Blue rats part 4

After six weeks the researchers ended up sadly dissecting the blue rat to inspect its spinal cord which is the photo to the right. Scientists were amazed to find that the rat's spinal cord was still blue after 6 weeks. Scientists say that since being blue is the only side effect it may be an actual medical treatment. Researchers of this project say that only having steroids as a treatment for spinal injuries is what prompted this search.


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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/blue-rats-food-dye-heals-pictures/index.html

Word of the Day- Apprise

Apprise- to make aware of

Sentence 1: My father apprised me when i was younger.

Sentence 2: We all remember the famous apprise- "Luke, I am your Father"

Sentence 3: I may apprise you, sometime in the future.

Blue rats part 3

If the blue dye within four hours of the actual injury the blue dye actually prevents inflammation so any spinal cord patient who has they're spinal cord injected with brilliant blue g dye won't be fully paralyzed. Another part to being injected within the four hours is that in rats they had full control of they're bladder which i hear is a big deal but i wouldn't know.

Word of the Day- Parvenu

Parvenu- A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class

Sentence 1: If John would be more of an entrepreneur maybe he wouldn't be considered a Parvenu to others.

Sentence 2: Although Bill was more wealthy than most at the club, the old-time members treated him as a parvenu, and rarely invited him to join their activities.

Sentence 3: John became an entrepreneur and now hes not considered a Parvenu.

Blue rats Part 2

This is actually the same rat as my last rat post. Now yes this is the same rat but this is before the treatment so as we all know from my last post the rat was injected with a derivative of blue dye, blue 1, which scientists think helps spinal cord injuries. Now that that's out of the way they tested the blue dye on rats that were put on anesthesia and a weight was dropped on they're back, which gave them spinal injuries so the test was physically correct. Now unfortunately the dye will not be in hospitals for a few years due to risks, but the scientists of this experiment suggest patients with spinal cord injuries should drink blue Gatorade or some other drink with only blue 1 dye for its possible benefits.

Word of the Day- Queasy

Queasy- To feel sick to the stomach; affected with Nausea

Sentence 1: Some people get queasy in cars.

Sentence 2: I personally hate getting queasy.

Sentence 3: Some people get queasy while on boats.

Blue Rats Move Again After Food-Dye Injection- National Geographic

I never thought it possible... AWESOME!!! Ok I'm all done with my amazement, so Blue Rats? Ok so the Rats were paralyzed and I'm guessing they paralyzed it but anyway while the rat was paralyzed they injected the rat with Brilliant Blue G Dye, which is a derivative from common Blue Number 1 Food Dye. Now the side effects of this after was blue eyes and skin and only clumsy steps instead of actually walking, and scientists say other then Blue eyes and skin they could find any other Clinical effect on the rats. Scientists also say because of the lack of side effects, blue dye could be a boon to paralyzed humans down the road.

Word of the Day- Indigenous

Indigenous- Produced,Growing or living, naturally in a country or climate.

Sentence 1: Poison Dart Frogs are Indigenous to parts of South America

Sentence 2: The sculptors of the Terracotta warriors were indigenous to china.

Sentence 3: Native americans are believed to be native, or indigenous to North America.

District 9 Story and ideas behind it

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District 9 was a fantasmic Movie. The movie was about this Alien race who got stranded on earth in the mother ship which was floating above the city of Johannesburg. For quite a while the mother ship was untouched until the government cut they're way into this ship that was hovering many miles above earths surface. Now when the government gets in they finally come across millions of this insect-like race. So because of how many of these aliens there were they had to put them in a part of the city that wasn't occupied and that was District 9. But when they go to evict all the aliens from District 9 an alien was killed, this one in particular was a partner to another alien and those two were trying to collect enough of this fluid that was never named and it wasn't ever told what it was but at one point a little alien child was explaining how it worked when he wasn't supposed to and he said you had to insert the fuel then away they fly so I'm guessing it was fuel. But after the alien was killed the main character Wekus i believe was how it was spelled but anyway he went into the shack he was living in because they all got shacks and lived in the slums but he found this silver canister that had the believed-to-be fuel and accidentally sprayed some on him. Now this is the part that makes me think it wasn't fuel and that was that it was recreating his DNA into the Aliens DNA but honestly i may be wrong because they're weapons required the holder to have alien DNA but this is what most of the movie is ACTUALLY about. So from there it really was that they were gonna kill him for the answer to how he could use the Alien weaponry so he escapes with his new superhuman strength, and goes to District 9 where he runs into the aliens partner. The human and alien make a deal that if he can get the canister that started to mutate him then the alien (who's name is Christopher) would return his species to they're planet then return him to normal which is where it starts to go wrong cause around that time the government found out he was hiding out in district 9 so the government comes in to get him but ends up having and alien slaughter fest, they capture Chris, and by the end Chris leaves, and when Wekus was going to die i think it was that they either excepted him as one of them or he generated something from his mutation that the others recognized but they helped him. That was the movie.

Ideas behind it

Greed-> this was the main problem in the story because they confiscated all these weapons to use them in wars so when they found out this human could use them they had to know so they could use them but in doing so harming others.

