Bacteria Playing A Bigger Role In Fossils

-"Paleontologists were stunned when fossils appearing to belong to the soft-tissued embryos of marine creatures were unearthed in Chinese sediments a decade ago," says Science News.
-Tests are pointing to a process of three stages, two of which directly involve bacteria common in marine sediments, can reproduce the same fossilization effect in modern embryos.
-"First, the fragile embryonic tissues must end up in an oxygen-poor environment that shuts down autolysis, the enzyme-driven process that, in essence, digests the cell from the inside out," says Science News again.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38870/title/Bacteria_may_play_big_role_in_forming_fossils

Fiddler Crabs

-Male Fiddler crabs are considered "liars as their big claws make them look bigger than they appear or seem, because they are actually pretty weak.
-They do this so they look like competition for other male crabs.
-They are just two centimeters across so can the "big" claws really hurt that bad maybe for another crab but not really so much for anything else.




http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/mrri/acechar/specgal/image/photos/fiddler.jpg


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081111203501.htm

Fiddler Crabs

Food Webs

-In science class, we are learning about food webs. Food webs are the order in which an animal eats a different type of species, from smaller to larger, or whoever has more power to kill their prey. To the left is an example of a food web ranging from, plants to owls. The most energy is absorbed by the plants or producers, which gets passed on from species to species and the consumer at the top of the food web receives the least amount of energy from the lower level species at the food web.

Video Gamer In Space

http://http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/12/game-designer-richard-garriott-blasts-into-space-on-a-private-rocket/">

-Richard Garriott is the first video game designer in space.
-He was launched into space on October 11.
-He is giving good publicity for NCSoft the video game company he is designing for but is paying 30 million dollars out of his own pocket for his trip.
-He's the son of a NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, he’s the first second generation astronaut.
-He prepared for this "vacation" in Russia's space station,Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Math Blog

This year has been very informative and we learned new things such as proportions, fractions(add,subtract,multiply,divide), etc. One day if I become a banker I will remember Mr.Boehm hopefully to thank him for teaching me the basics of interest and fractions.
We learned how to figure out I=PTR which means interest is equal to principal amount x time x ratio which is percent. In life you could use this if you are buying a car our any household appliances(electricity)
Or probabilities if I want to bet on a horse or the lottery. Or fractions when cooking or percentages when writing out checks and taxes.
We also learned how to add and subtract decimals. That will help us when we buy from a store, which also includes needing to know percentages so we know how much tax we will need to pay.
This year I have learned many things, but next year I’m hoping that I will be able to comprehend better and also learn new things.

If you write a blog that is at least two paragraphs about the achievements in science that have occurred in your region you can earn up to 15 extra credit points. DUE JUNE 17th. Please let me know when you have completed it.
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Some new science and acheivements that are going on in my region are, new cars, new technology and others. Lets me tell you aboout some of them.
First, they have come out with a new m odel of the Lambougini. It is faster and has more "buttons" aka controls than the older Lambourgini. Secondly, German_Russian PET bottle recycling company has started in Russia. "We are recycling dirty PET bottles from the trash dumps into clean PET flakes." "We would like to offer you newest PET recycling technology from Italy." Lastly,Online advertising is changing the mix of media choices in campaigns across Europe. Since 2000 the web has become established as a mainstream consumer media channel in most European countries. Across the continent, marketing budgets are now starting to follow the migration of the audience’s eyeballs and people’s focus. They are yet to reflect the full truths emerging in media consumption within the digital networked society, but they do reveal a clear picture of the scale of change that has started in where the advertising industry places its focus. The pace of digital development and the balance of digital in the mix continue to vary greatly between countries, and this paper records a snapshot of where the markets were in 2005.What emerges is a shift in marketing spend on a scale previously unseen, and the certainty that growth will continue at rates never witnessed among traditional channels.
Now that Europe has better technology they should have changed by now, and that is recent technology in my region.