 250 words long (you can use the Word Count feature in Word to keep track of this -- it's under the Tools menu).
Since this is our last weekly science article report of the year, I expect this to be your best work all year.
So, your assignment is:
1) Find an article an do our regular weekly science article report (look back on the blog to find a description if you don't remember).
2) Makes comments on the reports of 3 other students.
3) This is all due by next Monday, June 1st.
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The name of my article is “Virtual Smart Home Controlled by your Thoughts” which was written in Science Daily, May 26, 2009.
My article was about two European inventions being worked on. The inventions are made by a company named G. Tec. One invention is a smart home that can be controlled by your mind. In other words, you can turn on a light, open a door, and even see what’s on television. This is a great invention for disabled people, but can also be for your average channel-surfing coach potato. The second invention is another thought-powered invention. It’s a virtual reality where you can move by just thinking about where you want to go. It is going to be used for realty and people in wheel chairs that want to somewhat feel the experience of walking again.
WHAT DID I THINK ABOUT THE ARTICLE?
I thought the article was good, but the inventions were kind of science fiction-y. I liked it because it wasn’t really an invention for any person who is too lazy to turn their wrist to open a door. It was for disabled people, or people that needed it to survive on their own.
WHAT WAS I INTERESTED OR SURPISED ABOUT?
To me the most interesting part about the article was the way it was powered. Just that fact that it was powered by thought was such an outstanding fact. Another thing that surprised me was that people would even waste time and money on thought controlled virtual reality. It just seems like a quite unnecessary invention.
WHAT QUESTIONS DO I HAVE ABOUT WHAT I’VE READ?
I would like to know some of the drawbacks to these inventions. It seems odd that it wouldn’t because almost every single invention has some flaw. I would also like to find out when these inventions are released and how much it costs. Something with such high technology must cost a lot of money.
Title - “ Cat in China Grows A Pair Of Wings “
Author – not shown.
Website – msnbc.com
summary –
This article was about how a kitten in China grew wings, at the age of one. These wing like attachments were found on both sides of the kittens spine. The cat isn’t having any discomfort from this new addition to his body. Doctors have different theories, for these wings, some say that they are a genetic mutation of some kind, a Siamese twin growing inside of the already born kitten, or a genetic change, formed by the mother of this cat ingesting chemicals while pregnant.
{ reflection }
what did you think of the article ?
I thought this article was really cool, because its really rare for this to happen. The article was really interesting, and the titled made me curious, reeling me in to read it. I think that to improve the article, it could have a little bit more info on the topic, because it left me with a lot of questions.
what interested you ?
It interested me that even though this is a rare thing, ( a cat having wings ) there are still so many different possibilities of things that could have happen to cause this. I wanted to see how frequently cats grow wings, so I did some more research on cases where cats grew wings, and I noticed that all of the cases I found happened in China… is there a reason for this pattern ?
questions :
I would really like to know, exactly why the cat grew wings…
If the kitten grew them, because of a Siamese twin growing inside of it, will the wings continue to grow bigger, and eventually into a full cat ? Also, China has really harsh air pollution… I was wondering if maybe that could be the reason for this mutation… ?
My article was the same as Eli manning rox…Sorry
The article I read was about how in the future, we will be able to control small things like opening doors, turning the lights on and turning on the TV, just by thinking about it. That would be awesome!! There would be no more fights over the remote, just a battle of brain power. The system is called Brain Computer Interface, or, BCI. It would greatly help disabled people, and lazy people. All you have to do is think about what you want done, and it’s done. It was invented by an Austrian medical company called g.tec.
To create this marvelous invention, g.tec teamed up with many international universities and institutes funded by EU Presenccia project. The project included creating a smart home in virtual reality. The house had a kitchen, bathroom, and a living room, and, in virtual reality, if you thought about those rooms, you went there. Electroencephalograms or, EEG, gear monitored electric brain activity through electrodes
(Cool pic of an electrode here http://www.biosemi.com/pics/Praamstra_cap2_large.jpg) attached to the users head. After a while, the EEG was able to recognize pattern in brain activity when the user thought of different things, like turning on a light.
The article itself was very long and went into great detail. It was very informative about the new thing being invented. It had different subsections about all the things it could do, and what the technology was leading to.
I was surprised that when “thought typing” you actually have to stare at the letter you want to type before you can write a word. I thought you thought the word “Because”, and the computer wrote “Because”. Also, I was interested about how they tested the technology in a virtual environment. That would be like a video game, but tons of people would be standing around you taking notes.
I was wondering how the technology actually receives the brain messages, and if it messed up at all. I just think it would stink if you wanted to turn on the TV, and you turned on the stove, started a fire and burned your house down. Also, would you need to wear a helmet all the time so that the house could read you thoughts?
Comments:
Eli Manning Rox:
It's so cool how they made a virtual smart home. It is so cool how the house is powered
Swine Flu Goes Global
http://sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090506/Note2.asp
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I read an article about the Swine Flu outbreak. The swine flu outbreak is supposedly from pigs. If the Swine Flu is from pigs, you don’t have to stop eating pork or visiting pigs (you can’t catch the flu by eating pork or by being near pigs.) North America is not the only continent that has been infected by the flu, it was reported that there are over 1,000 cases in 21 countries including the United States. Other kinds of flu are caused by viruses; the swine flu is also caused by a virus. Scientists are getting closer to a vaccine but it will stay be months before one is produce. They need to study the flu and then make the vaccine.
I thought the article was informational and that it informed readers about the swine flu, if they did not already know about it. I heard that the virus was coming from pigs and the flu is contagious but I feel safer now that I know I can not get the Swine Flu from being around pigs and eating pork. I liked the article because I was not that informed on the Swine Flu but now I know that they are trying to make a vaccine and that the virus is world wide. I was surprised that it takes so long to make a vaccine for a virus/ flu; I thought it only took about 3 weeks but now I know it takes a whole lot longer. The one question I have is: how can pigs give us disease, were they always caring it?
