Congratulations on making it through your first week using this blog. I am really impressed with your work here, especially in your comments on other students’ work.
Please post your weekly science article report and your comments here for this week.
Keep up the good work!
78 responses so far ↓
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polaroid gangsta
// Oct 23, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Weekly Science Report
9th Period Ardito
Vegetables slow memory loss in old age from Reuters News Service (http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1161619561238S431&set_id=) on October 23rd, 2006
You’re constantly told to eat healthy, but usually, if you don’t like it, you don’t eat it. What you didn’t know, is that eating healthy pays of in the end. You’ve heard a thousand times that it helps your body stay strong and keeps you fit, which it does, but it also prevents memory loss during old age. Most people have had the experience of dealing with elderly people who don’t remember anything, and usually it’s pretty annoying. Over a six year period, elderly people who ate less vegetables’ rate of memory loss declines 40 percent! That makes it almost half as hard to remember things you’ve seen, done, or been told.
I found this article interesting because I’ve read many things about people not eating healthy enough. I think that the more reasons people find to eat healthy, such as this, more people will start eating healthier. I think the writer could have made this article seem a little more interesting, and worded things in a way that were a little easier to understand.
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Hero kid
// Oct 24, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Climate change to hit Australian wine industry
By Robert Taylor
Washingtonpost.com
Hero kid
Summary- The article is about global warming changing facilities in Australia. Like Australia’s grape growers are going to have short growing seasons. Also Australia’s 4.8 billion wine exports industry are losing money to global warming.
Reflection- If global warming harmed junk food facilities around here then I would lock myself in a closet for 24 hours till the break the place. Then I would scream for 72 hours and croak. (die).
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Svogthir
// Oct 24, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Crocodile Hearts by C. Gramling
Found at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20061025/Note2.asp
This article is about an extra valve in crocodile and alligator hearts that will allow them to digest meals more easily. For a while, scientists thought it might be to improve hunting and buoyancy, but it allows the reptile to reroute blood to the stomach to aid in digestion of bones.
I think this is extremely interesting because I don’t think of what differences there might be between human and reptile hearts. This is an adaptation I imagine would be very helpful to the reptile.
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eyesticker 03
// Oct 24, 2006 at 7:09 pm
The Super Bug Returns- January 5, 2000
Author Unknown 10-24-06
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20000002164608data_trunc_sys.shtml
This article is about a pollution eating bug that can help eat away at the radio active and toxic wastes. Pollution eating bugs have been around for a long time such as dung bugs and others. There is a new species of pollution eating bugs that in this article they call a Super Bugs. This article explains that most of the other pollution eating bugs die at an early stage if they come in contact with radioactive material and that this “Super Bug” is based on radiation-resistant bacterium that prevents it from becoming sick. Basically this “Super Bug” helps clean up our environment even though by itself it can’t do the whole job.
This article was interesting to me because it explained that there are some natural things that are trying to clean up our environment. It’s interesting to know that an organism as simple as a bug is cleaning up our environment little by little.
And not only is it amazing that a small organism is cleaning up our environment for us but that it is able to eat away at radio active wastes! Something that normally bugs would die after coming in contact with it. I wonder this bug got eaten by its predator, if its predator would die from radio active poisoning.
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dusty schmidt
// Oct 24, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Snowflakes and Avalanches
Emily Sohn
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20060118/Feature1.asp
This article is about Avalanches and their dangers. In the article, Karl Birkeland talks all about avalanches; How they start, what happens in one and also how he escaped from an avalanche.
I liked this arcticle. I love the snow, and when I saw this arcticle I wanted to use it. In 1985, in Utah, Karl Birkeland and some of his friends went skiing. He went up ahead, and the snow started to break, which created an avalanche. He skiied out of danger, and the avalanche passed him by. Avalanches usually happen after a snow storm, and the bigger the storm, the more powerful the avalanche is. An avalanche generally happens on a mountain with a 35 to 45 degree angle in steepness. An avalanche really starts by there is a weak snow layer, and being over the layer can break it, and all the extra snow from a snow storm will go right down the mountain. At places where there might be loose snow, and if the snow if unstable, ski patrolers can set off explosives to create an avalanche, apposed to a person doing it by mistake.
