Atoms

Right now I am in Utah at my grandparents house. My grandpa has an electrical set called "Elenco electronic snap circuits" that he uses to teach me and Solomon, my brother about electricity.  He taught me about how atoms form together to make everything from trees to people to water to mice. Everything is made out of atoms. Inside some atoms there is one proton that usually joins up with another one like it. . On the outside there are electrons that spin around the outside to find others to join with to make big things. There are other atoms that have two or more protons inside them that stay alone, rather than connecting to other atoms.  I am looking forward to learning more about how atoms work.
I found my information from my grandpa, Here and Here

Oobleck

I did a science experiment on corn starch and water mixed together.

You need

Corn starch

Water

Food coloring (optional)

A bowl

All you have to do is mix the water and the corn starch in the bowl and if you want to put

food coloring and wait 5 minutes. After have been sitting pick up the mixture and move it

around in your hands. Is it solid? Now stop moving it around. Is it oozing down your hand?

After making the Oobleck, we added the purple slime to the mixture. I thought the Oobleck and
the slime would mix together but they stayed separated but the color spread from the slime to the
Oobleck.

Alexander Graham Bell

              Bell invented one of our most used objects today- the telephone. But he only started on it because he misunderstood a paper he had read at the art museum he had gone to. But , that led to the phone .So, whenever you have your phone  you can think of the man who made it, you can thank Alexander Graham Bell.
              Bell was born March 3,1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland . His dad had been a professor in the  University of Edinburgh ,but, also wrote  books that sold well in the UK as well as America. Alexander was homeschooled until he was 11 years old. Then he went to Edinburgh royal high school. Then he started his love of science , but, he did not do well in other subjects.
               After Bell was let out of school he taught at a school for the deaf. All while trying to invent the telephone. In 1870 Alexander moved to Canada with his Family. But, even after he moved he worked on the telephone. When the phone was invented he never kept one for the fear of getting distracted from his work.




I got my information History.com
famousscientists.org

Inventors.about.com

Jim's science talk- the first test

Hello! Jim has made 3 talks, and now, there's a test. 
Before you take it by clicking here, I suggest you look at some of the others, and study.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

So go study, then take the test!
This will happen every three topics,
James

Why is lip gloss so shiny?

Did you know what makes lip gloss so shiny? Oils make lip gloss so shiny but that is not it. Some of the ingredients in the lip gloss make it shiny but it depends on which brand and flavor it is because evey brand and flavor is different. The oils make it shiny and slippery because whenever you have oil in your hands it makes it really slippery and your hands look shiny, that is exactly what it does to lip gloss. Some of the ingredients make it shiny because the oils mixing with those ingredients make it even more shiny. Surprisingly, there is no water included in lip gloss because water and oils do not mix together, but it is crazy how the lip gloss can be so shiny but still have no water in the ingredients,but it is all because of the ingredients and oils. There is not a specific ingredient that makes it shiny. So just the oils and ingredients mixing makes it shiny. To learn more go HERE or HERE or HERE where I found my information.

Jim science talk pt 3 on Scratch

Hello! Jim is back on scratch and is gonna cover another topic- the color of a mirror. It has Ghostie from Luke's scratch stuff and will be the last topic in the Jim trilogy before the quiz. There will be a quiz on all three topics. Click here for the app that I'm talking about here.

I was gonna put a picture here but they are all the same.

Go learn something,

-James

Scratch- Jim talks about pokemon

Hello! I made a new talk on scratch with Jim. Today, he talks about Pokeballs. I've also added the most cheesy outro (like an intro, but at the end) ever. click Here to go to it.

The most cheesy outro ever

I was gonna put a quiz at the end but there isn't enough to talk about to make a bunch of questions.

Go learn something,
                            James

Why Do We Age?