Comments:
Eli Manning Rox:
(Continued) How can disabled people feel like people who can function properly with this home?
Hello There!:
Wow that is so cool that a cat grew wings! Is it a genetic mutation? Was the cat bred with some other animal other then a cat?
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eli manning rox :
The article you picked sounded so cool ! I think its really amazing that scientists can use there knowledge to help people out, like in this case, disabled people. After reading your review, I was wondering how this worked... because it seems crazy for someone's mind to control all of this stuff.
kr.td.23:
Even though you & eli manning rox did the same article, you both put different components into your response. I like how you went in depth about how this invention works. I was wondering, would little kids, with brains not fully developed be able to take part in this brain invention ?
Pony Girl:
Your response was really informative, and you went into detail very well. But, I thought you could have picked an article that was a bit more new and exciting. Other than that, your writing was very good.
New Extinct Lemur Species Discovered In Madagascar
Unknown Author
Science Daily
This article was about scientists finding a new extinct species of lemurs in Madagascar. This article told about the similarities and differences between the new found extinct lemur species and the other extinct lemur species in its group.
I enjoyed this article. I enjoyed it because it was about a new thing. Even though we found it not living, I still think it is a really cool thing.
I also found this article interesting. I found it interesting because the article did not repeat information, it just added more. The article just kept adding more information, but not so much so you would get overwhelmed; just the right amount.
This article surprised me in many ways. One thing that surprised me was the new species did not live anywhere near the other extinct lemur species; it lived in a different habitat. The new lemur lived in the north near rivers and large bays. The other species of lemurs lived more in the south or center of Madagascar. Another thing that surprised me was that the teeth of both species are different. The new found species has smaller teeth than the other lemurs which is inferred that they ate different things. For example, the other extinct species were inferred to have eaten leaves and fruit. But, the newly discovered species is inferred to have eaten much tougher foods such as seeds.
After reading this article, I have a couple questions. Are these lemurs related to the lemurs today? Do these lemurs in this group look the same even though the newly discovered one was found in a different habitat? I would like to know more about what the species in this group look like.
BY MILKY MILK
What my Article is about:
The article I read is about Komodo Dragons and how they kill their prey. Scientist originally thought that the bacteria that was still stuck in the Komodo Dragons teeth from their last meal was the reason why their prey died (yum?). But now scientist all they way in Australia found out that when the Komodo Dragons bite their victims, it weakens and immobilizes their victim/ prey because the dragons haves these glands (obviously) in their mouth that injects venom. Komodo Dragons rarely attack humans but there have been some reported (odd…). For example; In March, an Indonesian fisherman was killed when he trespassed on a remote island in search of fruit. A month earlier, a ranger in the same park survived after a Komodo dragon climbed the ladder into his hut and bit his hand and foot.
What did I think of the article?
I thought this article was very interesting. First, I don’t know anything about Komodo Dragons except what I learned watching the “The Wild Thornberrys” when I was in Kindergarten. Second, I always referred to them as ‘over grown lizards.” Well, now I can refer to them as ‘VENOMOUS over grown lizards…’ Third, in school we never do those ‘research your own animal’ projects anymore (plus I haven’t really thought of doing my own personal research; even though they’re somewhat fascinating, I would probably pick Marine Biology over that because I ADORE sea creatures! Anyway, when I read they kill with venom I freaked out! The venom keeps blood from clotting around the preys wound. This causes a drop in the blood pressure. The blood loss and the blood pressure drop combined weaken the animal, and then it eventually dies. The theory is consistent with what happens to the prey soon after it's bitten, the scientists said.
Lastly, I never knew how huge they got. I knew they’re big but some Komodo Dragons can weigh more than 220 pounds (100 kilograms) and grow up to 10 feet (3 meters) in length! I was like, “Whoa! These dudes are big.” Talk about a growthspirt. I wonder how small they are when they’re young. I know they can sort of blend in with their sorrundings because of their skin color. I know they can’t grab/bite like crocodiles can.
What interested me?
Everything, actually, really interested me (even though I find them a bit creepy). The things that really caught my eye were:
1) They can weigh more than 220 pounds (100 kilograms) and grow up to 10 feet (3 meters) in length.
2) Their bites are not as strong as a crocodiles.
3) It then injects venom from special glands in the mouth.
4) The venom keeps blood from clotting around the prey's wound. And it causes a drop in the blood pressure. The blood loss and the blood pressure drop combine to weaken the animal.
My Questions:
How much does a young komodo dragon weigh? How long are young komodo dragons? How big is a komodo dragons mouth? How old are they when they die? Do they eat anything besides meat? The article said “…a ranger in the same park survived after a Komodo dragon climbed the ladder into his hut and bit his hand and foot…” How did he survive if the komodo dragon put his “weakening” venom in him? Does the venom spread throughout the body fast or slow? Does the venom spread throughout the body at all? How long have the people who have been researching Komodo Dragons?
Where I found this article:
Here is the site- http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/20/komodo.dragon.bite/index.html or go to http://www.pvcscience.blogspot.com/ then click CNN Science News from there click the picture of the komodo dragon with the caption Komodo dragons kill with venom, not bacteria, study says: A new study dispels the widely accepted theory that the Komodo dragon kills by infecting its prey with toxic bacteria.
my article is about the transgenic line of monkeys carrying a gene encoding green fluorescent protein fully integrated into their DNA has been created for the first time. The research, published in the journal Nature, marks the first such feat in non-human primates and paves the way for developing new models of human diseases.
