Hi guys!
Here goes another week of science article reports and comments.
This week, I would like you to keep up the quality of your reports. I would also like you to focus on your responses to the work of others. Try to make them really solid and helpful.
Keep up the good work!
74 responses so far ↓
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color_coated
// Nov 1, 2006 at 12:40 pm
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20060301/Feature1.asp
In the article,” Coral Gardens,” by Emily Sohn, talks about the amazing creatures at the Davidson seamount.
I would like to dive down to the Davidson seamount. It sounds beautiful. But I don’t think I’ll be able to do that because the scientists don’t want the fragile sea life to be destroyed by human activities. I wonder if the scientists are going to do anything to protect the organisms that live there. The corals sound really nice. I wonder if there are any undiscovered species living there. I never knew that coral could live for 100 years.
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FuNkYy MoNkEy
// Nov 1, 2006 at 4:34 pm
this is a comment for color_coated:
I liked your aritcle. The corals sound like they look amazing. I would really like to see one one day.
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FuNkYy MoNkEy
// Nov 1, 2006 at 4:52 pm
My article was called Storing Memories Before Bedtime by C. Gramling. I found this article at http://sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20060405/Note2.asp
This article was mainly about how your brain begins processing and storing information from the day way before you go to bed and even does it while you are doing and thinking about other things. The scientists took 15 volenteers and gave them two tasks and both of the tasks would help them figure out if your brain actually is proccessing and storing information while you are doing something totally different. That proved them right your brain can do that. But now scientists are thinking do you actually need sleep now?
I really liked this article and I found it really interesting. I always wondered how your brain fit so much information into a small space and when. Now this article answered my when question. I would have liked to know how exactly it does store all the information but that would have made the article long and difficult to understand because there would be to much information. Overall though I thought that this article was really interesting.
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Buddy
// Nov 1, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Nature’s Alphabet
By: Emily Sohn
From: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20051116/Feature1.asp
This article is about Kjell Sandved and how he created an alphabet entirely made out of nature. While observing nature he discovered that some animals, while posing in a certain position can look like a letter in the alphabet. It also tells about how he found and photographed these letters.
I was amazed when I looked at this article and saw all the great letters Kjell Sandved found when looking at nature. If you look at the web site you can find the whole alphabet in the wings of butterflies and moths.
My favorite letter is the G. The author explained everything very well but the article was a bit too long. When I look at nature now, maybe I can see some letters from the alphabet.
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wise-weasel
// Nov 1, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Comment to “FuNkYy MoNkEy”
I found your report very interesting. It truly is amazing that all that information can be stored inside your brain!
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wise-weasel
// Nov 1, 2006 at 6:06 pm
comment to “color_coated”
It is pretty awesome what is under the ocean. Next time, however, you might want to give more detail in your summary like where this “Davidson seamount” might be, and what types of things might live there. I didn’t know that coral could live for a hundred years either.
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wise-weasel
// Nov 1, 2006 at 6:09 pm
comment to “Buddy”
What an interesting font that would be! All animals posing as letters! Your report was well done- it gave all the information about the article that I would have liked to know about without making it too long.
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wise-weasel
// Nov 1, 2006 at 6:31 pm
“New sea creatures found in Hawaii” by “Associated Press” from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15511696/ on Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Researchers have gone on a three-week mission to Hawaii and have found one hundred species never seen in the area before, many of which could be completely new to science altogether. The researchers returned last Sunday with thousands of invertebrate specimens along with many unique seaweed samples. Among the discoveries are multicolored worms and a bright purple, foot-long sea star. Studies on the samples will determine the condition of the areas ecosystem and what threats it might face. The project is part of the Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the International Census of Marine Life.
It is amazing what we can find in the ocean. The variety of life that exists in the water is so huge that I don’t know if we will ever understand it all, or even discover it all. I found the article exciting because of all there is to discover in the sea. The article was written well and did not bore at any point.
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GuMmi PiGzZ
// Nov 1, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Comment for Funky Monkey-
I really like your report. It was really interesting and caught my attention. What if we really didn’t need sleep? What would change? I think we need sleep so our body can rejouvenate. If we didn’t then why do we do it now?-GuMmi PiGzZ
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GuMmi PiGzZ
// Nov 1, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Comment for Color_coated-
WOW! a hundred years. thats really long. I wouldn’t mind diving down to see them to, thats really interesting. Good science report!