Ever wonder why we age? The problem with our cell replication is that when a cell divides, it skips over some of the DNA in our chromosomes when it copies the DNA so that both of the cells are human cells and not blank, useless cells. If DNA is skipped over then the cell can not be replicated properly, and it wont function properly. Then the the copied cell dies. That's why the body produces telemeres, which are bits of DNA your body can afford to get rid of. Eventually your telemeres are gone or skipped over, and you die of old age.

The video is right here.

Are You Shrinking?

Did you know that gravity effects your height? I didn't either until I found this article. At first I was researching gravity but then there was this article about how gravity makes you shrink at night. You are taller in the morning because gravity pulls down your spine when you are standing or sitting but you shrink at night because whenever you are in a relaxing position your spine spreads out. In the picture the orange is your vertebrae which is your spine so in the picture the x-ray of the person is standing so the spine is compressing through out the day. Then when you lay down when you are sleeping the spine does not have much gravity pushing down on it so it spreads back out to a normal size. If you do not believe this then measure yourself in the morning and then at night and record that on a sheet of paper and compare you heights. To learn more about why you are taller in the morning and through out the day then at night go HERE where I found my information or you can go HERE or HERE.

Giant Wood Spider or Golden Silk Spider

Check out a vlog by Scientist EZR about this amazing spider HERE. The vlog series is called " Spiders 101".  The sources I used were: Spidersworld.com ( i would put a link but the website is for sale and it wont let me) Sophia.USCG.gov (once again would put a link but it wont work) and Planetsave.com if your confused on how to actually get to the article from the website, or just want to get there faster, go HERE, go to the home page of the website if you want to check out other articles!

How a Rubik's Cube Works

In the fifth grade, I learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube. But until now I didn't know (and wondered) how it works. On the inside of every cube there is a core. The first part of a core is just a plastic sphere, but with six plastic rods coming out of it (most of a Rubik's Cube is made of plastic). The rods are connected to the center pieces on each side. The rods can turn and then they turn the center piece, which turns the entire side. Also, all the pieces are tightly locked in, but if lots of force is put on the piece, it will pop out. The pieces are hard to break so that they don't. If you do break a piece, it will take lots of time and strength to fix it.

A video showing the insides of a rubiks cube is here.

Jim talk episode 1 on scratch

Jim on stage

Hello science students! I'd like to introduce Jim. Jim is a science student like you, who talks about science-y topics. So click right here and let Jim educate you on how atomic bombs work. 






Hope Jim teaches you something!
- James

Brain Quiz on scratch

Hello, this is a new game I made on scratch. Click here to go there. Basically, you're Jim, the guy who falls from space with the sole purpose of teaching science. This time around, you help a kid at an elementary school with his homework (Though he knows the answer and will correct you).

Hope you learn something!
         -James

Marie curie

Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 was a Polish and French physicist and chemist who made pioneering research.   She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person (also only woman to win twice), the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes being the only girl scientist in her family. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own work in Paris.
She was born Maria in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's Floating University and began her scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891 at the age of 24 she followed her older sister to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and did scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her achievements in her life included a theory of radioactivity , techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.
While in france, Marie Curie  never lost her polish identity. She taught her daughters the language and took them on short visits to Poland.Marie Curie died on July 4th, 1934 due to radiation in the test tubes that she had been
carrying in her coat pocket.

   I got this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton  25 December 1642 – 20 March  was an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.

Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from his mathematical description of gravity, and then using the same principles to account for the trajectories of comets, the tides, the precession of the equinoxes, and other phenomena, Newton removed the last doubts about the validity of the heliocentric model of the cosmos. This work also demonstrated that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies could be described by the same principles. His prediction that the Earth should be shaped as an oblate spheroid was later vindicated by the measurements of Maupertuis, La Condamine, and others, which helped convince most Continental European scientists of the superiority of Newtonian mechanics over the earlier system of Descartes.

Newton also built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours of the visible spectrum. He formulated an empirical law of cooling, studied the speed of sound, and introduced the notion of a Newtonian fluid. In addition to his work on calculus, as a mathematician Newton contributed to the study of power series, generalised the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents, developed Newton's method for approximating the roots of a function, and classified most of the cubic plane curves.

Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He was a devout but unorthodox christian and, unusually for a member of the Cambridge faculty of the day, he refused to take holy orders in the Church of England, perhaps because he privately rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. Beyond his work on the mathematical sciences, Newton dedicated much of his time to the study of biblical chronology and alchemy, but most of his work in those areas remained unpublished until long after his death. In his later life, Newton became president of the Royal Society. He also served the British government as Warden and Master of the Royal Mint.​

Gemstones

Check out my movie I made in Scratch to learn about gemstones.  HERE

Aristarchus

Aristarchus

    Did you know that earth orbits the sun? Yes, of course you knew that, but do you know who first discovered that earth orbits the sun? Aristarchus, born in about 310 BC, was one of the least known scientists that discovered something amazing. This is about his discoveries.

    

    Back in 300-200 BC the Ancient Greeks thought that Earth was at the center of everything and the sun, the moon and all the other planets orbit it. But Aristarchus though otherwise. He believed that earth orbits the sun and so did the other planets as well. He even wrote a book about the Earth’s orbit but sadly was lost in the sands of time. We suspect he used the concept of parallax to expand the universe enormously. In doing so he showed us that the stars out in space are a lot farther away from earth than we last thought. In addition to believing that earth orbits the sun, he believed that earth spins on an axis also. His theories were entirely correct but weren’t very popular.

    The ancient greeks weren't on Aristarchus’ side at all. In fact, just like a lot of other Renaissance scientists, they wanted him prosecuted for his apparent “crimes”.  They thought this theory was offensive to their gods and they wanted him dead. Despite these shall we call them “popularity probs” Aristarchus didn’t stop. He made even more discoveries like for example, he found out that the sun was much larger than earth observing the earth’s shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. His discoveries were a breakthrough in science but like all things his life came to an end in about 230 BC.

    Just because little was known about Aristarchus doesn’t mean he was one of the failure scientists. With his keen eye and spectacular deductions he was able to find out all of this. Now I bet you’re sitting there saying, “Well, he could’ve done all this with some technology and stuff.” If you are that pearson sitting there I say to you that YOU have not been paying attention in history class. I also say that he didn’t have anything near what we have today (technology wise) and was still able to discover something incredible. All I have now is one simple question to ask to you. Can you be an AriSTARchus?     

I got my sources from http://www.famousscientists.org/aristarchus/

Could a robot steal your job?! By the Springfield news leader

In this article Could A Robot Steal your job it talks about how scientists have been developing robots that have been programmed to do simple things such as getting something and retrieve it. Or maybe do complicated stuff such as a car with an autopilot function where you don't even have to drive. But such complicated stuff 50% of people have voted no 48% have voted yes and 2% have said "I don't know." I would personally say no because technology has made us lazy because like for example remotes, instead of having to get up and flip the channel by our selfs. nope. We flip the channel with a TV remote. So I don't think we should build things like this.

Purple Slime

On October 31 I did a science experiment of making purple slime.
Before I made it, I thought it would be like silly putty. It turned out to be thinner than silly putty,but with similar properties.

ingredients:

2 disposable cups

1/4 cup elmer's glue

1 cup water

red and blue food coloring

1/2 cup borax powder

stirring stick

Instructions-

1) Combine glue with 3 tbsp. water in one cup, then stir it.

2) Combine borax powder with 1 cup water in the other cup and stir until powder is dissolved.

3)Add food coloring to the glue cup until you get desired color

4)Then stir the borax solution into the colored glue. Keep stirring until desired consistency results.

5) Now slime is ready to be played with.  

Scientific Analysis

Slime has qualities of both a liquid and a solid.  The molecules chain together, allowing them to stretch.  Similar qualities are seen in Jello, Rubber Bands and Chewing Gum.  The type of science this experiment involves is called Polymer Science.  

I found my information here