Christmas Break Reading

12/15/2011

Hi Mr. Rourke,
Sorry for e-mailing. but the website would not let me post.

http://news.yahoo.com/details-lab-made-bird-flu-wont-revealed-223114982.html
This article was about a man-made virus. Called H5N1, the virus is
easier to spread than before. The details will not be released because
of bio-terrorism concerns.

Alysa Brice

41 Comments

Amanda R

12/17/2011 11:19:10 pm

http://www.davidebaugh.name/Chemical-Dependency-Article.html
It was about how many people in the United States are suffering from chemical dependency, meaning drugs and alcohol, and that it is a serious DISEASE that can be treated. It says that drug dependency is listed as one of the highest health related problems, next to heart disease and cancer, which is a huge problem.

emily

12/19/2011 03:43:42 am

i read my article on unhealthy drinks to buy at the supermarket. they were common drinks, so i read what made them so unhealthy, i was shocked when i read that a 64 oz bottle of the fruit juice was equvilant to 6 bags of skittles. i opened my home page on att.yahoo and it came up,so i was interested. the url is below
http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/9-unhealthy-drinks-avoid-supermarket-174200404.html

Nicole B.

12/19/2011 11:13:31 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/global-warming-driving-polar-bears-cannibalism-185605556.html
This article was about how more and more polar bears are resorting to cannibalism. They are debating whether it is from a normal behaivor or increased hunger or due to the climate change. The world may never know.

Eric link

12/20/2011 06:25:43 am

This artical was about how airport security are inventing scanners that show whats a person has on them. This machine works like an x-ray scanner. This should make airports decrease the time it takses to go through security.

Michael Scaglione link

12/21/2011 01:19:43 am

This article is about eyebombing.

"Eyebombing is the act of setting googly eyes on inanimate things in the public space.

Ultimately the goal is to humanize the streets, and bring sunshine to people passing by."

http://www.notcot.org/post/45161/

Dana Bushbaker link

12/21/2011 10:32:01 am

This article was about optical illusions and what tricks they play on your eyes. I always thought that optical illusions were small. It makes me wonder if some of these images were just carefully photoshopped in.

Mr Rourke

12/22/2011 11:12:43 pm

Dana - You didn't give us the link to read the atricle ourselves.

Michael Patrick

12/23/2011 02:54:28 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=8uHxRwQqWFo
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=T67DvoH2H3E

These videos are about the Delicious, never rotting, made with soft-serve icecream-like meat paste foods from McDonalds and other places. Dig in

Michael Patrick

12/23/2011 02:57:17 am

And now I just realized that these don't count because they arent reading. But still watch them.

Heather Prohaszka link

12/24/2011 01:18:37 am

This link will take you to an article about a drug that will make an inactive gene, active. This drug is said to correct the defect that Angelman Syndrome has. Angelman Syndrome is somtimes confused with autism or celeberal palsy. It is a disorder that involves sleep disorder, delayed developement, seizures, etc...

Heather Prohaszka

12/24/2011 01:20:05 am

&Click on my name to get to the website! (my name on the first comment)

Jacob Thomas

12/27/2011 02:26:33 am

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/12/26/1766027/occupy-protesters-losing-99-percents.html

http://kansascity.sbnation.com/kansas-st-wildcats/2011/12/13/2633128/bcs-angst-are-we-any-closer-to-a-college-football-playoff

The articles talk about Occupation in Wall Street and the outrageous impacts that have been caused from this. The other article talks about BCS Bowl corruption and its impact on many collegiate programs and why a playoff should be started for college football.

Steven Scaglione

12/27/2011 04:18:00 am

This article is about trolls, the act of trolling, and other related material.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/troll.htm

This other article is about an underwater structure called KM3NeT. KM3NeT detects subatomic particles called neutrinos and when built, it will be the second largest man-made structure ever. It is second only to the Great Wall of China.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-11/new-neutrino-net

Alissa link

12/27/2011 10:38:54 pm

Being a tennis player, i usually keep up with the famous athletes scheduales. I
did not know Federer was on vacation recently though. I wish i was as good as
him. He says he is old and many people say its time for him to retire, but why
should he? He had a rough year this year, losing four out of five matches
including Wimbledon and French Open but he may just have had an off year.