-GuMmi PiGzZ
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I've been caught LEFT handed!
// Nov 1, 2006 at 8:36 pm
This comment is for Color Coated- Woah I never new that coral could live for 100 years either! I ‘ve always loved pictures of the sea and I especialy love looking at things that light up (all the way down at the bottom og the sea ) like colobonemas.Your article sounds really interesting:)
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I've been caught LEFT handed!
// Nov 1, 2006 at 8:36 pm
This is a comment for FuNkYy MoNkEy! This sounds really cool I still think we need sleep because if we didn’t we would all get crankey, ugly , crazy and pobably lose our mind .
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I've been caught LEFT handed!
// Nov 1, 2006 at 8:43 pm
This is a comment for Buddy!
That’s so weird and it’s a reallycreative thing to do. my favorite is the R. Brittlestars are so cool!
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StRaWbErRyMeNtOsZ
// Nov 1, 2006 at 9:47 pm
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1550448,00.html
My article is called “Fish Fossil Find” by Claudia Atticot. This Article was published on October 25, 2006.
This article by Claudia Atticot was about how scientist found a fossil that might have clues to the beginning of evolution. The fossil that they found was a Gogonasus fish. The fish was actually alive 380 years ago. The Gogonasus fish fossil was found in western Australia last year. It’s about 12 inches long and shows the first true teeth of any vertebrate or animal with a backbone. This fossil will help many scientist build a solid study to the actual steps of evolution.
I found this article REALLLLLYYY REALLLLYY interesting. It seemed that when you think that things are just dead and gone you can never be sure. How cool will it be if I’m just digging in the back of PVC and find a pot of gold which will help me with finding more about leprechauns (hypothetically). Thats what it must be like for scientist. It’s just really cool that we can just “happen” to find certain objects that can tell us how people were formed!
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StRaWbErRyMeNtOsZ
// Nov 1, 2006 at 9:59 pm
This comment is to FuNkYy MoNkEy. I really liked this article because coincidentally we were talking about this in health today.You also have dreams that way, when your sleeping and your mind is thinking about something you did that day, while thinking about something in your dream. Sooooooo…it’s weird when your mind is doing so many different things. The article made you think. Well it made me think!
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StRaWbErRyMeNtOsZ
// Nov 1, 2006 at 10:01 pm
This comment is to Buddy.This article was cool. I just don’t understand how easy it would be memorizing another alphabet, but it is cool to think about.
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StRaWbErRyMeNtOsZ
// Nov 1, 2006 at 10:06 pm
This comment is to Wise Weasel. I totally agree with wise weasel it’s really cool all the new things that we can find in the ocean. Just think about all the things people find everyday?
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GuMmi PiGzZ
// Nov 2, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Comment for StRaWbErRyMeNtOsZ-
Thats really cool. I know many people find newspapers fom long ago when the rebuild a house or knock it down becasue back them they used them for warmth. I wonder how many more extinct or dead animals we’ll find. We should do one of those time capsules where people put things in them and people find them in the future.
-GuMmi PiGzZ
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I've been caught LEFT handed!
// Nov 2, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Article: Mouse Songs
by : Emily sohn
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20051109/Note3.asp
Summery
This article was about researchers that found out mice could sing. It said that mice are singing but their sqeeks are so high piched, that humans can’t hear them.
Relfection: I really thought this sounded interesting. I also thought that this article was nice, short, and to the point (unlike some of Emily Sohn’s other articles).To hear mice sing click this http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051105/mousesongs.asp
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I've been caught LEFT handed!
// Nov 2, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Article: Mouse Songs
by : Emily sohn
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20051109/Note3.asp
Summery
This article was about researchers that found out mice could sing. It said that mice are singing but their sqeeks are so high piched, that humans can’t hear them.
Relfection: I really thought this sounded interesting. I also thought that this article was nice, short, and to the point (unlike some of Emily Sohn’s other articles).To hear mice sing click this http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051105/mousesongs.asp
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Silverwolf
// Nov 2, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Global Warming on the Forest Floor
Found in the N.Y. Times on Tuesday, oct. 3rd
Summary: This article was about how global warming can effect even leaf litter decomposition. Small things like this are very important to some species like the fungi. Fungi are the main instigator in leaf decay. In turn, an effect on the fungi population can affect springtails and if the springtails are affected then the spiders that feed on them are affected. Even small things like the amount of leaf litter decay can cause a chain reaction in a food an ecosystem. For example if the springtails start to overgraze, the fungi population will decrease dramatically and will decrease leaf decay. Henry writes that environmental changes have an impact also. In drought conditions decay decreased considerably. One theory is that the springtails overgraze on the fungi and the leaf decay decreases.