Scientists reported the first transgenic monkeys last year — a model of Huntington’s disease — but in these animals, the gene did not fully integrate into the monkey’s own DNA and was not passed down to their offspring. In this report, Erika Sasaki and colleagues used viral DNA as a delivery vehicle to introduce the gene for GFP into the DNA of the common marmoset Callithrix jacchus. They show that the gene integrated into the monkey’s DNA and was successfully passed down to their offspring, which were healthy and all expressed the new gene.
Transgenic mice have contributed immensely to biomedical research, but for many diseases they are too dissimilar from humans for the results to be meaningful. Non-human primates hold great promise for the study of several human diseases, particularly neurological disorders, for which there are currently no appropriate experimental models. This study marks an important milestone on the road to developing the means to investigate these diseases.
In an accompanying news story, Nature News reporter David Cyranoski explains why other transgenic monkeys have failed to reproduce so far, and describes the 5-year Japanese project to develop alternative animal models of which Sasaki’s research is a part. Also in this issue, an editorial calls for researchers working on transgenic primates to go much further than they have so far in articulating the ethical aspects both of their research and its potential applications. Engagement in public discussion is essential to avoid inappropriate regulation.
I like my article because before i did this blog i thought nothing of it then i read it and was amazed. I was pulled in by this article because i like hearing about cool animals and what they do. I would love to learn more maybe in class.
Hello There!:
holy cow a cat with wings!! i never new that was possible. i think its cool that you picked this article i really think its cool.
Eli Manning Rox:
I think its really cool how the house is powered and that its smart.
Pony girl:
i like your article. i like the detail you put into it. i had already heard about this but it was cool learning it in your words.
Human evolution at the crossroads
By Alan Boyle
MSNBC
This article is about how many scientists are considering the theory of evolution and how evolution might affect the human race in the future. The article states that evolution is caused by genetic mutations and many scientists feel that many genetic mutations will happen in the future and these mutations will affect that human race. Paleontologists say that at one time in our history humans as we see them today may shared the earth with as many as three other closely related types of creatures. The article also says that other scientists believe there will be machines invented to artificially change a human’s DNA and evolution of humans will change rapidly.
I really liked this article because I never really knew what evolution was and why it happened and this really opened my eyes to what it is. I also really connected what we learned about genetic mutations to evolution and this article really helped me understand that. I also really liked the graphics that were used in the article.
It really surprised me that at one time in history that there may have been three “types” of other human like creators. The whole article really interested me because I learned about some theories about evolution that I have never heard before. Before reading this article I really only thought there was one theory of evolution but now I know there are many.
I was interested to know how these scientists come up with the theories of how evolution will affect us in the future. I also wanted to know when the other creators that were like humans first showed up in our history and when they died out. I wanted to know why they showed up and died out. I wanted to know if scientists have always considered there being such thing as a machine that would lead evolution and if not when did this theory start to come up. I also want to know if the theories about human evolution apply to other animals and if not, what are some theirs for other animal evolution.
Hello There: I thought the article you picked was really interesting and I thought you explained what the article was about really well. I also really liked the questions you were thinking about. I did think the part of your writing that was about what interested you in the article and if you liked the article were very similar.
Pony Girl: I think you wrote about your article really well. I have heard about the swine flu a lot so it wasn’t very interesting to me. I thought you also could have reflected on the article a little bit more than you did.
Idk345: I really liked that you explained the article very quickly and most of your article was reflecting on your article just like we were told to do. I thought you did a really good job explaining what you liked about the article.
Comments
By Milky Milk
hello there !:
Your article was something else! The first thing I did was stare at the screen when I saw the title. I finished reading it a few minutes later. I thought you picked a really different & interesting topic. It was very interesting yet strange to read about a cat growing wings. I have the same questions as you. Good thing the saying is ‘when pigs fly,’ instead of ‘when CATS fly,’ right? Good job on your work.
eli manning rox:
I read your article and I thought it was really cool. I agree with how this article sounds a bit science fiction-ish, but living in this type of home does have pro’s and con’s to it. I also agree about how scientist would be wasting so much money on this kind of invention given our economic times, but like said there are pro’s and con’s to almost everything, and I bet there are people (like the disabled) who could REALLY benefit from something like this I agree with you how fasinating it is that you can live in a home powered by your thoughts.
Pony Girl:
Whoa! Lots of info dude! I had no clue the swine flu was from pigs! Thank God that they’re making a vaccine. Huwf! For a second I thought I had to stop eating pork! As soon as I saw your title, I sat straight up, flinched, and was wide eyed. I can’t believe that it went world wide already. Okay still getting over that shock. I’m also wondering about your question, because I want to know, too. Good topic-good job.
THIS IS TO THE WHOLE CLASS: YOU SAID IN MATH YOU WERE ALL WONDERING ABOUT MY REAL IDENTITY. SINCE THIS IS THE LAST BLOG I WILL ANNOUNCE WHO I AM; I’M CIANA! I PICKED THIS NAME BECAUSE I KNEW NO ONE WOULD GUESS WHO PICKED THIS NAME AND THINK IT WOULD BE THE LESS OBVIOUS PERSON.
Supergoo to the Rescue- sciencenewsforkids.org
This article was about how there is a crystal like substance in disposable diapers [Sodium Polyacrylate] that is able to soak up a lot of water or any liquid and how it can hold up to one hundred times its weight in water. When the crystals absorb water it converts into thick sticky goo which happened to also be the reason why diapers get so heavy. But the big deal in this article was that scientists have found an important use for this “goo” which is for it to become sort of like a “terrorist attack cleanser.” This would be important because after terrorist attacks [such as bombings] there is a scare about the clean up. A bomb for example is an explosive that uses radioactive materials that can cloud up the air and can send off an energy that’s comes in the form of radiation. This can be deadly to people or make you very ill.
