Just a quick little update, I've been taking a lot of pictures of the "spring process", like tress budding. I will be posting all those pictures soon, stay tuned!
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Spring Is Here!
Hello everybody!
It's that time of year again, Spring is finally back! Ah, the birds are chirping, the grass is green again...I love Spring! It's such a relaxing time, when you can finally stop wearing countless amounts of clothing just to fight the winter cold.
Onto some personal news, I've been having an extremely taxing semester in school, and since I am in grade 11, I took a break from blogging for a while just so I could focus on my studies. However, now I am back, ready to make more blog posts for you guys! I will be active again, so stay tuned for blog posts. I will be releasing a schedule shortly, so all of you can stay up to date on when I will be posting. Thanks to all of you who have been sticking around for my blog, I appreciate all of your support!
-Nikhil
It's that time of year again, Spring is finally back! Ah, the birds are chirping, the grass is green again...I love Spring! It's such a relaxing time, when you can finally stop wearing countless amounts of clothing just to fight the winter cold.
Onto some personal news, I've been having an extremely taxing semester in school, and since I am in grade 11, I took a break from blogging for a while just so I could focus on my studies. However, now I am back, ready to make more blog posts for you guys! I will be active again, so stay tuned for blog posts. I will be releasing a schedule shortly, so all of you can stay up to date on when I will be posting. Thanks to all of you who have been sticking around for my blog, I appreciate all of your support!
-Nikhil
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Negative Effects of Technology On Human Health (School Assignment)
Hey guys,
I'm doing a school assignment right now where we are conducting research on the negative effects technology has on human health. Now, technology has a great impact on society in some aspects. It helps us advance our communication capabilities, it saves people's lives in terms of advancement in hospital equipment, and it even helps us explore the unknown! (space missions, under water travel, etc)
However, I am here to talk about a few negative aspects of technology too. Some of these points might be slightly exaggerated, but that is to add emphasis to the issues at hand.
1) Lack Of Physical Confrontation
Communication has come a very long way when technology started advancing at rapid speeds. The telephone, and later the internet allowed people to talk to each other with ease, even when the people talking were at opposite ends of the globe. Nowadays, it is possible to video chat with people anywhere in the world with superb video and sound quality, which allows for business executives, students, friends and family all connect with each other. This sounds great (and it is) but people are getting more and more accustomed to using these ways of communication. Nobody seems willing to meet new people face to face, they would rather connect with them over the internet. This is not good as there are many crimes that can be committed through impersonations online, or harassment over the internet. Proper relationships can never be built solely on the internet, there needs to be a physical meeting between the parties involved on the internet, but since no party is willing to meet face to face, no relations are ever built. This can be said for business relations as well as regular human relations. This can be particularly harmful to somebody's emotional well-being.
2) Environmental Pollution
This comes as an obvious negative aspect of technology on human health. From the time of the industrial revolution to now, we have been trying to maximize efficiency with our machines to make it do the most work it can while consuming very little resources. Since every country on the planet is improving their technologies and adding more factories, more buildings, adding infrastructure and the growing automobile sector, there is more and more pollution that has to be dealt with. On top of that, to make more space for human creation we have to cut down forests and destroy other natural structures for our "own good". This creates a huge recoil effect that we will have to deal with later, as soon our water bodies and food sources will be polluted as well, and this will be extremely detrimental to our health later on. (Physical health, that is)
3) Overpopulation
With technology getting more advanced everyday, the medical field is rapidly changing as well. It is constantly improving, finding new cures to previously incurable diseases, improving equipment and infrastructures, and far more in-depth research on the human body. This allows for many lives to be saved everyday because of technology. This is a good thing, but because we are saving so many people from death, and there are more people being born every minute, it will get harder to evenly allocate resources for everyone that is alive. Overpopulation can be a very bad thing as we start running out of resources to use. This will affect not only human health, but the life of every organism on this planet.
I am going to stop there, I know that this was a more "dark" type of blog post and I apologize for that. This is an assignment we are currently working on in school, so I am posting it here to try and create an awareness. Technology is great and can greatly help people, but it can also be bad for us.
I'm doing a school assignment right now where we are conducting research on the negative effects technology has on human health. Now, technology has a great impact on society in some aspects. It helps us advance our communication capabilities, it saves people's lives in terms of advancement in hospital equipment, and it even helps us explore the unknown! (space missions, under water travel, etc)
However, I am here to talk about a few negative aspects of technology too. Some of these points might be slightly exaggerated, but that is to add emphasis to the issues at hand.