Reflection: I thought that this article was to short and that it left out a lot of (what would have been) helpful information. I did not explain, for example, why fungi accelerated leaf decay and that if more leaf litter was present what would happen. I think that this was not a very complete article and that it could have better. It was to short to include the information that it could have had and in doing so did not fulfill it’s potential as an article.
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The music man...Woman!!
// Nov 2, 2006 at 6:16 pm
The name of the article that I read is Training Your Brain to Feel Less Pain by Emily Sohn. I got this article from the web site http://www.Sciencenewsforkids.com . The exact web site was http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20051221/Note2.asp .
My Summary
This article is about how when a person is under pain, a place in the brain that starts acting up is called the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. There was an experiment dome where 32 healthy volunteers were taken and had heat put on their legs and there would be pain that would increase. The volunteers were supposed to tell the scientists when the pain got on a scale of 1-10(10 being pain to the extreme) past 7. The scientists took aside 8 of the volunteers and showed them how the activity in their brain was going up and they were all trained to keep the rostral anterior cingulate cortex calm, or at least so that it wouldn’t act up. In this way, scientists are trying to figure out what really causes pain.
My Reflection
I think this is a really interesting article. I forgot to mention this. After they tested the first 8 that had been tested and did well, they tried the other 24, and they had more trouble. I think it’s really interesting how, if u really don’t know what you’re supposed to be keeping calm, you can’t keep it calm! I personally would be very scared to volunteer for an experiment that involves pain. I don’t like being in pain and I doubt many people do. What scientists are trying to figure out is what really causes people to feel pain. I would want to know as well because if we figured out why we feel pain, maybe we could reduce it or get rid of it all together. Only thing is, would be getting rid of pain really be a good idea? I don’t like being in pain, but pain is almost a sign that says, oh watch out, if you feel more pain, you might get really hurt and die. It’s a warning for people to stop doing whatever they’re doing or they could get hurt, hurt enough to die and not feel a thing. In some cases though, it would be amazing not to feel any pain. If you were actually really hurt and maybe you knew you were going to die, but u wouldn’t have to die in extreme pain, so much that you wouldn’t be able to say bye or I love you or anything like that. Before all that comes though, we first have to find out where pain comes from. I hope we do soon, because it could be a lot of help, or no help at all. Either way, it’d be nice to know.
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The music man...Woman!!
// Nov 2, 2006 at 6:19 pm
this is a comment for buddy, i loved your article.It imediatly caught my attention and i even went to the site of the article and read the actual one! that’s soo cool that nature can make the alpahbet, numbers and loads of symbols. I think thats amazing.
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lizardboy93
// Nov 2, 2006 at 6:58 pm
comment for he music man…Woman!
I never new when a person is under pain, a place in the brain that starts acting up is called the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. i thought that that was amazing!
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GR1MR34P3R
// Nov 2, 2006 at 7:19 pm
comment for color_coated-
i think their probaly are unknown organisms living
in there and i also couldnt beleive that coral could
live for over 100 years thats incredible!!!
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FuNkYy MoNkEy
// Nov 2, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Comment is for Silverwolf:
I thought that your article was really interesting. I am going to look out now to see if there is less leaves on the ground because it is that time of year. That is really bad because that does affect the whole ecosystem.
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FuNkYy MoNkEy
// Nov 2, 2006 at 7:49 pm
This comment is for StRawBeRrY MeNToSz:
I liked your article that you picked. I thought how the scientists found the fossil was really cool. I don’t understand though how that is going to help figure out clues to the beggining of evolution.
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clark
// Nov 2, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Weekly Science Article report # 7
Fishy Cleaners (by Emily Sohn on June 28, 2006)
I found this article at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com
The article I read was about “cleaner fish.” Cleaner fish are small fish that wash bigger fish by eating small parasites and other junk they have picked up. It’s pretty much like a fish carwash (pretty cool, right?). Occasionally the cleaner fish will go too far and take a bite out of the fish it is cleaning, which will drive away its “customers.”