I also learned that a tournament called the Davis Cup exists
which i never knew! lol

Zach C.

12/28/2011 06:23:28 am

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2011/12/05/kepler-22-b-another-step-closer-to-finding-earth-like-worlds/
A few weeks ago, in a solar system 600 light years away, an earth like planet was first discovered. Kepler 22-b of the Kepler system(scientists are so original with their names), is 2.4 times larger than earth with a very similar climate. Water and land exist on Kepler 22-b and it is determined to orbit its sun, which is very much alike our own, in the "habitable zone" which means that there is a good chance life exists here.

Rourke link

12/29/2011 05:54:08 am

The president of Yemen wants to seek medical attention in the United States, though the president has recently killed many protestors in his country.

Rourke

12/29/2011 05:54:34 am

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/26/dictator-puts-u-s-in-tough-spot/

Ronald K

12/30/2011 07:01:07 am

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-lovejoy.html
The article above is about a comet, comet Lovejoy, that entered the suns atmosphere and then came back out in one piece which is surprising due to the fact that a comet is made of ice.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20111221.html
This article is about a newly discovered galaxy that is currently the brightest galaxy at its distance compared to earth and the light emitted from the galaxy is now just reaching us almost 13 billion years later.

Jessica Z. link

12/31/2011 04:21:42 am

This article is talking about how organic farms are growing tremendously now that American's are purchasing more organic foods. Although organic farming is better for the soil, aquifers are drying up so it is very difficult for farmers to grow crops. People have to be very careful when purchasing foods that say organic on the label. Some farmers are growing the same crop over and over which is bad for the soil. Farmers are designing new laws to better regualate organic farming. Farmers are also blaming recent building of hotels, etc. of taking up to much water. I did not realize how popular organic foods were and it was very interesting to learn about the problems that arouse because of the popularity of these foods.

Evan Serilla

1/1/2012 01:41:01 am

http://yuan.ecom.cmu.edu/rotaryvoicecoil/

This article is on the function of voice coils. How they work with permanent magnets to create sound waves.

Anyssa

1/1/2012 04:40:03 am

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-lovejoy.html
This article was about comet Lovejoy being pulled into the sun's corona and surviving the encounter. The comet was close enough in range of the sun that it should have not come out of the corona in one piece, but it did. Scientists are studying how the comet reacted to the sun's magnetic field, its atmosphere, and its corona to find out how this could have happened. The comet is also being monitored to see if it will start to fragment after leaving the sun's corona.

Jamie P. link

1/1/2012 06:23:02 am

Wu Weiping, of China, was due to have a second baby. China would not allow it because of their strict 1-baby per family law, but Wu wanted the baby. If she had the baby she would be forced to pay a lot of money or not pay the money but have her cost of living increase, for example when that child went to kindergarten she would have to pay over 2x as much as normal parents would. Wu ran away to Shanghi to have the baby and later her husband came with her. There are a few others in China who have also had 2 babies, and people do not like being limited to only one baby.
Also, a man said that if this continues (only allowing 1 baby per family,) then China would not be able to keep up production because pretty much everything comes from China. There were so many people have babies in the 60's that they could do all this manufacturing, but now with the baby limit, China's population will decrease and cause problems. I thought this was interesting because while people have basically the same rights in China as we do here, they cannot have more than one baby. I think it's unfair if people want more babies.

Dan Goubert

1/1/2012 07:16:34 am

http://www.universetoday.com/14486/2012-no-planet-x/
This is an old, but still relevant, article that attempts to debunk the rumor about the so-called 2012 doomsday prophecy. Some believe that the day predicted by the Mayans, 12-21-12, correlates with the collision of a planet, Planet X, with Earth, which will supposedly cause masssive disasters leading to the end of human existence. This article shows how no scientific discoveries have supported the existnce of Planet X, meaning there will be no collision of planets come 2012, unless, as the article states at the end, there is a large government conspiracy going on.

