For this week's blog assignment, we are going to try something different.
There is a very cool website, called Earth & Sky. They have articles and podcasts about science topics. The podcasts are good and relatively short (about 10 minutes).
This week, I want you to find a podcast that interests you, listen to it, and then share about it with us on the blog. You can click here to find their podcasts.
For your podcast:
1. Write the name of the podcast and a link to the piece.
2. Say what it was about.
3. Tell us what you thought about it. Why was it interesting? What did you learn by listening to it? Why did you pick this one and not some other one? Include what you thought about listening to a story rather than reading it.
Have fun!
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Podcast: Study supports Global Warming/Hurricane Link
(http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51807/study-supports-global-warming)
This was an article about how the water temperatures of the ocean can increase the strength, hugeness, and time it will last, of a hurricane. This means that with Global Warming there will be more or stronger tropical cyclones and Atlantic hurricanes.
This article was interesting and kind of scary, because with global warming the temperatures will be high and a hurricane could defiantly climb up the Hudson River! :(
The reason I chose this article was because I wanted to know more about how hurricanes and global warming linked. I was going to chose the article about the chickens under bizarre. I didn’t because it wasn’t really about a chickens 50th birthday it was about them being multiplied in science lab and how the generations changed.
I enjoyed listening to the podcast because it made it more interesting. It was sort of hard though, to keep track of they were saying. Then I figured out that the article was the same as the podcast above.
I listened to a podcast called Nigersaurus: dinosaur called ‘cow of Mesozoic’
The link to this podcast is:
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52020/nigersaurus-dinosaur-called-cow-of-mesozoic
This podcast was about a dinosaur called Nigersaurus. This kind of dinosaur is a hundred and ten million years old. This dinosaur is very strange said a scientist. The scull on this dinosaur is very odd and the neck on the dinosaur is making scientist think twice about dinosaurs having long necks stick up rather then stick down. What I thought was really interesting was that this dinosaur has 50 teeth! The Nigersaurus can barely lift its head up behind its back which is why some people call the dinosaur … ‘cow of Mesozoic.’ I learned the comparison between dinosaurs and this dinosaur. When I listened to this this podcast I liked it much better then reading an article. I liked it better then reading the article because I understood these facts about the dinosaur better then I thought I would have. I picked this article and not another one because it stood out. I was listening to a podcast about Jupiter but I didn’t like it because it seemed to boring and after I heard that one I picked this podcast which turned out to be much more interesting then the last one.
Green Building
Report By MaDdScIeNcEgAl94
http://www.earthsky.org/clear-voices/52175/rk-stewart-on-architects-desire-to-build-green
• Low energy footprint plan
• High life quality houses
• Sustainable design
• Effective building
• Minimal use
• Awareness increasing, need for green buildings
• Architects stepped forward to change their practice, lowering energy use in house
• The aim is 50% carbon energy cut by 2010
• By 2030, the aim is carbon neutral, AKA 0 carbon energy emitted
• Easy in building new buildings
• Lots of technology
• Better insulation
• Heat storing windows
• Day-lighting techniques (?)
• Lowering water consumption in faucets and toilet
• Renovating old building into green buildings are harder than building new ones
• Walls get in the way
• But you can change windows
• You can change the water heaters
• Easy to get and use eco-friendly home products
• Tax rates, refunds, and reductions for updating your home into an eco-friendly home
• As energy rise, it’s good to lower use, because you waste les money
• American Institute of Architecture website has a green-architect finder so you can find green-architects near your home
• Architects are really optimistic about the change
• What they are doing is working so far
Well I thought the podcast was very cool. I try to be eco-friendly, so when I get my own house in the future, I hope I remember this. I learned a lot of things in listening to the podcast. One of them was that there actually is an American Institute of Architecture. Another thing I learned was it’s easier to make a new house green than to remodel an old house into a green house (and by green house, I mean an eco-friendly house, not a plant house or a house colored green ;-)) I picked this podcast because I am very eco-aware, and like to know any new advances to saving our Earth. But I personally prefer reading a story to listening it. Actually, if I could read along with the podcast, that would be the best.