I really liked this article because it reminded me of what we are learning about in our science class right now. We are learning about symbiolic relationships. The relation between the cleaner fish and the fish it is cleaning is an example of mutualism. Both organisms benefit, the cleaner gets a meal while the bigger fish don’t have to worry about bothersome parasites. I am a little confused though because if the bigger fish gets bitten by the cleaner wouldn’t that be considered one organism benefitting while the other is harmed (parasitism)? But then again, the bigger fish still could benefit in that case because although he is harmed, he still might have been rid of dangerous parasites, but what if he isn’t harmed and isn’t removed of anything that could harm him, wouldn’t that be commensalism? I am very confused by all this. The article was a little confusing for me also. Over all it was a good article, I rate it 9 out of 10.
-by clark
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lizardboy93
// Nov 2, 2006 at 8:20 pm
site for article: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20040331/Note2.asp
An Ocean View’s Downside
Article by E.Sohn. Article published: March 11, 2004.
SUMMARY
This article by, E.Sohn, was about how more people living on the coastal areas are affecting the biotic factors in the salt-water ecosystems. Every year, there is more people living on costal areas. For example, in 1990, there was 249 million people living on costal areas. In 2002, there was 288 million people living on costal areas. That’s a 13% increase of people! On average, coastal counties are three times more crowded than counties that are inland. They sat that in 2008, there will be another 11 million people living on costal areas that will boarder the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. This is bad news for coastal ecosystems. More people means more waste and more fertilizer seeping into groundwater. They will destroy so many habitats!
Reflection
I thought this article was an opinion about Human life interfering with wild life. I agree with this opinion. Yes, a house on the beach with a great view would be a grate place to live, but lets say that with every 1 house I build, you kill 50 fish a year. Now, if you build houses that boarder the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes, you’re building 150,000 houses. That means you are killing 7,500,000 a year. That’s a lot of fish! So the point is if you don’t build those houses, you save 7,500,000 fish or any other type of sea animal.
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Vote Jon
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Citation- I found my article at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com and it was written by Emily Sonh. My article is called The Snappy Lingo of Instant Messages.
Summary- This article is about how people interact over the internet and how they talk differently when they IM or e-mail. Scientists have been study and found some really cool facts about it like how girls talk in full sentences and boys use abbreveations and write in shorter sentences. It says that many people are using English has their main language for web sites and other stuff on the Internet. It talks about how people all over the world know English and are taking or took it as a second language so they have no problem reading it. But some people are worried that certain cultures are losing their traditions and other stuff because if the Internet.
Reflection- This article was really cool to read and it was really interesting to find out how scientists are actually study people’s IM and email and are trying to figure out certain behavior. It was really cool how they have all different facts that differ from boys to girls and how that affects people. I thought it was interesting how some people think some languages will die out if they continue using the Internet and how it affects their culture.
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Vote Jon
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:06 pm
color_coated-
i really liked your article. it sounded really interesting how coral can live that long! that would be really cool to go scuba diving down there! i always wanted to go scuba diving.
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Vote Jon
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:08 pm
wise-weasel-
taht’s so cool how people found new species in the ocean! that would be sooo cool to find new species. image how much more can be down there.
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Vote Jon
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:11 pm
strawberrymentosz-
that is soo cool that a fish can live for over 300 years! that’s really interesting how the fossil helped scientists find out more about evolution. that must be a really old fossil.
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Track
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Snow Traps
Emily Sohn
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20060607/Feature1.asp
From Science News for Kids June 7, 2006.
Copyright (c) 2006 Science Service. All rights reserved.
>b>Snow Traps, by Emily Sohn is about a girl named Erica that lives in Wyoming. In Wyoming, they have snow traps which are big fences that catch snow. The purpose is to stop snow from accumulating on roads, and instead, accumulate on the fence. Erica experimented using Cascade dish detergent and different fences in scale models. Recently, Erica built three full scale models, and is still testing.
Snow traps are very interesting because they catch snow which would other wise accumulate on roads. Snow traps would also be able to catch snow that could help in a drought. That would be very good out in the west, or anywhere where there is a drought. I think it is cool that Erica has won many awards, and may she have good luck in the future.
Live long and prosper!
Track
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Track
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:25 pm
TO MR. ARDITO,
THE BLOG’S CLOCK IS SET TO REGULAR TIME, NOT DST!
