Thursday, January 26, 2012

Looking over my notes from the other days class, I find it strange and well weird that I know what the lady was talking about. During the video I was having such a hard time keeping up because I come from an artistic background. I found myself trying to add unnecessary detail. Ultimately I prevailed and can tell you all with utmost confidence that although the main theme of the speech was aimed at "gaming saving the world," I  think the bigger picture here was that someone is developing and implementing a way to literally make it possible for the youth and adults of the world to literally save it. My notes are a scattered jumbled mess but in them it is apparent that this idea has merit and can be effectively implemented. In our society today one of the most pressing matters at hand is that we are operating with a vastly growing population that can only support about 23 billion people and we are quickly approaching that number. By turning a literal saving of the world into a game, we may find a way to extend the resources of our planet. If this system were to be implemented world wide, our world leaders could literally sit back and watch as the people of this planet solve the issues with our world by playing games. All world governments would have to do at that point is take the ones that are the most effective or the most practical and apply them. It truly is a brillant way of getting the whole world to help save it instead of relying of the thoughts and ideas of a select few.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Here is the blog that I selected for our assignment.
 http://whenpigsfly-returns.blogspot.com/2008/01/feeding-adaptations-and-strategies-of.html
Fair warning it take a while to read and can be a bit tricky in vocabulary.

 I chose this particular blog because my ultimate goal after college is to go out into the world as a paleontologist, and actually study the spinosauridae family. On the whole I agree with the blog from a logical standpoint, being that these creatures cannot be studied because they are extinct, but it makes sense that based on their skeletal configuration, shape, and projected skeletal strength. I do however, find it amazing that the theory is introduced that members of this class of theropod could have engaged in scavenging. A few articles and published papers I have read in the past seemed to suggest that because of their elongated and tapered upper and lower jaws that the skull would have fractured or broken when certain types of force may have been applied, such as a twisting or sharp lateral motion on a prey item with sufficient bone thickness and density. Someday I will the one publishing these theories and then college students will be writing about it and hopefully be inspired as I have.