1) Lack Of Physical Confrontation
Communication has come a very long way when technology started advancing at rapid speeds. The telephone, and later the internet allowed people to talk to each other with ease, even when the people talking were at opposite ends of the globe. Nowadays, it is possible to video chat with people anywhere in the world with superb video and sound quality, which allows for business executives, students, friends and family all connect with each other. This sounds great (and it is) but people are getting more and more accustomed to using these ways of communication. Nobody seems willing to meet new people face to face, they would rather connect with them over the internet. This is not good as there are many crimes that can be committed through impersonations online, or harassment over the internet. Proper relationships can never be built solely on the internet, there needs to be a physical meeting between the parties involved on the internet, but since no party is willing to meet face to face, no relations are ever built. This can be said for business relations as well as regular human relations. This can be particularly harmful to somebody's emotional well-being.
2) Environmental Pollution
This comes as an obvious negative aspect of technology on human health. From the time of the industrial revolution to now, we have been trying to maximize efficiency with our machines to make it do the most work it can while consuming very little resources. Since every country on the planet is improving their technologies and adding more factories, more buildings, adding infrastructure and the growing automobile sector, there is more and more pollution that has to be dealt with. On top of that, to make more space for human creation we have to cut down forests and destroy other natural structures for our "own good". This creates a huge recoil effect that we will have to deal with later, as soon our water bodies and food sources will be polluted as well, and this will be extremely detrimental to our health later on. (Physical health, that is)
3) Overpopulation
With technology getting more advanced everyday, the medical field is rapidly changing as well. It is constantly improving, finding new cures to previously incurable diseases, improving equipment and infrastructures, and far more in-depth research on the human body. This allows for many lives to be saved everyday because of technology. This is a good thing, but because we are saving so many people from death, and there are more people being born every minute, it will get harder to evenly allocate resources for everyone that is alive. Overpopulation can be a very bad thing as we start running out of resources to use. This will affect not only human health, but the life of every organism on this planet.
I am going to stop there, I know that this was a more "dark" type of blog post and I apologize for that. This is an assignment we are currently working on in school, so I am posting it here to try and create an awareness. Technology is great and can greatly help people, but it can also be bad for us.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Happy New Year EarthTrotters!
Hello everyone,
I am back! Since I am back from vacation and my semester is almost over, I have a lot more free time to start updating my blog regularly again. I hope all of you stayed safe during your holidays and enjoyed all your respective festivities over the last 3 weeks to now. I hope that all of you are having a good new year so far, and if it isn't a good year yet then don't worry, things turn around!
I just wanted to update you guys, I will start a post schedule soon where you can stay up to date with my work. Thank you all for reading! :)
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
The Clash of the Titans: Hurricanes Vs. Typhoons Vs. Cyclones!
Hello people of Earth! (and possible E.T's reading this)
I have a really interesting post for you guys today that I think all of us want to know about. It's going to be about the difference between the typhoon, the hurricane and the cyclone.
To be honest, the typhoon and the hurricane are both the same thing. Surprised? Actually, they are both the same weather anomaly, it's just named differently depending on where it actually occurs. For example, if it occurs in the northern Pacific, it's known as a hurricane. But if it occurs in the Indian Ocean, it's known as a cyclone. It all just depends on where it happens!
Image of a cyclone pattern
Winds must reach the speeds of 120 kilometres to be considered a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone.
I know this post was short, but I hope it was informative. This question has been bothering me for quite a while, until I finally looked it up. Here is where I got my information from:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131023-typhoon-hurricane-cyclone-primer-natural-disaster/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_n1p_intl_ot_w#
Hope you enjoyed reading this, have a great day! :)
http://www.twitter.com/invisiproblem
I have a really interesting post for you guys today that I think all of us want to know about. It's going to be about the difference between the typhoon, the hurricane and the cyclone.
To be honest, the typhoon and the hurricane are both the same thing. Surprised? Actually, they are both the same weather anomaly, it's just named differently depending on where it actually occurs. For example, if it occurs in the northern Pacific, it's known as a hurricane. But if it occurs in the Indian Ocean, it's known as a cyclone. It all just depends on where it happens!
Image of a cyclone pattern
Winds must reach the speeds of 120 kilometres to be considered a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone.
I know this post was short, but I hope it was informative. This question has been bothering me for quite a while, until I finally looked it up. Here is where I got my information from:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131023-typhoon-hurricane-cyclone-primer-natural-disaster/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_n1p_intl_ot_w#
Hope you enjoyed reading this, have a great day! :)
http://www.twitter.com/invisiproblem
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Contaminated Water Leak...
Hello readers! I have a very interesting post for you today, so get your snacks ready!