I enjoyed the article because it interested me how something so little as diapers can have a huge effect on us and can help us. I liked how the article was very informative and when I was confused about something, as I read on it seemed like all my questions were answered. I think that’s important in an article.
What had really surprised me was that of all materials to find crystallized “goo”, scientists used diapers. But I think that it’s really good and earth friendly to use used diapers. I also really was surprised when I read that the goo is nontoxic and you can actually eat it!!!
A question that I have is what other materials are found in reusable items that you can use for the “good of mankind?”
Also why when the crystals are in water, do they convert into goo?
-chrissybrown08
comment:
chrissybrown08:
I think you wrote about the article very well. I liked that they ca reuse diapers because I know babies go through a whole lot of diapers and then they just go threw away. You could have said more of your opinion about the article but otherwise it was very well written
have a great day:
I liked how you put a lot of thought into your reflection. I also liked how you picked an article that related to what we learned in science.
hello there!:
I liked how you made your own theory about the cat. I also liked how you really thought about the article, like researching other cases and things like that.
Robotic fish
The waters of the port of Gijon, Spain are shortly to be invaded – by robots.
Scientists are building a group of robot fish to be let loose in the port to check on the quality of the water. Modelled on carp and costing about $29,000 each to make, the fish are to be lifelike in appearance and swimming behavior so they will not alarm their fellow marine inhabitants.
The robots, the first of their kind, are equipped with tiny chemical sensors capable of detecting pollutants in the water. These let the fish hone in on the sources of hazardous pollutants, such as leaks from vessels or undersea pipelines.
The fish were developed by the University of Essex in Britain and UK-based engineering consultancy BMT Group. They are the result of a three-year research project funded by the European Commission.
“Using shoals of robotic fish for pollution detection in harbours might appear like something straight out of science fiction [but] there are very practical reasons for choosing this form,” said Rory Doyle, senior research scientist at BMT Group. “In using robotic fish we are building on a design created by hundreds of millions of years’ worth of evolution which is incredibly energy efficient.
“This efficiency is something we need to ensure that our pollution detection sensors can navigate in the underwater environment for hours on end.”
Each robotic fish is about 5 feet long and can swim at a maximum speed of about 4 feet per second. Whenever they find traces of pollutants, the fish can relay the information to the shore.
The robots are autonomous, rather than remote-controlled, and run on batteries that are recharged every eight hours or so when the fish return automatically to a charging point.
The final touches are still being made to the design of the fish, which are scheduled to be released into the port’s waters next year.
I found this site at http://ExanHealth.com
http://www.emaxhealth.com/64/686.html
This article was about dreams and nightmares. It explained different patterns that can reoccur in your dreams and why it happens. It also included some information on sleep related disorders.
I thought that this article was really interesting and cool. Usually when I do weekly science article reports I like to find articles about the human mind or thought process because I always like to find out new things about it. One thing I thought was pretty fascinating was that nightmares can be treated like an astringent medicine that can provide healing and insight if you look at them in the right way. This doesn’t apply to all nightmares obviously because some are meaningless, but others can teach you something important about yourself. A good example was in the article. It was about a doctor named William Dement and his addiction to cigarettes. It included an excerpt of a quote he had said explaining a nightmare he had once had. In his nightmare he had gotten an X-ray done on his chest and the doctors examining him soon showed him the X-ray. He claims in the dream he was horrified by the image of his infiltrated lungs. He explained that after this experience he immediately dropped his filthy habit and continued on with his life. This just proved to me that your nightmares can actually mean something and maybe they shouldn’t be ignored as much as they already are.
Some other things I found fascinating were all of the different sleeping disorders. Insomnia is a disorder that does not allow you to get enough sleep and some times you may not even be able to fall asleep because of it. Another one is Sleep Apnea. This is when you lose your breath in the middle of the night several times due to intense snoring or obesity. This disorder particularly interested me because sometimes when I am sleeping I have a dream that I am swimming and all of a sudden I cannot get back up to the surface of the water causing me to gasp for air. Then I wake up and I have no idea what just happened. Although I do not have the disorder of Sleep Apnea I was enthralled by this because of the personal connection. Also the disorder called Narcolepsy was truly striking to me as well. I had heard of it once before from a YouTube video my brother had once showed me about narcoleptic dogs. It would show a dog running and then all of a sudden it would plop down on the ground and fall asleep. My brother and I thought this was hysterical to witness, but it shouldn’t be because it is actually very serious.
After reading this shocking article I was left with many questions. One of my more relevant questions was: Since nightmares are said to be telling us something and dreams/nightmares are images caused by our brain, then why can’t we realize all of these things that the dreams are telling us while we are awake? I am aware that the human mind is very complex so this may not be the easiest question for someone to answer. Another question that came up in my mind was: What triggers an organism to become narcoleptic? This question was not fully answered in the article I read so I may look into some further research on Narcolepsy specifically.
the name of my article is:Climate Change. the internet link is http://news.aol.com/article/climate-change/504231?icid=main|hp-laptop|dl1|link2|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fclimate-change%2F504231
The article i read was about how climate change is making a loss in human life. Climate Change is killing 300,000 per year. The loss of 300,000 lives being loss
because of global warming is set to double by the year 2030. In 2020 it is said in photo gallery that flash floods will increase across Europe. Around 45 Million
of the 900 million people estimated to be chronically hungry are suffering from this
climate change. within 20 years it is said that food prices will go up 20%. Around Miami in Flordia the boarder the water will
rise one meter. It lists all these thing's that will change because of global warming.
what did i think of this article?
i thought that this article was cool but it is kind of scary thinking people are dieing,
sea levels are rising, and food prises will go up twenty percent. it is informative but it leaves the mistery of the future for the children of this world to deal with.
what was i interested or suprised
about?
I was suprised that so many things will happen in the future because of global warming.
