Shown here are biotic trees near my neighborhood. As you can see, the tree provides food and shelter to nearby animals living near us. The trees near our neighborhood need light and rain to survive the hard days. Not to mention, the tree wasn't born this tall. It had to grow and absorb nutrients. The limiting factors of these trees are how they cover up sunlight and water from the plants and smaller trees. As you can see, the trees are far apart. If you were to plant a tree next to another one, that tree would probably block the light.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Picture for Biotic
Shown here are biotic trees near my neighborhood. As you can see, the tree provides food and shelter to nearby animals living near us. The trees near our neighborhood need light and rain to survive the hard days. Not to mention, the tree wasn't born this tall. It had to grow and absorb nutrients. The limiting factors of these trees are how they cover up sunlight and water from the plants and smaller trees. As you can see, the trees are far apart. If you were to plant a tree next to another one, that tree would probably block the light.
Monday, September 27, 2010
The reason behind why Females apologize a lot..
If you compare the times men apologize with woman, you'd be surprised. However, its not that men aren't brave enough to show their sorry. Well, based on this article men don't apologize as much due to the fact that they think it will show them as weak says Karina Schumann, a scientist. Although woman are used to being called as "polite", she made a experiment to figure out the details and if this theory was true. She then looked at the diaries who's owner's were ages 14-44. In the end, 81% of the men and woman showed sorrow. Well, I feel that Karina's theory right since men always try to act tough. Well, that's basically how much I'l be writing about since the rest of the info to me wasn' t that interesting.
Url : http://www.livescience.com/culture/women-apology-gender-differences-100924.html
Url : http://www.livescience.com/culture/women-apology-gender-differences-100924.html
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Chocolate, not only a sweet tooth!!
Now you have an excuse to eat chocolate to your heart's pleasure. Did you know that DARK chocolate helps the heart from inflammation and heart disease? Remember, DARK chocolate, not milk chocolate! :) According to health studies in europe, that one dark hershey kiss could help the heart. Chronic inflammation could a risk factor for some diseases so maybe one or two DARK chocolate kisses could help. The first hypothesis from a group of researchers was that the high amount of antioxidants contained in the cocoa seeds might have beneficial effects on people. The results gave backup information by helping people have lower C-reactive blood cells which cause inflammation. Or in another way, they have less heart bun or inflammatory. Chocolate may be good for you, however if you care about your diet, be careful not to overdo it!
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From Electric Cars to Electric Planes...
Electric planes can be the new style to how modern people fly. Electric motors are 3x or 4x faster than an airplane propeller. Plus, it could be much more reliable than the current modern plane. What this means? Less accidents, more business. Plus, if an electric airplane would be able to be efficient 95% of the time. This means that they waste much less! What makes me even happier is that there would be quieter planes. I always hate that noisy sound at night. It makes me wake up sometimes... However, the negative thing about this soaring plane is that the battery. The battery would need mass amount of electricity to pull off a flight. This would make the plane much huger and heavier causing unsafety to the passengers and the plane itself. Nanosolar, a company tries to solve this problem by adding solar panels under the wings to recharge the batteries. Not all planes are destined to be run on electricty yet this plane still has some advantages still. If more electricty planes are made, this means more airports so no one can complain about the noise. This idea can lead to success but we'll have to wait and see in the future.
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Tuna-Fish is Lower Mercury level?
Usually when you at a restuarant, you expect you sushi to be safe and poison-free? Wrong! After reading Livescience.com's article, you will end up watching what your eating now. A new static says that it is safter to eat tuna from a grocery shop than from a restuarant. However, that doesn't mean a thing compared to other fishes. In fact, tuna is probably one of the highest edible mercury fish. Listen up as you read my blog!
SUSHI DNA:
Previous studies shown before say that there is a few diffrent mercury levels for each fish. These studies isn't reliable because they didn't have a good method for seperating the tunas. As you can see, there is a new way to determine a type of salmon. It's called DNA barcoding. In this method, scientists use a "species's fingerprint" and compare it to an unknown species. This comes in handy since some of the markets or restuarants don't even know what type of tuna they're selling! This show that some markets or restuarants could be giving you some bad fish...
However, which one gives you the better fish more?
THE EXPERIMENT:
The reseachers for this experiment took 69 samples of tuna from restuarants and markets. 54 from restuarants and 15 from supemarkets... The mercury levels were much higher than your average fish. In fact, the tuna, bluefin akami broke had a higher mercury level allowed by the USA Food and Drug Administration:
THE HEALTH RISKS:
The mercury level rises in the food chain. For example, a fish that is a predator, has a higher
mercury level. If you eat mercurary, the risk are disabilities and other serious problems that can't be fixed.
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3-D TV = A Trip to the Hospital?!
After reading an article on livescience.com, there could be a risk of hurting your child from 3-D. If you feel dizzy, have altered vision, or anything else, you should take off those 3-D glasses and go to you doctor. Samsung, the company that stated why this is happening, wants to help awareness of 3-D TV since they didn't want to repeat what had happened in Japan before. There was seizures from pokemon due to the flashing graphics. 12,000 children had illnesses from seizues to nauseua. The nintendo company had no choice but to cancel this episode in case any damage happens. The author of this article at Livescience, Benjamin Radford's interesting theory was every 1 in a 5000 people are at risk of photosensetive elpilespy. This could result in a bad vision, fatigue, or nauseua. However, america shouldn't be worried about seizures.Bad excersises like video games are a much more important health topic. Beware of the 3-D action still...
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