SEE YOU TOMMORROW8)
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Track
// Nov 2, 2006 at 10:26 pm
TOMMORROW*
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progress report
// Nov 3, 2006 at 12:30 am
Weekly Science Article Report #7
Pd. 8, Lab E Week of Oct. 30th 2006 by: progress report
Citation:
Title: Shrinking Food Supply Leads To Shrinking Brain
Author: Duke University (from the Journal of Human Evolution)
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20060924020601data_trunc_sys.shtml
Publication: October 24, 2006
Summary:
Scientists and researchers have concluded from studying orangutans from two nearby islands (Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia) orangutans from Borneo (also known as Pong pygmaeus mario) seem to have smaller brain and body size and less energy than the orangutans from Sumatra (also known as Pong abelil). The orangutans from Sumatra have a larger brain and slightly larger body size, as well as more energy. The soil conditions, general environment and food sources are poorer on Borneo than Sumatra. so there are fewer opportunities for the orangutans to find plentiful and nourishing food. Interestingly, a theory called the “expensive tissue” hypothesis concludes that with less food, there is less nutrients and energy to make and maintain the most metabolically expensive tissue, the brain tissue. This could explain why orangutans from Borneo seem to evolve slower then the ones from Sumatra.
Response:
Before reading this article, I knew little about Borneo and Sumatra. It was interesting to learn that two islands so close together provided such different environments for the orangutans. I think the article was very interesting and well presented. This article offers some interesting thoughts about the effects of hunger in the world, including some self-inflicted effects, like bulimia and anorexia.
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progress report
// Nov 3, 2006 at 12:41 am
This comment is to: Silverwolf,
I was wondering why such things as the varying amount of leafs present, etc. wasn’t in your summary. In a situation as such, every variable is important. I didn’t read the article, but I can see how things may seem to be incomplete.
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progress report
// Nov 3, 2006 at 12:48 am
This comment is for Clark:
I know! All the ifs and maybes can really twist your brain in a knot! I guess we have to just think of the main purpose and conclude from that. Otherwise it would just be to confusing.
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progress report
// Nov 3, 2006 at 1:02 am
This comment was for StRaWbErRyMeNtOsZ (comment # 14):
I REALLLLLYY, REALLLLLYY, like your different scenario for finding the fish fossil. I thought it was soooooooo, sooooooo funny. I don’t think I’ve ever thought about finding new information that would help us finding out our past that way.
I also think that this fossil is going to give scientists a lot more doors to look in to conclude how plants and animal have (and maybe will) evolve.
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wps93
// Nov 3, 2006 at 12:52 pm
i found this article at howstuffworks.com
aouther:by Ed Grabianowski
“How the Tesla Roadster Works”
summary:The Telsa is the first high preformance vehicle. this car can accelerate as fast as normal vehicles can. It goes zero to sixty in 4 seconds and has a top speed of 130 mile per hour. It has 1000 pounds of lithium-ion batteries, thats enough batteries to power “2000 incandecent light bulbs.”
Because these batteries are known to explode the car has many safty precausions like barriers between all the “cells.” the Telsa has a navigation system and other features like a normal car. you can charge the car from any outlet or speed charge it from one ni you house using a speacial charger. The Telsa can be fully charge fom completely empty in 3.5 hours. This could be an important discovery in alternate fuels.
reflection: I really want this car. It is very enviornmentaly friendly and looks great! I think it is amazing that an electric car can compete with gas cars. the Telsa can travel up to 200 miles on one charge which i think is amazing!!! I recommend that you go to this web site and look at the pictures and read the aritcle. It is very infomative and completely describes the way it works.
Great article!.!.!
v
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lizardboy93
// Nov 4, 2006 at 2:36 pm
comment for I’ve been caught LEFT handed!
Wow! i never new that mouse could sing! i wonder if they are any good. I did an article that was about frods that used hipiched sounds to comunicate. I think its cool that mice do that to sing!
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lizardboy93
// Nov 4, 2006 at 3:08 pm
comment for vote john
Your summery was very interesting. it made me think about i.ming and e-mailing in a biffrent way
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lizardboy93
// Nov 4, 2006 at 3:08 pm
*deffrent way
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Silverwolf
// Nov 4, 2006 at 9:33 pm
this is a comment for wise-weasle,
I thought your article was very well done. I thought that it was very interesting that humans found even more species of life in the ocean. It seems like we keep descovering new things evey day! (and destroying things also) Anyways good report!
