Thursday, January 21, 2010
Relationship with Global Warming & Math
The relationship with Global Warming and Math is that global warming has many numerical things in it. These things include number relating to amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitros oxide in the air and atmosphere. For example one website says that America releases more then 100,000 ton of carbon dioxide into to the air every year. Well, that definitely is a number to me. Some other numbers in global warming are how many species of animals of gone extinct because of it. Or even the rising levels of Co2 in the past decade shown is in numbers. This also has another relationship with math. Graphs. The rising carbon and other greenhouse gases are shown on graphs that show their dramatically rising levels in the past 20 years. Math also plays a role in showing people the ugly truth about global warming. It helps with all sorts of graphs, numbers, predictions, averages, and many other things that wont fit. Just goes to show you math plays a role in almost everything.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Plant Stealer

Have you ever thought an animal can be a plant? Well I as sure didn't. That is until I saw the title surprising sea slug half-plant and half-animal. This really threw me off and everything i knew about animals. My curiosity then took over and I went to investigate. They say that the little animal was found producing the plant pigment chlorophyll. What does that mean was my next thought?!?!?! Well the article then said it was a plant. Well right then i thought that was a pretty fancy name for a plant. But who am I to argue, scientists could name stuff anything they want. But then I started thinking to myself. Wow this is getting pretty boring. I mean wo-hoo it can make a plant lets all go back to our lives now. But just for the fun of it I read on. Turns out I was wrong. That was a big event. A biologist named Sidney Pierce from South Florida Tampa stated "they can make energy without eating." Well that wasn't exactly what she said. But to tell you a truth I did you a favor. I mean it said something that I really couldn't understand. Energy-containing molecules. How does that fit into to the sentence was all I made out of of the phrase. In my opinion the important thing was they could basically use solar power to get energy. Isn't that cool. But wait. How could these slugs actually do that? They couldn't have evolved not the right conditions. My answer came later in this amazing article. Scientists say that these guys so much algae (microscopic plants) that they practically stole their ability. At that moment I was mind-locked. Tell you what I don not really know what to call it so the best I could come with was cool. Yeah I know really sophisticated but there are no other words to describe it. Well you guys wondering what this slug looks like? Well the picture above is what it looks like. Enjoy the weird image!
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