Volcano that erupts... mud!

The volcano in Orting, Washington is one of our nation's most dangerous volcanos. This volcano has been sitting in many villagers' backyards who have been living peacefully. Volcano Mount Rainier is three miles above sea level. Mount Rainier erupts and causes lahars which are rapid mud flows that destruct manmade objects in its path. Tourists always come to Mount Rainier National Park to admire the actively volcanic volcano, its forested edges, alpine field and the ice glaciers. Even though there is much beauty to this landform, its eruptions are lethal to the valley.(*not all volcanoes explode distinctively with lava.)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3062/

Your Mental and Physical exercise is more than Important to your health!

Without mental and physical exercise, you could lose your brain cells/memory and get harmful diseses such as Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease can cause death. To fight this disease, you should do either of these daily: read, meditate, write, draw, talk, run/jog, or walk. By doing these exercises, you could improve and get a better memory. Mice that have been tested on in Austrailia performed better on memory tests while provided with a enriched environment that enhanced their mental and physical stimulation.
http://http//www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124092540.htm

Math is...

Math, math, math! (Boring!!!!)
No one can do math without numbers and counting. Operations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing help solve equqtions. Equations are a part of math that help people solve real- life problems.For example, time and my agenda are useful because they help me keep track of what and how long I'm going to do something. In order to use them, I have to be able to tell time and count days. Math is significant to eating and drinking in order to measure amounts, volume, servings and fractions or pieces of things. Money relates to math because I need to figure out sales tax, prices and discounts. Math is connected to sports to keep track of my hockey scores, swimming times, golfing strokes, baseball innings and outs and also horseback riding for how many stradles to jump. Math is important to art for measuring supplies, using tools suuch as rulers, drawing angles, shapes and lines. (THAT IS GEOMETRY! WOW!...) : Math is used to measure mileage to see how far something is. No one can live without math, and I can't live without my cellphone because I need to keep people's phone "numbers" and text them! P.S. - I hate math!!!!

The Water Cycle

Evaporation and Condensation are two big parts of the water cycle. Evaporation is when water turns into vapor as it rises clouds form and condensation is when vapor turns into water. Stratus clouds are staight and look like horse tails, they also have moisture in them. Cirrus clouds are wispy and have a little bit more water in them. Cumulus clouds are round and fluffy and contain the most water. As the wind moves , ocean water evaporates and forms a small cloud such as a cirrus or stratus which evaporate water from liquid to gas. After the clouds become heavy with water vapor and form cumulus clouds, they condense the vapor into water. Clouds move and bring rain to land and lakes, streams, reservoirs and ....puddles.... From there the water flows down to the ocean. This process of the Water Cycle is necessary because it purifies the water we need.

My Kite, the Wind Catcher

I made a kite that I think might fly. My kite started from a large sheet of orange poster paper and colored pencils. The kite has openings like a box kite because wind will flow in between the openings so the kite goes up. I cut out a star from orange construction paper and then taped all of the corners together to make the openings. The openings allow the air to circulate constantly and they make the kite lightweight. Kites with openings are easier to fly than kites without any because the openings let in the air to lift the kite.

A mathematical tragedy

Almost two centuries ago, Sophie Germain was the first woman known to have discovered significant math theorems. She wanted to prove that Fermat's theorem was correct but her theorem was almost lost to history. Fermat told his theory about 350 years before mathematicians finally came up with a proof for it that it was right.(thats...a loonnng time) In 1995, Andrew Wiles from Princeton University found out the problem...In Germain's day, mathematicians working on that specific problem did one problem one by one. Germain's theory would have proven it in one shot. After 80 years, her work on the theory was so totally unknown, people doing math reproved her results.
Sophie Germain (1776–1831) was the first woman known to have discovered significant mathematical theorems.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080301/mathtrek.asp

SPAM ALERT!!!

People who have email ask the same question as surprised diners "Who ordered the spam?"(probably u dont but mebbe other peeps) Nobody did but sending back the spam only brings more spam. New tools were made for fighting the spams like the filters that look for telltale signs that a message is spam but the spammers easily defeat the filters, spammers disguise their words and intent of their messages. To get what you want from the server (which is no spams) , you have to use intricate, trained filters that use math and that makes it not bring up any spams. Using Bayes' Theorem avoids the spammer's messages. Spammers adapt their messages to avoid many anti-spam tools. If you have an email you notice certain words that look like a spam such as: "You won 1,000,000 dollars!" Your filter (if you have one that uses math) recognizes similar words as more spams come up, so it gets trained to not bring up the certain email again. This is a powerful application (Bayes' Theorem) of an old and basic mathematical result. Mathematicians use old and new mathematical tools to continue advancing their skills to battle spams.

http://www.ams.org/ams/mm36-spam.pdf