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.