I think that in the future these predictions and knowing when an avalanche is gonig to fall is going to get better and I think there will be very little to almost no deaths by an avalanche
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mr.coolguy
// Oct 25, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Dissect the Pig Without Throwing Up
mr.coolguy
Dillon, Sam. No Test Tubes? Debate on Virtual Science Classes. New York Times, October 20, 2006.
Now boasting 150,000 students, virtual chemistry laboratories are growing faster than ever! With the free program, classes who might not have enough money or want to do experiments that use dangerous chemicals can do labs. Though some controversy is coming up because some teachers are concerned that some kids who use these programs won’t even be able to use a bunsun burner in real life. Though that isn’t stopping some kids from taking classes they can’t take in their school. Some kids learn how to blow stuff up in less than an hour!
Since Mr. Ardito was saying how great it was to be putting science articles on line, I thought it would be nice to show this article. I think that it is great that some scientists and video game designers took their time to do this. Kids who live in poor areas now have an opportunity to do something for free that might have cost the school a thousand dollars. The images that the programs show aren’t as blurry as some microscopes can be. What I think is even cooler is that you can even take classes on line at certain times. You can even take A.P. Science classes! If in the future, the teachers win and the on line chemistry labs are shut down, it would be a sad day for a lot of students.
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clark
// Oct 26, 2006 at 9:23 am
Weekly Science Article Report # 6
by clark
Sticking Around with Gecko Tape (by S. McDonagh), June 11, 2003
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com
The article I read was about how geckos feet help it stick to many surfaces. It said that geckos have millions of microscopic hairs attatched to their feet which help them stick to these surfaces such as walls. Scientists have been working on a way to create something similar to the geckos feet. They created something called gecko tape. Gecko tape is the same thing as the gecko’s feet (millions of hairs), although they have only come up with enough to support a spiderman toy weighing 3 kilograms. The article said that the tape is so strong that if you had enough to cover your palm, you could hang from the ceiling!
This article was short but good. I liked it because it really made me think. I thought, with this tape, anyone could be like spiderman and climb up walls and hang from the ceiling. That would be awsome!
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clark
// Oct 26, 2006 at 9:24 am
In the spiderman movies now, they used special effects, but imagine spiderman in the future, without the effects, for real! This article was great and I really liked it. I rate the article a 8.9 out of ten.
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clark
// Oct 26, 2006 at 10:55 am
oops wrong class
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White Ivy
// Oct 26, 2006 at 11:40 am
The article I read is called Global Ecosystems ‘Face Collapse’ and it’s from BBC news.
Every year there is a Living Planet Report about the natural world. Findings have said that between 1970 and 2003, 31% of terrestrial species have declined. There are so many people on this earth who don’t recycle and re-use. In less than 50 years, we will need a whole other planet earth to fill these peoples needs. The report states that…
-The planet’s resources are overused by 25%
-Per capital the US uses four times the resources of South Africa, and
-Polar Bear populations have declined by 30%
The Living Planet Index tracked the population of 1,313 vertebrate species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals were found from around the world.These species have declined by about 30% since 1970, suggesting that natural resources were being degrated at an unprecedented rate.
I think this article is very important. We should all be informed of what global warming is doing to ourselves and the animals of the world. A lot of people don’t realize when they are helping global warming, by not recycling, etc. Some people in Australia and the UK don’t even believe that it’s happening. For everyone to learn more about global warming, they should see the movie “An Inconveniant Truth” by Al Gore. I have seen it myself, and it has really let me see into another world of what could/will happen to our dear planet. This article was a bit hard for me to read because it is not really 8th grade level reading, but I already knew facts about global warming that helped me to understand it better.
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White Ivy
// Oct 26, 2006 at 11:43 am
this comment is for clark and the article Sticking Around With Gecko Tape. i think it would be really cool to have a tape like that. i want to crawl from the ceiling! that would be great. it was a nice article to choose
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White Ivy
// Oct 26, 2006 at 11:44 am
whoops
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White Ivy
// Oct 26, 2006 at 11:44 am
=)
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dancingintherain102
// Oct 26, 2006 at 3:43 pm
The article “The Pacific Ocean’s Bald Spot” was written by Carolyn Gramling. This article was posted on http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20061018/Note3.asp on October 18, 2006.
