Who's Ready To Die?

     IT IS 2012!! WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!! Are you guys ready?! December 21, 2012. The world ends. SUPPOSEDLY. Just because of the Mayans who stopped the calendar there. Little do people know, this is what actually happened:
MAYAN #1: Hey man, we don't have any more room to continue the calendar.
MAYAN #2: It's okay, just do it later.
MAYAN #1: I hope if I forget, no one will think the world's gonna end!
MAYAN #2: No! That's crazy! No one's stupid enough to believe that!
MAYAN #1: Yeah you're right! 
  



   Apparently, people are that stupid. Switching topics, what did everyone do for winter break?! I did a bunch of stuff. You guys wanna hear? *murmur murmur* I'll take that as a yes!





    Well the first day of break I had my friends Anabel and Kate come over and later we went to our friend Sormeh's orchestra recital and then went to TCBY, which is an ice cream place. Here are some pictures!

Me being weird :P

My foot prevails!

My friends and I are such freaks! 

    Yea that was really fun! But I did other fun things. I saw my friend Azira who I haven't seen in a really long time. It was so nice seeing her again! Here are some pictures!

Azira, my sister Zeina, and me! 

Azira and me!!

Me in an awesome hat!

Us in sunglasses!

 Fun! Another fun thing was having my friends Aubrey, Kate, and Anabel sleepover. Pictures anyone?

Aubrey, Anabel, Me, and Kate!

ME!

AUBREY!

Anabel The Robot

Hahahaha Kate!

      One of the funnest things I did was have a Harry Potter marathon with my friend Tala. Here are the epic pictures of the epic marathon.

Lightning Bolt Scar 

Tala is all Gryffindor and I'm all Slytherin! 

    

Good vs Evil

SLYTHERIN SWAG!

    Well I'll finish with that and go to something else. Highlights of 2011! Well one thing that was really monumental was the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. "The epic finale to the world wide phenomena." 

        I also loved going to Rock Eagle, the over night field trip at my school. It was so fun! I also got to go to my first Braves game with Kate and the dance at my school was so fun! I also got to meet new friends and see old ones. So 2011 was a pretty good year! 




       Well now it's 2012! I really have no idea what I'm looking forward to. I guess I can't just think that much ahead of time. And I don't really know what resolutions I have. Sorry guys! But I know its gonna be a great year! Well that's pretty much all I have for you today. Bye bye!! Science Fun:)


       

A Lord Voldemort Style Blog

        NYEAAA! Avada Kedavra!!!!!! Oh sorry, didn't mean to kill you! I was practicing my spells from Harry Potter. If you're a Harry Potter fan you know what I'm taking about. If you're not, you need a life adjustment because everyone should know about Harry Potter!! Well, Avada Kedavra is the killing curse. So if you say that spell, you just killed someone! This is a spell not to be used unless dangerously necessary because it is one of the three unforgivable spells. But, Lord Voldemort loves this spell and uses it all the time. Woops, sorry got caught up with Harry Potter talk. Well, if you didn't get it from my intro, today we will be talking about death. 




        Well let's get started! So a common question most people ask is why do people die? Everything in the universe has an beginning and an end, from huge galaxies to microscopic organisms. Even with all of the medicine we have today, our organs start to deteriorate. Some people (including me) think that it's important to live our lives to the fullest. I mean you have only one life, might as well live it awesomely! 

 Ha ha I absolutely love this! 

      There are lots of reason to die. There is sickness, old age, or Twilight... Anyways, have you ever wondered what happens after you die? First, the blood stops circulating in your body. Blood starts to collect in whatever part of the body is closest to the ground. This is called liver morits, and it causes the skin to look a little discovered. Since the body isn't making energy and heat anymore, it cools. This is called algor mortis. There's also rigor morits when the body starts to stiffen. Depending on the conditions you're in, it takes about a year for the body to break down into just bones. 

The pictures were too gross so here's a smiley face to lift up your spirits! 

        No one really knows where your actual soul goes. Some people believe it goes to either heaven or hell. Some people believe that their spirit hangs around here on earth as ghosts. There are lots of different ides, but it's really your choice on what to believe.  

