Girl frozen in time may hold key to ageing

http://www.fun-on.com/science_brooke_breenberg_girl_frozen_in_time_ageing.php

This girl, Brooke Greenberg, is very different from us because she doesn't age. She might be the person that helps scientist understand the whole aging process. Imagine it, in the near future where people can live up to 150years old. What if we didn't age, we would have a more time to spend it with our loved ones. Although it all seems great but I think that we shouldn't try to alternate our genes like this. I am not a religious person but i do think we should let fate decided when we die. We shouldn't defy against these rules.
I do feel kind of bad for Brooke, she can never experience the things a teenager could experience, she can never experience the things an adult can enjoy. The good thing is that she would never need to carry the responsibility that a adult and even teenagers need to carry. She won't experience the stress a college student will have. It is also a benefit for her that she can't think like a 16 year-old teenager because if she did, she would probably feel depressed that she is stuck in a one year-old's body. I would probably go insane if I was in a body of a young girl while my actual age was 16. The things that i would miss out, i would watch all my loved ones age while i stay in this body. No one should endure that kind of pain.
When I was watching the video clip on the bottom of the article I saw that Brooke had a caring family by her side. The family of hers loves her so much that they spend all their time with her, never leaving her alone. It is good to know that she has this kind of loving family by her side. I am impressed that their family accepted this change, i know it is their job as a family member to accept another family member no mater what, but sometimes changes are hard.

Just when I thought T.V shows don't lie

I have always been watching medical television shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "House." In the television shows whenever a patient has a body part that severed, such as a finger or leg, as long as the patient places the limb into a box of ice then the doctors can reattach with no problem. Turns out those television shows are just a big fat lie.
While I was looking through the news report something grabbed my attention, there was a picture of a men with some missing tooth titled "What to do when body parts fall off." So i clicked on it and started to read the contents. It says that Jim accidentally severed his middle finger and some parts of his index finger. They decided that in-order to keep Jim's middle finger they had to put it in ice. The thing is, that was probably a bad decision, or so the nurse from the Swedish Medical Center said. The nurse told them that they should have kept the finger cold instead of putting it directly on ice because if the vessels get in contact with the ice it might damage the vessels and make reattachment hard. Then it goes on talking about what a person should do when their tooth falls out, or when the eyelid goes behind the eye.
This article is actually kind of gross but at the same time very helpful since it teaches the reader how to deal with these kind of situations. I have always thought about what I would do when my finger gets severed. The first I would have done was to throw it in ice because that is what the patients do on the shows. Now that I have seen this article I will follow the steps so that the doctors can reattach the finger with no complications.
Next time when your finger, toe, arm, or leg gets cut off then you would know that you shouldn't put it in ice, because if you do then you might forever lose that part of your body. Another important thing, don't believe television shows because they are feeding the audience false information such as, putting a person's severed body part in ice. If you want real information go to the Discovery Channel or any educational channel.

Cohen, Elizabeth. "What to Do When Body Parts Fall off - CNN.com." CNN.com International - Breaking, World, Business, Sports, Entertainment and Video News. Web. 17 Sept. 2010. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/16/things.fall.off/index.html

I can't believe my eyes and ears

Last Saturday night I decided to watch the Discovery Channel. For some strange reason I started to watch the Discovery Channel a lot recently, which I normally don’t do. Something caught my eye that got me to keep watching this channel that day; which was the ID Investigation Discovery, when I saw the title the thought that came to my head was it must be about some person who killed many people. To my surprise, it was about a guy called Ned Snelgrove who has killed 2 women and almost killed 1 woman. The first person that he killed was called Karen Osmun, her girlfriend. A few years later he met a girl called Mary Ellen Renard, he danced with her and so he got Mary’s trust. After they finished dancing Mary decided to go home but she had car troubles so Ned offered to help out, and said that he wanted to follow her home just in case the car breaks down. Once they reached Mary’s house he tells her that he needs to use the restroom. Like any other civilized person Mary let him into the house because he helped her out; once inside he ripped her clothes off and stabbed her, even though she was almost dying she still struggled and got free from Ned. Then she started to call for help, which resulted in Ned fleeing from the scene. Mary was badly injured but she still survived and got a chance to tell the police officers about the whole thing. Soon after that the police started to search for him and found him in a hospital because he tried to commit suicide. He got sentenced for 20 years but because of “good behavior” he got out of jail in 10 years. 2 years after that, he killed a 32-year-old single mother but this time he argued that he didn’t do it. After a few days he tried to commit suicide yet again but failed. Once the police got all the evidence to prove that he killed the last victim he was sentenced to 60 years to prison.
This sick twisted guy disgusts me!! He even wrote letters about how he can’t help him self whenever he is near a woman, he always tried and resist the urge of doing something; he said that he just couldn’t resist but to kill those women. How disturbing is that!! He must be a psychopath! The thing that strikes me the most in when I saw this was when they decided to let him out just because he had good behavior. Are they born stupid, or did that have to work on it? Haven’t they ever heard of faking!?? Seriously!! I really believe that no one, and I do mean no one, should be let out of jail just because of good behavior. Before I saw that he got to the third person I was thinking, “ holy crap! They are seriously going to let him out.. Damn they must be stupid because he will probably just kill some innocent person again.” I was totally right, and it is not because I am smart; it was because any logically person would know that he would go out and kill again. He even sent a letter to his inmate and told him that he will "pick up where he left off." Not only did he not regret what he had done, he even decides to keep going. This guy is sick in every way. He committed suicide TWICE!! Just so he could avoid the police; if he wanted to commit suicide because he regretted it then why didn’t he stop when he got out of jail? Although he said that he tried to kill himself the second time because the police kept accusing him of something that he didn’t do, but I’m not going to believe him. At least not after seeing the things he wrote in the letters.
The lesson that I have learned from watching this is that never let a stranger follow you home just because he danced with you and fixed your car. If you trust your instinct and let him follow you home then you better prepare yourself. The other lesson is, don’t follow a stranger home when you are in a bar, because the last time a women followed a guy out of the bar she got killed. And yes, I am assuming you don’t want to be killed.