In this article it talks about how there is a patch of land on the bottom of the ocean floor the size of the Mediterranean Sea that is bare. Bare in terms of the fact that there is no sediment or the skeletons of sea plankton. This patch of land is now called the South Pacific Bare Zone. As they continued to do research on this zone they are discovering that there may be a logical reason for this. This patch is not near any continents, there are little nutrients in the water for plankton and there are no ocean currents near it. They are continuing to do research on this to see if there may be more to this.
I found this article to be not very interesting. It is cool that there is this giant spot on the bottom of the ocean floor with not very much on top of it. This article is more fact then anything else which makes it kind of un intriguing to me. I would like to know what some of the researchers thought or what some other people thought. Or even what she herself thought. As I read I also thought about how she didn’t tell who the scientists were, where they were from or what the device they used to detect the bald spot, as they are calling it. Also what are they going to do now that they have found the spot.
I wonder now that they have found it if there is a way for scientist to go down there and find anything else. Or if they can go down and collect samples and see if they can reach deeper into the history in the soil. This discovery has the potential to really help scientist better understand the ocean floor. We do not know a lot about it because for a long time we could not for, we did not have the technology to do so. Overall I liked the topic of the article, but I thought there was room for improvement for how the article was written and presented. And it also raised a lot of questions for me which I think is really good. It is always good when something you read causes a reaction in you.
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room217
// Oct 26, 2006 at 7:50 pm
I got the article called Xena,s Mysterious sparkle by Emily sohn on the web site called http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articals/2006419/note2.asp. It is about the unofficial planet called Xena. The article talks about the sparkle that xena has. They say it is from the frozen methane it lets out that turns in to snow.
I think she (the author) supported her main idea very well. She did this by saying Xena has a myteriuos sparkle. I would not chage any thing about this article because it is really great.
BY room217
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mmhmm
// Oct 26, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Internet Generation
By Emily Sohn
This article is about how kids today use the internet much more often then people used to, and how the internet can be bad and good for kids, like if they need to do their homework or something. But it can be bad if they are entering chat rooms with people they don’t know. It also talks about the future of the internet and how kids should be learning more about it in schools today.
I thought that this article was interesting because most people I know do use the internet every day. Like in the article it says “Nearly 90 percent of 12-to-17-year-olds in the United States use the Internet, according to one recent survey, and about half of these kids use it every day.” If most people use the internet then people are learning more about how t use it and what websites to go on to look stuff up for projects or something.
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acex2inurface
// Oct 26, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Internet Generation
Emily Sohn
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20061025/Feature1.asp
When our parents were our age, they started to get into the world of using the internet. Now, 90% of the kids in the US in the age 12-17 use the internet. Another half of them use the internet everyday.
Now scientist is thinking: Is the internet good or bad? The answer is hard to say. The internet it made up of a lot of things. There are good things about it and bad things about it. The good thing about the Internet is that kids can learn new things from it. The bad thing about it is that sometimes you don’t know who you are communicating with and there might be some things that are not proper for kids to see or use. Internet is used among the teens for chat room, email, and things like myspace. Gaming and research for homework are some other things that teens might use the internet too. Younger kids start using the internet too, but don’t know the real meaning of it.
I think this article is a very important article to read and think about. The internet is a tool that has had problems that became international news. This article told the main ideas about the internet and it was good resource. The article could have been shorter and give out more main ideas.
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iheartj&js
// Oct 26, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Storing Memories before Bedtime April 5, 2006
Carolyn Gramling
http://sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20060405Note2.asp
Summary- This article is about how sleeping can help you memorize things and store memories in your brain. A test was done showing that during the day, your brain still stays active after learning something. This might mean that sleep is not necessary for remembering things that you recently learned.
Reflection- I think that this article was very interesting. It is amazing how your brain can remember so much. Considering many people can think back to events that happened years and years ago, your brain must be jam-packed with information. I can’t imagine how our brains store all this data and still collect more and more every day. Sleeping supposedly helps your brain store information better. After tests that some scientists did, it was shown that our brains can stay active after learning something. Our brains can still manage to process the things that we just experienced, and learn new things at the same time.
