After today's 30-minute exercise of writing a 50-word summary of Reader's Digest, National Geographic magazine OR Newsweek magazine from SMAK PENABUR Gading Serpong library, here is your Valentine/IMLEK/Chinese new year's "gift" ... one assigment due date Feb. 15, 2010. The details are as follows:
Write a 100-word summary of an article of at least 2 pages,
from one of the following magazines:
a. http://www.sciam.com/sciammag/ (Scientific America)
b. http://www.rd.com/ (Reader's Digest)
c. http://www.ngm.com/ (National Geographic Magazine)
One example of the article is:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/07/mars
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/07/mars-pg2
The article must be the 2010 issues/ editions.
Please include the complete/exact LINK of the article, please, like
last April 2009 assignment at my blogs for last year grade 11:
http://sirteguh.blogspot.com/2009/04/1-week-assignment-for-both-year-10-11.html
Regards,
SIR
26 comments:
Summary of :
Within One Cubic Foot
National Geographic Magazine
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/wilson-text
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/wilson-text/2
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/wilson-text/3
By Edward O. Wilson
When we dig any of soil available in our environment, we might find a lot of species including worms, centipedes, millipedes, and many others. Even though we only dug a cubic foot of soil, we might find thousand of those species. We might assume that these species aren’t important to our life and they wouldn’t interfere our environment, however, scientist found different conclusion to our assumption. If any of those species were gone, it will change the environment including its physical equilibrium. Unfortunately, most of the ground organisms are still not discovered yet. We still need to discover more and it means that higher technology would be useful.
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Alvin Vimala Virya
XI-BC / 01
The real link:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/07/mars
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/07/mars-pg2
Making Mars the New Earth
Mars is well known as a very bad planet because it has thin aired-surface in its atmosphere and very cold temperature, but today many scientists believe Mars is the first human’s choice to move from “destroyed’ Earth. The main problems are thin-aired surface and very cold temperature. Luckily the scientists today have the answers! We can use our “mistakes” by giving carbon dioxide (CO2) to Mars’ atmosphere. NASA planetary scientist, Chris McKay, said, “You just warm it up and throw some seeds”. It means that Mars has very high chance to become our next planet after Earth. The next problem is of course, once more, money!
-jl-
James Liman
XI-BC/07
Link:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/2
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/3
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/4
Beautiful Friendship
Anemone as we know is an organism that takes fish as its prey has a strange relationship with clown fish. Clown fish are maybe the only fish that can live with anemone. People found that clown fish take anemones to become their host. The strange point is, little clown fish that can’t find anemones to be their host, will die in a short time after its birth. In the other hand, anemones are protected from anemone-eater fish by the chemical process happened between anemones and clown fish. One more thing we must know is coral fish can’t live in aquarium or others environment. So if we want to protect the fish, don’t take them from the wild but just do conservation to their habitat.
Hans Tannady
XI-BC/05
the article which I read was taken from:
http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2010/01/ar.html
(NGM or well known as "National Geographic Magazine")
Cheung Ek, located in Cambodia was infamous becouse there was a Khmer Rouge killing field, which killed 20.000 Cambodians. A team of archeologist want to know much more about the site. And they found something amazing!
They found that actually Cheung Ek was built on 300 BC. It plays a great role in the Southeast Asia Economic flow. It is proved with some 'kilns' (a place to make pottery), which occurs many in that place. Kilns produce what we call by 'kendi'. And this place was one of the 'Funan''s (some mysterious Indian-influenced civilization) trading route.
Nano’s Big Future
Today, one with cancer is treated with chemotherapy, which eats other healthy parts of the body. But in twenty years, one will take a pill of nanoscale missiles targeting cancer cells in the human body and recover everything. Nanotechnology, a method to manipulate substances in nanometer scale, is about to be world spread in approximately twenty years. When scientists are able to operate a matter in nanometer scale and change its properties, creating a material with any desired feature and behavior is not anymore a dream. Just like the invention of plastic, the technology will be applicable in most aspect of life.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/06/nanotechnology/kahn-text/1
patricia.
summary of:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/kingfishers/holmes-text/1
Kingfishers
"Blaze of Blue"
by Hannah Holmes
This article is about kingfishers in England. Kingfishers are a very beautiful bird. They have blue shimmering color in their body. It is because they have a unique structure in their feather that can refracting light and make them shimmering. The beauty of kingfishers not only make people obsessed them but also bring a big problem for kingfishers. People use their feather to make accessories and it will make kingfishers extinct if they have low fecundity.
Kingfishers are bird with some territory area. They will tell other about their area with their loud voices. The species of kingfishers is named Alcedo atthis.
