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2013!!!

The stars of You Tube made a mash-up of popular events of 2013. How many can you name?

Pep Talk from Kid President

This video was posted last year around just before President Obama's second inauguration in 2013. Our English teacher had us watch is class last month. I like what this kid has to say but Journey is a band not a guy.

Dave Crowe: Most Amazing Dubstep Beatboxer

WARNING:
There is one curse word.

Throw Back Thursday

Today I went to Buzzfeed and saw 20 DIY (Do It Yourself) projects; it brought back some memories.
My Mom and I did most of them, my favorite was making oobleck. Here is something we did not make, something that glows. What kid doesn’t like something that glows in the dark? Tutorial here.

But we did make rainbow cupcakes out of ginger-ale, white cake mix and of course food coloring. Below is a how to make rainbow bread.

Greenhouse gas injections may unleash earthquakes

Pumping carbon dioxide into the bowels of the Earth seems like an appealing way to ditch the greenhouse gas. But such injections could trigger earthquakes, geophysicists report November 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Petroleum companies already use CO₂ injections to flush out underground oil. Now researchers have found that such gas injections into an oil field in northwestern Texas sparked dozens of small earthquakes.

“It’s inconceivable that the injection wells weren’t contributing to these earthquakes,” says study coauthor Cliff Frohlich of the University of Texas at Austin. The study provides some of the first evidence that gas injections may lead to earthquakes.

Storms are becoming more intense, moving toward poles

Greenhouse gases emitted by human activity are strengthening storms and causing rain bands and dry zones to move poleward, scientists report November 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Climate simulations have long forecast that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions will make rain heavier and more intense, while also pushing storms and deserts away from the equator. Observed climate patterns that match these predictions are called "fingerprints" of human activity. Researchers have struggled to find such fingerprints because weather is notoriously fickle.
In the new study, Kate Marvel and Céline Bonfils, climate scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, develop a statistical method to separate human influence from natural variation in precipitation. The researchers use the method to see whether satellite and ground-based rain measurements from 1979 to 2012 matched predicted fingerprints. Marvel and Bonfils find that storms had indeed strengthened, and both storms and deserts had migrated toward the poles.
Only human influence can account for these trends happening in tandem, Marvel and Bonfils conclude.

Surprising metals found in microbes

Look out, smartphone users: Bacteria may be after your rare earths. A microbe that lives in one of Earth’s harshest environments, sulfurous volcanic mud pits, needs one of several industrially valuable metals to make a vital enzyme. While rare earth elements have been found previously in plants and microbes, the mud-pit bacterium is the first organism known to need them for survival.
Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum makes its home in volcanic pools outside Naples, Italy, where it endures steaming-hot temperatures and mud as acidic as lemon juice. Scientists led by Huub Op den Camp, a microbiologist from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, discovered the bacterium in 2007 and brought it back to the lab, where they had trouble getting it to survive in their standard growth medium. The bacterium thrived only when the scientists added water from its original home.

To better understand the microbe, Thomas Barends, a biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, probed the three-dimensional structure of M. fumariolicum's version of methanol dehydrogenase, a key enzyme used by the bacterium and many others that harvest energy from methane. Barends found that while previously studied methane-munching species insert a calcium atom into the enzyme, M. fumariolicum uses a different metal. But in computer simulations, he couldn’t find an element that fit into the enzyme’s structure.

Op den Camp’s team, meanwhile, had discovered that the mud pools that M. fumariolicum lives in have far more rare earth elements than do most other places where bacteria live. So they suggested Barends try cerium in his simulation. Cerium is the planet’s most abundant rare earth element but one never previously found in an enzyme. “I thought, ‘no way, that never happens in biology,’” Barends says. But he put it into his model and it worked.

To confirm the simulation results, the scientists grew the microbe with several rare earth elements and found that it thrived equally well on a diet of lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium or neodymium. The researchers also analyzed the bacteria’s methanol dehydrogenase and found traces of whichever element they had added, confirming the enzyme was storing the elements. The scientists report their findings September 12 in Environmental Microbiology.

Op den Camp and Barends now think M. fumariolicum could be just the first of many bacteria found to rely on rare earth elements. “It may be that people simply never looked,” Barends says.
The work will inspire other researchers to revisit data for hints of microbes using rare earth metals, predicts Marina Kalyuzhnaya, a microbiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. “I’m quite sure we will see more papers in this area,” she says.