Podcast:Scientists celebrate 50 years of Chickens
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52122/scientists-celebrate-50-years-of-chickens
The podcast was about how some scientists in 1957 decided that they would preserve some chickens for 50 years. They decided to do this because they wanted to see how chickens behavior and other habits would change after all these years.
I thought that it was pretty weird keeping chickens for 50 years just to see what would happen to their behavior and habits. I would say that it was interesting but in a weird way. I learned that the chickens behavior actually changed a little. I picked this podcast because I thought that it would be fun to read about. I thought that it was cool that we got to listen to podcasts for our weekly article report. Also it felt a lot weirder since I wasn’t used to it.
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/45040/animal-dreams
This article is called Do Any Other Animals Besides Humans Dream? This article discusses whether or not other animals besides humans dream. When humans dream, they are in a part of the sleep cycle called Rapid Eye Movement sleep or REM sleep. During this part of sleep, the eyes dart, you don’t move much, and there is a lot of electrical activity in the brain. This seems to correspond with dreaming. A lot of the mammals that have been studied have had a similar state also. So maybe they do!
This article interested me because I have always wondered if animals dreamed or not. It was very cool that we do similar things to what other mammals do. I picked this article because I have always wondered about this subject, and there was a picture of a sleeping cat as the photo when you first see it. Listening to the article was a very different experience than reading it. It makes it seem like the article was a lot shorter that it actually was, which was weird (the article was also short to begin with). I needed to use the text beneath the article to get some of the facts out of it. But other than that, it was kind of fun!
The video i watched washttp://www.earthsky.org/clear-voices/52135/peter-doran-on-the-first-steps-to-seeking-life
This Article was about how scientists are taking their first steps toward finding extraterrestial life on Jupiter. Because Jupiter has alot of water under thousands of pounds of ice above it.
They are going to first find ice somewere that is not much less thick and see if fish can live their.
Then, they are going to put a robot under a set it to look for life their for 8 houers are they bring it back up.
They say that everything is perfict for life to live in the water, and the reason they want to know if there is life is because it's one of the best place for fish to live in and water has been their for a very very long time according to the scientists.
"Atlantis Launch Set For Next Week"
By Unknown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7218471.stm
This article is about a rocketship (Atlantis) which has been dogged by an errant fuel sensor system, but NASA is now positive that Atlantis will be ready for blast off by next week! But on the downside their is a radiator hose that refuses properly into a storage box when the orbited payload doors are closed. Engineers say that this problem is only a minor concern, and it should be easy to fix. Atlantis' mission is to deliver the columbus laboratory to the International Space Station (ISS.) This laboratory will be used to carry out studies that will be impossible for the earths gravity to carry out. The lab will be put together by a joined US-European crew on Atlantis itself.
In my opinion this article was awesome. Just knowing that their is people in rocket ships out there is already cool, but a somewhat messed up ship that is carrying a big lab out their is just out of this world to me. Ever since I knew about astronauts in space, I always wanted to be on a ship just like Atlantis millions of miles away from earth with no gravity!
The reason I chose this article is that when I was on Pageflakes looking for an article out of the corner of my eye I saw this and knew that it would be really cool to read. Also space has always been cool to me my whole life and would love to learn much more about it in my next years in P.V.C. or even in the high school.
By: whitestripe
A new kind of article
The pod cast that I listened to was James Hansen and earths climate controversy. http://www.earthsky.org/clear-voices/52138/james-hansen-and-earths-climate-controversy. This article was really really cool because it is talking about what is probably going to happen in the future. The only reason I think this is cool is because I still wonder what is going to happen. Also it is scary. The big idea of this pod cast was that if we don’t change our way of doing things and use less of the environment and “roll back” a little that will make a big difference. I liked this article a lot also because there was a lot to know about what is going to happen, and this was a help for me to figure it out a little bit more. I picked this article because I wasn’t sure about what is going to happen so this helped me a lot. If you didn’t listen to this one you should!
I listened to pod cast called Prehistoric insects grew giant by Alexander Kaiser. I got this pod cast at www.earthsky.org.