Racism-> this one isn't as big as i thought it would be but it was really a side effect of the greed but they were treating them like crap the whole time.

Other lessons were taught but they're isn't a single word for.
Some of these lessons were ones like don't trust someone increasingly which was taught when Chris put his faith in Wekus and told him he would have to wait 3 years for him to be fixed so Wekus knocked him out and took his personal ship to the mother ship but failed to do so. But that is all i have to say my overall thoughts on the movie is that it was absolutely my favorite movie.

half-cooked lobster caught in maine- National geographic

Well actually the lobster wasn't cooked halfway it was found with a color difference that made it look like it. Actually the color difference was genetic. in lobsters the dark brown color they have is actually a mixture of reds oranges yellows and blues. Now this particular lobster just didn't have much blue tint in its shell so it only had reds oranges and yellows in it, exactly what you need for orange. This lobster was caught on July 20, 2006 near the town of Bar Harbor Maine. The fisherman Alan Robinson donated his catch to the Maine's Mount Desert Oceanarium. Unfortunately only 3 of these unusual lobsters have been caught in the last 35 years, so the chances of finding one are 1 in 50000000.

Fossils reveals bus-sized 2,500 lb snake- discovery.com

In Northeastern Columbia fossils were found of an old prehistoric snake that was around 15 meters and 38 cm long, reaching more then 1133 kilograms it was easily the worlds largest recorded snake. "This thing weighs more then a bison and is longer then a city bus" says enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History.
The gihugic beast ate the ancient relatives of crocodiles, scientists think, and scientists also think this gihugic behemoth was on this earth some 58 to 60 million years ago. The snakes name is Titanoboa Cerrejonensis which means "titanic boa from cerrejon" the region it was found.
Now interestingly enough it was part of the boa family but acted more like an anaconda which i don't believe is part of the boa family. The snake was actually revealed in 2007 in Florida's university of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.when they realized it was a snake that they were looking at they quickly pulled out an anaconda skeleton to compare the difference. The difference was that the anaconda backbone was the size of a silver dollar and the fossils was the size of a large Florida grapefruit. Now my thoughts of this article was that I really like snakes, so to know that they found one that was originally 15 meters long is just amazing.

Word of the Day- Addle

Addle- to become or cause to become confused

Sentence 1: I addle many people with speech.

Sentence 2: Most people have been addled before.

Sentence 3: Most kids are easy to addle.

Allegory of the Cave part 2- my feelings

I really liked the story that is being put in by Socrates and Glaucon because its a good example of what could happen... that and it makes sense, I mean to kill someone for your beliefs would be understandable, if it wasn't completely wrong. I think what drives this along sorta is that its a conversation of what ifs, which i like cause i go with what ifs well. I think the thing about this is that Socrates is trying to point out to Glaucon that this can easily be an idea that could easily get one of the prisoners killed.

Burmese Python Swallows Electric Blanket- National Geographic

Yes a Burmese python ate an electric blanket. So basically the python they think got the electric blanket they give it every night to keep it warm cause they don't generate they're own body heat and they think the blanket got mixed in with the Rabbit they give it to eat. Now honestly we probably all knew this would happen eventually, its funny it took a 3.5 meter long Burmese python named Houdini to get a electric blanket 2.5 meters into its digestive track. I feel that it shouldn't of happened in 2006, but 2001 maybe 1999.

Word of the Day- Chimera

Chimera- A surreal creation of the imagination; In painting

Sentence 1: The Chimera was a beast with the head and body of a lion, a tail that is the head of a snake and a goats head protruding out the middle of its spine.

Sentence 2: The Chimera was beaten by Bellerophon.

Sentence 3: The chimera was the last of Typhon's children.

Allegory of the Cave Part 1- story

The Allegory of the Cave is really a conversation between two people, Socrates and Glaucon, and Socrates is saying well what if there is this man, who live this way and he is tied down and forced to see these shadows, but there were others being forced into this. But lets say he was taken from this environment hes lived in until that time, he wouldn't be able to adjust his eyes just yet, so he adjusts them slowly but when he sees well he doesn't want to believe it's real. But what if eventually he does believe that this reality really is the reality of things, so wants to go back to free everyone else from they're false reality.But the people who took him out say no if you do they will kill you but he still does to do the right thing.So when hes there he says this isn't real you have been living a false reality come with me and you can be freed from this tyranny. But from him Contradicting they're beliefs they kill him because they don't want to believe that they have been living a lie this whole time. So the Allegory of the Cave was really when you think about it, a lesson. The lesson is that you can show people undeniable proof that what they believe is wrong, and you can show them that proof but it doesn't mean they will believe you nor does it mean they will stand it.

Excercise can be like Heroin "gym rats" show- National Geographic

Yes Exercise is like Heroin, on a scale, but scientists think this euphoric sensation is what keeps people running, because you still get withdrawal. This theory was tested with rats, there were some in a cage with running wheels and one without running wheels. the rats that had access to the wheels ran more and more. on day nine the two groups of rats were each given food, the rats that had the wheel kept going on the wheel and lost weight while the others actually ate. Later in the experiment they put the rats on Naloxone and had observers who weren't aware of the experiment list they're actions. The rats who had the wheel showed more withdrawal symptoms then the rats who didnt have a wheel.