Jake Radatz

1/1/2012 09:28:38 am

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45819570/ns/us_news-life/
This article is about some of the 40,000 laws that came in to effect with the New Year. For example, Alabama is instituting one of the nation’s toughest immigration laws. This law requires any employer that does business with any government organization to use a system called E-Verify to check if person they want to hire is in the country legally.

The information in this article doesn't directly affect us because it doesn't describe any laws that were made in Michigan but it is still interesting to see what other states are making laws about.

Brittany G.

1/1/2012 11:12:27 am

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fires-set-years-eve-la-serial-arson-attacks/story?id=15268683

My article was about how there have been multiple arson fires around the Las Angelas area. The LAPD doesn't know if the fires have been aet by one person or multiple people. The Las Angelas Police Department has set up as special team that includes air support and survelliance cameras to help and try to catch the aronist. The LAPD suspets that the arosonist drives a white and tan Lexus ES300 from around the 1990's. The suspect the owner of this car because the car has been spotted at multiple fires. There is also a reward of 60,000 dollars for any information on the arsonist for the fires. The LAPD has sais that luckily no one has been hurt during these fires. The LAPD links the cases because the way the fires has been set is similar. The fires have been set by lighting cars on fires. I think that this is scarey because there is someone out there that is trying to hurt people.

Michael Patrick link

1/1/2012 11:14:55 pm

this article is about the second massive black bird death after the new year, with 5,000 birds dead this year. It was previously speculated that last year's death was due to the fireworks of the calibration scaring them off, but they didn't think that was the case for this year.
Evidently the USDA killed them off for the farmers, although the media is saying it is "a sign of the apocalypse of 2012".

Brianna K.

1/2/2012 02:14:02 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14889165
This article was about studies that show laughter can actually be healing. It talks about a test ran that one group was shown "boring" television shows and the other was shown "funny" shows. Then they tested pain thresholds of the subjects. The results showed that the people who watched the funny shows experienced less pain.

Ashley Cefali

1/3/2012 05:55:20 am

well i guess its good that i laugh soo much :)

Brit s :)

1/2/2012 03:01:36 am

    The article I read was, "Marlette to Honor Coach at Ceremony". The article was in The Times Herald, and was written by Jim Whymer. The Article is about two Marlette men.

    One of the Marlette men Terry Reid ,73, has lived in Marlette for forty years. He was hired to coach Marlette's boys varsity basketball team and is still coaching it. He has also coaches girls varsity basketball, middle school basketball and basketball and football. Terry Reid also taught in the classroom and was the athletic director. He has taught his players many life lessons along with how to play sports. Today when his previous players come back to town, Reid's house is one of the first places they stop. His previous players often also invite them to their weddings and are still in contact with him. Reid is very supportive and active in the community of Marlette. His dog Raider, is an example of his school spirit. On December 28, 2011, the day Marlette girls and boys varsity basketball teams play Kingston, the gym is going to be dedicated to coach Reid. The new scoreboard will be dedicated to Kyle Hall, Reid's grandson, who was killed this past July.

    On July 16, 2011 Kyle Hall, 19, was killed in a car accident on M-53. Kyle was a caring person that always wanted to help people. When Kyle was younger he told his brother that he wanted to be a pastor because he like helping people. Besides being caring and a supporter of Marlette he played on the Marlette football, golf, basketball, and track teams. Kyle was a 6-foot-5 center that shared a love for basketball with his grandpa. His plans were to go to Alma college to basketball. It was hard for the people of Marlette to accept Kyle was dead but they were all very supportive of the Hall family. At Kyle's funeral relatives, friends, teammates, athletes and coaches from opposing schools, and even the coaches from Alma came to the packed funeral ceremony in the high school gym to respect to Kyle. On December 28, 2011 a new scoreboard will be dedicated to Kyle along with the gym to his grandfather.