Chris Anthony, a retired biochemist from the University of Southampton in England who discovered methanol dehydrogenase 50 years ago, agrees that rare earth elements could be much less rare in microbiology than scientists thought. He says, “If I had a lab now I’d be running around testing everything to see if I could find them.”

Immune system follows circadian clock

Jet lag goofs up more than just sleep schedules: Tinkering with the body's clock confuses the immune system too.

In mice, a type of immune cell linked to inflammation depends on daily cycles of light and dark, researchers report in the Nov. 8 Science. The finding could help explain the connection between inflammatory diseases and chronic clock disruptions, such as those experienced by frequent fliers and night shift workers.

“This has implications for all of us,” says study author Lora Hooper, an immunologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “None of us go to sleep when the sun sets or get up when the sun rises.” Soaking up artificial light when it’s dark outside might predispose people to immune disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, she says.

Historical events linked to changes in Earth’s temperature

The Great Depression, World Wars I and II and an international treaty restricting ozone-depleting chemicals each had measurable effects on global temperatures, scientists report November 10 in Nature Geoscience. This finding represents one of the first times scientists have linked specific economic and political events to observed changes in how fast global temperatures are rising.

Meteor explosions like this year’s Russian fireball more common than thought

Meteor impacts such as February’s explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, the most powerful observed in a century, may occur more frequently than thought. An analysis of recorded impacts over the past two decades suggests that Chelyabinsk-sized objects strike the planet every few decades, on average, rather than once every century or two.
“There were inklings of this before, but this is the strongest statement that’s been made,” says Paul Chodas, a planetary scientist with NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who was not involved in the research. If confirmed, scientists will need to reassess the risk of impacts and come up with new strategies for spotting space rocks tens of meters in diameter, which can cause widespread damage and injuries.

Strange six-tailed asteroid makes a scene

A six-tailed asteroid lurks in the rocky belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomers first spotted the space rock, called P/2013 P5, as a fuzzy ball in August. That was a bit of a surprise because asteroids often appear as tiny points of light. In September, scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to follow up on the asteroid and were shocked to see that six dusty tails shot from the space rock, giving it a cometlike appearance.
Observations taken 13 days later showed that the asteroid’s structure seemed to have rotated, the researchers report November 7 in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The team plans to continue to observe the quasi-comet asteroid to determine how the object's tails form and evolve.

Uninhabitable Earth

To determine whether a planet could support life, astronomers first look at whether it falls within its star’s habitability zone, the Goldilocks distance that is not too hot or too cold. But that range can change as a star evolves. A recent estimate of the lifetimes of the habitability zones of Earth and various exoplanets suggests Earth could become unable to support life as soon as 1.75 billion years from now, when the sun brightens before dying out.

Billions and billions of Earth-sized planets call Milky Way home

The galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable Earth-sized planets, according to even the most conservative estimate drawing on data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope.
Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler’s census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets similar to Earth are across the galaxy

Qingsogite

A newly christened mineral has an atomic structure that’s similar to diamond and nearly as hard. Qingsongite was first created in the laboratory in 1957, and geologists first found natural qingsongite, which is a cubic boron nitride, in chromium-rich rocks in Tibet in 2009.

The mineral is named after deceased Chinese geologist Qingsong Fang, who discovered diamond in similar Tibetan rocks in the late 1970s. Cubic boron nitride is the only boron mineral formed deep within the Earth. About 180 million years ago, the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates brought qingsongite near the planet’s surface. An international team announced the discovery and new mineral name, now officially sanctioned by the International Mineralogical Association, in August.

What to do With Pizza Boxes

I am thinking about making the computer stand.

Instructions at http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/awesome-things-you-can-make-with-a-stupid-pizza-box

Brusspup

Brusspup is a guy who makes lots of awesome illusions like Richard Wiseman.

Funny/Scary things

These are pretty scary, and most of these happened to me.

Unbelievably Crazy

Old Soul

If you say yes to some of these, put it in the comments.

Get some sleep

What Would You Do

What would you do if you had a camera like this. If you have an answer put it in the comments.

Now I Understand

Street Fighter Photos

Old animals

Here are some reasons you''ll need a dog. And most of them are important.

Jimmy Kimmel

Hey you guys, I know it's been a long time and happy late Halloween. Also Jimmy Kimmel posted a new video called "YouTube Challenge - I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy 2013". My favorite one is the one when she said "that b**ch". If you have a favorite (or worst), put it in the comments.