All of this article intrested me. I would of never thought
that something 40 years from now could be logically perdicted. i hope that we the makers of the futuer, the shapers of the futer can do something to prevent all of this from happening, but because of the economic crisis most people are not aware of this future crisis. Not many people would think that this would happen but to be it seems plausible.
WHAT QUESTIONS DO I HAVE ABOUT WHAT I’VE READ?
My question is....if the ecomomy is fixed, and prises go back down, will the goverment see what is happening and try to fix it? what if they do, what if they don't? Will miami, flordia go under water?
-Tony Stewart
comments:
hello there ! :A cat with wings sounds so cool. If a cat can have a wing mutation...........can humans deveolop the same mutation?
eli manning rox: i think that it would be cool if all homes were like that. maybe in the future they all will be.
pony girl: i had no idea that the swine flu came from pigs. i don't think im going to eat pork for a while.
Hello There!
I believe that you had great ideas for your reflection, but I feel like you had a little bit of trouble expressing those ideas. You should have expanded a little bit more upon all of the questions that you had because you said you had a lot of questions about the article, so why not share them with us? Also be sure to check your spelling and grammar. The article you picked was pretty flipping sweet though! Overall good job!
ChrissyBrown08
I feel that the article you chose was interesting, but an odd choice compared to all of your other weekly reports. I think that it was fantastic that you found a moral in an article about diapers! The only problem I saw with this reflection was the beginning. On the assignment for weekly science article reports it states that we are only supposed to write 1-2 sentences in our summary but you wrote a little bit too much and sort of turned the summary into a complete retell.
Tony Stewart
I think that the article you chose touched upon a vital issue. You reflection included a lot of background information about the article and expressed a lot of your own opinion in it. Although your overall structure was good, there were some negligible setbacks. You spelled a bunch of words wrong and it distracted me from the reflection itself. Also your paragraphs were really confusing and I think you should have worked that out a little bit more so it would have been easier to read. And lastly, you included subtitles a few times and it was weird because some of them were capitalized and some didn’t have any capitals at all. Next time just work on the appearance of your article and don’t forget to proofread.
Robotic Fish
Robotic fish are being sent to the ports of Gijon, by robotic fish? Something must be up. Scientists made a large group of fish and will send then to their destination next year. I thought that this is a waste of money. It will cost $29,000 to just make them. The fish look the same and are as is to their inhabitants. I don’t know how they will work but this is kind of cool to see if this will wok will be astonishing. The chemical sensors are the first of their kind; they will detect the pollutants in the water. Now I kind of under stand what their for. They are to detect leaking vessels and pipes. The fish were developed by the University of Essex in Britain and UK-based engineering consultancy BMT Group.
“Using shoals of robotic fish for pollution detection in harbours might appear like something straight out of science fiction [but] there are very practical reasons for choosing this form,” said Rory Doyle, senior research scientist at BMT Group. “In using robotic fish we are building on a design created by hundreds of millions of years’ worth of evolution which is incredibly energy efficient.
Each of these fish is five feet long. They also swim at a maximum of four feet per second. Whenever they find traces of pollutants, the fish can relay the information to the shore. The robots are autonomous, rather than remote-controlled, and run on batteries that are recharged every eight hours or so. That is cool. Just not to have to constantly change their batteries would be a summer swim.
Title-International Space Station
My report is about the International Space Station and how its recent activities are going.
The article was about how the ISS Expedition 18 Crew had many visitors coming to the International Space Station. When the first visitors came it was March 17th which was also when the STS-119/15A came. Which was another piece of the ISS that would make the ISS as long as a Canadian Football Field and will bring more electricity to the space station so the scientist can have more space will have 50% more power to do more experiments. The STS-119/15A brought a new duration astronaut, his name was Kiochi Wakata and he is the first long duration astronaut that was representing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.) The crew brought many experiments and they worked with the expedition 18 crew for a good week then the STS-119/15A crew left March 25th and landed at the Kennedy Space Station. On the 28th of March the Soyuz vehicle cam and docked on the ISS and the crew was the Expeditions 19/20 and the crew members were Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt. They are there to replace Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov. While the recent visitors were there they conducted some experiments. The STS-119/15A crew brought a JAXA experiment called Dome Gene and they need to put it in 10 day incubation in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility. The point of this experiment was to find out the formation of an amphibian A-6 cell kidney cell and an A-8 Liver cell lines in microbiology. When this Cell is on earth it forms its dome shape but on earth in a simulated microbiology conditions it is reduced in a great amount. The ground-based results imply that in gravity influence the cell growth and cellular differentiation of these cells, which also has implications on liver and kidney research in microbiology.
What I thought about it?
I’m interested in Space research and everything that involves it but when I was reading this article I got a little bored of it because it didn’t really talk about what I was looking for. Otherwise I thought the science article was good in detail and facts.
What Interested Me?
I was interested when they started talking about Microbiology because it is awesome in my point of view. I think it is cool because microbiology affects how cells grow and how they form. This is cool because if a scientist is researching a cell and is also using microbiology they can alter the cell in some way.
What questions do I have?
My question is what will happen if the ISS just somehow fell into earth how much clitoral damage would there be?
hello there!
the article you chose was really cool. If my cat had wings, the world would be in ruins. One question I have is if the wings are a second cat inside the first cat, If the second cat grew fully, wouldn't the first cat explode? Kinda funny but Im serious.
Pony Girl
Thank you for doing an article on the swine flu. I was so happy to know that you can't get it by eating pig or being near pig, (don't know what I would do if I had to give up bacon!!!) Isn't there another type of animal flu called Bird Flu?
ChrissyBrown08
Eating diapers HE HE.
Now on a serios note, the article you chose was the most loose from the ones I read. It was swine flu, and Virtual reality, then Diapers. Terrorists beware the new super absorbant huggies!