An earthquake in March 11th, 2011 caused fuel-rod meltdowns at 3 nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan. Basically, this made the area around the nuclear reactors extremely radioactive, such as the sky and the sea next to it. A company called Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Co) has been trying to control the situation since then. They have been pumping large amounts of water over the reactors to cool them down. Then they take that water and store them in tanks over the ground since that water becomes radioactive. But recently, one of the tanks leaked over 300 tones of contaminated water due to structural issues. This leaked water has been mixing with the sea water, and when radiation tests were performed around the tanks, the radiation readings were around 2,200 millisieverts. That is enough radiation to kill a person within a few hours.
Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Now what the Japanese government is proposing, is to spend about half a billion US dollars to try and stabilize the nuclear plant area. They are also going to use some of that money ($330 Million) to build a 1.5 kilometre ice wall which will prevent the contaminated water from the sea to spread. Some people say it's a crazy idea and how it will never work; but experts on this subject say it's not too far-fetched and it could work, even with all the potential obstacles.
If the ice wall project starts now, it should be completed by March of 2015. The wall will surround 4 reactor buildings with a system of pipes which carry a coolant of -40 degrees. The pipes will freeze the soil around it, creating a frozen "wall' of soil which will block any contaminated water out into the sea.
This is extremely interesting news, you can read more about it here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/cold-feat-how-japan-plans-to-contain-fukushimas-nuclear-contamination-by-building-a-14-kilometre-ice-wall/article14117977/?page=all
I basically summarized what I read in the newspaper, so you can read a much more in-depth article by clicking the link provided above. I want your opinion on this matter, do you think the ice wall is a good idea? Feel free to leave your opinions in the comment section below, and as always, thank you so much for reading my post! Have a great day!
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/invisiproblem
Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Now what the Japanese government is proposing, is to spend about half a billion US dollars to try and stabilize the nuclear plant area. They are also going to use some of that money ($330 Million) to build a 1.5 kilometre ice wall which will prevent the contaminated water from the sea to spread. Some people say it's a crazy idea and how it will never work; but experts on this subject say it's not too far-fetched and it could work, even with all the potential obstacles.
If the ice wall project starts now, it should be completed by March of 2015. The wall will surround 4 reactor buildings with a system of pipes which carry a coolant of -40 degrees. The pipes will freeze the soil around it, creating a frozen "wall' of soil which will block any contaminated water out into the sea.
This is extremely interesting news, you can read more about it here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/cold-feat-how-japan-plans-to-contain-fukushimas-nuclear-contamination-by-building-a-14-kilometre-ice-wall/article14117977/?page=all
I basically summarized what I read in the newspaper, so you can read a much more in-depth article by clicking the link provided above. I want your opinion on this matter, do you think the ice wall is a good idea? Feel free to leave your opinions in the comment section below, and as always, thank you so much for reading my post! Have a great day!
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/invisiproblem
Monday, September 2, 2013
Crazy Facts!
Hello fellow reader!
I was doing some research on the environment yesterday and I came across some really interesting facts which I am going to relay to you. Here they are:
1) 50 Million acres of rainforest space is lost every year, that's the size of England, Scotland and Wales COMBINED!
2) Less than 1% of the water on Earth can be used for drinking. A lot of freshwater is wasted due to faulty water systems, and a lot of other freshwater is used for agriculture.
3) The U.S (313 million poeple) produces more garbage than China (1.3 billion people). Every hour, 2.5 million plastic bottles are tossed into the garbage, and 570 disposable diapers are thrown every second.
I got these 3 facts from http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2008/11/26/amazing-frightening-green-facts-environmental-statistics/ . Click on the link and read some more interesting facts on the environment.
On an unrelated note, some schools in Canada are starting tomorrow. I hope all of you students going back to school have a great year! Try out new clubs, get good grades, and get involved with your community! (in the good way of course)
Until next time! :)
Twitter:
http://www/twitter.com/invisiproblem
I was doing some research on the environment yesterday and I came across some really interesting facts which I am going to relay to you. Here they are:
1) 50 Million acres of rainforest space is lost every year, that's the size of England, Scotland and Wales COMBINED!
2) Less than 1% of the water on Earth can be used for drinking. A lot of freshwater is wasted due to faulty water systems, and a lot of other freshwater is used for agriculture.
3) The U.S (313 million poeple) produces more garbage than China (1.3 billion people). Every hour, 2.5 million plastic bottles are tossed into the garbage, and 570 disposable diapers are thrown every second.
I got these 3 facts from http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2008/11/26/amazing-frightening-green-facts-environmental-statistics/ . Click on the link and read some more interesting facts on the environment.
On an unrelated note, some schools in Canada are starting tomorrow. I hope all of you students going back to school have a great year! Try out new clubs, get good grades, and get involved with your community! (in the good way of course)
Until next time! :)
Twitter:
http://www/twitter.com/invisiproblem
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