This pod cast is about how 300 million years ago there were giant dragon flies then now. I thought this pod cast was very interesting how back then it was the size of wingspan of a hawk. And how insects respiratory system relates its size. One thing I learned was with more oxygen in the air, an insect respiratory system could take less space in its body. I picked this pod cast because I like animals and knowing animals in the past. I thought listening to a story than reading it was great . One question I have for the scientist is why back then they had more oxygen then now?
>http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51913/scientists-examine-wint-o-green-effect
The title of my podcast was “Scientists examine Wint-o-Green effect”
>This podcast was about how when Wint-O-Green lifesavers are broken, blue/white sparks hop around in your mouth. It says when a sugar crystal is broken in half the positive and negative charges want to come back together and make a small lightning streak. This is why the sparks happen to pop in your mouth.
>I thought this article was really cool. It makes me really want to go in a dark closet and hopefully catch a glimpse of the sparks. It’s so interesting how lighting can burst in your mouth. Of course they’re not big or anything. I wish life was like star-wars, with lightning coming out your mouth. AAAHHH! I think I picked this one because it had a little picture of a ton of little lifesavers. I was like,”Oohhh, I like the look of that!” I actually thought they were ricta skateboard wheels, but they weren’t; although I still thought,”AWSOME!!!” So I picked this one. When I heard the podcast play its stuff, I was like, “SWEET!” Of course I said that, who wouldn’t? Lightning in your grimy mouth. Wow, that…Is just sick man. Listening to this gnarly thing was ten times better than reading an article. Just the experience is so much more rad than reading a writer’s story about science. Yah, it was awesome! I could keep on writing, but I’m knot going to because I know I’ll write some more dumb stuff about star-wars and other odd things like that. So, I hope you thought it was extra, extremely cool.
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51913/scientists-examine-wint-o-green-effect
Wint-o-Green effect
My article is about the wint-o-green effect which is about the wint-o-green lifesaver and how if u stand in a dark closet and chew on it you will see sparks fly.
I thought this article was cool because I never really new that you could see spaks fly by chewing on a piece of candy. What interested me about this is that its cool to see sparks from a piece of candy and not from the basic thing like electricity, etc. What I learned about it from listening to it was that the thing that cause the spark was when a crystal is broken, positive and negative charges develop on opposite faces. But as there pushed away they want to get back together. So they jump across for each other and cause a very small lightning bolt. I picked this pod cast because the headline caught my attention and I thought it would be cool to read about candy because I like it. I thought that listening to the an article rather than reading it was harder because I had to play it back a few times to really understand and to get the notes from it.
Expert On Lead In Our Drinking Water
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51949/expert-on-lead-in-our-drinking-water
The podcast I listened to was about how the water pipes that today's society uses, are over 40 years old and could be a risk to giving children lead poisoning.
I thought the podcast was interesting because it talked about how since we do not use filters for where the water comes out, it could be life threatening.
I learned a lot in this podcast. I learned that only 10% of schools in America test their water in the last few years. And that to replace the water pipes would cost around 1 trillion dollars! But there are a few ways to improve our water just by filtering it.
I chose this podcast because it seemed interesting I just read an article in health class about the same issue. So I was interested to read more.
Listening to a podcast, rather than reading an article was fun but a bit harder. You had to really pay attention to what the speaker was saying to get the detail. But they gave you the article along with the podcast so if you did no listen carefully enough, you can read the article. But overall, I liked the podcast.
Modern Chimps dig up clues to ancient humans
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52123/modern-chimps-dig-up-clues-to-ancient-humans
This podcast (/article) was about a recent discovery that showed that chimps use tools to dig up tubers (sweet potatoes, etc). Scientists believe that these chimps forage for tubers in the same way the early humans might have.
I thought this podcast was semi-interesting. It could have been interesting, the subject was, but it was written really badly. I think apes in general are so interesting, because of their connection with humans, so that’s why I picked this article. Honestly, I was disappointed. It confused me, and they did a poor job of explaining the topic. Also, I prefer reading articles to listening to the podcast (mine was only about a minute and a half long). I just didn’t like the people’s voices, and I found it annoying because to go back and get info I had to fast forward/rewind through the podcast (though I realized after I got my information that the article was right there and had the same info.)
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