China: Volcanic Activity Linked to Mass Extinction
By The Associated Press
New York Times. May 29.
250 million years ago, a mass extinction took place in modern day China.
Today scientists think it may have been caused by a chain of volcanic eruptions which flowed lava and ash into the ocean, killing almost all Marine life and forming huge clouds, cooling the earth and producing acid rain.
I thought this was an interesting story because this can lead to further evidence on how the dinosaurs and other animals went extinct. I personally believe that a meteor hit earth, probably somewhere by Mexico, causing a chain of volcanic eruptions and tsunamis across the world killing millions of animals. Then, the earth was cooled by clouds of ash, while acid rain poured all over the world.
One thing about this article that interested me was that both land animals and marine animals were killed in this mass extinction. All over China in the water and on land animals were being killed by molten rock, ash, acid rain, and eventually, global cooling. The molten rock killed the animals on land, the ash poisoned the water for both those who drank it and lived in it and also went into the lungs of the land animals killing them of lung disease or lung cancer, the acid rain killed the plants, forcing many animals to starve, and continued to poison the water, and the global cooling caused colder temperatures for the warm blooded animals killing them and probably causing another Ice Age.
I found this article to be okay. It was only a paragraph or two long so I had to pull as much information from it as possible. I thought the authors, who remained nameless, could have written a lot more about the topic. The consequences of the eruptions, who was killed, more on how this was discovered, just to name a few things they could have focused on. If I was grading them, I would give them an A for topic and a D for information.
Questions I have would be, 1. How was this discovered? 2. What types of animals did this kill? and 3. How far did these eruptions spread extinction?
Comments:
Tony Stewart: I thought your article was really interesting and shocking. If 300,000 people are being killed a year by climate change, that must mean climate change is getting worse. One question though: Are the people dying solely of climate change or other things?
Joe Montana: I thought your topic was really cool. Robo-fish! How awesome is that? But they are a little expensive. And aren't these things still being developed? What if they don't work? What if they break or are mistaken to be real fish by predators?
Milky Milk: Komodo Dragon poison glands...interesting. Two questions: Is their an antidote to the poison? and What parts of the body does the poison immobilize?
The name of my article is
Robotic Limbs. My grandfather gave me a magizine with this article. Do you remember in Stars wars when Darth Vader chops off Luke Skywalker's hand in the The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars favorite hero come back with this robotic hand. Well Dr Roy Aaron, an orthopedic surgeon believe this is going to be the future for people who loose there legs or arms in the Iraq War. He predicts bio-hybrid limbs will be availabe with in three years. There are more than 200 amputees using this as a result from the Iraq War.
Mr. McNaughton wears a state of the art Rheo Knee.It is the first artificial intellignce knee system. It respond to sensory data as many as 1,000 times a second, and ststem uses magnetic forces to help leg move more natural. They made a leg called C-leg which they believe that the a amputee would be able to run marathons and hopes to compete in a triathlon. This was attach to him after many painful surgeries after they remove all bone spurs and reshape his bone on and above the knee . But at the end of all the pain and all work that he went threw to make him strong enough he is planning on running in the next maroathon.
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HelloThere!:
I really liked the article that you choose. When i first began to read your summery i was ammediatly "hooked" and was surprised about this feline mutation. Over all I liked how you approached how you were explaining everything.
PonyGirl: I enjoyed your article becuase as much as people think they know everything about the swine flue, they dotn and you answered many of my questions and wonderings just in your summery!
idk345: I really liked your topic personally becuase lemurs are one of my favorite animals! I liked how you included things that you learned about the new species in the article. The only thing that i would have loved you to add would be, more about the similarities and differences about the 2 types of lemur. Other than that i loved it !
chrissybrown08
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eli manning rox
what I like about your article is that it helps many people.
hello there
I thought it was really cool that you were able to find something so differnt.
pony girl
I found your article very good it had alot of information about the swine flu.
Glowing Monkeys ‘to aid research’
By Jason Palmer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8070252.stm
The article that I read is about monkeys that make a glowing protein that is the color green. The glow is a protein that comes from the monkey’s genes. Scientists think that the glowing protein that they make may be able to lead to treatments that can cure many diseases. Although the scientist still have to figure out how to test it and other details. The scientists have already created glowing mice in the lab as well.
I thought that this article was very interesting because I would have never thought that animals could or would glow. I would have thought that humans would have something to do with what would make them glow; but the monkeys wouldn’t glow by themselves. Another thing that I learned from this article is about Marmosets. Marmosets are new monkeys and are more related to humans than chimpanzees. This makes them more useful for the experiments and tests, that the scientists need to do to find more information because they reproduce younger and more frequently.
I liked this article because I learned something new and it was something that I had no idea about so it surprised me.
The part that surprised and interested me the most was when I read that the glowing protein may be able help to cure diseases.
Some questions that I have are what exactly the glowing protein is. Is it some type of liquid? I am having trouble picturing it. Also how did this animal end up with this glowing protein? Is it a mutation that got carried down to another offspring?
I would like to know more about what else scientists can do with the glowing protein besides trying to find a cure to diseases with it. Can they use it to make other animals or creatures glow too besides mice and monkeys?
eli manning rox- I liked your questions and how you talked about how almost every single invention has a flaw. After I read your article I wondered how its possible for a house can read your thoughts.
xcoolxoxbeansx- I really liked how throughout your article, you connected your own experiences to it. Also how you gave your opinion on all of the disorders.
tony stewart- I really liked how you gave your opinion on how you thought of the article you read. I also liked how you talked about how people should help to prevent it.
