Science Scavenger Hunt

Ants have the power of super strength.

Ants are estimated to be able to lift 10 to 50 times their own body weight. (Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist) To put this into human perspective a 95 pound human woman could lift up from 950 to 4,750 if it had the strength of an ant.

” Because ants are so small, their muscles have a greater cross-sectional area (they are thicker) relative to their body size than in larger animals. This means they can produce more force pound-for-pound.” (Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist)

Although ants are able to lift that much their bodies are capable of withstanding a lot weight if they need too. Ants can withstand 3000 times their body weight before breaking. (Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist)

In conclusion, Ants are a pound for pound power house, being able to lift 10 to 50 times their body weight and to be able to hold a force up to 3000 times as heavy as itself without breaking.

Citations

Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist. (2009 Sept) Ant Facts.

Retrieved (2021 Nov) from https://askabiologist.asu.edu/content/ant-factoids

Media Comparison/ NR 9

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/24/us/gabby-petito-death-investigation-answers/index.html

Was the text and it was very descriptive summarizing thew whole case in detail. It covered the part where they said that Brian Laundrie dental records confirm that they have indeed found his dead body. It describes that there are other noticeable features beside the dental records and investigators are having a very difficult time discovering how he died. Over text it still leaves the question in the mind of some viewers that he may still be out there despite the article not hinting towards that whatsoeverever.

The video link used was: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/25/brian-laundrie-autopsy-inconclusive-gabby-petito-fiance/8543413002/.

Which immediately describes how brutal the weather is in the place where they found the body, and how it was just recently all underwater. The voice and inflection of the reporter made me not question anything about Brian Laundrie being dead. It sounded for certain that he was gone and they are simply waiting for the examiner to do some final tests to see how he dies. In conclusion, my brain and opinion were more satisfied with the video because you got human reactions and human coverage of the topic. Along with the fact that it doesn’t take nearly as long to watch the video as it would to read the whole CNN article.

News Review 8

Undefeated Group 5 football team Coastal Carolina loses the first game in over a year and a half to Appalachian State.

Coastal Carolina has been a powerhouse outside of the Power 5 conferences for the past two years. Coastal Carolina went undefeated in their 2020 season until a bowl game loss to Liberty in Overtime.

With this dominate record over the last year and being 6-0 in 2021 most college football fans were assuming they would win out their regular season schedule. This all changed on October 20th when they faced off against 5-1 Appalachian State.

This article is important to football fans around the world because upsets are an exciting part of college football. It also shows along with the Alabama loss that no win is guaranteed in college football.

The article was well written and wasn’t missing anything. It was written for football fans and was very even on its opinion of each team reporting the facts.

https://apnews.com/article/college-football-sports-grayson-mccall-camerun-peoples-chandler-staton-c9d3818a2e373caab68480459cdf36c3

Article 2 Final

Impressive win from Texas A&M, former #1 Alabama goes down making Nick Saban 24-1 against former assistant coaches.

This most recent Saturday October 9th the #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide took on the unranked Texas A&M Aggies as a part of the Saturday college football schedule. After a first half of football Alabama the football powerhouse was trailing 24-10.

When most college football fans saw Bama was trailing at half mostly nobody was concerned because Bama was supposedly the better team by far. However the Aggies had nothing else in mind, they fought and clawed against the best team. in the nation for the whole second half.

Their efforts paid off when the Aggies got a chance to win on a last second 38 yard field goal. As the game closes the ball floats through the uprights and they upset Alabama. The college football world was in shock as the “unbeatable” Bama team was defeated.

This loss broke several running streaks for the football powerhouse and their historic head coach Nick Saban. Alabama was currently on a 19 game winning streak before the game coming off a National Championship the year prior. Before this loss Coach Saban was 24-0 against his former assistant coaches.

The last streak that was broken after the loss for Alabama was the last 100 games Bama played against an unranked opponent they had won.

This upset is very important to the general public and the football community because it shows that even a football giant can lose. Sort of a David and Goliath story. Local Morningside student Spencer Grage was quoted in saying, “It was very impressive to see Texas A&M win that game, everyone I know thought that Bama was going to win. As for Alabama, the way the college football playoffs is set up it will be very hard for them to squeeze into the playoff now with that loss.”

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32371065/the-numbers-alabama-crimson-tide-upset-loss-unranked-texas-am
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/alabama-loss-texas-am-numbers-streaks/ve3x6l9ox4e01om8d5e7y28zj
https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2021/10/what-nick-saban-said-after-alabamas-upset-loss-to-texas-am.html

Descriptive Writing

Asking a weird question, “What is the first few things you would do in a zombie apocalypse?”

This question is weird and stupid for many reason, probably because zombies were made up for SIFI movies and shows. But when asking this question college age students were very eager to answer and have clearly put a little thought into the subject before.

Most commonly the first answer was “Go to my families farmland” or “go to my friends cabin/ farm” or even thought out as far as “get a on a boat because I don’t think zombies can swim.”

Although these are perfectly fine places to probably end up in a zombie apocalypse many if not all forgot all the steps it would take to travel of get somewhere that is over an hour away in the apocalypse.

Expect for Spencer, he was very detailed and said, “Well I would need some resources, so I would probably try to take over my apartment that has 6 individual rental properties inside. Then I would make sure I would have enough gas in the car and ammunition to defend myself and whoever I team up with.”

