If you’re interested, here’s a link to the protein folding game I introduced in class.  Find me online and help me solve some puzzles.  My username is Rawfu.

Complete all of the training puzzles and I’ll give you 500 XP!  You’ll need to find a way to deliver proof of finishing all the puzzles, even if it’s just a picture on your phone of your computer screen.

Hit up your local comic book stores for some free swag! If you manage to get some books for the Comic Book class’s racks I’ll give extra credit!

Here’s the review game that we’ll be playing on day 78.  If you’re checking RawlinsScience.com regularly, that means you’ll get a chance to see the questions early!

For a long, long, LONG time, people hypothesized that giraffe necks have evolved over time to reach higher and higher leaves.

Even Bill Nye used this example to discuss evolutionary theory on his TV program, “Bill Nye the Science Guy”.  Check it out…

Interesting, right?

However, more recent research has lead scientists to rethink giraffe neck evolution.

It seems that the necks may have evolved in response to the way male giraffes “neck-fight” over females.  A bigger, stronger neck would certainly give an advantage to a male.  Check out the video below…

Of course in science, this new information allows us to better flesh out the theory of evolution on Earth.  Just last year we were talking about giraffe necks evolving as a response to food!  As more details come in, we get to understand more and more of how life has branched into all of the amazing organisms we find on our planet.

SCIENCE IS AWESOME!

I present to you something new that I learned today… manatees have fingernail.  It’s a little disturbing.  It is cool, however, as it provides a hint toward their ancestors’ land-dwelling past.

HAHA! FOOOOOOLED YOU!

We actually have alot on our plates to finish out the rest of this school year.

To see what’s scheduled to happen, visit the new “Learning Schedule” tab at the top of the website.

To see your current Science Quest scores (updated on the weekends), visit the “Science Quest” tab at the top of the website.

Here’s an image to gross you out… figure out what it is and I’ll let you draw from the Loot Box.  Hint: it has to do with the subjects we’re about to explore.

Also, Science Quest skills have been updated.  Check them out, pick a set of skills, and get ready to roll on some Boss Battles.

 

Check out Jacob’s song in the music player in the widget area on the left sidebar.  If you have some music you’d like me to upload, just e-mail me the MP3!

Check out the new $100 bill that will drop on October 8th of this year.  Read up on how it’s designed to prevent counterfeiting.

Once you’ve read the article from Popular Science, check out the government’s website to view all the cool features that are going into the Benjamins. http://newmoney.gov/newmoney/default.aspx

Of course, I’ve always felt “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” is a much better alternative to “It’s all about the Benjamins”.

Feel dumb sometimes in class?  Hey, at least you’re trying… check out this crazy story that had hundreds of Florida adults scared out of their minds over their water being contaminated with…

A radio station in Lee County, Florida, hads tons of people scared on April Fools over their water being contaminated with… water.  Many listeners to WWGRs “The Gator” morning talk show were shocked and horrified to find that their water was contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide, which is the chemical name for what we commonly call water.  Residents of Lee County were calling the water plant asking about the contamination.  So far the radio hosts have been suspended from work over the prank and may lose their jobs.

All this leads me to wonder… where were these adults when they had science class in school?

How do you feel about the prank?  Let’s take a vote!