THE SIXTH SENSE
In today’s fast paced society there is so much information to choose from and devices to carry in order to function. Whether it’s picking out the most ecological product in a store or calling someone it all interfaces with today’s advanced technology. Sometimes our senses of sight, taste, feel, smell, and sound aren’t capable of supplying us with enough information to make the most optimal decisions. Some would claim that cell phones could be used for this, but in reality nobody really has time to Google the things we need to know every time we want to make the right decision. But could we ever evolve or develop an incredible sixth sense, giving us seamless access to information that may exist somewhere in cyber space?
At Pattie Maes' lab at MIT the answer is yes. Developed by Pranav Mistry, “the genius behind Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data”. Now the whole world can be at your at fingertips, literally. A combination of a webcam, projector, mirror, and internet phone allows you to operate it by moving your fingers in the air, letting you to do virtually anything. For example, you can walk up to any surface using only your fingertips to interact with the information that is projected in front of you. The system tracks your four significant fingers making it efficient and easy to use. It recognizes gestures like making a square with your fingers to take a picture. or placing your hand flat out in front of you to make a phone call. A keypad is projected directly onto your palm ready for dialing.
It also allows you to have general information any object you touch. If you go to a store, the device will recognize the product you are holding by image recognition or marker technology, giving you a green, yellow or red light projected directly on the products’ surface. If you press the color dot, it gives you additional information about the price depending on your personal criteria, comparing it to other similar products. If you were to pick up a book the Amazon rating would be projected on the cover, and when the page is turned, more information will be given like author’s notes, and words from your favorite critics.
If you were to read the news, the pictures would move and you would get exclusive video annotations about the events you are reading about projected right onto the page just like in Harry Potter. It allows you to see the latest sport scores and world events without even moving a muscle. It can give names and info, tags and blog or web names right on the persons chest. If you have a boarding pass, all you need to do is hold it in front of you and it will tell you if your flight has been delayed, or the gate number has been changed. If you have an appointment and you need the time, it’s as simple as drawing a circle on your wrist for a virtual watch. I could just talk about what it is capable of doing for days!
This is still a work in progress and will soon be compacted into a more stylish and small shell costing no more that the average cell phone. I never would have thought this kind of advancement in technology would happen so soon. I just can’t believe all the things that this one product can do.
I would want to learn more about how the Sixth Sense works and when it might be released into stores. I wonder if the product would actually succeed in the real world and if it would evolve itself into a more advanced device. I also would like to see how it would impact the world years after in was released. It’s amazing how people defy Mother Nature and evolve even when it isn’t needed.
COMMENTS TO:
Eli manning rox
I thought your article was a lot like mine, how humans are making increasingly amazing inventions only to make life easier. That’s amazing that people can do physical things with only thought. I wonder what will physically happen to our bodies with such items that don’t evolve any movement or exercise at all. Will it alter our muscle tissue or bone structure in any way over a period of time? Will we keep inventing technology until all we do is sit in a pod that transports us automatically? Probably not but that’s what your reflection induced me to think about.
Hello There
That’s amazing how mutated some animals can get. I wonder what went wrong in the DNA of the cat. How does it function in the world properly with such big deformities?
Pony Girl
It was interesting to finally hear something clear about the swine flu. It scares me to know that such a fatal virus exists in the world and I hope people do a good job in keeping it under control. I’m hearing a lot of myths on the internet about the swine flu and it’s hard for me to really get true information.
The article I read was called re thinking a bad seed.
The article is about thinking about children who are bad. The article talks about
Whether it’s the child’s fault or not. The article says it can be caused by many things such
as the mother smoking during pregnancy, dysfunctional family or having anti social parents. I think that it can be anything including the three listed. The example the article uses is an eleven year old boy in Pennsylvania who shot his fathers pregnant girl friend in the head while she was sleeping.
The reason I picked this article was it seemed interesting, I think it relates to science because it’s about behavior. So it’s kind of like social science. Paul Frick a psychologist at the University of New Orleans said that this kind of fearless temper can be detected soon after birth. There are many different situations where this can happen. Such as kids who go to severely small schools, kids who live far from civilization, and a group of kids who only socialize with each other.
Punishment or threatening almost never works with these kinds of kids. They just can’t be scared. They are as I said earlier fearless. These kinds of ruthless kids are what we think of as bad seeds. I think the main point of the article is that it may not be their fault.
This type of science interests me and I find it fascinating and hopefully it interests people who read this too. But I have to say it is kind of a disturbing example. I’m interested in how people act and in how people react to other things and people. This article relates to that because it shows why kids are bad seeds, and it’s usually a reaction to things early in life.
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comment on hello there.
wow i think that is awsome and i wish i hsd that cat. about the question. ilke it and i do think the wings will grow to full size with the cat.
comments on pony girl
i think that the article you chose was not very out there or even interesting. But i think there were some cool aspects of your reflection of the article. like i didnt know it came from pigs.
comments on idk345
i think that finding lemurs in madagascar is histerical because of how the thing about the lemurs from the movie madagascar. i like that its an extinct species because it just gives them more of a chalenge and i find that cool.
The name of my article is Plants 'can recognize themselves' which was written by Matt Walker.
Here is the link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8076000/8076875.stm
My article is about plants being able to recognize other plants of their species. A certain type of sage bush called the Artemisia Tridentata can recognize other of it's species and they can help each other grow. This is a break through in science because it means plants are capable of actions more sophisticated than we had imagined. This is an important ability to learn because it will help that species advance to the become a more sophisticated species like ourselves.
What did I think about the article?
I thought this article was really cool to read. I had never thought about plants being able to communicate and help each other grow. I Thought that the article was really good and I wish there had been more on the subject because I would be really interested in learning more about how the plants communicate.
What was I interested or surprised about?
Well as I said before I was surprised plants can do such sophisticated activities and it just shows that there are so many things we still have to learn about on just our planet alone. I was interested in the fact that different plants put together will compete against each other for resources. I was interested in how that was important and I fond out how. I.e. A female lion raising her young or another mothers young because eating your own young does not help promote your species.