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Silverwolf
// Nov 4, 2006 at 9:36 pm
this is a comment for Track:
I thought that the idea of making snow traps was a very interesting and well thought of idea. I was very intrigued to learn that she earned so many awards. Sounds like an interesting article! Keep up the good work!
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Silverwolf
// Nov 4, 2006 at 9:39 pm
this is a comment to vote jon,
I found your summary of the article interesting to read. I think that the scientists are wrong to think that every boy in the world uses abriviations and the like while girls are the only ones using complete sentences. I think that it is quite th opposite. good report.
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Track
// Nov 5, 2006 at 4:19 pm
To WPS93
I had read an article on the Tesla Roadster, and I agree with you, it is cool looking.
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Track
// Nov 5, 2006 at 4:31 pm
TO VOTE JON,
I FOUND IT INTERESTING, BECAUSE IN YOUR SUMMARY IT SAID THAT GIRLS TALK IN LONGER SENTENCES THAN BOYS, BUT I TALK IN LONG SENTENCES WHEN I IM.
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Track
// Nov 5, 2006 at 5:22 pm
To Clark
I like the way you related your article to what we are studying in science. whether you did it on purpose or not, it is pretty cool.
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airsoft slinger
// Nov 5, 2006 at 9:20 pm
this comment is for ed grabianowski
i liked your report, it had alot of feeling to it. that is a cool artical that u read. i go on road trips during the summer and although the car goes 200 miles on 1 charge sadly it would not cut it for a day of driving. i still agree with u tho the cars are cool
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airsoft slinger
// Nov 5, 2006 at 9:26 pm
this comment is for progress report
i liked your artical report, but i think it had to big of words and some i could not understand. but still GREAT REPORT
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airsoft slinger
// Nov 5, 2006 at 9:37 pm
this comment is for buddy
i liked your article it is cool to see diferent letters in nature and to also experence nature that way. good job
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GuMmi PiGzZ
// Nov 5, 2006 at 9:51 pm
I found this article at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org
My article is called: Mating Slows Down Prairie Dogs
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20061018/Note2.asp
This article was written by: C. Gramling
Summary: This article is about prairie dogs, scientist studied a colony of 100 prairie dogs. When its mating season they’re very distracted, so many prairie dogs don’t think about predators and many are killed. Prairie dogs are normally very fast and tough, but when mating season comes around they aren’t.
Reflection: I really like this article, in fifth grade I did a project on prairie dogs, so it was good to learn about then again. It was really interesting and sad to know about that. Since they only have 17 days to mate I can see why there so distracted. Unfortunately researchers have found that in four months predators kill about 26 prairie dogs.
-GuMmi PiGzZ
p.s. Mr. ardito im very sorry this was late but i posted one on thursday and when i look back today to see if any had commented on mine i couldn’t find my article!
-GuMmi PiGzZ
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airsoft slinger
// Nov 5, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Science article report # 7
Article: electronic paper turns a page
Date of article: Dec. 3,2003
Author: Emily Sohn
Internet article: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20031203/Feature1.asp
In Harry Potter you know how your newspaper moves all the time, well that is about to become reality the E-ink is what will make it happen. On the one sheet of paper there could be a bunch of different papers programmed in it. When you finish your book and you don’t want to go and get a new one you could just turn back the paper and have another one right there for you.
I think the idea of this is cool. It could make students not have to carry as much books and make their backpacks a lot lighter for them. It can also help save trees because we would not need all the paper that we need now a day. It stinks they are starting the invention in Japan right now but eventually it will be here in the U.S. I think it awesome how with E-ink the pictures on the pages will even move. The coolest think though is that is can be light when it is dark and be normal when it is light. Like with a lot of electronic screens you can’t see when you are in the sunlight and can only see well in the dark.
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Airsoft slinger
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GR1MR34P3R
// Nov 5, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Ultra Supersonic Frogs Change the Pitch
Author: Emily Sohn
founded: March 22,2006/ Science News For Kids
Summary
Scientists have just recently found out that their are some frogs that to comunicate with their own species by making very very high pitched sounds that it is pretty much impossible for humans to hear them. Scientists have also found out hat they can make such high chirps that topped 20,000 cycles per second!!! These frogs are found in china on a mountain side next to a rock filled stream they make such loud (high pitched) chirps that they can hear eachother over a waterfall.
Reflection
I think it is pretty impesive on what these frogs can do and i wonder how they can hear eachother. i am also amazed on how the scientists could even hear these high pitch chirps because it said it was so loud that no person could hear them.