Word of the Day- Emolument

Emolument- A salary or fee for your services

Sentence 1: My daily emolument was $67 a day.

Sentence 2: Raise my emolument or I'm quitting.

Sentence 3: My emolument was raised yesterday.

Word of the day- Caucas

Caucus- a meeting of members of a political party

Sentence 1:Different groups within the legislature held regular caucuses of their members.

Sentence 2- Many Democratic Caucuses have been held.

Sentence 3- Many Republican Caucuses have been held.

Theory of Standard Model

Ok for this post I'm going to break it up into sections more specifically the following
Atoms
Quarks
Leptons
P.S. All of these are part the Theory or what was written, or other background info you know the good stuff


Quarks:Once believed to be the basic Building blocks of matter but are made up of many things.(DID YOU KNOW?:Atoms are used for Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion)Atoms were found to be made up of other things by Johnstone Stoney who discovered that atoms were made up of some smaller thing with an electrical charge which he named Electrons.

Quarks:Found in the 1960's by Murray Gellman and George Zweig and the experiment was an electron being shot at neutrons and protons and they broke into smaller parts. Quarks come in three 'colours' red, blue, and green and like proton's and electron's electric charge, Quarks have 'Colour charge', colour charges have nothing to do with light bouncing off objects into your eyes to let you see the color of objects, it's scientists being creative and making a name for the bizarre property quarks have. Quark's colour charges produce a force called Gluon, which gets stronger the farther they are. Gluon is used to help quarks survive since they can't survive alone they must be together with three different types which are I quote from the book I'm using "Colour neutral overall (exhibiting no colour charge). Possibilities include threesomes called Baryons,('Bary' means heavy)including normal protons and neutrons or quark-antiquark pairs (called Mesons)". Quarks also come in 6 types or 'Flavours' or 3 pairs which are listed lightest to heaviest below:
up & down
Strange & charm
Top & bottom
now up, top and charm quarks have a light positive electrical charge and the others have a light negative electrical charge therefore three of any combo of up,top or charm quarks make up a single proton, and any three combo of bottom, down or strange quarks make a single electron if I'm correct.


Leptons: Are a lot like electrons,they're are Muons which are 200 times heavier then a electron and tuos which are 3700 times heavier. Both have only 1 negative charge, but electrons are part of this group too. Leptons are also associated with neutrinos, which have almost no mass at all and can pass through about anything without any problems.

World's Deadliest Spider found in Tulsa Market

Brazilian Wander Spider was found in a "whole Foods" in the produce section and got here on a batch of Bananas, wandering, they caught and gave it to the University of Tulsa. The venom is actually a Neurotoxin the same type of and poison as coral snakes, king cobras, Black Widows, Blow fish, and any other Widows really. The spider after being caught in a container it was sent to the university i named to a guy named Terry Childs, and now is being held in a terrarium with a do not disturb sign i wonder how much money in hospital bills would be paid just because of a tiny spider.


***NOTE*** OH YA 50TH POST WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Word of the day- Contemplate

Contemplate- to look at inttentively;to gaze at; to consider thoughtfully

Sentence 1: Excuse me i must go Contemplate on this.

Sentence 2: Dad, are you going to contemplate on my Birthday this year?

Sentence 3: Hey, the sign says no contemplating.

Oedipus at Colonus

The final one, well I think it was placed well I mean the time line of this series goes
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
but this one explains a LOT like why Eteocles and Polynice killed each other and why Antigone buried her brother polynice. Now from the beginning, so Oedipus never went to the hole like he wanted but instead walked with Antigone as his eyes after wandering for a while they end up in the Grove of the Furies, or as citizens there call them, the Kindly Ones. The Furies were the three goddesses of Vengeance, Tisiphone (Murder), Megaera (Jealous), Alecto (constant Anger)the Furies would protect the innocent and punish the Guilty sorta like a Executioner but they would punish them after death instead of hand it out like candy before death, and they tortured them since you cant die if your dead. But they got to the Grove of the Furies where Oedipus prayed to the Furies to not be harsh to Apollo but to put all harshness meant to Apollo go to him and to bless the city with good fortune until the citizens and there leader got there and later after there discussion of how the king would know hes there if he didn't go tell him Theseus the king got there who was a big fan of Oedipus so treated him as his Honored guest. Actually in reality i thought it was a bit over the top for a king to treat an Exile as a greater i mean you would think he would be one of those kings that think they are better then all others but no he wasn't and if this was written in an actual ancient Greek society that tells me that kings back then were willing to break there backs for others. But anyhow later Creon came to get him and his daughters to take them back to Thebes he failed at getting Oedipus, he got Ismene and Antigone but Theseus himself and his guard got them back and was glad, but soon after he got them Polynice got there and tried to face his father who cursed him which is where Antigone comes into play, in the play Antigone Polynice died by his brothers hand and Eteocles by Polynice's which was what Oedipus cursed him with. So he left but before he did he asked Antigone to Bury him if he dies and give him his Proper Rites. So he left and right after Zeus got mad and shot Lightning and Thunder upon the earth and killed Oedipus as he knew he would. When Antigone found out she asked Theseus to see his tomb which he asked him not to let her so he didn't, but did take them back to Thebes where, a few years later I would guess, Antigone started.