I get mostly all of my articles from science news for kids and Emily Sohn has written every one I have gotten so far. This one was very good, and it was by a different person. I am going to try to vary the people who write my article more often, or maybe even try a new site.
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HiMan
// Oct 26, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Article Report
The name of this article is Holy Ozone Hole. It was written by David Tenenbaum on October 26 2006 and I found it at http://whyfiles.org/shorties/218ozone_hole/.
This article is about how the whole in the ozone layer this year is larger than ever before and hole the amount of ozone has set a record low. It talks about how the ultraviolet radiation is affecting the animals in the Antarctic, what ozone is and what’s causing the ozone layer to have such a big hole this year. Scientists say that the main thing that’s causing the hole is things called CFCs (a chemical that destroys ozone). It isn’t that there are more CFCs this year than there usually are it’s that because it’s colder the CFCs are not going away as quickly. Scientist also says that the ozone will not be fully repaired until the year 2100.
I thought this was a very interesting and good article. I liked the article because I thought it did a good job of informing me about the ozone and how it works. I also liked it because the ozone is a very interesting topic for me to read about.
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kenny24
// Oct 26, 2006 at 9:50 pm
This comment is for Dusty Schmidt. I like your article a lot. I think it would be even better if you wrote a longer response. P.S. nice name.
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kenny24
// Oct 26, 2006 at 9:54 pm
This comment is for iheartj&js. I had no idea your brain could store so much. Your article was very well written and very informative.
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kenny24
// Oct 26, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Robots on the Road, Again
Emily Sohn Oct. 19, 2005
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20051019/Note2.asp
This article was about a race in the desert for robotic cars. Any type of car can enter the race but there was one twist. Drivers were not allowed. Neither were passengers or remote controls. The cars had to drive themselves through the desert Last year none of the entries finished. After learning from their mistakes, this year five out of the 23 finalists completed the 130-mile (210-kilometer) course through the Mojave Desert along the California-Nevada border. This year the winning car was a blue 2004 Volkswagen Touareg sports utility vehicle, nicknamed Stanley. The prize was two million dollars. Stanley was customized by researchers at Stanford University with help from industry partners such as Volkswagen. Stanley easily beat a 10-hour time limit on the race. It breezed past the finish line in just under 6 hours, 54 minutes, and its average speed was slightly more than 30 kilometers per hour (19 miles per hour). Two other cars developed by Carnegie Mellon University, Highlander and Sandstorm, came in second and third. An earlier version of Sandstorm had competed in the first race and had traveled farther than any other entry. A U.S. government agency called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created and sponsored the Grand Challenge. This challenge will help the government because in the future one-third of army vehicles will be driverless.
This was a very cool article. I never thought a car could drive its self so far. It’s amazing that people can make such simple things do something incredible. I think this was a smart idea from the government. Military cars are easily targeted and we loss unnecessary numbers of men each year because they are in the cars driving supply trucks. If we had more robotic cars we would save lots of lives not only on the battlefield but on the streets, too. If robotic cars replaced normal cars it would make the streets safer. There would be less accidents and maybe even less traffic. On the other hand, if we replaced normal cars with robotic cars it could also be a bad thing. If something happened to the car while someone was driving it, it could be a horrible scene. The car might just stop or perhaps the car might make a dangerous turn and cause a huge accident. There are lots of bad things about making the switch but there are some good things to. I don’t think the robotic car is a good idea for the average person. I think there are too many bad things about them. The smallest mistake could make all the difference. I think they should put in an autopilot mode similar to the robotic cars but I think there should still be a steering wheel, brakes and everything else in a car. If they continue experimenting with robotics I am expecting some major change in the average car. I think instead of trying to re-invent the way we drive our cars I think they should be thinking of a way to make gas prices go down our find a new way to fuel our car. Right now the most important thing is if we can continue to afford our cars. Not making them better. Over all I think this was a very interesting article and I think it will lead to some controversy up ahead.
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Svogthir
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:18 am
comment for hero kid:
reflecton=um ok then. interesting article, I hadn’t thought how global warming would affect food facilities. you might want to work on tyhe reflection though.
