Parasites: Bad or Worse

Hi, everyone Bigdog hear to give you the lowdown on some hot fresh NEW NEWS! Well, in the sports world the giants are still 10-1, the Phillies are still overjoyed from their World Series win and Plexico Burress shot himself in the leg. In other news the market is starting to bounce back. And finally ... SCIENCE NEWS. I have just learned from untold sources that their are these things called Parasites. You see, parasites are organisms that live in or on a host. A host is an organism that serves as food and shelter to the parasite. An example of a parasitic relationship would be fleas on a cat. You see, in a parasitic relationship one organism benefits while the other is harmed. So, while the flea gets hair for shelter and blood for food the cat is harmed with painful and annoying biting. Parasites can also vary from tapeworms, to head lice, or even fungus. So think about it.... are parasites bad or worse.

Market: Problems!

Hi it's me Bigdog and I'm not going to make this sound all great. The economy/market is going through another tough time with the market dropping and getting worse each week. The market is dropping and I just want everyone to be aware that there is a possibility that we could be going into another depression. Now, there are many things we can try to do to save as much money as we can. Sadly, us kids don't have the power or even anything we can do to help this. As of 11/17/08 these are the numbers:

Dow 8,273.58
NASDAQ 1,482.05
S&P 850.75

That may sound like a lot but its really not. But for us kids the only thing we should do is prey to god that a miracle will happen and that the market will go back up. We should also just enjoy being kids. If you want to learn more I got all my information at www.msn.com

Scotch Tape: X-rays of the future

Two weeks off a nobel prize win for work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch Tape. It actually turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off it's rolls in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays!! The researchers even made an x-ray image of one of their fingers. Juan Escobar, a graduate of the University of Los Angeles, California or UCLA suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like crankig. All in all, it's pretty cool to think that something used lets say in a school building everyday can be used to help the world in a big way.

SMARTBOARDS!!!!!!!

Well, guess who it is. It's me Bigdog! Coming to you live from the Internet. Now, one thing I want to talk about is smart boards. This new piece of technology is sweeping all schools of the nation and making learning science more fun. The smart board is a fully featured interactive white board system and transmit the picture from the computer to a monitor, and then displayed on the board. Now, not only is this very cool but it will make learning science a whole lot easier. For example, right before you do a dissection you can do it on the smart board and see what you will be doing when you actually do it. you can also connect to the internet and broadcast your lessons to promote learners or simply publish your work to a sever for archiving and later use. So, as you now clearly see from my awesome lecture smartboards are in and blackboards are out.

Work cited-
http://www.smart-boards.com/?gclid=Cly-oc_yrpYCFQSPFQodtkxVLg

MATH IS....

Math is many things. Math is going out to the golf courseand knowing how far the hole is and dicifering what kind of club you need. Math is going out to buy a car and remembering to multiply the principle by the rate by the time or I=prt. Math is skateboarding and remembering what angles to do your tricks at and what degree you have to do your sping at. Math is going out to shop and remembering to add the tax and remembering to subtract the coupons and discounts. Math is going out to dinner and remembering to give an 18-20% tip out your whole meal to your waiter. Math is going to a meeting and showing them all your different graphs of your companies ups and downs, increases and decreases, improvments and disprovments. Math is cooking and knowing how much of a teaspoon of that certain ingredient you need to complete your dish. Math is eating a pizza and knowing how much of a sample you took from the whole. Math is taking a survey and being ableto translate it into agraph and then being able to translate that graph into all kinds of forms of information. Math is being a set designer and being able totake something frome one scale and being able to change it to asmaller or bigger scale. Math is almost everything around us,and whats wierd is that we do these things all the time and we don't even know we're doing math. So, the next time youdo one of these things remember that your using math, just in a fun way. Because, Math is all around you.

Diggin' for........Oil?

Hi again, it's me Bigdog!!!! And have I got news for you. During the pass two days, Ms.Nitzke came into teach us about digging for oil, and let me tell you it's a lot more complicated than it sounds. First you need three things to give you an idea of where to dig. First, you need pressure in the ground for the oil to get pushed in. Two, a trap to hold the oil underground. And three, a resevior to hold the oil. If you have all three of those overlapping on a map those are places to dig. Now, just to clarify this isn't the kind of treasure hunt dig. This is the giant machinery kind of dig. And let me tell you digging for oil is not cheap. First you have to pay money every time you move the drill, how many meters you dug, and if you broke any of the drills. Now, many oil fields can be found in Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Texas. So how you ask, was I able to do this without ditching school and buying a fancy plane ticket to Austin? Well, Ms.Nitzke set up squares covered with tinfoil and you would have to poke through it with your "drill" andtry and find the "oil"(syrup) under the earth(kitty litter). And you would have to calculate you money need plus your resevior space and your recovorey rate. So once again, you see that you can learn while having fun at the same time. Catch you kit kats on the flipside

Bigdog

Kites fly! No Lie! You know it! Science!

Well folks if you have a third grade education and can decifer from the title that this blog is about kites. Give yourself a pat on the back. Yes, it is true that in mid-may the omega science classes made kites when the sixth's graders were testing, and then the next week took them out to fly! Now, the kite project came with worksheets, tests and lectures about wind. For instance, when we flew our kites, the wind that picked up our kites was local wind, not global wind. The difference is that global winds travel long distances and spread out, while local winds travel shorter distances and stay in a certain spot. So as you can see, learning about wind dosen't have to be boring, seeing all you have to do is go outside and fly a kite. Later days!