Saturday, January 29, 2011

Post #4 Technology

    I was thinking of what we learned in class this week about the cell unit and how everything works togheter for the same purpose, to keep us going. I just went in this week  to cutomer service for computer problem i had ,while i waited in line ; i was thinking of my biology scientific paper that we have to have done. All of the sudden i found myself thinking about the cell again and comparing it to the computer system. It is true that our brain works as a Control center, but for the brain to be a control center it has to have other units that take commands.

   So the cell has a nucelus that gives all the information and all the control, but there are the organells that all help in the cycle of the cells. It seemed very funny at first, but then i tought deeper into it. If one stops doing it's job than everything goes upside down.
   
    Thinking of the computer's structure , i wondered what if the control unit breaks. It will be a bigger mess and that's when everything dies. As the nuclus is the center command of all the cell, if it dies than the cell dies! It just seemed interesting to me ...

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Post # 3 Hm... healty or unhealthy foods?

    I was thinking about what we learned in class, about all those trans and cis fats  or the carbs and proteins. I went grocery shopping with my mom this week and i kind of  wached what people do when buying food. Will they stop to look at the nutrition facts or they just got what was "a favorite" food or snack. It came to my attention that some older people tented to scan the nutritional fact on the packages but not quite as many as I expected.
    I thought that for some people is not the first time they buy that kind of produce and it is normal not to waste time reading the nutritional facts. But others would just grab it and say "Let's just try it ,to see how it taste!" and it's obvious that they do not pay attention to what it contains.
    I was also thinking , that there are some people who don't know the significance of the nutritional facts on the produce and maybe that is one reason why they don't pay attention to it. There is a huge difference between people that know about it and you see them reading and comparing products and the ones that go by the "taste".
   It is also true that some people don't even care about it, and that's why they don't even want to know what it means. I think, that it could  be out of habit , or a bad addiction to unhealthy eating or large quantites.That's where eating desorders and obesity comes in, if one doesn't care now, neither would they tomorrow and later would be to late. Some become obese, some have high bood presure, and others are even worst and end up in hospitals. ,
   So that's what i was wondering walking throught the store this week. I have to say that i was surprised to  see how many people are actually carefull on their choices of food.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Acid Rain

    Thinking of all the damages around the world , i came across acid rain. Since we have talked about acid rain in class ,i remembered when i was back in my country that there was this fall time when it started raining for three days in a row. The forth day it stared to rain as acid rain and it dameged almost every living thing. After the rain, there were fish on the side of the roads and a all the leaves of the trees were with wholes and distroyed.
 After some time some people claimed that they have lungs problems , and hard to be treated. It took a while for them to get well. For some people the treatment was too late and they died. Everything in the city looked a huge dissaster and it took a while to recover.
 A lot of animals died and  from all the animals that died some areas were infected with varios virsues, bacteria.. and many others. There was a team that came after and claned and disinfected all around. It took a while , for eveything to come to the way they were before.
  That was my experience with acid rain and since than i haven't seen an area affected by it.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Post # 1 Environment

   So thinknig about what i could write and looked all around to see if i could find something .. about nature? or just about random things!  Suddently the driver in front of slams on the brake and turns the stirring weel to the right to pull over on the side of the road. I for an instance didn't realize what was happening and i stoped as quick as i could. i didn't see anything until i pulled over and got out of my car to see what was going on and why he stopped so quickly without a serious reason, I thought! As i walked over , for a second i was thinking that the driver could be drunk and that i should go back to my car .Although when i was about to turn back to my car, i cought a glimpse of a little animal that bearly made a noise. It was a baby deear which the driver in front of me had ran over. The little animal was transversing the road and the driver couldn't stop fast enough.
    It was then when i started to think more about what we learned in class, about environment, predetors and all that stuff. I was wondering then.. is there such thing as a safe environment for any kind of creature, or everything is just about pray and predetors.
   I came to the conculsion that there was no such a thing as a safe or unsafe environment .. it's only how well they care for themselvs. It's how well they learn from their leaders , and how well they follow what they learned. I once read that the deear teaches her baby the ways of living by showing it step by step. So in that case , it could've been safe  for that baby deear if he knew what to do. Or it could also be a case where the baby deear got lost, so all the surrounding was unknoun and unsafe.