Personally, I believe that Spencer read the full question and answered it to his fullest being honest with himself about the potential circumstances of an apocalypse.

Article 2 Draft

#1 ranked Alabama goes down as they lose to unranked Texas A&M making Nick Saban 24-1 against former assistant coaches

This most recent Saturday October 9th the #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide took on the unranked Texas A&M Aggies as a part of the Saturday college football schedule. After a first half of football Alabama the football powerhouse was trailing 24-10.

When most college football fans saw Bama was trailing at half mostly nobody was concerned because Bama was supposedly the better team by far. But, however the Aggies had nothing else in mind, they fought and clawed against the best team. in the nation for the whole second half.

Their efforts paid off when the Aggies got a chance to win on a last second 38 yard field goal. As the game closes the ball floats through the uprights and they upset Alabama. The college football world was in shock as the “unbeatable” Bama team was defeated.

This lose broke several running streaks for the football powerhouse and their historic head coach Nick Saban. Alabama was currently on a 19 game winning streak before the game coming off a National Championship the year prior. Before this loss Nick Saban Alabama’s head coach was 24-0 against his former assistant coaches.

The last streak went away after the loss for Alabama was the last 100 games Bama played against an unranked opponent they had won.

This upset is very important to the general public and the football community because it shows that even a football giant can lose. Sort of a David and Goliath story. Congratulations to Texas A&M for not giving up and fighting until the end of the game to come out onto and defy history.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32371065/the-numbers-alabama-crimson-tide-upset-loss-unranked-texas-am

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/alabama-loss-texas-am-numbers-streaks/ve3x6l9ox4e01om8d5e7y28zj

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2021/10/what-nick-saban-said-after-alabamas-upset-loss-to-texas-am.html

Morningside Prof. Gonsler shares interesting stories with Morningside Students

Prof Gonsler who makes up 50% on the Morningside Criminal justice cirriculm is a former police office and correctional officer. He attended multiple Colleges such as: erris State, Michigan State, Cop then Indiana State.

“Dirtier than a pigs dick”, was used to describe one of the corrupt police forces he worked for and hated back in the day which set the tone for a funny informal interview. Gonsler was once PenPals with the Unabomber as a part of his masters thesis at Indiana State, pissed off unibomber asking questions about himself or his personal motive because the unibomber just wanted to talk about the “revolution”. Unibomber promoted his book on amazon, when formerly being against all forms of media which was humorous.

Once his funny quote and story about the unibomber the class opened up with questions about his time as a correctional officer.

Last Conversation before Class

I was sleeping because I was tired from driving my friend to Omaha airport at 4:30 am. When in my lovely nap my annoying, childish and stupid roommate knocks on my bedroom door. I wake up out of my nap that had been going on for about 30 minutes. Talking for other sides of my bedroom door I was still faced down in my pillow. He said that is car is suck in the school parking lot because the battery died and asked if he could take my keys to jump his car. I said sure as long as my car was back before 9:35 because I had class. Not even two minutes later he said, “Oh I will just have campus security jump it for me.” This was frustrating because I was woken up from my nap for literally no reason, if he even had an ounce of problem solving in his body he would’ve solved the problem without waking me up. It was a bad last conversation before class because I am now in a pissed mood.

Old Star NCAA football coach and 0-4 NFL Coach Urban Meyer in trouble

The newest story of Urban Meyer is notable and newsworthy for many reasons. He recently moved up from NCAA coaching as a powerhouse at Ohio State to now a 0-4 coach for the NFL Jacksonville Jaguars. The story surrounding Meyer was that he was at a bar and was recorded grinding/ dancing with a college age woman who was indeed not his wife.

This is big news because he is for one cheating on his wife, it shows bad leadership skills by being a distraction, shows minimal effort toward the team. Especially with his team sitting at 0-4 this is a horrible example. The article however was focused on his apology.

The article was well written, but seemed biased in favor of Coach Urban Meyer; they really focused on the apology and how Urban Meyer was not going to resign over the incident. The audience was NFL and college football fans. The article is missing the video of Urban getting danced on, and the fact that the bar he was getting danced on had a picture of him and his wife on the wall.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32348439/urban-meyer-says-never-considered-resigning-jacksonville-jaguars-coach

News Review 5

Jon Jones gets inducted into UFC Hall of Fame and then gets into a domestic violence incident.

A week ago Jon Jones was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, this was very exciting for the UFC community because Jon Jones has came through a lot of adversity with drugs, alcohol, and performance enhancing drugs. Allegedly after the ceremony a drunk Jon Jones got into a domestic violence with a woman supposedly he had pulled her hair.

When police came to the scene Jones go into a verbal altercation with the officers. After the officers threatened to tase Jones the verbal threats stopped and he was arrested. According to the police report Jones started bawling when he was read his writes. Jon Jones since then has claimed to be done with alcohol altogether and plans on still fighting in the UFC. UFC president Dana White hasn’t fired Jon Jones but says he will be waiting to see how the case plays out.

This article is indeed very newsworthy. Jon Jones has been involved in some of the most conflict off the mat in UFC history and is supposed to challenge for the UFC Heavyweight championship next. After all that Jones has overcame it would be wild if this was the incident in where it will end his UFC career or his title chances. The article is well written, but does seem to be biased in the fact that they seem to be taking Jon Jones side.