It's doing the Jenna Rose!! 

They believe either      <---that OR that---> 














Here are some cool facts about death: 
  -Approximately 100,000,000,000 people (that's 100 billion!) have died since humans began.
  -The same enzymes that digest your food while you're alive will start eating your body once you're dead.
  - A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
  -A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
  -About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year. 
And here are some cool links: 
Click here to see some more interesting death facts! Click here to learn about rigor, livor, and algor mortis!  Click here to learn odd facts about death!  


That's the end of our blog on death. I know, death is depressing but we all are one day going to have to face it. RIP all of the loved ones that have left us. But, to end on a happy note, here's come funny pictures to end it off! Bye everyone! Science Fun:)


              

Hahahaha! I love this one!! 

LIFE IS GOOD! :) 

IT'S SO SWINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        BUM BUM! BUM BUM! IT'S SO SWINTER!!!!!!!!!!! Oh hey guys! I was just watching Phineas and Ferb. Does anyone else wonder when they are going back to school?! Anyways, they were singing a song called Swinter. It was about winter in summer. They made a winter-maker-thingy in summer and called it Swinter...or Wummer. Well, what I hadn't notice before was that it has a secret scientific message. How come I always get blog topics from cartoons? Weird... Anyways, today we'll me talking about autumn! 

It seems so peaceful!

        
         So what's your favorite thing about fall? Is it the beautiful weather? I love the weather outside! Not to hot, not to cold. Ever wonder why it always changes? Why do we have season and why does each season have a different climate? Well it's simple. Earth is tilting on its axis. If it tilts away from the sun, then it's winter. If it tilts closer to the sun, then it's summer. Also, since the earth tilts diagonally when it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere (aka us) then it's winter in the Southern Hemisphere. 




          What else do you love about fall? How about the pretty colors on the leaves? Have you ever wondered why they change colors? Well, they actually never "change" they were always there but couldn't be couldn't be seen because of the chlorophyll. What is chlorophyll you ask? It's this thing inside leaves that takes sunlight and makes it into food and energy. This causes the green color in leaves. In fall and winter we get less hours of daylight, which means less sun. Since it doesn't have enough sunlight the chlorophyll dies and goes away. 





          The colors underneath the chlorophyll go into two different groups. There are carotenoids which have yellow, orange, and brown colors and anthocyanins which have red, purple, and pink colors. As the chlorophyll dies out, those colors finally get a chance to shine! Yay for the colors! Eventually, the leaves all fall off and decompose into the soil. 

This is so pretty!

     Isn't fall so pretty?! It's probably my favorite season. I love all the colors and the weather and the holidays and just everything about it!    Here are some awesome websites! Click here to play a season game! 
Click here to learn about autumn leaves!  Click here to learn about the earth's axis!  


    That's the end of my blog! I'll leave you with some awesome fall pictures! Science Fun:)


        



            

In the spirit of the holidays...a random harry potter picture! 

                                                   

Corny Science Jokes 101

       Hey everyone! You know, I ought to- wait ION to... *sigh* make better jokes. But did you get it? Instead of I ought to, I wrote ion to! As in ionic bonds and stuff? No? Nothing? Ok then I guess I'll tell you what they are so then you can get my awesome, but really corny, joke. Well, ions are atoms that have an electrical charge. Don't be negative, because I will cancel you out with my positivity. Then ION to feel bad. Oh these jokes never end! 




       So everyone should know what electrons and protons are. Just to make sure... SUPER QUICK REVIEW! Electrons are negative particles within an atom. Electrons orbit in shells around the nucleus. Protons are positive particles within an atom. Protons are in the nucleus of an atom. END OF SUPER QUICK REVIEW! Now let's talk about valence shells, SHELL WE?! These jokes are the worst! Anyways, valence shells are basically the last shell that holds an electron in an atom. So, if an atom has 3 different rows of electrons, the 3rd row would be called the valence shell. 