Lilie Fransiska
XI-BC/ 13
There’s a cat lives in the Steere House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. This is a place for old people to spend their last time. It looks like an ordinary black and white cat named Oscar. But some staffs just realize that it has a special talent. It came to dying patient’s room and sit there calmly. And in the next few days, the patients died with the cat beside them. One of the scientists named David curious about Oscar’s behavior and think that Oscar can smell a sweet and attractive compound produced by a dying human body. But Oscar wasn’t only sit beside the patient, it also a comforter of the family member who left behind said Kathy Jones, the family member of a patient. Even a patient who deeply hates animal wanted Oscar to stay beside her before she died. Oscar is a miraculous cat that brings peace to the people near death.
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/the-cat-who-could-predict-death/article173346.html
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/the-cat-who-could-predict-death/article173346-1.html
Earthworm that often called night crawler comes from Europe, but now it spread to North America and western Asia. Earthworm is used as bait for fishing. But besides that, earthworms actually have many another good things. Earthworm could transport nutrients from underground to the surface, that really important for the fertility of the soil. Earthworm could also be a source of food for some animal like birds, toads, and also rats. And besides that, earthworm’s tunnel underground could be the aeration (for air to pass trough) for the ground itself. And the last, worms decompose organic matters like leaves and roots.
Website :
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=anti-aging-talk-getting-old-or-just-2010-02-13
Anti-aging talk: Getting old or just getting started?
Nowadays, all people want to be young even though they have become a grandparent. There have been some observations and experiments based on how to make human ageless. It has been found that a natural substance in the skin of grapes can improve health. Anti-aging pill is also made by the observation in the laboratory. Some opinions about aging are pointed out, one of them is “ aging is an optional feature of life and it can be slowed”. The journey keeps continuing, and the scientists keeps struggling to get the best out. Will one day we can live well into hundreds?
-johan chrisnata-
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100127-dinosaurs-color-feathers-science/o/
True-Color Dinosaur Revealed: First Full-Body Rendering
Published February 4, 2010
by Chris Sloan
This is the first time in paleontology history; the scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the full-body color patterns of a dinosaur, from the Anchiornis huxleyi species to be more specific, based from the shape and density of melanosomes that remain in the dinosaur fossil feathers. The scientists hope that this achievement will slowly lead us toward the answer about why feathers evolved in the first place.
Felik Junvianto
XI-BC/4
The summary by Natasia Yosua Yahya.
Clownfish; Beautiful Friendship
January 2010
By James Prosek
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/1
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/2
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/3
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/clownfish/prosek-text/4
Since published as a new star by Andrew Stanton on the film Finding Nemo in 2003, clownfish of the species Amphiprion percul have become one of the most popular reef fish whose sales has been increased up to 25 percent. Like what it seems in the film, clownfish do have a close relationship with anemones. A clownfish lives in only one anemone together with up to 30 other clownfish for its entire life. Anemone and clownfish could be best friends since anemone can protect clownfish’ eggs from intruders and clownfish are able to protect it back from anemone-eating fish. This beautiful relationship which is also showed in the film has attracted people to save the almost extinct reef fish and anemones.
jiah sama kayak Hans..
baru sadar sayaaa ><.
gpp yah Sir..ehehehehehe.
http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2010/01/one-in-a-million.html#more
The Right Rock Can Reveal the History of a Glacier
We know that there are many types of rocks, but have you heard about a glacial rock that can tell us about history? If we found the right rock, we can tell what happened 10 until 12000 years ago. Those rocks can be found not only from ice cavern, but also from the remaining of glaciers. Not only history, but they can also share to us when the rock was created. What we need is just measure the tiny amounts of radioactive element, or "cosmogenic nuclide," called beryllium-10, which is formed when cosmic rays strike some minerals.
Leonard
XI-BC/12
Summary of :
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/how-the-government-is-failing-our-veterans/article173182.html
How the Government is Failing Our Veterans
By Michael Crowley
February 2010
This article is talking about how the government is failing our veterans. Nowadays, injured American veterans need to wait for more than 5 months on average for disability payment. Also, there’s a case when the Veteran Affairs rejected a veteran’s claim only because of the form wasn’t filled correctly. The Department’s system is very arduous and difficult; it’s hard for the veteran to get the medical files from the pentagon because some of them didn’t keep them. This is a disgrace to the Veteran Affairs because they didn’t serve the veterans seriously. The Veteran Affairs should improve the records files electronically and serve the veterans more seriously because it breaks the human rights.
“Can a Brain Scan Predict a Broken Promise?”
