Social Media For Kids: Con
Do you find yourself constantly checking your phone? Many people do, and it’s a distracting habit mainly caused by notifications or updates that come from social media or/and chats. Social media is a large part of an adult’s daily life, but should it be for children too? Though social media allows children to socialize more, children under 16 years should be prohibited from owning social media accounts as they risk being exposed to improper content, content that they upload can be preserved even if recalled, and when asked to study or do work in class or at home, children are distracted by social media. As a start, if children…
Competition: Con
Have you ever gotten discouraged before? It’s most likely that you have, and a lot of the time, that discouragement probably came from competition. Whether you know it or not, competition is a daily part of our life and can impact it in a good way, but also in a largely negative way. Competition can affect children more strongly, and as with adults, either in a positive way or in a more often bad way. The use of competition amongst children should be abandoned as it can break apart friendships, discourage the children that can’t obtain success, and distract children from learning. To start off, children can become so focused…
What can’t a dog sniff out once it puts its snout to the task? Conservationists around the world are putting dogs on the trail—and tail—of at-risk animals with the hope of protecting and breeding them. The dogs’ hunt begins indecorously with a healthy whiff of an animal’s scent—usually in the form of scat (droppings). After all, dogs can divide scads of info just by sniffing the scents of fellow canines—who’s in the neighborhood, what they’ve eaten, or if danger is lurking—so why not use a dog’s astonishing nasal radar to track down a species that’s in serious trouble, like the critically endangered Baw Baw frog of southeastern Australia? What makes…
With every flick of a light switch, turn of a bath, tap, or shower handle, and flush of a toilet, we are gobbling up vast amounts of electricity and water, far more than we need. But, there may be a solution. Sustainable homes are on the rise, and many have special features to combat wasteful use of energy and water. Earthships are self-sufficient and constructed by mixing soil with recycled materials. These innovative homes can generate their electricity and water and on their own by using solar panels or windmills and collecting rainwater. They also maintain a comfortable temperature year-round without the need for central heating or air conditioning by…
If I were to envision myself going without some technology for a week, I would choose only one: my computer. I don’t have a lot of devices, and when I do go on tech, most of the time you’ll usually see me on my computer because the big screen makes it the easiest to use. So that leaves my X1 music player with AMAZING battery life, my phone with HORRIBLE battery life, and my iPad mini with okay battery life. So, you are probably thinking “Sophia, you still have three devices! This is soooo called cheating…” But, you still need to think about what I do actually need to use…
Matthew Whitaker only has to hear a song once to make it his own. At age 11, when most kids are playing on the playground, this gifted piano prodigy was playing on international stages, and now, at just 19 years old, he’s won more awards than most musicians get in a lifetime. Whitaker makes it look easy at the piano, but in life, he’s faced some very difficult challenges. He was born three months premature with severe health problems, including a disease that can lead to blindness, and doctors warned his parents that he might not live. Doctors were not able to save his sight, but Whitaker thrived, and soon…
In Robots We Trust
“Siri, who’s considered the greatest football quarterback of all time?” People often ask smartphones questions like these and expect immediate—and correct—answers. A branch of research called Explainable AI (or XAI) examines how smart machines can be made more transparent and trustworthy to humans. The engineers built a clever anthropomorphic AI robot and taught it how to use its pliers-like gripper to mimic the movements of a human hand. To demonstrate for the robot, a volunteer wore a glove wired up with movement sensors that measured not only his hand positions but also the forces he used to open the bottle. Every position and movement of the volunteer’s hand was translated…
Ode to celery juice!!
Fresh, A mighty brew A medicinal tool From heavens above A sacred drink Preparing it Is not that gruelling But the smooth liquid Is deliciously fuelling An antidote To cure the World’s diseases!! Made from Glorious trunks Crispy, Stringy, Columns At the mercy Of razor-sharp knives A whir A buzz Finally done! A glossy Shimmering Green liquid A burst Of taste And a decrease In waist.
Unusual Words
Please read the following passage, noting the italicized words and phrases as you proceed. Alonso got a big burst of inspo on his vacay after he unplugged and lazed around all week-he decided to become a professional pickleball player. Alonso, you see, imagines himself looking swole on a bluebird day, stans everywhere, as he scores in a heart-stopper with absolutely no garbage time on the clock. His friends all think “how on-brand of him” to want to become a pickleball player, considering that he joined the circus last year (and look how that turned out). In all fairness, though, how could Alonso have known that he’d get a bad case of coulrophobia and that captive animals would be his pain point? Having a little trouble deciphering the italicized words and phrases? Then look…
Hearts of Our People
A pink and blue Osage Wedding Coat lined with images of historic moments. A woven green and copper egg made from the fibres of a threatened tree. These are just a few pieces of art featured in a new exhibit dedicated to celebrating the individual talents and cultures of Native American women. Historically, museums have presented pieces of Native American art as unknown examples of cultures, when the artworks were created by female artists from any number of different Nations-but now these artists are finally getting their time to shine. “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists” spans more than a thousand years of Indigenous women’s art, displaying the work…