           CATION! WE HAVE AN AWESOME TOPIC AHEAD! Gotta love corny jokes! So, now we're going to talk about cations. Cations are groups of positively charged ions. They're the opposite of anions. Anions are groups of negatively charged ions. Wow, now I'm hungry! I think I'll have some ANION SOUP! Get it?! Anion sounds like onion! Corny jokes never fail to amuse me. 




        Next thing we'll talk about is.... positive and negative valences. Atoms like to have full valence shells. So sometimes they'll have to give up or gain electrons to fill up their valence shells. Positive valences like to give away their electrons. They must be pretty POSITIVE that they want to give them up so easily! That's the probably the worst joke yet. Negative valences are atoms that like to gain electrons. Sometimes atoms share electrons! 

sorry couldn't find a good pic! 

        
















     Do you guys want to learn more? IONIC! Get it? Like I'm on it, but ionic! These jokes can't get cornier. Anyways, our last topic for this blog is something called ionic bonds. Ionic bonds are kinds of chemical bonds. Well we know that negative ions and positive ions are drawn together, right? The thing that makes them stay together is called the ionic bond! They mainly happen between a metal and a nonmetal. 




        If you guys want to LINK together more information you can go to the following websites: 
Click Here For Ions!  Click Here For Positive And Negative Valence!  Click Here For Cations And Anions! Click Here For A Video! 


     That's all for this blog! But before I go, I have one more corny joke for you. OK so what do you call an insect that's good with farewells? A BUMBLE BYE! Like a bumble bee but bumble bye! Oh and just saying, I made these all up. Go me! Well, bumble bye! Science Fun:) 

good bye now! 

Spongebob Can Give You Life Lessons!!

        Hey everyone! How's it going? (bored) Yea me too, I was just watching Spongebob when he gave me the most important lesson in life! You want to know what it is? It's that you always have to have....

    

     I don't think I could've gone my whole life not knowing that! Ha ha, but it did get me thinking. What causes imagination? Why do some people have a better imagination that others? Since I am a very curious person, and I have to know everything, all these questions WILL be answered by the end of this blog. Alright so let's get started!



      Imagination is the ability of making mental images, feelings, or thoughts that aren't gathered from sight, hearing, or any other sense. Imagination helps fill in the gap for things you don't understand. It makes the world make sense. It's also used a lot when you're learning. Like when you're little, and you hear a story, you learn key words and other things you don't notice by using imagination. It does this by triggering this small part of your brain that fills in those gaps. It takes the words and phrases you hear, and turning it into something that your senses can pick up. Imagination is also used in phsycology to help mend the brain.



I don't know about you guys, but I like the right side more!


   











     The things you see in your imagination is called, the "mind's eye". Basically, imagination is your mind trying to escape from reality and trying to preseve things differently. It sends messages to your senses which interact with what your imagining to make it even more real.
















     




     So that answers one of our questions, now let's answer the next one! It was why do some people have a better imagination then others. Well, as I said before, imagination is the thing that fills in the gaps in your brain when it doesn't have all the knowledge it needs to make something make sense. Kids don't know as much as an adult so the brain has to fill in more gaps than it does for an adult brain. 





     Did any of you have an imaginary friend when you were little? I sure did! I actually had two! Mr. Ghost and Mr. Boo were their names! I acted like they were real so much that my mom even started to believe they were real! Did any of you wonder why you have them? Well, kids watch TV so much that the brain takes that information and fills it in those gaps we were talking about. Since kids have so many gaps, all the imagination makes something. It makes something so real to you and your senses that your brain believes that it IS real! Pretty cool huh? In fact, it is so cool that they made a show about that! It was called Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends!! 

BEST SHOW EVER!!! 

    So you see, imagination is more important than people think. It can make boring things seem fun! Without imagination, we would all be boring, lazy people. And no one wants to be that! I'M AWESOME AND I KNOW IT!! And here are some awesome links about imagination. I'M AWESOME! I'M AWESOMER! I'M AWESOMEST! 





    This was such a fun topic! Don't you think? (YEA!!) WOOP! And all this from Sponegebob Squarepants. I guess this proves it, cartoons aren't useless! Hey, maybe I can find my next blog topic from Spongebob! I'm going to go do that! Bye guys! Science Fun:)

Elements De Me!