Pet Spider Kills Owner (the sun)

Now here is another you may have already heard about, but back in 2004 a pet black widow killed its owner Mark Voegel. On February 27th 2004 an article came out on thesun.co.uk about a pet black widow killing its owner now most of us if not all of us know that black widows venom is a neurotoxin so if you are bitten you have a chance of being screwed. But anyhow he was bitten by his pet oh right and then he died on the couch where all of his pet lizards, snakes, insect, etc ate him. they found him dead after being alerted of a smell the neighbors smelled but he had a spider woven web over him with him with Bettina his Black Widow along with around 200 other animals ranging from snakes, to lizards, to insects, along with many large very known snakes and a lizard named helmut and thousands of termites.They're really isn't much more to it.

Oedipus Rex (or the king)

Oh my god this is more screwed up then Antigone, but not by way too much. Oedipus Rex was about Antigone's father's life beyond a point,the story starts out with him meeting a priest and other people with the priest and he seems all nice but when his wife's brother who you find out later is his uncle gets back from Delphi after seeing the Oracle of Apollo he was told by Apollo to find the murderer of ex-King Laius. Now Apollo knew who it was and said that he must be punished, so he places a curse on who killed him and called the Blind Prophet Tiresias to tell them who it was since he sees with the eyes of Apollo. He refuses to tell him and says he must figure it out himself, so he calls a shepherd who served Laius.So I hate top change the subject but when he was waiting a messenger from Corinth came to tell Oedipus that his believed father died from being sick but when he was saying how he couldn't go anywhere near parents cause Apollo he would kill both of his parents so the messenger told him how he found him on a mountain, Mount Cithaeron with his ankles pinned together. When the shepherd got there he found that his real mother asked the shepherd to kill him so Apollo's prophecy wouldn't come true but he pitied him and gave him to the messenger which he then gave to King Polybus and Queen Merope who were overjoyed because they could not have one of there own. So when the Shepherd got there he verified it after torture threats, Oedipus realized Apollo was right he killed his father King Laius and he remembered the rest that he would kill his mother too which is Guess who... you got it was his wife who hung herself out of the agony he would go through after finding out he married his mother, and bore children with her, so in a way he did kill her. But after he saw this sight he gouged out his eyes, and when Creon his uncle came in to pity him and brought his daughters Antigone and Ismene for them to say good bye before he asked Creon to take him to the hole his parents wanted him to die in as a child, to die. and that was that play, either today or tomorrow I'll put up a blog post for Oedipus at Colonus.

Word of the day- Cogitate

Cogitate-to ponder

sentence 1: Why don't you go cogitate on it.

sentence 2: Excuse me I must go cogitate on this theory of yours

sentence 3: A nuclear bomb, why would you cogitate up an idea like that?!?!?!

Shark in NY?!?!?!?! (nypost)

Yes a shark was found on Long Beach New York, No it was not carnivorous it was only a Basking shark. Now this isn't surprising to since Basking sharks prefer colder waters and New York is really really cold so it makes sense. Now to the article, a group of surfers spotted the dying basking shark, it thrashing to get out in the ocean. So the shark was seen earlier before this all happened circling about 50 feet out but got too close to shallow water and got beached which is where I started, later they noticed that he WAS trying to get off the sand bank and that he had a large gash on his left side which is thought to be from colliding with a boat and in the photo it means that he was getting a lot of sand in that wound.

Antigone

Antigone is a screwed up play, I can say that for certain. But its a very good play as well it's about this one guy who kills his own brother in a war, but dies in the process. So since one was to be named king they're uncle is named king and Eteocle (one of the brothers)is given a proper funeral and so on when the other was left out to be eater by vulture and other animals who eat carrion. So here is when Antigone comes in and sh knows its illegal to bury this guy or mourn for him since he fought for the other army but she still buries him. So when she was caught she was basically abused, they take and bring in her sister Ismene who didn't do anything and and later kill her for being an accomplice to Antigone. At that time Antigone was locked up in a tomb where she was supposed to learn to fear death, but instead Hangs herself. But before he came back to the tomb to let her out he was convinced to let her out by the blind prophet which I can't remember her name. So this act of killing herself sends Creon the abusive, power hungery king into a fight with his son Haemon which ends up dying, so now mourning for his son and his wifes death (and i believe antigone was his niece too)and then he gets news that his wife killed herself after she found out her son was killed. So see? I said it was screwed up.

Word of the Day- Labrynth

Labrynth- a complex system of paths or tunnels which is easy to get lost.

sentence 1: I am not a big fan of the movie Labrynth.

sentence 2: Pan's Labrynth was based off a Labrynth.

sentence 3: The Minotaur was said to live in a Labrynth.