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GR1MR34P3R
// Nov 6, 2006 at 11:56 am
Gummi pigzz-
i really love prairy dogs because i think they are really cute and i think id really like tio have one
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wps93
// Nov 6, 2006 at 12:47 pm
coment for airsoft slinger
I really like your topic. I hope that becomes a reality. that would actually make me want to read the news paper.
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the music man...woman
// Nov 6, 2006 at 2:02 pm
This comment is for wise-weasel, that’s really interesting. I think the ocean is so facinating. Oceans cover most of the earth and we know that we havent even reached hardly any of its secrets. I liked your article on the subject.
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The music man...woman
// Nov 6, 2006 at 2:11 pm
this comment is for GuMmi PiGzZ, that’s really sad that prairie dogs have to die only because they are thinking only about mating. I didn’t know that Prairie dogs were that tough though. I dont know that much about them and i’d like to learn more. I like your article about them. It helped me learn about something not many people know.
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GR1MR34P3R
// Nov 6, 2006 at 2:19 pm
comment for track-
i think your aticle was very interesting and a neat idea i think it waas a cool idea for them to put the fences up or snow traps
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wps93
// Nov 6, 2006 at 2:22 pm
comment for track i really liked your article i thought your article was interesting. i liked the fences but that means no snowdays
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wps93
// Nov 6, 2006 at 4:17 pm
comment for gummi pigzz: I thought your article was well written but I also thought that it was sad that the parie dogs got killed during mating season.
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buddy
// Nov 9, 2006 at 2:39 pm
wise weasel
your article was really interesting. That sounds like a cool species.
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Buddy
// Nov 9, 2006 at 10:22 pm
GuMmi PiGzZ,
That is sad that the prarie dogs don’t think about their predators and die. I liked your article and you explained everything really well.
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Buddy
// Nov 9, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Clark
When you explained about the the fish, I got a little confused too. But you did do a good job explaining it. Nice article!
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Jamie
// Nov 13, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Second hand smoke affects pets, study says
by Angela Hill
the link to this web site is http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=a29d05ca-ec1a-4b50-8671-a027eea014ac
The new university of Saskatchewan research, suggests that second hand smoke in a house hold with canines can result in cardiac decease for your dog. They decided to perform experiments to find out the effects.
They took eight dogs and put them in a healthy home and put six dogs and put them in a smoking home. To make sure that all the dogs were in prime conditions the scientists took blood tests and took EEG’s. After the dogs came back a test showed that the dogs in the smoking homes had more muscle on the left side of the heart. This was a sing of high blood pressure and the heart having to pump harder. In human conditions, similar sysmtoms lead to cardiac disease.
This Article is a cold reminder that we can hurt animals. If any of you readers don’t know what cardiac disease is, it can lead to a cardiac arrest -where your heart stops beating. Many people wouldn’t care if a dog got a disease, or maybe wouldn’t even notice, but I like how these scientists took the time to find out.
writen by Jamie
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Jamie
// Nov 13, 2006 at 4:45 pm
this comment is for airheart slinger,
I think thats so cool because thats all high tec and its just like what people in the 50’s thought could happen.
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Jamie
// Nov 13, 2006 at 5:20 pm
this comment is forThe music man…Woman!!,
i really liked this article. It really shows how people react to pain. and when you said that the scientists told them how to keep that part of their brain calm, does that mean their keeping from felling pain?
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Jamie
// Nov 13, 2006 at 5:25 pm
this comment is for wise weasle,
I think its always exciting to find a new creature. Espeacaly a ginourmous seastar which seems really cool.
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clark
// Nov 20, 2006 at 1:15 pm
This is a comment for Vote Jon,
That is really cool, I alway use IM chat, and i didn’t know that researchers were actually studying how people talk on it. I liked your reflection.
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spongebob
// Nov 20, 2006 at 1:18 pm
this is a comment for color coated,
The coral sounds like it is cool. I never would have known that it can live for 100 years.
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clark
// Nov 20, 2006 at 1:19 pm
this is a comment for color coated,
The coral sounds like it is cool. I never would have known that it can live for 100 years.
This is my comment, i accidentally posted it under spongebob, oops
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clark
// Nov 20, 2006 at 1:21 pm
this is a comment for GR1MR34P3R,
High pitched chirps? Thats just awsome. I can’t even imagine how fast they must chirp for 20,000 a second.
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