Science: Driving while Impaired

As of July 1st, 2008 theWinnipeg Police Department will have the option of testing drivers for drugs to determine whether they are impaired. The test consists of 12 steps that will determine whether the driver is impaired and on which type of drug.

Police get new powers to nab drivers on drugs - Winnipeg Free Press

Science: Amazing Football Field

This football field, home of the Arizona Cardinals, is one amazing engineering feat. The exterior of the stadium is inspired by the barrel cactus and offers alternating vertical slots with smooth panels, however the truly amazing features of the stadium are not aesthetic but are related to function.














First, the stadium has a retractable roof that can retract in approximately 12 mins.

Second, for anyone who has played on artificial turf, especially the 1st generation turf, knows the negative impact on the body. The Cardinal stadium engineers designed the stadium to use real grass. The challenge was, how do you grow real grass in a covered stadium? The engineers decided to build a massive platform on which they would plant the grass. The platform was built with wheels on railroad tracks thus allowing them to move the grass outside the stadium to grow and then move it in for game time.

June 2008 Exams

G. 10 Science Exam: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 9:00am in the Cafeteria
G.10 Science: Exam Review Answer Key

G.10 Applied Mathematics: Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 1:00pm in Room 125
G.10 Applied Math: Exam Review Answer Key
Answer Key includes Units 1-4, Units 5-6 will be up later in the week.

Science: Evidence of the Paranormal

This is by far the creepiest video that I have ever seen. In no way do I believe in ghosts, but this video may have made a believer out of me.

Contributions from "The Antagonist"

My apologies to the Antagonist, I've been storing these posts and haven't had as much time to add them to the blog. So for all those you who have been waiting anxiously, here they are (the second one is extremely interesting, made me kind of laugh because its true)...

Simply put, black holes aren't black.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/Title,21283,en.html

Heaviest element now known to science. Will there be another contender? Who knows.

http://www.writeidea.org/2008/04/governmentium-described-as-element-on.html

G.10 Science: Awareness Article #5

Awareness Article has now been assigned and will be due on June 9th, 08.

Please note that with exams and final course assignments I will be inundated with marking. As a result, any Awareness Articles (incl. #1-#5) will not be marked after Wednesday, June 11, 2008.

Science: Mmmmm...Pie Pans

This is a short video on about an inventor, John Kanzius, who in the middle of the night came up with an idea to cure cancer and ended up discovering a possible solution to the world's energy crisis.

Using his wife's pie pans he created a radio frequency generator. The goal was to use radio waves to heat up metals injected into cancerous cells, thus killing cancer cells and leaving the healthy. The interesting thing is, this machine also burns saltwater at an intense temperature (1650 degrees celsius) which in turn can be used to run an engine.

Another interesting fact is the energy released is actually hydrogen. The flame and heat is breaking down the hydrogen-oxygen bond.