Author: GabriellaL

The largest glaciers in the world are losing ice way too fast for us to replenish it. Two satellite images remind us that Earth’s ice sheets are losing so much mass that it’s becoming obvious even from space. In the maps published as part of a study, they show 16 years of ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica as seen by a NASA satellite. The images show rapid melt in both regions, far more than the ice-mass gains.

Greenland lost an average of 200 gigatons of ice per year, while Antarctica lost an average of 118 gigatons per year. One gigaton of ice is enough to fill 400,000 whole Olympic-sized swimming pools. All of the melting ice was about a total 0.55 inches of sea-level rise between 2003-2019. That puts Earth on the track for the worst global warming scenario. This would put hundreds of millions of people living in coastal communities at risk of losing their homes, or even their lives because of flooding.

A new research shows, while the ice shelves have thinned and melted over the last two decades, grounded ice has also became thin and melted. The new analysis shows that the response of these ice sheets to the changes in our climate reveals clues to why and how the ice sheets are melting. That is a good sign because now they partially know that problem for the melting glaciers.

An infectious disease went from one population center to another. Hordes of people died as leaders tried to recover from public and economic health. This is not about Covid-19. Instead, it’s about the ancient Roman Empire, where a disease known as the Antonine Plague spread from Egypt to continental Europe and the British Isles. We don’t have accurate data about the Antonine Plague, but written accounts from that time point to huge amounts of deaths. It was not the first disease, but it was probably the first pandemic.

The Antonine Plague and other epidemics and pandemics that came before the 20th century, vaccines, and medical knowledge hold lessons, but not answers for COVID-19. One lesson is important: Societies can’t avoid outbreaks, but they can withstand severe pandemics. Past political systems have found ways to come back from mass illness and large numbers of deaths.

The Antonine Plague struck in the late 160s. Though millions of people died, the empire was big, so it left about -90 percent of the empire’s population still alive. Reorganization and sharing were required to fix food shortages and an economic decline from the pandemic. The leaders’ wealth and knowledge helped Romans to improve conditions in the empire’s provinces, and governments were given greater power to solve local issues. There are other pandemics and epidemics that teach us lessons too.

The last thing to know is to not forget what happened because another outbreak will probably arrive when it is least expected. The influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919, which killed about 50 million people worldwide, was soon forgotten by many people. Scientists have warned for the last 20 years that new pandemics and epidemics were likely to happen. Yet the United States and other countries were completely unprepared for COVID-19.

Technology could hurt the fight against Coronavirus if we are not careful. There are four questions we should ask ourselves. Are you listening to experts and vulnerable communities? Can you join existing efforts? Can your technology do what you say it’s going to do? How does your technology shift power?

The first question, “Are you listening to experts and vulnerable communities,” is about understanding the social context, about knowing what is helpful or harmful. You have to find credible or reliable sources. The second question, “Can you join existing efforts?”, is about searching for a team that can answer all three of these questions. You also have to find a project that involves experts, community involvement, and with ethical frameworks in place.

The third question is “Can your technology do what you say it’s going to do?” This is about if your solution improves the real world, or if it only works in some environments. You have to complete and test your work in a certain amount of time, and you will also need the resources required to finish your project, or you won’t be able to finish it. The last question is “How does your technology shift power?” You have to consider who your projects shifts power to and from. You have to think about who will have access to your invention and if it helps vulnerable communities and those who are most in need.

In the article, “Meet Violet, the Robot That Can Kill the COVID-19 Virus,” it talks about robots helping the people during the coronavirus. The pandemic has killed thousands, made millions of people sick, and forced even more to deal craziness of closures and lockdowns. Stevie, who is a 4-foot 7-inch tall robot whose function is to cure loneliness. It has been programmed to tell stories, call bingo numbers, lead sing-alongs, and other activities.

The engineers have also worked closely with staff to understand what other functions could be added to the robot to boost patients’ safety. A long time before the virus started, the team had already started exploring whether Stevie might be able to cure infections too. They have been talking about whether it’s possible to use an ultraviolet light feature that can be powerful enough to kill harmful germs, but safe to be used by people. Ultraviolet lights between 200 and 280 nanometers, or UVC light, causes DNA to either change shape, or act like molecular scissors.

The Stevie robot already had sensors allowing it to navigate and stop by itself when it detects a person. A light source that automatically shuts down when it detects a motion nearby could be a useful feature. Then, when they confirmed the first case in the country, the team had data on how effective UVC light was, and knew how to make a lightweight, nimble robot that could move around humans in a busy places. Akara has focused on making Violet compact enough to be able to work in crowded spaces that are hard to clean; bathrooms, waiting areas, and small places in public transit.

The team recently tested the robot. It typically takes a person 15 minutes to clean the room with wipes and then another 30 to 60 minutes for the chemicals to dry, which means that the room can only take care of about one patient an hour. Violet has been able to get the job done in 15 minutes, which is way faster. Akara is now looking to raise money to build an even more advanced prototype that can be tested in different settings.

The short read, The Landlady, is about a teenager named Bill. He traveled from London to Bath on a train, and by the time he arrived, it was about nine o’clock at night, and it was pretty dark out. He wanted to go to a hotel to sleep for the night that wasn’t too far away. He never went to Bath before, and didn’t know anyone who lived there. That means that he didn’t know the directions or couldn’t ask anyone for them. He saw a sign labeled “Bed and Breakfast,” and decided to go there since the name was pretty straightforward. Once inside, a lot of weird things happen, and the woman seems a bit out of her mind.

