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Science in the News 2

The name of the article I read is titled "Slow Earthquakes May Foretell Larger Events," and you kind find it in the this link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130815145148.htm



Regarding that I live in an area surrounded by volcanoes, their is more probability for an earthquake or a volcanic eruption to occur. As I read this article, many studies had been made by a Ph.D graduate named Bryan Kaproth-Gerecht that small earthquakes may be signals for larger events such as, stronger earthquakes or a volcanic eruption. The reason of why the author is informing this to us is to let us know that new research is being made to predict future natural disasters, so people are noticed and have time to get protected from them. The relation I have with this article is that I live on volcanic area, therefore I have to be more informed with this type of news. Even though, researchers are not 100% accurate with an exact guess of when a natural disaster will occur, they are getting closer and closer every time.

As I said before the relation of where I live and this article gives me information for the area around me.  The author of the article wrote this issue like in a kind of positive of way, meaning that everyday more and more research material is created for discoveries to be more accurate. In that, I agree with him, every day more and better improvements are made in favour for a better life. I think the author did included enough supporting evidence to position his side regarding science. For example, the results that Ph.H Bryan Kaproth-Gerecht and research from Penn State geoscientists was very convincing data. This article gives a very positive view for the future, from a scientist side because this means that in the future, scientists will have more advanced technology to go on with their experiments.

Science in the News 1

This week I read a very interesting article on the thickness of Greenland, and how it is heating up down there.  Gravitational and seismic studies have been made by GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam in Germany led by Alexey Petrunin which concluded on bad news. The thickness of that ice was about 200-250kms thick and now it has come down to 80-100kms thick. The point of the author of the article is kind of a shout out how global warming is coming faster than expected. I relate this article to last year's biology class in which we saw all the harmful things we did to Earth without us noticing that slowly harmed our planet. 

This article unfortunately makes me kind of sad since, just knowing how global warming and climate changing is affecting Earth makes me think what Earth would be like in fifty years. In this case, the author is not taking a side, he is just stating a fact which I know it is something everyone should be worried about. I do thing the author investigated well before writing his article and did include convincing evidence regarding the problem. This article is only one of the little changes we will be seeing in the future, little by little our Earth will be falling apart if don't act now and try to save it.

"Earth's Central Heating is Thinning Greenland" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929303.800-earths-central-heating-is-thinning-greenland.html#.UhE8YxYUUwE

Science

To tell you the truth, I don't love science, but I don't hate it. As any other subject their are things I like about it, like labs and experiments and things I dislike, for example tests or pop quizzes. I actually don't know how to make it better, since I am not the teacher I don't exactly know what do we have to learn in chemistry, but an idea could be to make the class activities more fun. Even though I just started school, on my first week I got a feeling that this year's chemistry will be a good one, not only because the teacher is really nice but because so far I haven't been bored in any of the classes. To make this year successful I am definitely going to study a lot for the tests, put attention on class, so on the midterms and finals I get a good grade. Another thing to make this year a prosperous one, I will absolutely follow the class rules specially the ones regarding safety.

 Safety is very important in a chemistry lab, because it is precaution for any accident that might happen if people are not told before hand. Some of the safety las rules I learned were to always use goggles to avoid getting  chemicals or substances in your eyes, and in case something did get in your eyes, we now know there is a kind of a sink where a spurt of water comes out directly to your eyes where you can clean your eyes for at least 15 minutes. Another rule is to where ponytails, closed toe shoes and no shorts or skirts allowed. Overall if I follow the rules, put attention on class and study, this year will definitely be a good one.