Great... more bugs

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/science/31bedbug.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science

Check out that news.. it will gross you, just when you think cockroaches are gross!
It is saying that bedbugs don’t transmit diseases but they are gross!! I hope they all die off just like the time they disappeared for a long time. Now they are saying its hard to kill them, so what am I suppose to do when they nest at my house!? I was even more shocked to hear that if you’re allergic to dust bunnies it actually means you’re allergic to bedbug poop. I’m not joking here, dust bunnies are bed bug poop in clumps. To think I played with dust bunnies when I was young… thinking of it makes me sick. Now they even mention how they hide and you cant feel them when they bite you!! WHAT THE HECK!! Does that mean if there were bed bugs under my bed then I wont feel them crawl on me at night???? I hope they all suffer, all those bedbugs! I haven’t even mentioned the best part! They even live in theaters and hotels!! What am I suppose to do? Stop living in hotels when I travel!!? One of the guys on the news said “People should be aware, but not panicky.” Ya right! Ever heard of reverse psychology? If you tell me not to panic, I panic. So I guess when some people say “sleep tight don’t let the bed bugs bite” they are not kidding.

11-10-09, Art Core

Today we went to the glass factory, I thought it was very cool especially the part where the guy made the animals. The work place was quite big the people there seem to be very kind to us and to their fellow workers. It was very hot in the beginning but once we walked in there, there was fans to cool the people down because the procedure of making the glass requires a lot of heat. It feels like we see glass every day, but the procedure of making it glass we don't see everyday. There were times when I saw the machinery I feel like it might be dangerous but the people who work there doesn't seem to get hurt from it. But maybe its just because they are very cautious. When we were walking through the finished glass museum it was very cool, because there were different shapes and sizes. Even the glasses they dispose of was very cool. I wish i could also make an animal out of the glass but i know i would never be able to because it must be super hard. What makes Hsinchu such a great place for making glass is that it has silicon and natural gas. I enjoyed my time at the glass factory it is a very memorable experience for me.

The Last Samurai:Reflection

One of the theme of this movie is Traditional ways(samurais) vs. modernity(emperor). I wanted to chose this theme because i feel like in this movie this it what it was all about. To me i think that they shouldn't have a war just because they wanted to stay traditional or be more advanced, especially they shouldn't have a war against their own country. It was sad to see people fighting against their own people. I think that they should just keep some of the traditions because traditions are the ones that started the whole thing. And some traditions are really cool. But they should also have some modernity because if they always stay in the past then they will never be advanced. And when other countries try to invade them they would probably die pretty fast. The modern equipment can protect them, so that is why they should be more modernized.
I think this is a great movie because it was educational and there were some action in it so i wasnt bored. Normally when i watch educational movies i tend to fall asleep, but not this one because it is very awesome.

Newton's 3 Laws and Amusement Park

1 example of Kinetic Friction and 1 example of Static Friction

I went on a water ride(the one where you go down the steep thing twice). It is and example of Newtons 1st law, static friction, and kinetic friction. This is an example of Newtons 1st law because in Newtons 1st law it tells us "An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon an outside force," and when i was going downwards it was going really fast but when it suddenly stop I flew forwards. Which is also known as inertia.
This is an example of static friction because static friction is the friction that prevents a object to set in motion, so you need a greater force to get the object to start moving. When the ride was about to start it started very bumpy and slow and then eventually it moved more smooth, because the friction was preventing the ride to start, but once it was set in motion it started to move more smoothly.
This is also a example of kinetic friction because, kinetic friction is the friction that goes against the motion of a moving object object. So when it was getting to the end of the ride where it was beginning to stop, it didn't stop immediately it stopped very slowly. It was this way because kinetic friction was slowing it down, and eventually brought it to a stop.