By Kamila E. Sip and David Carmel
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-scan-broken-promise
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-scan-broken-promise&page=2
People usually make a promise when they are interacting with other people eventhough they don’t notice it. This article shows that there is a research about a human brain works whether it will break the promise or not. Using a brain scan, when a person wants to break the promise, there are some areas will be more active than other areas. However, if the person is honest, the scan will find no such areas. They interpret that human’s nature is to be dishonest. Next, another question emerges. Are dishonest people equally dishonest in different situations? This article gives advice that after people say some statements, they had better to take a moment and ask themselves if they really mean it. So, the promise will not often broken.
Joses Grady Nathanael
XI-BC / 09
"To Catch an Identity Thief"
On April 2007, Karen Lodwick finally had her identity thief arrested. She had been hunting the thief for five months since the first time she knew that someone had been using her ID to take a big amount of money from her bank account. The bank's security video showed that a woman with a brown coat was the one who stole Karen's ID. Karen saw that familiar coat at Starbucks a few minutes before Karen chased the thief and got her arrested. Because of this thievery, Karen had lost over ten thousand dollars.
Original article by: Anita Bartholomew
Taken from:
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/catching-identity-thieves-true-stories/article50632.html
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/catching-identity-thieves-true-stories/article50632-1.html
Summary by:
Noah Riandiputra
XI-BC/15
SMAK PENABUR Gading Serpong
Summary of:
http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/the-cat-who-could-predict-death/article173346-1.html
Oscar was a black-and-white tabby cat that was adopted by the writer, whose working as a geriatrician in rehabilitation center. The cat has strange talent, that he can determine whether the patient is dying or not.At first the writer did not believe of what he heard, but after interviewing and listen to some stories, he know that Oscar was not only just predict death, but also a comforter. Although he firstly believe that there is a biological explanation for this, he was pretty sure the reason is more than that. One of the staff said that it was his purpose and a way to pay their keep
Evan A.
Asia’s Wildlife Trade
After years of complicated pursue, the world’s most wanted wildlife-trafficking actor, Ansen Wong has been captured. This illegal act starts from poor hunters or farmers, who catch the animals and sell them to the local traders, and passed to the supply chain. Then, in Asia wildlife ends as medicines and as furniture in America and Europe. As the economy law works, the rarer the item, the higher the price. One of the most favorite trades is reptile; portable and valuable. They are small, long-lasting, and thanks to their poikilothermic nature, reptiles can live for long without much food and water.
patricia.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/asian-wildlife/christy-text/1
yes, i agree with Today, one with cancer is treated with chemotherapy, which eats other healthy parts of the body. But in twenty years, one will take a pill of nanoscale missiles targeting cancer cells in the human body and recover everything. Nanotechnology, a method to manipulate substances in nanometer scale, is about to be world spread in approximately twenty years. When scientists are able to operate a matter in nanometer scale and change its properties, creating a material with any desired feature and behavior is not anymore a dream. Just like the invention of plastic, the technology will be applicable in most aspect of life.
summary of:
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/05/plant-a-tree-for-earth.html
the world environmental day will be on june 5 2010, and a nonprofit, private, international EARTH university and its global network will plant hundred of thousands of trees all over 26 countries.they said that if every person on this planet was to plant just one tree, we would fix nearly 260 million tons of CO2 annually, and the university's main goal is to plant at least 1,000,000 newly planted trees. Tress that will be planted can be bought for U.S$5 on the university's global network, and another occasion is given for us to plant our virtual trees on EARTH website for free.for every 20 trees planted virtually, a sponsor will donate a real free, so every people all over the world can participate in the EARTH university's world environmental program.
-viciano lee-
Link :
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206.html
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206-1.html#slide
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206-2.html#slide
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206-3.html#slide
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206-4.html#slide
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206-5.html#slide
http://www.rd.com/health-slideshows/7-home-health-checks-that-can-save-your-life/article179206-6.html#slide
7 home health checks that can save your live
There are 7 easy checks that can indicate whether you have serious disease or not. With these checks, you can know about it earlier and you can prevent it before it became too serious and you can not heal it anymore. It is easy and just need a little time for a longer life. You can check the existence of asthma, iron deficiency (reduce immunity), existence of stroke (indicate by irregular heart beat), chance of diabetes, syndrome of heart attack (stiff blood vessels and bulging waist), and whether you have depression or not (which can lead to higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and suicide).
Thanks for the late submission, Viciano and Laurensia. Better late than never (late), just joking. Great!
For Viciano: wow, sir just learnt about virtual trees.
For Laurensia: thanks for the 7 health tips/checks.
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