Frilled shark caught on tape! (daily mail)

Yay! I love frilled sharks they have been my favorite for many years but thats not the point, the point is that they got one swimming on tape. Now this was two years ago so most of you have probably heard about it but anyhow the frilled shark was up near the surface and caught by a local fisherman, this is exciting because they usually are in depths around 600-1,000 metres below sea level. The lowest recorded depth of a human going underwater that I have seen is 100 meters so these are very rarely seen anyway,now back to the article. After the frail shark was caught, the Awishima marine park was contacted. From there they put the frilled shark in a large saltwater tank and videotaped the shark swimming with its mouth and eyes open. The shark died a few hours after capture. =(

Word of the day-Hoi Polloi

Hoi Polloi- the masses,The common people

Sentence 1: The Hoi Polloi are surrounding the building

sentence 2: As he walked out the Hoi Polloi cheered.

sentence 3: When the hoi polloi get out of control it can be hard to settle them down.

Rare Octopus Fossil Found (National Geographic)

Octopus's those little buggers are loads of fun, they also very rarely fossilize but one did apparently! So octopus's don't fossilize because they don't really have any bones and muscles and skin make them up, but this one represents 3 different ancient species of octopus. With that being said i can say that this octopus has screwed up the octopus's evolutionary tree. This is because most ancient octopus's had fins which scientists thought, were lost as octopus's evolved but this octopus doesn't have any fins which baffles scientists. Now my thoughts on this article was that it is amazing they found an octopus fossil I mean I thought they never fossilized!

Word of the Day- Malice

Malice

Definition:The intention to hurt or injure another.

Sentence 1:Your being arrested for obstructing a police officer, murder, unclassified malice and Loitering.

Sentence 2:Malice will ruin you, eat who you are to make you what your not.

Sentence 3:Why is he showing any malice toward you in the first place?

Blender 3d

Hey peoples sorry I havent written a new post in a WHILE but anyhow today I was over at my friends and I was shown a new program called Blender 3D. Now Blender 3D is a program that u can make 3D models and animation with but you can also make games on it. Now when you hear that you can make games on it you probably will think its a horrible program but it's a fantastic program that I recommend for anyone, the only downside is that it's difficult to learn and use. But the outcomke is usually amazing so for everyone who wants to make games get blender 3D, oh yes i probably should of put this in sooner but blender 3d uses python and c++ visual 2008.

Michelangelo's statue of David Shin like Achilles heel?

The statue of David very famous but he's old now much older then most peoples well hopefully all of you. But anyhow David has been leaning forward a hundredth of an inch for 400 years and is now taking effect on it with nicks and cracks in the legs. Scientists believe that this could help make artificial limbs more realistic.The picture above shows the stress distribution. I think that this is pretty cool I mean a dead guys will help make artificial limbs more realistic.

supervene

Supervene-To come as something additional or extraneous; an additional development

now sentences
1.Supervene S-U-P-E-R-V-E-N-E supervene.

2. A synonym of Supervene is Ensue.

3.I will next stack this apple on top of this pile of fruit to supervene on to it.

DNA

DNA... the basis of all life. Ok and base pairs make up the middle of DNA the base pairs are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine which always pair cytosine, Guanine and Adenine, Thymine... and the sides of this code are sugar and Phosphate.When one of these two are messed up that makes up a Genetic Mutation.

Nucleus

The Nucleus is how some say the brain of the cell which is stupid because a cell is so small that if it had a brain it wouldn't be able to think enough for it to be considered a brain. Ok so I don't agree with that but I see why they say that because the nucleus controls everything in the cell. The nucleus is one of the of the only organelles that have DNA and RNA and in Animal cells there are chromosomes oh ya and the nucleolus.

cytoplasm

I... I just don't know what to say. I mean all Cytoplasm is is the liquid that suspends everything. Ok Cytoplasm is boring and has 1 purpose ok but cytosol also has 1 purpose but its different. Cytosol is cytoplasm inside the organelles and has thousands of enzymes that are responsible for the catalyzation of glycolysis and gluconeogenisis and the biosynthesis of sugars, Fatty acids, and amino acids. So its boring with 2 purposes but we need it.

Plant cell- Cell wall

The Cell Wall an outer wall on every wall and WE DON'T HAVE THEM!!!! Ok the cell wall we don't have oh well we will have to do. The cell wall is made up of three parts the secondary and primary layers and the gluey pectin layer. The Gluey Pectin Layer holds the two parts together and the two sets of of primary and secondary layers well protect. Alright now even though plants have this protection the don't have an immune system, can't move, and don't have a nervous system. So thats the good and bad side of a Cell Wall.

Salvador Dalí biography

This time I'm doing one on Salvador Dalí who had a interesting life and seriously he used bulletism that's like awesome times two but anyhow he had the best mustache ever now to business. Salvador Dalí was born on May 11 1904 and died on
January 23 1989 and was a very successful like to get into the San Fernando institute of art the students had six days to paint a picture but it had to be a certain size and his was smaller then was told but he put so much detail into it that they accepted him anyway. That school was apparently not right because the didn't teach techniques so he self-taught himself but not before he was suspended for a year and such. His body is on display at the museum of him.