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Svogthir
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:23 am
comment for kenny 24:
1: I agree with your comment that dustyschmidt is a nice name.
2: interesting article/response, although I don’t understand the concept of robotic cars. if the military implements it though, it would prevent unnecessary deaths
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room217
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:24 am
to himan
great article good job
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room217
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:26 am
to hero kid
re read your blog. watch out for capitalization.
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bmw x5 girl
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:26 am
Red Apes in Danger
E. Sohn
Science News for Kids
The Red apes are now endangered. They have decreased in population from 20,000 to now 5,000. In the past 100-200 years 95 percent of them have been eliminated. The Red Apes are really nice animals and are in zoos.
I think it is weird that they are in zoos because they are endangered. It is sad how animals are dying out especially because they are dying so quickly. I wish I knew there was something I could do to save the poor creatures. I like hoe the author told me much about the animals and their currant status without writing too much info. I got the main idea and I was upset that the Apes might become extinct very soon. I love monkeys and apes so it makes me angry that they are almost gone.
-BMW x5 girl
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Svogthir
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:30 am
comment for mr. coolguy:
you’re right that is a cool idea! it would help poor districts to still do the labs, and squeamish kids so they wouldn’t have to see something dissected in the same room if they don’t want to. very cool, very smart, but for people without good internet or computers, not so good. you should have given a website, but ok. good job!
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ManiacLeprechaun
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:30 am
I am sorry to bust in on this classes um, blog thingy, but another kid in this class can’t post something here from the school computors, so I needed to test the blog from mine to see if it would work.
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Svogthir
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:32 am
to bmwx5girl:
I have never heard of red apes before, but endangered species are sad things… work on the report an timing on submitting it!
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Svogthir
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:33 am
maniacleleprechaun:
stay off our blog!!!
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rosie13
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:34 am
Link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061025-oldest-bee.html
My article was called “Photo in the News: Oldest-Ever Bee Found in Amber. It was by Brian Handwerk and I found it on nationalgeographic.com (link above).
The article was about a fossil of a bee that was recently found. The bee was preserved in amber for the past hundred million years—making it the oldest bee fossil ever found. It has characteristics of both bees and wasps, and may be a link between the two of them.
I really liked this article. It’s pretty mind-boggling to think that one little bee is over 100 million years old! Even though they were disappointed because the bee is male (so they can’t find out how it pollinates), I think it’s amazing that it’s still around. They also think that the bee might help them find out more about wasps, which surprisingly, they don’t know a whole lot about.
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rosie13
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:36 am
this is a comment for bwm x5 girl
i really liked your article. it’s so sad that apes are dying =[
i’m with you on the whole saving thing
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coolchic
// Oct 27, 2006 at 11:51 am
Weelkly Science Article
Germ Zapper
By:Emily Sohn
Published May 24, 2006
This Article Talks about antibiotics and they kill the bacterias that gives you strept throat and other infections. Antibiotics have become so widely used that many bacterias have found ways to survive the treatment. As a result of this many people have died each year. It says that now scientist from New Jersey may have found a weapon against antibiotic resistant bacteria. They do this by disposing bacteria and knocking out the parts of the cell that make the DNA.
I think that this article was very imformative, clear, and easy to read. The author of this article made her point very clear. I think that it is great that scientists have found a way to stop anti-resisting bacteria. I think that this is good becuase that way less people can die from this and we can recover better when we’re sick. I thought this article was interesting to read.
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opac1
// Oct 27, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Diversity Promotes Cooperation Among Microbes
The article states that the microscopic organism Pseudomonas fluorescens are not “cheats”. Colleges from the University of Oxford, the University of Liverpool, and the Unversite` Montpellier conducted an experiment on the organisms. They discovered that the microorganisms were joining together into what is called a biofilm, by sticking together with a sticky substance, known as polymer. The organisms within the biofilm benefited from the oxygen that was distributed to them trough the biofilm. They also began to evolve, in order to avoid the fighting over necessary nutrients. This increased their efficiency and other microscopic organisms could begin to do this, as well.
