International News: Tailand

On the day of February 20, 2009 an Austrailian author was released from jail. Now, before we get into the fun detail letme tell youa little bit about Tailand. Tailand is a big country located near the south of China. It is a communism with a prime minister/dictator. Now, recently many of Tailand's citizens have been peacefully protesting for a general vote. Anyway, about the author. In 2005, Harry Nicolaides, an Austrailian author was finally released from prison. What was weird is that he's an Austrailian guy, and he wrote the book in 2005. Anyway, the book he wrote was called "Verismilitude." Obviously in this book it talked about Tailand and madevery crass statements about the KIng and to be crowned prince. WEll, I guess that shows that there is no freedom of speech in Tailand. I'm just glad they letthe author out. I really think it's quite crazy. Well, until next time see ya later.

XY Turtle Blazer

Footbal and Friction:The 2 F's

Football and friction are the two F's and for those of you wondering, no this is not boring. So I recently learned that the highly favored game of football is related to science in many ways. But, the main thing that really interested me is how much friction plays a roll in throwing the football. Personally, I don't like it when they run the football. I actually find it quite dull. But, when they throw the football it is so exciting!!!! Now what's interesting about friction is that if it wasn't around in the air, also known as fluid friction, that ball would just keep going. So there would never be any touchdowns. But the friction pushes the thrown ball down so the wide reciever can catch it. So that is the interesting thing I learned. And soon, baseball will be here!!!!!!!!!!

An earthquake in New Jersey??????

On Monday February 2, 2009 an earthquake hit the town of Denville, New Jersey. Thankfully it was a very small earthquake, seeing it only got a 3.0 on the Richter scale. Scientist, Won-Young Kim, says that this earthquake couldn't and didn't injure anyone, but it does show us that we can even have earthquakes up here in New Jersey and that we should be more prepared for an event like this. One of the local residents was so shocked that he didn't even belive an earthquake had happend. Instead he had thought a tree fell on his neighbors car and blew up. Well, this should all teach us to be more prepared for natural disasters.

Cite:
http://www.news12.com/NJ/article?id=225148