Antimatter

Darn those scientists and there shortage of antimatter pictures well ok as you have probably of guessed I have read on antimatter and... it's... AWESOME!!!!! Now for other people Antimatter is the matter that's the opposite of matter. Antimatter is the opposite of matter for example antimatter electrons are positrons and antimatter protons and neutrons are anti-protons and anti-neutrons which are different because like a neutron it has no electric charge but unlike it, it is composed of anti quarks rather then quarks.Antimatter is untouchable though literally when antimatter comes in contact with matter it explodes. The first discovery of antimatter was in 1928... sorta I mean a scientist suggested the possibility of such matter but it wasn't detected until 1932 when a scientist by the name of Carl Anderson who had indeed discovered an positron. More discoveries were later made such as the discovery of anti-protons and anti-neutrons in 1955 if I'm correct and the making of a anti-deuteron atom in 1965 and the making of a anti-hydrogen atom in 1995.

Nuclear fission

This I'm doing Nuclear Fission which if I am correct is half of Fusion and we can handle because Fusion just doesn't want to in our fricken thermoses (hahaha). Ok all jokes aside fission can be pretty scary if you think about I mean 1 nuclear reactor wiped out Chernobyl and the surrounding cities and I'm pretty sure that was about 2-3 cities total. Fission also made possible the production of two nuclear bombs the Fat Man (large bomb) and the Little Boy (smaller bomb)and those were used on two cities in Japan. Now most people think of this when they think of nuclear fission but fission has a history like for instance Léo Szilárd made the first nuclear chain reaction underneath the Chicago football field and the first successful atom-splitting experiment didn't use uranium and it used more energy then it made. But later Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann did a experiment that was shooting neutrons into Uranium and was hoped to make a new, heavier element and they found that much lighter elements some half the mass of uranium were given off, as if the nucleus sheared in half when bombarded with the smaller particles that were less then half its mass.

Black Elk Autobiography

I shall tell about black elk and the book of which told me his life well I mean sorta told me I mean books can't talk but you know. But anyhow the autobiography was called "Black Elk Speaks" and it was mostly about his life which i was expecting it to be about his life and Sioux history well it had his and his friends views on it. It also told about his visions throughout his life like when he was I believe it was 11 but anyway he said he had a vision when he was deathly ill about the beings of the west that were described as "regular horses but with electric manes and thunder in there noses" and a bay horse who told him to do something which wasn't put in it. But it wasn't just Black Elk there was a lot you see like Flaming Thunder I believe was one of them but there was one who wrote there account of "the battle of a thousand dead" and such but this book is a hard book to explain but its good.

The Chaos Theory

For a assignment I read about the Chaos Theory which I now understand. The Chaos Theory says that there is a predetermined timeline that we can easily break by doing something different even by 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds. An example would be that if a certain butterfly was supposed to be eaten and someone steps on it instead then that may cause like a Cyclone somewhere else that is a certain part of it though called the butterfly effect which is explained and used in many different movies such as The Butterfly Effect, Jurassic Park, The Sound of Lightning, and It's A Wonderful Life. This was discovered when a meteorologist Edward Lorenz noticed that his codes produced incredibly different outcomes when the codes were slightly off and for his test he put in two numbers one was 0.123456 and the other was 0.123 and one outcome was a warm sunny day and the other was a catastrophic storm.

Library Sciencey Person presentation ThingyMajigur

Yesterday I got to go to the Lincoln Park Library to go see this science thingymajigur and to get books so I can do the speech and other stuffs I don't know about but anyhow lets get back to what I was saying. At the science presentation thing it was kinda crowded because a school had a field trip to there and I believe that there were 3 or 4 other home schooled kids.The presentation was pretty cool I knew most of it but seeing a science dude squirting little kids with water gun made up for it. Now if you noticed I said most but didn't say all I didn't know that a pickle could make a light which was really cool but I think he should of made it explode (which would of been awesome I would care if he did it some obvious way it would of been cool anyway). Some of the other stuff he did was stuff like shot a bottle that had hydrogen and oxygen it and faked magic with science using sight and used air blaster thingies that I shoot my relatives with when I'm at my Grandpas (picture of air blaster up top).But anyway that was what happened with it, it was fun.

Desert

Deserts make up 1/3 of this big piece of space rock we call home and can be seen from space. Deserts are usually made by 2 reasons winds and sand eroding rock and the lack of rain like a couple of examples are that the Gobi is cold but is a desert because the Himalayas collect the moisture and the Sonora desert Arizona is a desert because the Rocky Mountains collect the rain. Deserts are interesting cause there is different types cold, dry, hot, moist, etc and animals live in all of them each animal adapted to the climate of the desert that they’re in for example Bactrian Camels in the Gobi Desert eat snow to survive and knows that they can only eat a liter equivalent of snow at a time. Other animals also have adapted to desert climates like most Scorpions have a more water based shell and Locusts use less energy while flying and hopping by hopping and flying in the direction wind was blowing.

First Lungless Frog Found (national geographic)

In Indonesia a new type of frog was found and normally it wouldn't be important enough to blog about it but this one is the first ever recorded Lungless frog. The frog is still able to breath even without gills nor lungs the same way salamanders do... through the skin. Scientists found this discovery while doing a routine dissection of various frogs and stumbled across this and were amazed.

