The Fall

I had a rather painful experience last night. I was invited to go up to my friend’s house; he lives about a mile away if you stay on the street, but if you take a short cut up through my neighbor’s yard, it cuts down the distance immensely. To be expected, I took the shorter path, one because I am lazy, and two because it was close to getting dark. My friend and I left at about seven, hoping to get there at 7:15 if not less. We ended up getting there at like 8.

                We got to my neighbors and started up the stone stairs. My friend said that we should go back to my house because she really needed to pee, I was like whatever, just wait until we get there. We were laughing because we had just gotten scared by a bird flying out of a bush. I had my hands in my pockets because it was cold outside. I tripped over my own feet, and fell; flat on my face onto the corner of the next stair. Thoughts going through my head at that point in time? Why aren’t my arms working. I tried really hard to get my hands out of my pockets, but not in time, because before I knew it, my elbow hurt from hitting the stair, but failing completely to catch myself. Luckily, it did slow my momentum a little, because if not, I don’t know where I would be right now. I first felt my eyebrow hit the stair, then my cheek bone. At first, I was almost positive that I broke a bone or something. But after a few seconds, I realized that it only stunk a little. I put my finger to my eye brow, and felt some ragged skin. I looked at my friend, who was laughing hysterically, and consequently had peed her pants. I asked if I was bleeding, she said yes, and that it was going down my face. After putting my finger to my head the second time, and seeing the blood, I started to cry. Then I realized how funny it was, and how bad it hurt, so I peed my pants also… partly because I didn’t know what else to do. And then, continued crying. I got to my house, got a lecture from my parents, got ice and ointment, and then got a ride up to my friends. For about an hour, my cheek felt numb, and swollen, and I was totally expecting to wake up the next day with a sick black eye. But when I woke up this morning, it just looks the same, there is only a little browning, it is tender, and I have the little cut above my eye brow. Which is totally less than I thought it would be, which actually disappointed me.  Now I really just feel like a wuss for crying, and stupid for peeing my pants. I really hate when I over-act things, and then don’t have good evidence.

Tired, Lazy, WHY TRY?

This third term, I am finding that I am getting more and more lazy, and I feel more tired each day. Why is this happening to me? I will tell you why.

Not only is third term proving to me each day why it is called "the hardest", but the weather is bringing me down! It is not warm enough to play outdoor soccer, or be outside, or wear shorts, or do anything fun. I have to memorize a hundred things, and study my butt off. My friend group is falling apart. I wan't summer to come already! Oh! And only a few more days until I move into my new house! I am waiting to do a blog on the whole process of house buying and why it is a pain, and why it is good until after I move! So in 2 weeks expect something along those lines... anyways... Ah, I'm in a bad mood.

Here are my thoughts on Gregor Mendel...
Interestingly enough, I actually like biology because I actually learn things. I am interested in the Gregor Mendel guy because I understand it. Mama and Papa Nye explained it to me. Thumbs up for understanding!!! (:

Gregor Mendel

He was born in the Czech Republic. He was considered a gifted student and was sent to a school in Germany. He always did very well in his studies. He went to take the test for his education degree, and failed it four times. He had very high strung nerves and would storm out of the exam rooms; consequently, he would fail the exams. He was a monk, but no, monks aren’t what we perceive them to be. He spent a lot of his free time doing beneficial things such as visiting the sick, attending church meetings and such. One of his college professors was none other than Doppler (who is the person who the Doppler effect is named). He substitute taught and then was so good at teaching that they hired him as a full time teacher; ignoring the fact that he hadn’t passed the test to get his teaching degree. He took fascination in pea plants, and in the monastery he cross-bred them. He came up with the Punnett Square. Gregor Mendel was a very high strung man, he later took up cigarettes. People thought very well about him, though, and put in good words about him in his obituary. He was a very prodigious man!

Some science reports that I have written!

I am very tired today! The super bowl was good, even though I was rooting for neither team. (Who cares about football anyway?) Have a very good week (:

          Girls and guys bleach their hair sometimes, it can be thought of as desirable. But for coral in the Great Barrier Reef, this is thought of anything but desirable.

          An international research team was lead by Mark Wells and Malcom Shick. Mark is a chemical oceanographer and Malcom is a marine biologist. They were studying coral in the Great Barrier Reef. They found that the coral was bleached. It is known that coral is bleached when temperatures and solar radiation are high, making it so that the antioxidant defenses in the algal endosymbionts and the fish that live in them is overwhelmed and fails them. Not this time. The high temperatures have been limiting the iron in the coral making their photosynthesis and antibiotic systems drop down low, causing them to be beached.

          My opinion is that man tries to control the earth too much. I think that it’s cool and interesting that they observed that. IF they do anything about it… I personally think they shouldn’t. If we mess with natural things too much, they will have to be dependent on the unnatural things we put on them to control them. It is like if you tear some tendons in your ankle (I speak from experience) and you wear your brace past the time your ankle has healed; soon your ankle will lose mobility and strength in your ankle.

          They should leave it alone. It is obviously a natural thing. The sun creates heat, doesn’t it? The temperatures have been higher; that is true, but the seasons will go by, temperatures will drop. Things will be back to normal sooner than later. There is no need to interfere with something that will eventually heal itself over time.

          Observing things is a great way to expand knowledge, and even wonder; but I say if it’s not going to cause the end of the world, then leave it alone!

          You may have heard the saying, “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”. As I was searching for an article to do my report on, the word “diamond” caught my eye. Of course, I was interested and clicked on it.

          I came to find that a planet and its pulsar located in the Milky Way Galaxy. But, not just any pulsar, this pulsar was ‘unusual’. A pulsar sends off radio waves which were detected by an international team of researchers led by Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. They decided to name the pulsar “PSR J1719-1438” and then continued their research at the Loveli radio telescope in the UK and one of the Keck telescopes in Hawii. They found out that the “diamond” planet orbits this pulsar in just over 2 hours. The planet is fairly small, but that is for the better of the planet, for if it was any bigger, it would be ripped apart by the gravity of the pulsar. The planet has slightly a greater mass then the planet Jupiter, so that means that it has to be made up of things such as carbon and oxygen, because lighter things would be too big to fit the measurements needed to not be torn apart. The density of the planet means that a large part of it has to be crystalline. THAT would mean that most of the planet may turn out to be similar to diamond.

          I liked this article, but, I don’t think it was very necessary to research it. There was no positive, nor negative effect in finding out that somewhere in the Milky Way there may be a planet made of diamond. If it didn’t cost so much to travel by rocket, then maybe we could go and search it out and see if it had worth of any kind. I do like the thought of a planet, being a big huge diamond. But I could live without it.   

          A planet fully (maybe) mostly made of diamond, or something similar far away serves neither me nor you any purpose. It costs $20 million just to get to the International Space Station (according to an estimate made 3 years ago), so just think about how much more it would cost to go to this supposed diamond planet. And I do feel that there are more desperate issues right now.

          In conclusion, I like knowing that there is a planet perhaps made of diamond (or something similar) is somewhere out in the outer space. It really serves me know purpose to research it any further, or the scientists, in my opinion. They could be trying to figure out more urgent things that the world scientifically could use a boost. It’s like knowing that there is a very expensive diamond necklace at a store in Idaho, nice to hear, no real need.