The theme for this story is to not be too quick to trust your surroundings or others. When he saw the animals in the hotel at first, they seemed to be alive, and he thought that animals were usually a good sign. But he didn’t know that those animals were actually dead and stuffed. He also didn’t think about how the lady was acting a bit too polite. She was also acting weird, trying to take care of almost everything. She forgot many things easily too.

Then, she talks about how his features were better than the 2 other guests, called Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple. Also, when he said he was seventeen, she said it was the perfect age, which was also very weird. She also asked him to write his name in a book so she could remember it later on. She said that the two people were living upstairs, but there was no sign of anyone else living there other than Bill and her.

The story, “Seventh Grade,” is about a boy named Victor who is on his first day of school. He met his friend, Michael, who had learned to scowl during the summer. He thinks that it makes girls notice him. Victor wants to impress his crush, Teresa, so he tries scowling too. He also signs up for French class because he wants to go to France someday, and also because Teresa signed up for it too.

The theme for the story is to not fake something to try to impress someone. In his French class, the teacher asked who knew how to speak French, and he raised his hand. What they didn’t know is that he does not know anything about French. He only wanted to impress Teresa. Then, the teacher asked him a question in French, and he did not know how to reply. He just made random sounds that he thought sounded like French, and he was very embarrassed.

After class, Teresa thought that he actually knew French, and told him that it was good. Luckily, the teacher didn’t say anything about it because he was able to relate to it about something that happened in the past. Then, he still tried to impress her by saying he got it by watching movies and reading books. Next, she asked him if he can help her in French sometime. He agreed, and then he actually went to the library. He learned his lesson in the end and checked out three French textbooks so next time in class, he can actually understand the teacher.

How much sleep do we really need? Everyone knows that sleeping is very important. Sleeping is important for our health, well being, and how we perform. A recent study with more than 1600 people in it proved that being sleep deprived leads to poorer attention and thinking. Sleeping also affects our mood. Recent studies showed that insufficient sleep can even affect the microorganisms in your gut.

We all know that sleeping is important, but how much sleep is enough? If you search it on Google, the most common answer is eight hours. 8 hours seems pretty straightforward, but how did they get this number? We’re told that we should drink eight glasses of water per day, but is that the same to everyone? How much water we need to drink depends on our body’s conditions and what we do.

We can think about sleep the same way. How much sleep we need depends on our body’s current needs. To come up with a guide saying how much sleep you need to get, sleep experts used scientific data to determine the appropriate amounts of sleep for each age group. In the end, they said things, “For teens, we recommend 8 to 10 hours, but anywhere from 7 to 11 hours may be appropriate.” They didn’t say that everyone needed 8 hours. They specified the age group they were talking about. For babies, the range is from 11 to 18 hours. For people over 65 years old, it’s from five to nine hours. This shows that different people need different amounts of sleep.

How does our brain affect our daily activities? Our brain affects our daily activities in many ways. Some ways are that our brain affects our mood, state of mind, self control, and memory. Brain chemicals, or neurotransmitters affect our mood or state of being that we are in. There are many types of neurotransmitters in our brain, and new ones are still being discovered. Some sever illnesses to the brain can affect your impulses and impulsive behavior.

Our brain also affects our self control. Some people can’t control what they want to and not want to do. This shows a lack on self control. Some examples of not being able to control yourselves are eating sweets in a diet. Another example is not being able to resist temptations. Having self control is an important part of our everyday lives.

The third thing that our brain affects is out memory. In my opinion, our memory is the most important thing in our daily lives. Some people have short term memory and some have long term memory. If you have short term memory, you forget more things easier. If you have long term memory, you remember more things. If you suffer from short term memory loss, you can forget things you just did, which affects you a lot because then you won’t be able to remember important events that you are supposed to remember.

The largest glaciers in the world are losing ice way too fast for us to replenish it. Two satellite images remind us that Earth’s ice sheets are losing so much mass that it’s becoming obvious even from space. In the maps published as part of a study, they show 16 years of ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica as seen by a NASA satellite. The images show rapid melt in both regions, far more than the ice-mass gains.

Greenland lost an average of 200 gigatons of ice per year, while Antarctica lost an average of 118 gigatons per year. One gigaton of ice is enough to fill 400,000 whole Olympic-sized swimming pools. All of the melting ice was about a total 0.55 inches of sea-level rise between 2003-2019. That puts Earth on the track for the worst global warming scenario. This would put hundreds of millions of people living in coastal communities at risk of losing their homes, or even their lives because of flooding.

A new research shows, while the ice shelves have thinned and melted over the last two decades, grounded ice has also became thin and melted. The new analysis shows that the response of these ice sheets to the changes in our climate reveals clues to why and how the ice sheets are melting. That is a good sign because now they partially know that problem for the melting glaciers.

Oral immunotherapy has come into use as a treatment for food allergies, which affect about 32 million people in the United States. Allergists have begun treating food allergy patients with doses of the food that they are allergic to, to calm their allergic responses. It grew in popularity with the approval of a standardized version, a set of daily capsules to treat the peanut allergy.

But oral immunotherapy also has downsides. It can be nerve-racking, since it involves daily consumption of food that could kill them. It doesn’t work for everyone and does only a little bit to fix the allergy. It mostly means gaining the ability to safely eat several peanuts, rather than having an allergic reaction to just a speck of peanut flour. Nagler and other researchers are working to find ways to treat food allergies more easily and durably. They’re focusing on what they believe is a root cause, imbalances in the community of microbiomes, hoping to let them handle their allergy.

Producing a microbiome-based treatment will be hard, with many details, such as which microbes to provide and how to best deliver them. But the approach is gaining momentum. Nagler’s team and another group reported an important step forward. They prevented severe allergic responses in mice with allergies by getting microbes from non-allergic human babies. So far, there has been a lot of progress to curing food allergies.