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.

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.

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.

 

 

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.

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

  

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.

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.

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'.

Wave Energy Science Project

Wave Energy project at Chabot Space and Science Center

This year for the OUSD Science Fair, I made a generator using electromagnetic induction for my project. The process was discovered by a guy named Michael Faraday.  I built my Wave Energy project by having a neodymium magnet go side to side in a tube wrapped with copper wire. I built two, one was about 3ft in length and 2.5ft in width with a mast that was about 6 feet tall.  That was the one I tested in the pool. I generated about 3.12 volts from that one.  The other one was a scaled down version that I used to demo at Chabot. We, me and my Dad, goofed around so it took about 3-4 weeks to build both models. But I won "Most Popular Project"; I was one of the five students picked to have their project displayed at Chabot Space and Science Center and I received a medal. People had lots of questions. Mostly "What is it?" and or "What does it do?". I also taught a high school science teacher about electromagnetic induction; she never knew about it. She said she has been working as a science teacher for 4 years.

MINECRAFT

Everybody knows about Minecraft. My friend Rohan told me to download multi player so he and I could play together. I want to buy it but I keep forgetting to ask. It looks fun. It's hard with all the creepers following you. Creepers are a kind of monster that blows up when you find diamonds. There are also skeletons with bow and arrow that ride spiders that attack you, zombies, enderman (basically slender man), chickens, dog, girl friends, cows, sheep, squids, lava, water, sand, apples, pigs, rain, stars, clouds, the moon, the sun, you know stuff that already exists. You also have TNT just to blow things up. And I insist you to play it, it's so awesome.
 

Last month, the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE), a video game museum in Oakland  recreated Oakland in Minecraft as part of an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).

 

I found a t-shirt on J!nk  of a creepers anatomy , and yes it's on a girl's shirt, but it only comes in men's.

Also last week Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson released his latest browser-based game Drop.



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Don't Eat Peas

This is just gross, this reminds me of when people say if you eat the seed will grow inside you. Well, it happened in a lung and it was a vegetable.

Japan's Killer Quake

I watched Japan's Killer Quake the other night on NOVA.

Happy 200th

Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.

Albert Einstein

I'm reading a book called "Who Was Albert Einstein?" I learned Albert Einstein didn't talk until he was three or four. He enjoyed elementary school. But when he was 10 yrs. old and in high school it was awful. The teachers called him lazy dog and and a bad influence. So he got expelled. When he turned into a Professor he made a formula called E=MC2 it means energy=mas x the speed of light. He also thought space is curved. Imagine you hold a flashlight in the night sky when you are 4yrs old instead of the light going straight it curves and comes back when you are 14 yrs old. On the cover he is thinking which came first, the chick or the egg. I know which came first neither. The amoeba came first.