Friday, January 23, 2009

ULtraviolet rays

In science class we made posters on the Electromagnetic Spectrum. I was assigned to study ultraviolet rays. These rays or waves are used in many ways. They even come from the sun you can get a tan. One thing that they can do for you is Detect fake money. Another thing that they can do for you is help you get a tan. They even have special lamps which can be used to kill microbes and mosquito's. You can't see ultraviolet because like infrared it is the next color on the violet side of a rainbow. Even though we can't see this, we know that this exsists we know that some insects, for example, bumblebees can see this.Ultraviolet is divied into three regions. One is the neare ultraviolet. One is the far ultraviolet. One is the extreme ultraviolet.These regions were made because of their radiation. Near ultraviolet is the closest to the order of visable light. Far ultraviolet is the least explored, and is in between the near, and the extreme ultraviolet rays.Last is extreme, and this is the farthest away from the rainbow, and closest to x-rays.Please go to http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/uv.html to learn more about these ultraviolet rays, and what they do.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

President Obama's Inauguration

As you all know Barrack Obama became president yesterday. He was the first African American and 44 person to become president of the United States of America.This was a maoment of history in the making. Although he was sent miilions of death letters he still chose to keep running for president. He proved that he could perservere though so much at one time. He went on to face John McCain in the race for presidency. After that the citizens waited a few months before they could vote for president.After all of the tallies Obama had won, and became the president elect.

Accuding to one article many different activities go on during this inauguration. People like to think of this moment as a new beginning. Those that didn't see this have missed a historic event. They also say that Obama has great speaking skills. This inauguration is proclaimed to be one to remember. Many also beleive that Obama will be able to finish his term. This inauguration took place next to the capital building. Also congress takes the president and vice president out to a beutiful lunch. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1598633/20081105/puff_daddy.jhtml

It was found out to be really expensive to buy just one ticket. Many that found out were in an outrage. It was proclaimed that "ticket brokers" were the ones responsible for this. Nobody even knows how 250,000 tickets were printed, and put into a sucure position or house. This is definetly a disturbing thought. Senator Dianne Feinstein is declaring that the people that sold those tickets should go to jail. We obviously know that some of theese tickets had no names on them which makes them illegal tickets. The inaugural committee is telling lawyers thatthis is illegal, and that we need to arrest those that sold the tickets.http://www.cnnpolitics.com

I honestly think that this is molarcy. I mean how would beleive that this is even true. I think this is pretty cool but no one would beleive this.I really liked looking at the first article. I didn't like the second one though. This is great for the nation. I would have to say I liked Obama's speech.Thank you for reading this, and stat tuned for the next blog I give out.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Mating Season: The best time of year

Scientists from Cornell college have discovered that Aedes Aegypti Mostquitos can change their vibrations to mate. These mostquitos are also the ones that can give you yellow fever or dengue fever. Many scientists are hoping that with this information they can control mosquito reproduction. Looking at mating signals can give us a way to see how sterile mosquitos do with ladies. Aquote from Ronald R. Hoy shows us his thoughts about mosquito reproduction. "We don't want to be releasing duds out there, we want to be releasing sterile studs." Did you know that female mosquitos normally mate once? With this information if a sterile mosquito mates with a female there will be no offspring. I honestly think that these scientists are trying to kill the mosquitosor make them extinted. That is just plain mean even though they are annoying.http://www.SFgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/08/national/a110006S01.DTL