The article itself has room for improvement. One thing I would do to improve it would be to have quotes from the people who conducted the experiment. I would also include more interesting facts from the experiment. Lastly, I would put in some numbers in the article.
Other than those few flaws the article was pretty good. There was good word choice, and the information was presented in a proper order.
Overall, I think the article is good, but not great.
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dancingintherain102
// Oct 27, 2006 at 5:25 pm
This comment is for coolchic.
I liked your reflection because i agree with you that it is good that we have found away to get around that because as years go on more and more people will become anibiotic resistent.
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eyesticker 03
// Oct 27, 2006 at 6:33 pm
This comment is for polaroid gangsta.
Your report was interesting to read, i never really thought it would cause any major defect to your health by not eating certain foods.
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eyesticker 03
// Oct 27, 2006 at 6:44 pm
This comment is for coolchic.
I think it’s good they found something to defeat the resistant bacteria because so many people rely on antibiotics but I think that it’s better to not use them unless it’s really nesasary.
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svogthir
// Oct 27, 2006 at 8:21 pm
comment for rosie13:
you’re right, a 100million year old bee is intersting. I’m amazed it lasted that long, even preserved in amber. also, if you find something that ancient, why are you disappointed? okay, deprival, yeah, but still, it’s a 100 million year old bug!
very cool.
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brooklynmavis22
// Oct 27, 2006 at 10:10 pm
nationalgeographic.com
New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil
Unknown author
This article was about a new species of mushroom found in Sao Paulo, Brazil that glows in the dark. These mushrooms are part of the group Mycena, that includes about 500 species of mushrooms all around the world. This species is one of 33 that is known to be bioluminescent (able to glow in the dark through a chemical reaction).
I liked this article. I didn’t think that a type of mushroom would be able to glow in the dark, and I think it’s kind of strange.
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rosie13
// Oct 28, 2006 at 2:39 pm
this is a comment for brooklynmavis22
that’s so weird!!! i saw the same article on nationalgeographic.com but i didn’t read it because i have mushroom-phobia. i can’t believe that there are 33 types of glowing mushrooms out there!
that pretty much sets my anti-mushroomism in stone [=
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rosie13
// Oct 28, 2006 at 2:44 pm
this is a comment for poloroid gansta
hm, i think i might start eating more vegetables so i don’t become senile when i’m old. i’ve dealt with lots of old people that don’t remember stuff (like you talked about) and i definetly wouldn’t wish that on anyone!
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ewannawanna chewbacca
// Oct 28, 2006 at 4:43 pm
C. Gramling
Sciencenewsforkids.com
Invisibility Ring
This article is about a ring that can almost turn completely invisible. The scientist’s invisibility ring is about the size of a drink coaster. The ring is made of a special material that has cool abilities. When microwaves hit the ring, a few bounce off it. The others pass through it, which makes the waves bend all the way around until the reach the other side of the ring.
I think the author did a really good job explaining what it looked like. I think he/she could have explained how it worked better. I think that if they made hundreds of them, they could make a person or larger object invisible. That would be pretty cool, being invisible. I saw something on a TV. show about making some one invisible. It was completely different than this. The person had small cameras and screens all over her body. The image from the camera would be transferred to the screen on the other side, making her look invisible.
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ewannawanna chewbacca
// Oct 28, 2006 at 4:47 pm
this is for coolchic
i liked your report because i get srept throat, a lot.
i hope i ca get this so i won’t get strept throat, a lot.
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mr.coolguy
// Oct 28, 2006 at 7:45 pm
This comment is for acex2inurface;
I too wonder if the internet is good or bad with all the viruses and predetors all over the place. Yet, it is very helpful for research and chatting. It is a very debatable topic.
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mr.coolguy
// Oct 28, 2006 at 8:11 pm
This comment is for Hero kid;
I don’t really share your pity for the junk food companies but I do think that it is sad that those wine companies, especialy the independent ones, are losing money.
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mr.coolguy
// Oct 28, 2006 at 8:15 pm
This comment is for ewannawanna chewbacca;
I think that it is cool how people are developing invisibility. That would be great for cop stake outs.