New "Rainbow Glow" jellyfish found (national geographic)

This I found quite interesting, it was about a jellyfish (I don't think it is but the article said it is soooooo.)that doesn't sting but glow a brilliant rainbow coloring. But its coloring isn't self-produced, it's from light reflecting off the creatures cilia which for little peoples who don't know what cilia are are hairlike projections that beat simultaneously to move it through the water. Also the jellyfish is extremely fragile.

excorsism skull found in italy (national geographic website)

From what has recently been unearthed in Venice Italy one very unusual piece was found... a skull of someone accused of being a vampire. In Venice one of the people found a partial body and a skull of a woman from the middle ages and the jaw of the skull was forced open with a brick which was what excorsists did to suspects of vampirism, Im not sure if it killed them or just held there mouth open but either way I wouldn't want it done to me cause that's cruel but what can you expect from the Middle Ages.

The Yesterday of Today (amazing ain't it?)

Yesterday I was part of a movie. The movie was Dozers and I got to look like an addict... with blood on his arms and mouth... freaky. In it we got to chase a car and get chased by a car, and run around a corner, oh and beat up a construction worker with a nuclear symbol on his hardhat and rubber-ish sledge hammer and wrench. It was fun... and cold... fun and cold. But despite this horrible combination it was still good because we got fifteen gajillion boxes of pizza more specified tasty pizza and tasty makes everything better unless you're lactose n' tolerant in which case tasty pizza with soy dairy products would make everything better I would guess.

Putting clean Coal to the test (discover feb 2009)

In Germany there is the only green coal factory. The green coal factory is very clever. The factory started up in September and it's considered "clean" because it doesn't release the CO2 gas instead it uses a carbon capture system to get the CO2 and pump it into the ground for natural geological formation. So if you're interested here is a link:

From tar with teeth (discover feb 2009)

In Venezuela people were excavating a tar pit. In this tar pit there was a perfectly preserved Saber tooth Tiger skull. paleontologists believe that the tar pit has a high amount of fossils yet to be found.

Oldest Oil Paintings found in Cave (national Geographic link added)

On the sixth of February of two-thousand six a mural made with oil paints was found in one of the famed Bamian Caves in Afghanistan and evidence of a oil-based binder that would have dried paint and help it adhere to the rocky surface it was painted on. With the murals were the remains of two giant destroyed Buddhas, and the mural was predated to be at least one-hundred years. Researchers made the discovery when trying to conduct a chemical analysis for preservation and restoration of Bamian. Which I think is all very cool.

An "Elite" Immune System can prevent AIDS(discover jan 2009)

Now another one I thought near impossible there is a way that you can be immune to AIDS. The people who can are only able to because they're immune system is powerful enough that it can withstand the full power of HIVs. These people have certain immune cells that stop the replication of the HIV. Joel Blankson an assistant at John Hopkins University says that because of these immune cells a vaccine for AIDs should be possible.

Is that a dead mouse your cloning?(discover jan 2009)

Japanese researchers were able to extract brain cell nuclei from two dead mice that were frozen for up to 16 years into mouse egg cells who's nuclei had been removed. The result was the mouse egg cells grew into fertile adult mice. This I thought wouldn't be possible but, apparently I was wrong and ice doesn't screw up brain cells. Now some people might think that we could now resurrect the ice age creatures that are in permafrost but it would be much harder and they could only do it to very very very close relatives to that creature.

Do the bubbles in champagne get you drunk faster?(science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

Champagne has been proven that people get drunk faster then non-carbonated wines with similar Alcoholic content. This was proven by Physicians at the University of Surry in England who did in experiment with 12 people who were told to drink and results were that the ones who drank carbonated champagne blood-alcohol rose a lot faster then those who drank the flat champagne. Why this is is still unknown but the guess is that the carbonation makes the stomach empty into the small intestine quicker, which would speed up intoxication.

Do ostrichs really stick there heads in the ground?(Science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

This article didn't surprise me at all. Ostriches DO NOT stick they're head in the ground when they are startled. But this myth came from what they do when they won't flee which is lie down on the ground with there head on the dirt, the reason behind this is there head is the same color as the dirt so predators won't see them.

Are jellyfish drinkable? (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

This article was about if jellyfish could quench your thirst.In the article it said that it would not quench your thirst for a handful of reasons which are that the jellyfish have the tentacles that will sting you which if I'm correct is actually poison would be incredibly hard to remove and if you did do that the water in the jelly that makes ups 96% of it is just as salty as the water its in for buoyancy. But, according to research from the University of Washington if u took a jellyfish from water with a certain salinity into other water with a different amount of salinity after a while its body salinity will change so if you could remove the tentacles you may be able to slightly quench your thirst.

Is it possible to make artificial spider silk (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

For this article I learned how difficult it is to make spider silk which I never thought of because well you know who does enough to research it. This article was about the production of artificial spider silk which is apparently incredibly hard to recreate. The reason the silk is so hard to recreate is because of the second step that is involved.The two steps that are put in to it are:1. manufacture the proteins spider silk glands use to make the silk and 2. and find a way to form the proteins into superfine threads. But despite how hard this is to do the Technical University of Munich in Germany tried to solve that by mixed the proteins with potassium phosphate like spiders then lowering the PH level of the proteins then finally applying pressure through tiny holes but that's only close to a spiders silk, they are able to make silk a fraction of in inch.