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Collin T.

1/2/2012 05:27:38 am

http://www.universetoday.com/12726/building-a-base-on-the-moon-challenges-and-hazards/
http://www.universetoday.com/12758/building-a-base-on-the-moon-part-2-habitat-concepts/
http://www.universetoday.com/12864/building-a-base-on-the-moon-part-3-structural-design/
http://www.universetoday.com/13216/building-a-base-on-the-moon-part-4-infrastructure-and-transportation/
In this article it talks about the moon's habitat and enviroment with hazards and living conditions on the moon's surface. It also talks about how we are trying to make a moon base and the issues that come with it. It talks about how we are trying to mine and use the moon's natural resources to build this lunar base but also have it be able to withstand cosmic solar rays, high base air pressures, space debris.

Holly link

1/2/2012 06:20:42 am

This article is about Eminem's mom joining together with Sir K, a rapper, and a few other people to create a message/video about bullying. The video is called "Nobody likes a bully" By making this video it is suppose to bring more attention to the nation wide issue of bullying. The people who made this video were all victims of bullying and some of both bullying and violence and they decided that they needed to do something about it. They also are setting up a program to travel to schools in Michigan and have assemblies on bullying.

Sarah Sheridan

1/2/2012 07:59:49 am

The article I read is how there is hybrids of sharks now, to try and adapt to temperature changes. mainly black tip sharks.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/02/scientists-dozens-of-hybrid-sharks-found-off-australia/?hpt=hp_c2

Andrew

1/2/2012 08:07:06 am

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1109599--robotic-explorer-curiosity-blasts-off-for-mars-with-a-piece-of-canadiana?bn=1#article

This is an article about a Canadian mission to mars. They are sending a space rover on a rocket in order to explore mars to find evidence of bacterea; if there is or ever was life on mars.

Deanna Flaim link

1/2/2012 08:22:55 am

The article I read was about the basic cell structure. I also learned about the types of cells and why cells are so small.

Renae

1/2/2012 09:28:27 am

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-06-19/health/chronic.cough_1_chronic-cough-copd-asthma-triggers?_s=PM:HEALTH
I read an article that shows eight possible underlying conditions behind a cough. I liked the detial that was used to help readers visualize what caused the cough. Like how when a person have chronic bronchitis, the lungs produce more mucus than it can handle because it is being irritated by something that the person is breathing in.

Mitchell W.

1/2/2012 11:18:09 am

http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-arrested-over-hollywood-arson-spree-165457884.html

This article is about how the LAPD arrested two people suspected of causing more than $2 million worth of damage in arson. They set 53 fires total throughout Hollywood deliberately.

Ashley Sowinski

1/2/2012 11:32:27 am

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/02/opinion/frum-america-fatter/index.html?hpt=us_mid

This article is about the new year, and how many are planning on dieting and staying in shape for their new years resolution. As everyone knows, most break this resolution. This article talks about the issues of todays society, from the fast food acess, to the lack of physical exercise. It gives percentages for the amount of entertainment using electronics in todays society from what it used to be. Also, it gives percentages of the use of cars. Lastly, it mentions the First Ladys attempt to set an example to eat healthier.

Mike link

1/3/2012 02:05:43 am

I read an article about disease varieties in certain species of bats. Recently, bats are threatened by white-nose syndrome, which causes the bats to be unable to give off the sonar signals that they use to navigate.

Ashley Cefali link

1/3/2012 05:48:58 am

How Children Respond To Parents' Anger: Understanding The Brain And Behavior
This article was about how your parents pretty much make your reactions happen do to arguing or facial expressions. Weither is be crying, arguing, storming of and slamming ur doors, or feeling like you've done the most terrible thing ever.
I can honestly say i have done most of the things on the article and i like knowing what part of the brain is causing it.

Jelínek link

5/31/2012 11:36:20 am

Good article dude

Adomir link

9/24/2012 07:08:17 pm

nice post

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