What questions do I have about What I've read?
One question I have is if plants are able to communicate with each other what else may they be able to do or could this help plants certain plants evolve into something else?
eli manning rox this is for you.....
I think you did a great job seeing both the good and the bad on the inventions and really made your article more interesting to read.
pony girl this is for you....
I liked how you mentioned that the swine flu is all over the world and how you gave a little background knowledge on the disease.
idk345 ths is for you....
I liked how you described what the article was like when you read it.
sorry fro not adding the web address:
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090225/Note3.asp
-chrissybrown08
My Source:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html
Hello There!
I thought you're article was very interesting. I don't really like cats but if I had a cat I'd want it to have wings. I think the reason for it is exactly what you said, the air is very unhealthy and probably mutates the cats. As we learned in class, it is a somatic mutation, like four leaf clovers. I'd like to know can the cat fly with it's wings, or do they just appear to be wings?
idk345
It sounded like a very interesting article. I would really enjoy knowing how the species died out. What characteristics let other lemurs live, but not these ones?
Have a Great Day
I was very interested in your article. I was surprised when I heard about the invention that speeds up evolution. To answer your last question, every living organism started out as a single-celled organism, and as time went on, they became multi-celled organism. Some of them got mutations. Some mutations were positive, some negative and the inferior organisms died out.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511091733.htm
Sorry for everything being so late. this is the link to my article.
Information Found at http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Flatworm.html
Flatworms, also known as Phylum platyhelminth. There are about 20000 species. Flatworms can be found in water. Flatworms have no bones, it has tiny bristles on the lower part of its body called cilia. It eats get gets rid of waste through the same opening. Flatworms reproduce by splitting themselves in half.
I think Flatworms are kind of creepy but cool at the same time they reproduce by splitting in half, I also thought it was pretty cool that they could live underwater, I wonder when they split does it hurt at all I bet it wouldn’t hurt much since they have no bones but do they become the same person or does the worm change personality, like lets say that the worms name was Erving before it split would one stay Erving and the other Become Tom, or would it be like cloning and they would become Erving and Erving, or does Erving just die and one becomes John and the other becomes Jerry, how does that work. Also how’s it work underwater does it have gills does it need to come up for air often or do flatworms just not breath and if they do come up to breath how long does it take them to run out of air what do they eat do they like the water more than the earth, are they able to change earth to water do they eat plankton do they eat fish, do they swim for recreation and come up when they need to eat or do they stay down there for ever, how’s that work. Why do they call them flatworms are they worms that are flat or did some person try to see what happens when you drop a book on a worm well the wormoligist came up with a name or are they really worms that happen to be flat do or do they act flat probably not.
Comment to: eli manning rox
so do they feel like they are digital is it possible to forget that its fake?
Comment to: hello there
Does the cat know how to use the wings or are they just hanging there can it fly or is it basically just a shirt hanging there, also is the cat a house cat or is it a wiled cat does it have an owner.
Comment to: idk345
How many of the lemurs are left and do you think the difference in habitat may be the reason they may be going extinct.
Article Title: Wings That Waggle Could Cut Aircraft Emissions by 20%
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521084721.htm
A new approach, which promises to highly reduce mid-flight drag, uses tiny air powered jets which redirect the air, making it flow sideways back and forth over the wing.
Air Planes use the Helmholtz resonance principle – when air is forced to a cavity the pressure increases, which forces air out and sucks it back in again, which happens when you blow over a bottle.
This has become a surprise to everyone in the flying designing community. It was discovered by waggling a piece of wing from side to side in a wind tunnel. People of the Aerodynamics community remark: “The truth is we’re not exactly sure why this technology reduces drag but with the pressure of climate change we can’t afford to wait around to find out. So we are pushing ahead with prototypes and have a separate three year project to look more carefully at the physics behind it.”
A benefit from this new idea is that airplanes will be lighter, more energy efficient, and earth friendly. Engineers have known for a long time that tiny ridges known as ‘riblets’ - like the ones found on sharks bodies - can reduce skin-friction drag, (a big part of mid-flight drag), by around 5%. But the new micro-jet system being developed by Dr. Lockerby and his helpers could reduce skin friction drag by up to 40%.
The research, being carried out with scientists at many Universities, is still being looked through, although it is hoped the new wings could be ready for testing as early as 2012.
Oops! I forgot to do comments to other users:
eli manning rox:
To be honest, I don't like the idea of NON- Disabled people using the Smart Home. This would make life TOO easy but that is NOT good. As purplemonkey responded to you, too many stuff like this and we could be sitting in little anti-gravity floating pods that move us around without us even using strength. But I'm glad that it's ONLY for disabled people.
Hello There!:
Was that the first cat in the world to grow a pair of wings? I wonder what the mother did that caused the genetic mutation to happen. Maybe she ingested chemicals.
And xcoolxoxbeansx:
I understand how a dream works. You'll have and remember a dream depending on the way you fall asleep. I have encountered situations that I fell asleep into a dream. The best dream in the world is the dream that you know is a dream. One time, years ago, I fell asleep thinking about something and I dreamt about it. It was the best dream I've ever had-Becuase later I knew it was a dream. I woke up in the middle of the night, really tired, when I was in the middle of the dream, and it ended. I was so mad. I then fell asleep thinking about it and went right back into it. It was the best becuase then I knew it was a dream. I did WHATEVER I wanted in the dream. The most I remember from that dream is that when I said "This is a dream" to someone, they told me "Sure..."
Usually, if you have a fever, you can dream easier becuase you're so tired. One time I fell asleep easily with a fever while listening to a TV and pictures kept coming into my mind. I had a dream.
The weirdest thing about dreams is when it's VERY weird, you still think it's actually happening unless you get waken up and fall back asleep into it.
Nice article!
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