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11/30/2012

The Real McCoy

McCoy when he was a little kid he started playing organized football. He was an instant success. In his joiner   year he thirty touchdowns. In his senior year during the begin of the season in the forth quarter of a game he had a compound fracture in his left ankle. He was recruited less and fell into a depressed state. He head to a prep school to improve his grades at that time, and hoping to play football again. He got a chance to play collage when the head coach of the University of Pitt. He was revealed almost in tears when heard this. His freshmen year he had 14 touchdowns, his next year he had 23 then he said he was entering the draft. He was the forth running back picked in the second round. His grandmothers health was breaking down at a rapid rate. She died Sep. 3rd 2010. Seven days later McCoy played the game of his life with 120+ yards and three touchdowns. The SWAG was back.

11/28/2012

Kelvin Doe

Kelvin is from Sierra Leon, he love to invent things. They only get lights once a week. He has his own little world of inventing. he went to the United States with the help of MIT grad. who is also from Sierra Leon. He first got interested in inventing by wanting to get his voice out by making a FM radio. All he wants to do is help his family. His ultimate goal is get electricity to everybody in his community by building a windmill. When he visited America he became home sick and he didn't like the food here, but his friend knows a place where they could get home style cooking like they have in Sierra Leon.  

11/26/2012

The Baby Lab

They are asking the question weather babies can be good or bad. Babies are seen as innocent stupid creatures. Some people think that we have to teach our children how to behave well. The study at Yale shows that babies are born with a sense of good vs. bad. The babies were shown a study where they saw a puppet in trouble and one helped the puppet and they other didn't, they had to choose which one they liked the most. Most of them picked the one that helped the other character. They then picked cheerios of gram crackers, then a puppet picked one and then the baby had to choose which one he/she liked best. They always choose the one that picked the same food, and when that same puppet was mean to another puppet they choose the puppet that was helping the other puppet as being bad just because the puppet din't like the same food. The next study was in children a little older around the age of 8. They found that at that age they begin to develop a sense of sharing giving sometimes more chips to others that they receive themselves.
 In the next video a group of people were determining how children view race. They found that 70% of White  children saw a situation as bad while only 38% of the African-Americans saw it as bad. This shows us that they are preparing their children for the world at a young age. While the other parents are not doing anything about it and that's most of the problem.

11/13/2012

The Chess Master

This guy is an alien he can beat ten players at once while not looking at the boards. He is the youngest champion ever. At the age of five he could name all the countries of the world, their populations, and their capitals. At the age of thirteen he took on the Russian Kapov. When he played him then he didn't even say hello, then he constantly walk off and watch other games. The match ended in a draw. Chess does not make a lot of money but he is changing the game up. Companies are lining up to get a piece of this guy. He makes about one and a half million dollars each year. He sometimes thinks about what happened to Bobby Fisher, he went made in his later years and he wonders if that will happen to him. He is on the road on average 200 days a year. He has to say in top physical shape if he wants to compete for all most seven hours straight.  

11/09/2012

SpaceX

For the first time in three decades the US has no way to launch people into space. Musk has been an entrepreneur since a young age. He built companies out of his own money. He developed his own car company, then he bought Paypal. He brings in raw metals then in his warehouse in L.A he has a team of about 1400 engineers working do develop all of the parts from scratch. He planed to buy a intercontinental ballistic from Russia then further develop it by using it like a shell. But his plan would be way to expensive. So instead he built it all up from raw materials. He believes that its cheep per for one company then for multiple companies building separate parts then pulling them together. NASA has a contract of about 1.6 billion dollars to the company that can build the better rocket. After three failed launches by Musk he would not give in, on the fourth he did they launched a rocket into space and it orbited two times before falling back to earth and landing in the Pacific ocean.      

11/07/2012

Rocky Mountain High

In Bolder, Colorado the economy has gotten a boost from the medicinal "weed" industry. The state has passed laws that say; if you are licensed to grow and sell the product then you can. The local economy has boomed with the growth of this new product, it has had an impact on the real-estate sales. There were unused buildings throughout Bolder county and the new business jumped in on the chance to get a new facility. The Federal Gov. has made it hard on the growers and sellers, not just in Colorado though, in the other fifteen states that you can legally grow and sell it too. They still count it as an illegal drug. They don't want it to get in the had of recreational users of a wannabe drug lord. This is a new and very risky industry because the Federal Gov. told the banks that if they gave out loans then they would also be participating in illegal activities. It could possible be one of the most valuable industries in Colorado right now because of the impact it is having on the economy. Some people are saying that its the green rush, not just because the product is green but because of all the revenue it brings in.      

11/01/2012

Body Parts

There is new research being done in Wake Forest. They are growing body parts, this could the next huge thing for medical and scientific research because of all of the possibilities that could come with this new fronter. They are making models of different body parts then taking stem cells form that same body part from the person who needs a transplant. People die each day waiting for a proper transplant. This would enable you to have your vary own body part made form your own cells. They have already done a few trails, they very successful. They plan to start more test very soon. They key to regenerative growth is how fast can it be completed. At Wake Forest they can make a body part in only 6-8 weeks. The Pentagon id spending a ton of money on this research to help military personnel recover from damaged or missing body parts. A new development is being researched, at a centre for training for people who had lost a part or injured in battle, to them they call it "pixie dust". This powder tricks the body into thinking that its still in the womb and starts to repair damaged areas of the body.