Fun Party Experiments

If you love showing off, (or just having fun) you'll love these videos. These videos are about fun party stunts that you can do at home.

Science Experiments

If you love science, like me, here are 6 cool science experiments that you can do at home. I actually did the lava lamp one and the Oobleck one. It was pretty fun, if you want to tell me some other science experiments, put it in the comments.

Nursery Rhymes

For a quick tip, NEVER TELL YOUR KIDS ANY OF THESE NURSERY RHYMES.

This video is about what some rhymes mean, like historically. Unlike a happy ending, it's more of a...um...uh...horrifying ending.

After watching this video, do you still like nursery rhymes?
If you do (or don't), put in the comments.

Just $5

This video is about how much stuff you can buy for $5. And you can get a lot of stuff in some places.

I guess for all of you coffee lovers, you'll like to go to India because you can buy 1.5 ponds of coffee beans. Also if you like beer, in China you can get 12 beers.

Dubstep Cat

                                                   Dubstep Cat from wbowerproductions

 

I actually tried this on my dog, but it didn't work because he did not cooperate. According to the internet, posted below is the original dubstep cat:

stereo skifcha (original) from Denis Borisovich            

There are hundreds of videos parodies that have people dressed as the cat. Some are animations, pictures, hour loops, and more. It even appears on a cd cover featuring Mona Lisa. This is a viral video.

Blood red rain

This is so gross and amazing at the same time.

ncg1232 collides with Dwarf Galaxy

Last week NASA recorded two galaxies crashing into each other 60 million light-years away from earth. The Chandra observatory caught x-ray images of the large galaxy called NCG1232 engulfing the smaller dwarf galaxy to create a giant cloud of gas made of hydrogen. The video below gives more details of what happens when galaxies collides.

Watch the sun shift as dark matter breaks away

This is actually what it looks like when dark matter breaks away from the sun.

Deadly solar flares coming?

http://msnvideo.msn.com/?videoid=2d397e14-1f4d-9e42-c670-7a2e7c5fcf95&src=v5:share:sharepermalink:uuids&from=sharepermalink


click here if you want to see if there are deadly solar flares coming our way

Curiosity: Inside a magma chamber

CIA Museum

Not open to the public but displayed inside CIA headquarters are artifacts from decades of intelligence gathering, including drones disguised as insects, a pigeon camera and Osama bin Laden's AK-47.
For more information click here

For a slide show, click here

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

 

Water On Mars

The image on the left is Aeolis Delta on Mars, the image on the right is the Selenga Delta on Lake in Baikal, Russia. The two deltas look similar, this could be one of the reason that scientist believe there might be life on Mars. Where there is water, there is life.

New Record for Cosmic X-Ray Sightings

July 23, 2013 — Scientists led by the University of Leicester have set a new record for cosmic X-ray sources ever sighted -- creating an unprecedented cosmic X-ray catalogue that will provide a valuable resource allowing astronomers to explore the extreme Universe. For more information go to http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130723095407.htm. Also if you want to go to the website I got this from, go to ScienceDaily.

And Now I'm Afriad of the Ocean

And those tennis balls of goop you see through its transparent head are its EYES, the black dots are nostrils.

                                                                                                                         Barreleye fish

 

I have never heard or seen any of these creatures.  I rather go into space then be at the bottom of the ocean. But, I wish  I was friends with James Cameron. As you know James Cameron directed Titanic, Terminator, and Aliens. But did you know he is on the NASA Advisory Council, is an expert on deep-sea explorations and had piloted the Deepsea Challenger.

Never Knew My Food Could Be Toxic

 I'M LEARNING.

My Uncle Kevin is allergic to the red dye on birthday day cake, so my Mom would ask for roses on her birthday cake.

Never Heard of Any of This

Is this stuff real?

?ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ?

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom-Trailer

 

Yesterday was Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday. He is a Civil Rights leader from South Africa, who fought against apartheid and was punished for it. He was accused of treason in 1956 but was acquitted in 1961.  He was arrested in August of 1962, sentenced to five years in prison and while in jail he was again convicted of sabotage and treason and was sentenced to life imprisonment in June, 1964 at the famous Rivonia trail. He was in jail for 27 years, he got out February 1990 and became President of South Africa (1994-1999). They have made a movie from his book Long Walk to Freedom.

 

Hecho de Mexico-Wonder Woman

 

This is awesome! Please let this be true! 