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Brown eyed girl
// Oct 29, 2006 at 8:58 am
Death at 18 Spurs Debate Over a Pill for Abortion
by Gina Kolata
This article is about a girl in california that was taking abortion pills and died from them. They can’t tell exactly why she died until they do an autopsy. The people that do not like abortion are using this incident to try and get abortion pills off the market.
I think that the mother should be able to decide if they want an abortion or not. If the untied states makes abortion illegal then women that want abortions will just go and do them. Which can be very unsafe because they can’t do them in a hospital and that can lead to a lot of diseases. I think that the author did a good job explaining all the details that she could about the girls death. If I wrote this article then I would probably explain more about the pill that the girl took. the news paper is to inform you and if she doesn’t talk about that pill then other women on it could keep taking it and not realize they are in danger.
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coolchic
// Oct 29, 2006 at 2:38 pm
This comment is for brooklynmavis22.
That is really wierd. I’d never think a mushroom could glow in the dark.I also didn’t know that there were thirty three different kinds of mushrooms that also glow in the dark.
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coolchic
// Oct 29, 2006 at 2:43 pm
This comment is for bmwx5girl.
I think that it is sad that red apes are dying out like that. I can’t believe that ninety five percent have become extinict in the past one hundred to two hundred years.
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coolchic
// Oct 29, 2006 at 2:49 pm
This comment is for mmhmm.
I use the internet alot too. I think that there are some things that need to be tought about it too. Ithink that’s why we have a media and communications class this year.
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Brown eyed girl
// Oct 29, 2006 at 3:52 pm
This comment is for ewannawanna chewbacca
Woah. Thats so cool. It kind of reminds me of harry potter with the invisibility cloak but not.
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Brown eyed girl
// Oct 29, 2006 at 4:01 pm
This comment is for room217
I think that it would be really intersting if we had another planet in the solar system.i was really dissapointed when pluto was offcially not a planet. It would be cool to have a replacement.
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acex2inurface
// Oct 29, 2006 at 4:25 pm
This comment is for dusty schmidt.
I think you picked a good article. I think that it is important to know when an avalanch might come. It’s a really interesting article.
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acex2inurface
// Oct 29, 2006 at 4:39 pm
This comment is for rosie13
I thought your article was really interesting. It’s amazing that there are still fossils of a bee! It’s also amazing how they can find more information about bees and wasps from a fossile that is 100 million years old!! I think you picked a good article.
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a is for awesome
// Oct 29, 2006 at 6:27 pm
this comment is for bmw x5 girl.
I agree with you. I think it’s really sad that many monkeys and apes are dying out. Many other species are dying out too. I feel really bad about it also.
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a is for awesome
// Oct 29, 2006 at 6:32 pm
this comment is for acex2inurface.
I agree with what you had to say about the article. I think that now kids are starting to use the internet at too young of an age though. But sometimes the internet is a very helpful resource for when it comes to things like homework, school work, and things like that.
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a is for awesome
// Oct 29, 2006 at 6:38 pm
this comment is for HiMan.
I really liked your article. I liked how you explained why you like it and I thought the topic was really interesting.
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iheartj&js
// Oct 29, 2006 at 6:54 pm
this comment is for ewannawanna chewbacca
Great job on explainign the article. That is pretty cool that the ring can turn invisible. I am sure that within 10 or so years, this ring will be changed and upgraded to make bigger objects invisible. That would be really awesome.
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iheartj&js
// Oct 29, 2006 at 7:01 pm
this comment is for polaroid gangsta
I am surprised how much eating vegetables has an effect on your memory when you grow older. I expected that it would have some sort of an input of when you get older, but losing 40% of your memory is crazy! I liked you summary.
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iheartj&js
// Oct 29, 2006 at 7:08 pm
this comment is for mr.coolguy
You article was very interesting, and you did a tremendous job on retelling it. I have always wanted to do something in science like blow something up, or use fire, so it would be cool to try something like your article was talking about.
