Friday, January 23, 2009

Inauguration Day!!!

Barack Obama had a historical inauguration. It is just amazing that one man could attract so much attention in one day. This might have been one of the best inaugurations ever but now I am going to get the real story. This might help you get a better understanding on Mr. Obama and his inauguration.
My first article I chose was about the song put on for Mr. Obama. Now there might have been some famous people performing the song like Yo-Yo Ma but that did not stop them from "instrument sinking." Yes you heard me, they were faking. You might think that that is just sad that they were faking, but it was because pitch, tone, and intonation are all things that be affected by cold weather. So in the end they just didn't want to ruin the special event. So don't be to hard on the instrumentalists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.html?_r=1
Now my second article is on the inauguration in general. Now as you know Mr. Obama is an African American and the first one to be president. So you can expect that this was pretty big. In the inauguration speech Barack told people how we should be enviormentally friendly. He also said that he did not support the war in Iraq and was planning on taking troops out immediately. Lastly he said that "A man whose father might have not been served at a lunch counter sixty years ago can now make a sacred speech. That was a very powerful line to a very powerful speech. This was a good speech for a good man.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123247866100498973.html
So that's the inside news on this historical inauguration. You learned about a song and a powerful speech. This was truly a great innauguration. I hope it will be good 100 days for Mr. Obama. So I wish Mr. Obama good luck in the next four years and I hape he does well.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Trouble in Antarctica

In Antarctica global warming is starting to take its tole. The global warming is mainly happening in the southern tip. This can be dangerous because this could flood the world. That means that we should keep our oceans clean. They also said that this has been happening over a 50 year period. Also in the 1970's temperatures actually got colder there. This is what the article about Antarctica was about.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/science/earth/22climate.html?ref=science

Friday, January 9, 2009

Bees get Cocaine

Bees are very much like humans. For instance, in Australia scientists put Cocaine on a bee. The bee, like humans lost judgment. It also got excited about odd things. This meant that bees are like humans in many ways. They also dance sometimes, but not often. This is what the article about bees was about.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/science/06bees.html?ref=science

Monday, December 1, 2008

What I learned in Class this Week!

kidwings.com/owlpellets/flash/newvop.swf I learned many things in class this week. I learned about Owl pellets. First, I learned that they are regurgitated from the Owl. Second, I learned that the Owl pellet is important because without it the Owl would starve. Lastly, learned that there are bones in the Owl pellet. This I what learned in class this week.

Monday, November 17, 2008

What I learned in Class

In the last couple of weeks, I have learn In the last coupled many things. First, I have learned what symbiosis is. Symbiosis is the way living things interact. I have also learned how fungi play a key role in symbiosis. Lastly I have learned that mutualism is the form of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit or do not benefit.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Say Goodbye to Fat!

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/the-end-of-fat/
Studies show that a new medicine by a team of Danish researchers. They did the experiment with 203 overweight people took the medicine with directions and lost about 5 pounds six months in to the experiment while people taking
the .5 grams medicine lost 25 pounds at the end of the experiment. People don't know how the medicine will work out, but I think that it should do good because of haw many overweight people there are these days.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Frog Hides Claws!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17obclaw.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
The Cameroonian frog has been discovered to have claws! Scientist Dr. David C. Blackburn discovered this while studying the spices. This is a breakthrough in science. It is said that the claw is actually an extra foot bone and that the frog uses it to ward of predators. I think that this is amazing because no one would ever think of a frog as a violent animal. I also think that this is weird. The other weird thing is that the skin actually breaks which means that the frog does not use its last line of defence much. So there is still a very little chance of you seeing them do this.