      *me on youtube*
   Ok, so I've already watched this harry potter video... hey whats this? Oh it's Daniel Radcliffe (the dude who plays harry potter) singing about the elements! Cool!



   Man that was so fast! Do you guys think you can learn all of those elements?! I know I can't! But I can try. So I know most of the common elements, but what about the non common ones? Let's pick a couple to learn about, shaaaaaaall we? Ok, so first up is.. SELENIUM!!



Se is selenium's symbol on the periodic table.














   Selenium has an atomic number of 34, which means that it has 34 protons in its nucleus. It has the same number of electrons, 34, because the positive charge from the protons and the negative charge from the electrons have to cancel each other out equally so the atom is neutral. Wow that sounded scientific, well this is a science blog so it should be. Anyways, it has 45 neutrons. Usually, there are more neutrons then protons in the nucleus. Selenium was discovered in 1817  by a Swedish chemist named Jons Jacob Berzelius.



this is how selenium looks on the table














     Selenium is a non-metal. It conducts electricity really good, so it's used in electrical stuff. It also gives that ruby red color in glasses and enamels. It's even in some Brazilian nuts! But its most popular use is in dandruff shampoo. Have you guys ever heard of Selsun Blue? It's a shampoo that people with dandruff use. "Selsun" comes from "selenium" in case you didn't notice. Selenium is good in small amounts, but it's toxic in big amounts. Humans need it and so do some plants. AND xerographic photocopies and laser printers have a cylinder covered in selenium in it!



does it look familiar?















      I chose selenium because sounds like my name, Celine. So it;s kind of like MY element. You can't deny my element!!




Now on to our next element which is... THULIUM! It's atomic number is 69. It has the same amount of electrons, 69, and has 100 neutrons. It was discovered in 1879 by Per Theodor Cleve, another Swedish chemist. Thulium is a metal but is really rare. It was even called the least significant element there is. It's not useless, just special! It's used for radiations for portable x-ray machines and can also be a laser. It also is the very strong green emission line in arc lightning.  COOL! I chose Thulium because it makes me sound so fancy when I say Thulium and strecth it out.



thuuuuuulium















       Next on our element list is.... YTTERBIUM! Ytterbium's atomic number is 70. It has 10 electrons and 103 neutrons. It was discovered in 1878 by Carl Gustaf Monsander, a Swedish chemist. What is up with all the Swedish chemist?! I guess that was the place to be to discover cool elements. Can I ask you guys something? Don't you think the name is awesome?! I sure do! Well, this awesomely named element got it's name from the town it was discovered in, Ytterby, Sweden. 

       What does this element used for exactly? Well, its used portable x-ray machine. Hmm where have we heard that before? Does anyone know? (it was also a use for thulium) CORRECT! It's also used as fiber in optic cables and it creates color in glasses. I chose Ytterbium because it's just so much fun to say! It has such an awesome name!! YTTERBIUM!! 

a ytterbium coin! 

      Last on out element journey is.. (drum roll please).. RADON!

Radon has an atomic number of 86. It has 136 neutrons and 86 electrons. It was discovered in 1900 by Friedrich Ernst Dorn. Oh my gosh, HE IS FORM GERMANY AND NOT FROM SWEDEN! So there's a good and bad to come out of that, the good is that not all elements were made in Sweden, and the bad is that Justin Bieber won't know where that is. 





     Radon is a radioactive gas. It is a huge cause for lung cancer. Radon, not the nicest element. It's also really bad if you get it in your house. Sometimes radon seeps through the floors of your house and it has to be cleaned out immediately. It can be found in rocks, soil, water, some building material, and natural gas. Man, radon is just not nice at ALL! Even if it's not nice it is a cool element. I chose it because it looked like it would be cool, and it is! 





     Those were my four elements! 4 down, 114 to go! If you want to know some more about the elements we talked about today click... 
HERE!! RIGHT HERE! OVER HERE!  HERE! 
We can save that for another day. That's all for now! Bye fellow people! Science Fun:)