According to Donna Dickens at Buzzfeed DC comics is trying to add more diversity to its line-up and WonderWoman might be Latina now instead of Greek.

HD 189733b

 

I found the following at NBC News For the first time, astronomers have detected the color of a planet beyond our solar system: It's blue, but not because there's water on its surface. It doesn't even have a "surface." Instead, the color is thought to come from glassy grains of silicate in its choking atmosphere.

The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a blazing hot gas giant circling a star 63 light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Vulpecula. It's star's name is HD 189733.

A Tweet from Dr.T

 

 

A @Comic_Con State of Mind: If LightSabers are made of light, they would just pass through one another. Useless for defense.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 19, 2013

Vaccines, Herd Immunity, and Gummi Bears - Oh My!

 

In this week's episode of ExSciEd, they explore the concept of herd immunity using a very simple epidemiological model... and gummi bears! Sometimes, science can be delicious.

 

 

NO!!! ITS STILL SUMMER

OMG! This can't be happening, yesterday I had to do math, learn about idioms, common and proper adjectives and match the definition of the human body system. Then I this:



Kmart's commercial is awesome, who doesn't love a Yo Momma joke. But, seriously its not even August yet, I guess next month they are going to show a bunch of Christmas commercials.

LEGO Sharknado

 

Syfy's Sharknado was so bad some people think its good. I saw part of it but had to go to bed, my Mom said she would record it so I didn't think it was that big of a deal. But she forgot and the next day everyone on the news was talking about how bad it was and calling it a 'low budget phenomenon" I'm going to try and watch it this weekend. The LEGO SHARKNADO was made by Iain Heath, he is a Lego artist.

 

 



Same Shirt Different Picture Day

 

I get in trouble if I wear the same basketball shorts two days in a row. 

 

Rio 2-Teaser Trailer

 

April 2014

 

 

 

SAVING MR. BANKS-Trailer

Saving Mr. Banks looks like it could be fun. Check out the trailer from Trailer Addict.  



 

A TWEET FROM DR. T

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

 

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who know math and those who don't.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 9, 2013

HOT LINKS

Independence Day's sequel is coming out July 3, 2015, ID Forever Part 2, here are 17 things we need to see: Buzzfeed
 
Take my money! Cut-Way  Enterprise Model Think Geek 
 
Winter is coming.

Deep fried on a stick at the Alameda County Fair: Laughing Squid

Capturing high speed photos of exploding plasma wires :PetaPixel

DC Super heroines as hipsters: Make Use Of 

The effects of a highlighter in a microwave: Geekologie

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2- Feature Trailer

This time Terry Crews is playing Earl Devereaux.
Wonder why Mr. T isn't doing it again.

 

source: Trailer Addict

The Boxtrolls-Teaser trailer

 

It's stop motion animation and Simon Peg is in it
 so, it can't be that bad.

source: Trailer Addict

Cairo Laser Helicopter

Nearly half a million Egyptians took to Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, demanding President Mohamed Morsi leave office exactly one year after he was elected. As military helicopters flew overhead, demonstrators used laser pointers to paint them in a multi-colored shower of light:

It's unclear if the laser pointers were an act of civil disobedience or something more violent: Laser pointers can temporarily blind pilots, putting them in mortal danger. An American teenager was recently sentenced to 2.5 years in prison after aiming a laser pointer at a plane for this exact reason. I also have a laser just like the one the people are using in this picture.

NASA News

NASA readies its rescue plan for planet-hunting Kepler probe

4th of July

Happy 4th of July, and be safe out there.

Fold A Shirt Like a Boss

source: via The Daily What./ Unknown (via Reddit)



 

See, I told my Mom that how its done. It's on the internet so, it has to be true.

 

 

 

Boss Summertime movie: Moonrise Kingdom

 

I saw Moonrise Kingdom at the theater  last summer and I watch it every time it comes on HBO.  It a love story, its about a kid named Sam who wants to runaway with this girl named Suzy and the whole town goes nuts. It's a Wes Anderson movie, so everyone in the movie is weird. In case you did not know Wes Anderson is the guy who did Fantastic Mr. Fox

World War Z

Over the weekend, I watched World War Z. It was scary, but  AWESOME! This is one of the first movies that I know that the zombies run the whole time.  I listened to my Skrillex station on Pandora to distract me during the scarier scenes this helped a little. And the dubstep music added to the action. Brad Pitt is a boss in this movie especially at the end. I can't tell you the ending, you'll have to see it your self. But if you don't get why he is a boss,  put it in the comments and I'll tell you. But I'll ask one question from the movie to make sure saw the movie and didn't go to some site like Movie Pooper.

