The purpose of Science is to aid and improve the lives of mankind. SO, this year's Science Fair will have a theme, a problem that is immediate threat to our community. Lack of new parks and greenspaces (areas with trees and plants), illegal dumping in abandon lots, garbage littering our streets, violence, abandon pets, lack of street cleaning, housing, access to the Internet, all of these and more are issues that affect us in one way or the other.
SO, what do you think? What are some problems our community is facing that our Science Fair can help develop a solution? Identify the problem and how we can as a Science class can solve it. IT'S OUR COMMUNITY AND WE HAVE THE SOLUTIONS!!!!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
It's in the water...
A large amount of pharmaceuticals (prescription drugs) including antibiotics, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones have been found in 41 million American drinking water supplies. Where you may ask, from YOU!!!! After you take a pill for a headache, muscle pain, depression, ADD, etc, the "leftover" meds are flushed out of your body (via a #1 or #2). Some of that water is treated to be consumed by us as "tap water." In the current small doses present in the water supplies there are no immediate threats to humans, but during a long time period that might be a different story. Already there has been an impact to wildlife, like instances where male fish becoming "feminized" carrying yolk proteins, a process only seen in female fish. These effects, over time and with consistent exposure, can transfer to humans, too.
So...what do you think? Is this a big enough problem, where the residue (leftovers) of prescription drugs are present in our drinking water supply, for the general public to be aware of? Or would it be simple "overreacting" and would cause alot of unnecessary worrying for the people?
So...what do you think? Is this a big enough problem, where the residue (leftovers) of prescription drugs are present in our drinking water supply, for the general public to be aware of? Or would it be simple "overreacting" and would cause alot of unnecessary worrying for the people?
Monday, March 3, 2008
In the not too distance future...
For years, experts have been saying that the world will soon run out of crude oil, the main ingredient drives most of today's machinery.
"With the rapid decline of global oil supplies, the United States is heading for an economic crash unlike anything since the 1930s. And the collapse of the dollar will affect every nation on earth."
With this happening, the threat of a '"resource war" is possible, to the scale of a "World War III". Some people say that the Iraq war now is a "resource war" and our only interest is the oil the nation possess. But there are alternatives like bio-fuel cars that run on methane, or hydrogen-cell cars that produce instead of clouds of carbon monoxide, but containers of water. These cars also have way better gas mileage than gas-burning cars, too. These new innovations in alternative fuels come at a higher price, in comparison to regular gas-burning cars. So...what do you think? Why aren't most auto-industries turning into the direction of creating cars that use "green" fuels? Would you now buy/suggest buying "green" cars knowing that this possibility exist in the "not too distance future?"
Quote taken from
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0504-06.htm
"With the rapid decline of global oil supplies, the United States is heading for an economic crash unlike anything since the 1930s. And the collapse of the dollar will affect every nation on earth."
With this happening, the threat of a '"resource war" is possible, to the scale of a "World War III". Some people say that the Iraq war now is a "resource war" and our only interest is the oil the nation possess. But there are alternatives like bio-fuel cars that run on methane, or hydrogen-cell cars that produce instead of clouds of carbon monoxide, but containers of water. These cars also have way better gas mileage than gas-burning cars, too. These new innovations in alternative fuels come at a higher price, in comparison to regular gas-burning cars. So...what do you think? Why aren't most auto-industries turning into the direction of creating cars that use "green" fuels? Would you now buy/suggest buying "green" cars knowing that this possibility exist in the "not too distance future?"
Quote taken from
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0504-06.htm
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