facebook goea beyond male and female with new option

Facebook updated their gender options to more in-detail options,to users that are both or more then one thing."let's U.S users choose among 50 additional such as "transgender", "Cisgender"..."
I think this could be a good thing,because it give people the options of being who they really are and it just show how much the world has changed.
I think the writer picked to make this change into a article to get people thought about what facebook has done.Also the fact that many people will update their gender to suit them best.
Some of te negatives maybe that people will be harsh and say negative things about other people.This doesn't really bother me personally,but I feel like it is a good thing for the people that want to be comfortable with themselves.
I would like to see what people think about the changes.


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Griggs,Brandon. Facebook goes beyond 'male' and 'female' with new gender options.web.cnn.13,Feb 2014.date
www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/tech/social-media/facebook-gender-custom.index.html.

texting while walking affects your balance

Scientists in Australia,studied the negatives of texting on your mobile device while walking,Well not only is it annoying,it causes problems and accidents.
 They decided to do a study on 26 people doing three different type of things,one group walked while typing a sentence,while another walked while reading a sentence and the final group walked while doing nothing.
During the study, scientists found that in one area that reading/texting affected movements while walking.
People that were texting also was found to walk slower due to lack of focus unable to walk in a straight line,also moved there necks less when reading their cell phones. 
This article does not relate to school,but it relates to teenagers because most often then we realize that teens walk around and text all the time,unable to pay attention to what they are doing also what is around them.
This affects me,because I do this myself when I am in a store or something with my mom,I agree with the study because I've looked at myself doing those things that was said in the article. 
I've also seen other people do it and run into things because of them not being able to pay attention.
With the study that the scientist did with a group of  26 people,it just helps them in proving that texting can causes problems with balance,as well as,tell the type of things that happens while texting and walking. 



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Griggs,Brandon.Study: texting while walking affects your balance.'CNN 22 jan. 2014:web
     http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/22/tech/mobile/texting-walking-study/index.html

Beam yourself across the world

This article is about the new technology that is coming about,which allows you to become alive in 3D in more then one place. "holographic telepresence,it involves transmitting a three-dimensional moving image of you at each destination-allowing you to converse as if you were in the room".Imagine it,you want to stay home but you have to go to school,well you can be at both places,enjoying some television,while learning during school.
 This not really school relate but it is definitely something  very cool that I am sure everyone would be interested in.

I would like to see if this could work,but some of the things I am worried about are what if it stops working or does not work at all,but it would be really cool and amazing to see this in person.
It could effect me because if it does work properly I would like to use this so I can be many places at one time

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"Kendall,Paul & Bell,Chris".telegraph.GT. 28 Dec 2013.20 jan 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10539616/The-year-ahead-ten-amazing-science-and-technology-innovations-coming-up-in-2014.html

"Kendal,Paul & Bell,Chris".Holographic video.photography.28 Dec 2013.Jan 20 2014.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10539616/The-year-ahead-ten-amazing-science-and-technology-innovations-coming-up-in-2014.html

Global Warming

Well after reading this article, I found out some new things that I did not know before like how it helps the economic and, as well as, financially. also it is said to stay positive up to 2080.

A major positive influence is that [Prof Tol calculated that climate change would be beneficial up to 2.2˚C of warming from 2009 } in other words this means 3 degrees Celsius from other lvels, since global warming from the last  150 years.

Another specific reason is [It will still be 1.2 per cent around 2050 and will not turn negative until around 2080].
Another specific reason is that it [fewer winter deaths; lower energy costs; better agricultural yields; probably fewer droughts; maybe richer biodiversity]. Which we can all say is a very good and big deal. 
This is a major deal that most people do not talk about nor do they particularly care to be aligned with it,  Well I think that this is a big deal they could be decreased , as well as, deleted from the world with the right process of doing things, just think of all the changes that could be seen if everyone took global warming as serious as they should be.
[Global warming has so far cut heating bills more than it has raised cooling bills. If it resumes after its current 17-year hiatus, and if the energy efficiency of our homes improves, then at some point the cost of cooling probably will exceed the cost of heating — probably from about 2035, Prof Tol estimates}. 
In conclusion, I have told you about the specifics of global warming and the hidden benefits of this topic that is sometime not shown with other things, that effect the environment. 

Poop Pills

My first thought about this article when I saw it, was that I thought it was so gross and just plain weird.
The thought of poop actually being able to cure highly infectious diseases makes life seem somewhat weird, but it makes me actually second guess what kind of cures are actually out ther.
Maybe taking this pills work for highly killing diseases but I do not know if I would take them. If I didn't know that they were poop pills and I took them and than my sickness was gone than maybe I wouldn't have my doubts.
My final thought about them doing the research for these pills that Technology is far more advanced or people are just crazy enough to look into it.
 Other researchers are trying to find which bacteria most help fight off C-diff. Those might be grown in a lab dish and given to patients rather than the whole spectrum of bacteria in stool".
This statement actually makes me interested to learn more about the process of them actually soing the research about using poop pills.

Article on SAT process

Are teachers in this world tired of their jobs or are they making the time limits to short of a limit?

I do not think it is the teachers fault, I just do not understand why if people need extra time that they are not able to give it to them, I do not see what the big deal about giving extra time to the students that need it, they want students to do there best,correct well if they actually want the very best out of someone, they need to give them the time to do that.

I think the way the judges should grade the writing articles are by the content of the way students answer them but also they should not count off for the writing articles that they may not finish, because of the short limit time that they are receiving.

I also think the time limit of 25 mins is crazy, because they always want their students to do their very best,well maybe they need more time than that to write the best article possible, with the topic they are given and also they should be able to relax and actually think about the things they want to say and how they want to say it, instead of rushing into writing things.

The part of this article that I agree with and also like is “College professors, according to Gere, expect their students to be able to demonstrate evidence-based argument in their writing. This involves reading and synthesizing materials that offer multiple perspectives, and writing something that shows students are able to navigate through conflicting positions to come up with a nuanced argument. For those trained in the five-paragraph,

non-fact-based writing style that is rewarded on the SAT, shifting gears can be extremely

challenging. “The SAT does [students] no favors,” Gere says, “because it gives them a diminished view of what writing is by treating it as something that can be done once, quickly, and that it doesn’t require any basis in fact.”

I do not believe that I am ready to take the SAT writing part, because I need to work on my sentence structure, my grammar skills and also the way I want to respond to the topic at hand.

I also should work on timing myself when I am writing about a specific topic that needs some thinking skills

In Conclusion, I think reading this article was somewhat an eye-opener to both maybe students and teachers, so now maybe they will create a new testing method and also testing time limit.

Current event

• A company called Massimo has made a new gagget for people with medicial conditions that they need to keep able to track there blood oxygen levels that works with conjunctions with Iphone,Ipad,and Ipod touch called the isp02,but it requires a 30-pm connector 

• iSpO2 turns the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a medical instrument

• slashgear

•  A company has saw that people many people have stuggled with getting their body to to extract oxygen from the air everyone else breathes so they made a cool new tool where they are able to extract there oxygen blood from there Iphones,Ipads, and Ipod touchs.

 

   I think this new tool is cool,and very creative because it makes it easier for those with that condition that has a Iphone and things like that,This will effect will me because I will tell any one hat has a Iphone or things liike that in my family 

This will effect that world because many people will want to use this tool to see if that it works,It will probably be used by doctors to give to patients and other things.