Sun tanning

Sitting on the shore of a beach you would expect a lot of sand, on this beach there is a lot of rocks and small pebbles which does make it tough to walk on as I feel my shoes fill slowly with the coarse mix of sand and rock. Looking around there are many people with dogs, most off leashes. I can hear them barking at each other and doing their business on the beach with their owners just burying it in the sand. The strong odor of the seaweed is very heavy in the breeze, and it is strung all…

An important topic is being discussed and it concerns Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Thorn, Poland on February 19, 1473. He was the son of a wealthy merchant. He studied mathematics, medicine, science and astrology at three different Universities. Nicolaus Copernicus later discovered many great findings about our solar system, but none of his discoveries were accepted until his death on May 24, 1543. Indeed there are many opinions about his contributions to the scientific…

It was a bright and sunny day in the middle of September in the big apple. Cosmetic Scientist Dr. David Van Horn was working on his newest line of fragrances and lotions for the upcoming season. David hoped that the line would jumpstart his sad and depressing career, which his wife had actually left him because of it. He stayed up for many nights trying to find the perfect scent combination. But sadly, after countless hours of hard work, all of them failed. He finally gave up and went to bed.…

Visualize the sensation of your heart racing as you speed down the steep curve of a roller coaster. Imagine that warm fuzzy feeling generated by thinking about someone or something you love. The combination of adrenaline, and that expanding feeling in the tummy, is what I experience when I look up at the clear night sky; a paradox of unity and loneliness. My favorite example of this sensation is one of the many mystifying, alluring pictures of our universe taken by the Hubble telescope.…

Sara Seager is considered a pioneer in the research of exoplanets, a relatively new field of study which largely began in the 1990s. Seager, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist, has been called an “astronomical Indiana Jones” and was named Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential in Space in 2012. She is currently a professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics for the University of Toronto in 1994,…

One humid morning in April as the gray sky threatens to pour down again, two sisters set out together. They have just begun to cross the street when they first see it. The younger of them points, though the thing has already caught her sister's attention. "Look!" It is stiff and flattened on the road, ripped open grotesquely for all to see. Ants have started to form scurried lines around it, eager to taste the flesh. A few flies disperse as the girls move closer to the object. They exchange no…

Alien Hunting A giant telescope has been built in order to find extra terrestrial life. It took a total of 5 years to build and cost 180 million dollars. It takes up as much space as 30 football fields. It was built in China by the Chinese Government, Mainly using drones. It was built as far away from civilization as possible as to not get interference. It is called the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope or FAST for short. Fast was designed to detect strange occurrences in space.…

Planet Jupiter, the largest of the gas planets, reigns superiority in the solar system. It is the fifth planet from the sun and features unique properties that are unlike Earth and other planets. Jupiter is one of the five planets including; Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury, that can be seen with a naked eye. Its massive size makes it hard to miss in the gleaming night sky. Due to their visibility, the planets have been observed by many cultures and were given various names. The Romans named…

NASA has been looking into the colonization of Mars since the 1950s. There have been multiple attempts and successes in travel to the “Red Planet”. These missions however, cost upwards of 100 billion dollars and have only consisted of orbiting and probe landings on Mars. NASA has never sent humans to Mars. Most taxpayers dislike the idea of increased funding because they will have to pay more money to the government that could be wasted on failed missions. On the other hand, space travel…

There are many different themes for “The Wave” my three are popularity, events happening again or going back in time and forgiveness. Those are my themes for the wave. The title of this book is “The Wave”, the author is Todd Strasser and the genre is realistic fiction. Those are my three themes and most of them are not very nice things, but Mr.Ross made his experiment and if he never did this all would have never happened. I think the first one is popularity because everyone but Laurie Sanders…