Sunday, April 15, 2012

blog post nonfiction 2

In the article Cell phone On the Brain scientist say that cell phone activity increases brain activity. They tested that at least 50 minutes of cell phone usage makes the brain work more. This could be bad for the brain. Scientists still haven’t figured out if this could be good for your brain. The effect of the cell phone isn’t like a radioactive affect it’s not like an x-ray. Cell phones don’t all give off the same radiation of energy it depends on whether the person is talking or listening.
I don’t think it’s good that phones give off radiation everyone uses phones and that means everyone can be affected. What about the people who haven’t used a phone yet don’t they still get affected because the signal is everywhere. How do people not get sick from all of the radiation from the phones there are so many cell phone towers wouldn’t people get affect over time?
This is actually dangerous if everyone wanted to put a virus into people they would do it through the phones. Everyone would be affected because the signal travels all over the place. I wonder if the will fix this or is it not that big of a deal? 

blog post nonfiction

The Article Cool Jobs like Mother Nature is about a scientist that created a way to make tape strong enough to hold a full grown man up. He studied different animals and how they grip walls. He studied a beetle a spider and a gecko. He tested to see which animal could withstand motion and stay on the plat form the longest. The beetle had the best results. The beetle has small hairs on the bottom of it and it clings to surfaces just like a raindrop clings to a window. What allows both to keep from falling off is the attraction between molecules; something called the Van der Waals force. This force is weak, though, so when a raindrop gets heavy enough, it loses its grip and slides down. Because beetle feet have hundreds of thousands of hairs each hair exerting the Van der Waals force they can stick to surfaces for as long as they want. That’s pretty cool I wonder what else could be made from studies of Mother Nature.
I wonder how they made the material to make it stick. If it’s made by that logic why hasn’t anyone created something to allow us to fly? If scientists could give people supper sticky tape from the study of bugs, why not the ability to fly? This shows great improvement in the human race on how we learn from Mother Nature. I think it’s amazing that scientist is able to create things based off of nature.
I wonder what else will come up in the future. I wonder what else scientist can take from the earth and animals. Will the supper tape ever be able to be in common households? I think that the super tape isn’t necessary in households but in industrial area yeah definitely. 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Blog post poem 2

This poem Sun is very interesting. I Liked this poem the message of this poem is basically saying you have to go through pain even for the things that are most important. The speaker has to deal with the metaphorical sun beating down on him/her and he/she takes it because the sun also helps over time. This is a very deep concept if you need something but in the end it hurts you.
The meaning of this poem is very intriguing, to need something but in the end you suffer from it. What do you do in that case do you keep the thing or do you get rid of it. If you get rid of it you die because you need it to survive but if you keep it you'll suffer. That would be a hard decision to make die or be killed slowly. \
This poem has a deep meaning. It also relates to too much of something is never good. this could relate to people today because people use drugs but if they use it too long they will eventually die. Its good and they like it but in return its bad for there health over time like the sun to the speaker in the poem.

blog post poem

The poem i read was this is just to say. This wasn't my first time reading this poem and every time i have read it i still don't understand the point of it. I thought maybe as the years went by i would have a new point of view on it but no, i'm still confused by this poem.
This poem is so simple and short. It shows the speaker ate the plums and then was sorry there's no deeper meaning. I don't think that you could say it has a hidden message because it is so straight forward. Maybe the plums could be a metaphor and they could really mean how he did something and didn't have regret but was still sorry. Maybe the poem is really about plums. I don't think that the writer of the poem wanted the reader to understand the poem i think the writer wanted the reader to be confused and think if its literal or not.
This poem has made me think allot about the meaning of it. I don't really think there is a deeper meaning. Maybe the writer really ate some plums and felt bad who knows. I guess this connects to our lives by just being simple, for example some people find art in different ways some people might say a paper clip is art due to its bends. Really its just based off of opinion though.