The satchel had been my best find in a while from the thrift store. The leather was kind of beaten, but that made it all the more appealing to me. That bag already had a life without me. Maybe it was some drug runner's money bag. Maybe it had belonged to a spy who'd used it undercover and had no more need of it. But whoever it was liked strawberry chapstick. I found a half finished one in the bottom along with some old gum wrappers and crumbs of some sort. I myself preferred mint though. Mint…
The Book Dorm Room Dealings written by A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik Fritsvold delivering a unique perspective into the world of college dorm drug dealing. Their research consists of extensive fieldwork and analysis within the thriving Southern California drug-distribution network. Dorm Room Dealings challenges the dominant narrative that the drug epidemic in the United States is conducted within lower income neighborhoods. Rather, the book reveals that these dealings are conducted by predominantly…
Cost of Your Good Night’s Sleep In June the Freakonomics Podcast explored the recent phenomenon of mattress stores popping up all over the country. Surely you’ve seen a Mattress-Firm, Sleepy’s, or Sleep Number store pop up in your town, sometimes right across the street from another. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics, articulated in the podcast the reality that the mattress market has become high profit because manufacturing costs, ease in marketing, low franchise fees for store owners, and…
flexible. *Neck compensates for the conversion of forelimbs into wings. *The neck is very mobile and helps in handling food and is also responsible for for the universal movement of the…
B. SIDELL ABSTRACT -- Puffins, one of the few wing-propelled diving birds, are specialized into a specific niche. By balancing the optimization of their bodies for locomotion between the two media of air and sea water created a unique anatomy for a bird. The evolution of Auks, which includes the puffin, shows a mixture of characteristics similar to those of the ultimate diving bird, the penguin, and the large-winged flyers, such as the pelican. Wing-propelled diving has evolved numerous times in…
average size for the genus. Each of the four wings of this dragonfly can move independently and are powered by powerful muscles. The wings normally beat 35 times per second and propel the dragonfly to speeds of 35 miles per hour. Dragonflies have a visual field of almost 360 degrees. The legs of dragonflies are not able to walk. The Warpaint Emerald Dragonfly is about 49-50 mm long in adults. The abdomen is approximately 38-47 mm and, the hind wing is about 31-37 mm long. This dragonfly has a…
holding: The Invisible Jet Build Plan BrickLAB Bricks Air (10 minutes) The Invisible Jet Build (20 minutes) Wonder Woman Engineering Challenge (25 minutes) Tactical Transformations (5 minutes) Build the Invisible Jet to understand, define and explore wing and aircraft design, the four forces of flight and air pressure. NGSS 2-PS1-3 Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object. NGSS 3-PS2-1…
Their repertoire of sounds range from uttering a liquid, rambling medley of soft caws, coos, clicks and rattles and rusty gate sounds. They may not be classified as songbirds, but they are every bit as interesting. Sleek black in color with inquisitive eyes, a loping gait and an intelligence level that far outreaches that of their lighter colored winged bretheren, the crow is a bird well worthy of our respect and admiration. Nearly every bird watching guide describes the American Crow as one of…
ways to wake up. This isn’t the only time That Guest uses words in a negative way. “the unmistakable shuffling shoulders-bent walk. mostly old men but some younger ones, too, in the dull, dusty-maron bathrobes, side flapping loosely, like the drooped wings of dying birds”…
A scale model parachute will be designed and constructed to fall safely for the attached LEGO man to survive the parachute will provide enough air resistance to counteract gravity. One reason there is science in this problem is if the parachute goes to fast and kills the LEGO man to make the parachute go slower the parachute would have to be improved. Also, if parachute would be improved based on things such as how to make the air resistance greater making the parachute slower. Another, things…