Obama's Inaguration

Obama's inauguration is very important because he is the first African-American president of our country. He did what no other African-American did so far, he became the president. On the 20th of January, Obama officially became the president of the United States of America. Also, he gave a speech on what he plans to do to while he is president.
The first article is about the inauguration day and the schedule of events that occur on that day. For example, it shows when the people without tickets get to enter the National Mall, where they get to watch the inauguration on giant screens. Also, it shows when "The metros start in Washington where two million people are expected to come to the city center to watch the inauguration."
A basic summary of the second article is Obama reversed counterterrorism policies of the Bush administration. After talking with 16 retired generals, he wants to rewrite the rules for dealing with terrorism suspects. However, many questions came up, such as "What should be done with terrorists who cannot be tried in American courts, either because evidence against them was obtained by torture or because intelligence is too sensitive to use in court? Should some interrogation methods remain secret to keep Al Qaeda from training to resist them? How can the United States make sure prisoners transferred to other countries will not be tortured?" Everyone wishes he gets good answers for these questions.
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Current event: HOLOGRAPHIC T.V.!

Picture this... You are playing your new video game (or watching a TV show)... a game/TV show you waited for a long time... you put it into your system... Then it LITERALLY COMES OUT OF YOUR TV! These aren't your ordinary 3-D glasses, these are TVs that produce holograms! "Don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3-D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized versions of your gaming heroes." (CNN). Now, you will be scared when you watch scary movies... Now you'll be surprised in movies when someone sneaks up behind you! Now... You will click here to read more!

Current Event: Solar power - advanced!

Have you ever noticed that solar panels are always tilted- askew? They are never facing up, but diagonal! This is because the panels could only absorb sunlight from one direction. The bad thing about this is that when the sun is faced away from the panels, the panels don't absorb anything- those were the old times. Now, researchers have developed a new anti-reflective coating that boosts the efficiency of solar panels and allows sunlight to be absorbed from almost any angle. The old untreated solar cell absorbs two thirds of the sunlight it receives; but the new solar cell absorbs 96.21%! Hopefully, we can give up other fuels and start using solar panels for energy! Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solar Century, a leading UK solar-energy company, believes that the future is already very bright for the solar industry. Even though solar power is expensive, maybe we should all try to get ahead of time and start using it now and save money in later years!

If you want to read more about the new solar energy, click here!

Class Response : Boom Blox

In our science class where learned that animals have to compete with one another in order to get what they need to survive. Sometimes, you have to think differently to get what you need! For this assignment, you had to throw a baseball or bowling ball to make boxes fall to the ground your goal was to throw the least amount of baseballs/bowling balls. At first, it seemed all easy, but the rounds that came after the first three levels were hard. For one of the levels, you had to throw a bowling ball precisely in the middle of a wall, so when the wall falls it creates a domino effect, making all the other walls with the boomblox fall! To make it even more trickier, you had to move the wii remote for the camera to go to a different spot, like a 360 dergree angle! Everyone in the class was having fun and learning something new every level. Towards the end all of us were very competitive and eager for our turn to come by.I understood then that this is how many animal feel almost every second of the day just so they could survive.

To read more about Boom Blox, go to : http://www.ea.com/boomblox/

Class Response

In class we are doing a project about symbiosis relationships. There are three types of symbiosis relationships, which can be characterized by mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. Mutualism is when an animal or insect and the host both benefit of the animal being on the host. For example, a horse and a human can be mutualistic because the horse provides transportation for the human in return for food and shelter. Commensalism is when one of the animal or insect and the host benefits and the other isn't harmed. A bird living in a tree is an example of commensalism because only the bird benefits because it has a good shelter, and the tree doesn't get harmed in any way. Parasitism is when one of the animal or insect and the host benefits and the other is harmed. A mosquito biting you is an example of parasitism because the mosquito may put dangerous diseases into you while it takes your blood for making eggs. For more information on the three symbiosis relationships, click here!

Current Event! scientists find solar system like ours!

I knew there was a solar system like ours! A few days ago astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye. They say that 3 planets are probably orbiting a sun called Epsilon Eridani! It is very "young"
because it is "only" 850 million years old. Our sun is a lot older, almost by 3.8 billion years! The good thing is we can see it with the naked eye. The bad thing is it's 63 million miles away from the Earth. There are many similarities between both of the solar systems. One of them is that Epsilon Eridani is 5 times as young as our sun. Another similarity is that their asteroid belt is 280 million miles away from it's sun, just like ours! There's also a third ring of icy objects extends billions of miles beyond Epsilon Eridani, resembling the so-called Kuiper Belt of mini-planets outside of Pluto! i wouldn't be surprised if there will be life there in a few billion years!
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Green Basilisk Lizard!

The Green Basilisk Lizard, or the Jesus Christ Lizard, live in Central America from Mexico to Panama. These are amazing animals, because they can run on water! Yes it's true! This is the only reptile that can actually run on water! When the mother of these lizards lays her eggs, she goes away. After the eggs hatch, the lizards are born with the ability to run on water and land, climb and swim! These animals are very smart; when they become alert that a predator is after them, they immediately jump for the water, because they know that whatever predator won't follow them into the water if they don't know how to swim. If the predator can swim, the lizard will then start swimming. These lizards are skillful swimmers as well! They can stay underground for 30 minutes! These animals are very interesting, if you want, you can read more about them here!