Computer models explain lizards killer strength (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

This article was about the strength of a Komodo dragon bite. Despite what you might think a Komodo Dragon's bite would be very strong but it really isn't. Komodo dragons have pretty weak jaws and they're only able to hold on is the pressure is in the back of the jaw. Another part to this is the muscles are getting most of the pressure. My thoughts on this is the reason Komodo Dragons are so deadly is because of its deadly venom.

380 million year old gives birth (discover magazine Jan 2009)

This article was about a fossil of a fish giving birth. This fish is the worlds oldest evidence of copulation. Unlike most fish today though this little fishy (pook pook)
had an embryo which gives us evidence of fertilization inside the mother. The fish is part of a group called Ptyctodonts. The fish was found in Australia and if I'm correct is part of the Museum Victoria in Melbourne.

Legal rights for great apes (discover magazines Jan 2009)

For my first article of 15 I'm gonna put up the one about great apes. The Great Ape Project was trying to give great apes (Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Orangutans, Bonobos)Legal rights. But the Spanish Parliament's environmental committee approved the resolution of granting great apes legal rights. The rights of great apes are same as humans life,liberty,protection from torture. Also Netherlands,Britain,and Scandinavia are already phasing out all projects and stuff that are harmful to great apes. Now to conclude I think its good that steps are being taken to protect great apes due to intelligence but also personally think that this should be the case with all smart animals.

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Two days ago I got to go to this science convention, it was awesome!
There were experiments, for example they put a balloon in liquid nitrogen which of course shrank it, but apparently if you blow on it, it will inflate again which I never knew.
Another experiment was static with a Ven Degraff generator and of course I had the only suitable hair for the static trick they were gonna do.
I found some really fun stuff like this string that was propelled to make a circle you could then move into a different shape. Another was a robotics toy thingy booth which had a seal that clapped when you clapped or crab like robots that could fight. One thing I particularly found fun was a water droplet booth where you were able to play with water droplets which was really fun because they are really movable, and they are hard to burst, its amazing.

Post 0006

Yesterday I got to go to the field museum. During most of that time we were at the new...ish Aztec World!! It required way too much writing I think and I am almost positive I'm gonna get complained at for that comment and will probably get erased out of this. But even though it had a LOT of writing it was interesting. Unfortunately we couldn't take pictures (crap). Because of this I'll move onto the Mayans. Above is one of there gods. I also did Eskimos, native Americans, and underground and will get pictures at a later date. Oh, while at the Aztecs I learned that the movie Road to Eldorado was correct with its timeline (for a movie). I also learned that farmers helped the empire a lot even though they weren't technically part of it.

Post 0005

Today I almost finished my essay and learned that the main enemy in Halo 2 (Tartarus)was named after the Greek cosmic deity of the underworld. The Penn & Teller show Bullshit I am watching now and some episodes are pretty interesting and I think people reading this should watch it. But in it they can talk about some pretty interesting stuff like P.E.T.A. where they showed they aren't telling the whole truth about wanting to save animals. They are against animal shelters because are killing animals in there, but P.E.T.A after rescuing animals ended up killing seven eight of those animals by freezing them.
There was also one where they interviewed mediums that talked to the dead and proving that they may all be faking to get the info beforehand, and other very interesting ones. Other than that my day is done.

first day of essay

Today was a fairly easy day, a few grammar worksheets, 80 math problems and 1 and a fourth page of my greek and roman essay thats due on the 25th. but other then that I finally got a new phone it's nice it's got a full keyboard. I need to use up this space umm bad joke bad joke...... two atoms walk into a bar, and one says "I think I lost an electron" so the other says "Are you sure?" and he says "I'm positive!"

yet again another post

This time I'm gonna write a quick post without a bad joke or anything (darn). Today was a pretty normal day, sorta, I did work =( but I at least am starting week 4's work! I did a quiz I needed to finish for ecosystem and only missed one (I swear if i retook it I could get 100%) but I also didn't study.

day after another

"I've been here now for 2 weeks, I feel the wall collapsing with no way out." OK there are some problems I'm noticing with my own work, 1. It's the second day and 2. If there was a wall that leaves the problem of not being able to get out if there is A wall there is a shortage seeing you need 3 or above to make an enclosed space so I can't be trapped, and if there were three walls and only 1 fell it would get stuck. But onto today I had some other kids come over to meet and stuffs. They were pretty nice but a little hyper. Oh, I played a game called killer bunnies quest for the magic carrot and apparently one card is called Russian roulette showing a roulette board with the soviet union flag in the back, so it's an interesting game.

Creation Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the beginning oh wait wrong creation OK I'm Xavier I'm a home schooled child. Today I went to Garfield Park Conservatory, a very, very, very good place to go if you like plants. This was my second time going to this plant haven its cool. It's got everything from plants that start with A that they have like Aloes to plants with Z like Zebra pillars. they even have a Century plant a HUGE plant that only blooms every 10-20 years then dies. Another thing that makes this day better was the tremendously AWESOME weather we have it's like 57F I would guess.