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a is for awesome
// Oct 29, 2006 at 7:52 pm
When you have a lot to carry and a long way to walk, it can be hard. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have discovered a new and improved way to work things out when you have a lot to carry and a long walk. This article is called Electric Backpack. It was written by Emily Sohn on October 5, 2006. It is about a new and improved backpack which creates electricity as you walk. The article describes many features and things to this new and improved backpack. It tells about how it is said that when users wear this backpack and walk places with it, they are actually conserving more energy and using less than they would wearing a normal backpack. There are many things that this new backpack seems to be able to do. It may be able to light your way home, keep your cell phone running, or power an MP3 player. It is also said that it you may be able to watch TV, play video games and listen to music on it, all at the same time! I think that this new electric backpack could be good, but could also be unneeded. I can see how it might sometimes be helpful to people who are soldiers, scientists, mountaineers, emergency workers, or any other type of job that might be carrying a big load. I do think that for other people who don’t need it as much, it might be unneeded. I see why people would want it because yes, it’s cool that you can do all those things on it, but I don’t see how it can help anybody or why it is important that anyone has it. I think that all the extra electrical things such as listening to music, video games, or watching TV are sort of pointless, but still cool anyway. I think that kids might buy it because they might think it’s cool, but it might get people who are growing up in the 21st century might learn to rely on electronics too much. I think that this was a well written article, even though it was a very positive review of the product, which I don’t fully agree with. I think that this article could be improved by adding something into it that would make the reader realize that it’s not something that everyone’s going to need.
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a is for awesome
// Oct 29, 2006 at 7:59 pm
i found it at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20051005/Note3.asp
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dancingintherain102
// Oct 29, 2006 at 8:19 pm
This comment is for mmhmm.
I really liked then article you picked and liked your reflection but I was wondering where you got it from.
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dancingintherain102
// Oct 29, 2006 at 8:22 pm
This comment is for opc1.
I really liked how at the end of your article you told us what you thought would be helpful to improve the article. Not just that you thought some things could improve!
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HiMan
// Oct 29, 2006 at 9:36 pm
This comment is for polaroid gangsta:
I thought you did a great job writting the report on your article. I really didn’t know that healthy food helps you keep your memory when you become old.
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HiMan
// Oct 29, 2006 at 9:40 pm
This comment is for hero kid:
I liked you report because you put humor into your reflection.
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HiMan
// Oct 29, 2006 at 9:46 pm
This comment is for eyesticker 03:
I liked your report a lot. I thought it was very interesting that an organism a small as a bug could survive after comeing into contact with radioactive waste when most humans would probobly get sick and die. I think that if scients studied this bug they could learn a lot from it.
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Hero kid
// Oct 30, 2006 at 1:44 pm
comment for mmhmm
The internet is awesome dont be dissin
Hero kid
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Hero kid
// Oct 30, 2006 at 1:46 pm
comment for coolchic
Cool I liked your reflection I hope the bacteria that can survive antiboitics dont get into my body…creepy
Hero kid
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opac1
// Oct 31, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Comment for eyesticker 03:
I would not have thought about the predetor to the radioactive bug. Very creative.
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acex2inurface
// Nov 1, 2006 at 4:38 pm
This comment is for clark
I thought this article was so cool. Imagen making a tape inspired by a gecko. I’ve seen a gecko stuck on the side of the wall on their feet and hands. If that tape is sold out in public, it could be used for anything! You picked a good article.
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eyesticker 03
// Nov 1, 2006 at 6:41 pm
this comment is for dusty schmidt
I found your report very interesting and I would like to read more about Karl Birkeland.
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opac1
// Nov 2, 2006 at 11:47 am
Mr. Coolguy:
I like how you thought of the uses of the invention. I would not have done that.
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opac1
// Nov 2, 2006 at 11:50 am
Coolchic:
Your article is pretty solid, but basic. Say something to make it more iteresting. It is still good work.
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kenny24
// Nov 2, 2006 at 9:02 pm
This is comment is for Hero kid. I liked your response it was very funny.
I think your article would be even better if you wrote a little bit more.
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ewannawanna chewbacca
// Nov 2, 2006 at 9:36 pm
polariod gansta this ones for you
i thought is is facinating (i’m running out of words) that if you eat healthy you have better elderly memory. im happy because my parents make me eat healthy
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ewannawanna chewbacca
// Nov 2, 2006 at 9:38 pm
this is for hero kid
your hilarious. i would probably do the same thing. it stinks the wine companies will have a short period of time to grow grapes, i like wine
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