TRAILER:The Lego Movie

I'm so there!!!

 The Lego Movie, release date: February 7, 2014,  is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Which  are the same guys that directed Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street.  If you want to know more about this movie, other animated movies, and you are into animation and VFX (visual special effects)  check out Animation World Network.

 

CELEBRATING BLACK MUSIC MONTH



Unlocking the Truth is a young heavy metal/hard rock band from Brooklyn, New York, who write and create their own lyrics and music.
James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. His stage name is Jimi Hendrix .Despite a limited mainstream exposure of four years, he is widely considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

Dinner With The Scientist

Me and my friends with Principal Avent, Ms. Araki and Mrs. Apaydin 

This year I was finally able to participate in "Dinner with a Scientist"; it was held at the Snow Building in the Oakland Zoo. Because there were so many kids participating, the event repeated for two more days.  First we toured the zoo and after we had dinner with three scientists that rotated through our table. One was Natasha Naidoo, another was Elizabeth Donald, Liz for short, and I got her signature. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of the third scientist. Elizabeth Donald  is a Senior Scientist with the Clorox Company. Everyone got a souvenir program, inside is a short bio for Liz and the other scientists. Here is a quote from her bio: “Science is exciting because it constantly reveals new things about who we are and the universe around us.  The best part is that ANYONE can be a scientist!”  I agree also that anyone can be a scientist.

I have a puzzle for you, here is a copy of our dinner menu. Can you guess what we had for dinner? Put your answer in the comment box. 

Menu

 

Turbulent 530 nm Salad with Various Suspensions & Emulsions

Triticum Globules with Lipid Spread

Malus domestica Extract

Dihydrogen Monoxide in Two States with Citrus Accents

Sodium Chloride & Piper nigrum

Steamed Random Plant Parts

Oryza sativa Seeds & Plant Material

Grilled Gallus gallus with Allium cepa & Fungus

Herbaceous Durum Forms with Solanum lycopersicum Sauce

Heat-Treated Cacao Carbohydrate Solids with Ripened Plant Ovaries

Wrapped Cacao with Metha or Rubus

  

Obama is Awesome

For my summer school work I had to write a haiku about someone who I thought was courageous and share it.
Here is my haiku:

Barak Obama

Courageous, bold, awesome, smart

A great president

Sunset Island

Got a chance to go to Sunset Island electronic picnic again this year with my friend Rohan. I got to see Octave One, these guys are really cool, plus they are also on Pandora so you can listen to more of their music. They play at lots of concerts around the world, next week they will be in Argentina, then London, then back to the US then Spain and so on. The Youtube video is from the actual show I went to on Treasure Island. If you look close you might see me and Rohan. source:  youtube Synergized Live and Soundcloud 

NASA Class of 2013

Today NASA has picked 4 women and 4 men for a travel to new destinations in the solar system such as an asteroid and then Mars. The new astronauts are:

 Josh A. Cassada, Ph. D., 39, is originally from White Bear Lake, Minn. Cassada is a former naval aviator who holds an undergraduate degree from Albion College, and advanced degrees from the University of Rochester, N.Y. Cassada is a physicist by training and currently is serving as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Quantum Opus.

Victor J. Glover, 37, Lt. Commander, U.S. Navy, hails from Pomona, Calif., and Prosper, Texas. He is an F/A-18 pilot and graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. Glover holds degrees from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Air University and Naval Postgraduate School. He currently is serving as a Navy Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Congress.

Tyler N. Hague (Nick), 37, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force, calls Hoxie, Kan., home. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards, Calif. Hague currently is supporting the Department of Defense as Deputy Chief of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

Christina M. Hammock, 34, calls Jacksonville, N.C. home. Hammock holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. She currently is serving as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Station Chief in American Samoa.

Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, originally is from Penngrove, Calif. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford (Calif.) University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Md. Mann is an F/A 18 pilot, currently serving as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River.

Anne C. McClain, 34, Major, U.S. Army, lists her hometown as Spokane, Wash. She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.; the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, both in the United Kingdom. McClain is an OH-58 helicopter pilot, and a recent graduate of U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River.

Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D., 35 is from Caribou, Maine. She is a graduate of Brown University, has an advanced degree from the International Space University, and earned her doctorate from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Meir currently is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Andrew R. Morgan, M.D., 37, Major, U.S. Army, considers New Castle, Pa., home. Morgan is a graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and earned doctorate in medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. He has experience as an emergency physician and flight surgeon for the Army special operations community, and currently is completing a sports medicine fellowship

Space History 30 Years Ago Today

 

NASA astronaut Sally K. Ride was the first US woman to fly in space, June 18, 1983, on the seventh US space shuttle mission. Ride was one of 8,000 people to answer an advertisement in a newspaper seeking applicants for the space program. As a result, she joined NASA in 1978. Before her first space flight, she received a lot of media attention due to her gender. During a press conference, she was asked  really stupid questions like "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?" and "Do you weep when things go wrong on the job?"
During her career, Ride served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third Space Shuttle flights (STS-2 and STS-3) and helped develop the Space Shuttle's robot arm. She died on July 23, 2012  after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Here are Some Links

buzzfeed: a place were you can see what's buzzing around the Internet.

science is awesome: here is a video from buzzfeed. This is why I like chemistry

buzzfeed youtube: here's a videos instead of just pictures from buzzfeed

TDG: The Daily Geek is just about geeky things about video games, science, and movies

thinkgeek: this is a place that you can buy about geeky things

TED: TED is a really awesome place that you can explore to learn about awesome things

apocalypse pow : this is a site has art on video games and TV shows

Annie Helmenstien: she is a cool person that has videos about science mashed up with food, celebrations, and pumpkins.

NASA: NASA is a space station that has all these missions to explore space

worth1000: a contest site where you post your Photoshop and Illustrator artwork

chemistry jokes: Jokes for the uber nerdy

(if you don't understand any of these, ask it in the comments)

more chemistry jokes: chemistry cat (its' a meme that is everywhere on the Internet)

ALL KINDS OF WRONG!!!!!

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

My Mom said I have to read 30 minutes everyday. AND I have to do one page of a workbook everyday. AND I have to practice my handwriting everyday. AND my Dad agreed with her!

She told me this last week but, I thought she was joking!

Space History: 50 Years Ago Today

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was launched aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963 and became the first woman to fly in space. During the 70.8 hour flight, Vostok 6 made 48orbits of Earth. Also during her three-day mission, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight. Upon completion of her mission, Tereshkova was honored with the title Hero of the Soviet Union. She never flew again, but she did become a spokesperson for the Soviet Union. While fulfilling this role, she received the United Nations Gold Medal of Peace.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!

 

 

No school for 10 weeks!! Oh YEAH!!!!

5 million Legos

I found this life size replica of Luke Skywalker's X-wing at Geekologie.

Weight: 45,979.61 pounds (including bricks and steel infrastructure)
Height: 11 feet / 3.35 meters
Length: 43 feet / 13.1 meters
Wingspan: 44 feet / 13.44 meters
32 builders spent 17,336 hours (about 4 months) to construct

Lava Pour

 

 

Sculptor Bob Wysocki and geologist Jeff Karson joined forces to experiment with man-made lava at Syracuse University. The homemade lava (temperature of around 1371°C (~2500°F) is being poured over a six-foot slab of ice

Nanogardens

All of the flowers are crystals of silicon and minerals. Wim Noorduin sculpts the stems and blossoms by tweaking the environment in which the crystals grow.

Engineers at Harvard University have figured out a way to make microscopic sculptures of roses, tulips and violets, each smaller than a strand of hair.
This  gallery of tiny 'nanoflowers' grown on the surface of pennies and glass. They're not actually flowers though, they just look like them. In reality they're microscopic bits of carefully grown crystals. "Like meth." Exactly like meth.
There are roses that would make a perfect corsage for Abraham Lincoln's jacket lapel on the penny.

PediPower

Rice University engineering students, Tyler Wiest, Carlos Armada, Julian Castro and David Morilla, aka the  Agitation Squad have developed a  foot-powered generator called PediPower

Photo: Jeff Fitlow

This was posted online 2 weeks ago but someone already made a better device 2 years ago without any of the extra stuff hanging out. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering researchers Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor developed an in-shoe system that harvests the energy generated by walking. See, told ya'.

FOUR DAY WEEKEND!!!

 

 

DAY 1: Today I will sit on my butt and watch American Dad until I get caught.