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Comment on TV Food Advertisements Promote Imbalanced Diets, Study Finds by ferrisda

ferrisda — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:16:43 +0000

Like you said in your article there are many fast food places or restaurants that advertise stuff that look healthy and so good to eat. We take a look at what is in them. sometime there chemicals and other ingredients to make us want it more and more. Like some of the fast food places have salad, but some of their salad have a lot more fat than if u were to eat something from the menu.

Comment on No More Bitterness by dangln

dangln — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:18:12 +0000

Well first off, I’d like to say that the five taste perceptions are savory, bitter, sour, sweet, and SALTY. They block the bitterness of the food by the perfect combination of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms. Certain compounds are used to intensify or decrease tastes on your taste buds.
Many foods have bitter tastes, such as artificial sweetener. Using this special molecule will help eliminate the taste of bitterness.

But on the other hand, is this good for our world? Should we not be content with the taste buds that God has blessed us with? I think science is taking this a little too far. We should be grateful for what we have. Sometimes you have to take the good along with the bad.

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Comment on Longest-Lasting Light Bulb by petersjm

petersjm — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:49:45 +0000

I think this article is amazing. I dont know much about light bulbs, but i do know that the ones I usually use burn out usually after a month. I could not imagine one of my lightbulbs lasting for over a century! I think it is pretty cool that a lightbulb made over 100 years ago has the capability to burn that long. Hopefully scientists can make lightbulbs that dont burn out as fast and save more energy soon.

It is truly amazing to see how much science has helped us in every aspect of life. I think it is very facinating to see how much science has improved our life and to think about what our lives would be like if the light bulb was never invinted. I am very curious to see how much longer this lightbulb will burn and i wonder if it will outlive me.

Comment on Spitting Cobras Track First, Predict Later by colejm

colejm — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:26:50 +0000

This post has some important details from this article. I like how he gave specific details. I like how he tells us why the snakes are so accurate, but the article goes into more detail. After more research, the scientists discovered that the snakes moved their heads right before spitting. The snakes would accelerate their heads forward in the dirrection of their target’s movement. This does two things. It makes their spit faster and makes them more accurate. Another thing the scientists realized was how the prey triggered the snake’s spit. After research they found out that the trigger was a jerking movement of the prey’s head. This shows us how detailed God’s creation is.

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Comment on Lasers Help Researchers Predict Birds’ Preferred Habitat by colejm

colejm — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:09:59 +0000

This is a very good post. It has a lot of detail. I like that he tells us exactly how the devise works. He also gave a specific bird that scientists study. With the old method, you didn’t get a lot of work done. It could take thousands of hard hours to analyze plots just one hundred square feet. Plus sometimes scientists got hurt. With the new method, scientists will be able to take data from large areas of land. This will make research easier. Plus with this easier technique, hopefully we will make more discoveries quicker.

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Comment on Smoking Is Dumb: Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs, Study Finds by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:25:31 +0000

I am definitely not surprised by this article. I have always thought that people must be dumb in order to start smoking in the first place but to continue for years just proves they are more dumb than before. There are a plethora of problems that occur after one starts smoking!

Part of the problem of a lowering IQ is because people that smoke think lesser of themselves. A lot of the people that smoke are smoking for a reason. They usually have some kind of emotional problem. They often already think they are dumb. Smoking often starts in us ‘TEENS’. We must encourage our friends and families to not smoke!

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Comment on Edible Synthetic Blocks Bitter Taste by smithcr

smithcr — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:13:17 +0000

If they can master this GIV3727 it would make life much better. As Sammi stated many people don’t like the taste of bitter foods, even if they are good for you. With this being perfected, people who don’t like the taste of some foods would be able to eat healthier and maintain a healthier lifestyle.

This breakthrough would also help many parents get their children to eat healthy and start developing healthy habits at a younger age that can stick with them for a lifetime. If scientists can come through with this, parents will no longer have to worry about forcing many “healthy” foods at their children.

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Comment on Protect the Monkeys! by woodsjp

woodsjp — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:55:45 +0000

Great blog! I thought this topic was important and vital. Ebola is an unknown disease among the common folk. This is a huge discovery in the field of medicine .

The virus interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and with coagulation. As the blood vessel walls become damaged and destroyed, the platelets are unable to coagulate, patients succumb to hypovolemic shock. Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, while conjunctiva exposure may also lead to transmission.
- wikipedia/ebola.
An 80% death rate in humans is completely unacceptable with today’s medicine, and doctors. We need to stop replication of the terrible disease as soon as possible.

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Comment on Edible Synthetic Blocks Bitter Taste by watsonme

watsonme — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:48:47 +0000

Cells genetically engineered and covered in human bitter receptors to test this. These cells were used to check the success of the bitterness blockers. When exposed to bitterness the cell would glow, thus showing if the blockers were working or not. This GIV3727 molecule would stick to bitter receptors and keep them from attaching to the tongue.
It is believed that this could also detect thousands of different compounds, and they may even protect us from different poisons and toxins, which tend to be bitter.

Comment on Man’s Project Defies Gravity by smithcr

smithcr — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:22:31 +0000

This illusion was amazing to watch. The human mind is a curious thing when it comes to these illusions. Because we can’t see things from a distance our mind automatically makes us see something else. However the real amazing thing in this article is how Sugihara made his illusion.

If a man like Sugihara was able to use computer animation to make an illusion, what more could be done with computer animation? If a man can use this program to create a mind trick, how much better use can a scientist find with animations in order to help him solve an experiment that at one point in time seemed unsolvable. These animations will be very useful in the near future, if not right now already. Pay close attention to see if any major scientific breakthroughs happen with the use of computer animation.

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