Blogging has a lot of benefits aside from increasing your social communication. It can also help writers to develop new relationships with their audiences and build new partnerships across disciplines.This info graphic I created shows the benefits of blogging in a palatable and an easy to understand perspective.
Illustrating To Learn Science
Why Everyone Should Love Tesla
Ever wonder why lately, the internet is pouring their love for Nikola Tesla and condemning the douchebag (oops) that is Thomas Edison? Check out this comic from The Oatmeal on Tesla’s greatest contributions to the world.
credit: The Oatmeal
More comics from The Oatmeal here.
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MFF: Bad Ang Sinungaling
By: Garcia, Ricael
So last August 16, 2014. There was this commotion in the plaza mayor. A shoot for the Manila Film Fest, the “BAD ANG SINUNGALING”. And since our class was tasked to observe the production of the movie, we took as many pictures and videos as possible for our attendance. But we also enjoyed ourselves to the fullest (of course there are SELFIES included) since this is a rare opportunity to watch a live production. We also act as extras in the background, which I’m not really proud of but, I admit it is actually fun especially when you have friends to share the experience.
I’m not really excited about the artists, since I already saw Marian Rivera in Panagbenga and I’m not really a fan of Ryzza. But what I had been excited about are the directors and scriptwriters even the videographer (just watching the production excites me about the future) since I also want to experience a job in Film production.
I also want to experience directing a film but it’s not my dream job for my goal is still a creative director.
Since I only use my phone camera, the pictures that had been taken were blurred and not really that clear. And for the video that I had taken, I don’t know why I can’t somehow upload it in YouTube so I only posted some pictures.
NOTE: Unfortunately, I’m late in posting this blog since I really do have some problems in connection. I can’t really go at the net cafe since I don’t have enough allowance last week so I decided to go home this weekend to have easy access on the internet.
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Monitoring Co-Authorship Science Blog 2014-08-14 20.19.02
Only two students complied with Students Joining This Workshop Gets Perfect Score
How come Sunset is Red? by 
When You Smile by 
And three new blogs:
What If The Moon Was a Disco Ball? soladeambula
Most Helpful Spider So Far by 
What Does Sound Look Like? by 
I have written some pointers as to how we can all improve out blogs.
Monitoring Co-Authorship Science blog 2014-08-14 20.19.02
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Most Helpful Spider So Far
Jurassic Spider Eats Birds
Published on Aug 5, 2014
This giant spider is not just known for eating birds. The massive golden silk orb-weaver spider spins a web that is considered magical!
Rumpelstiltskin’s got nothing on the golden silk orb-weaver spider when it comes to spinning golden thread. This spider doesn’t even need straw as a raw material. Among it’s many other amazing uses, it’s silk can even repair human nerve cells.
They are more commonly known as banana spiders, not to be confused with the Brazilian wandering spider which is the world’s deadliest spider, these banana spiders live in the warmer areas of the Americas from North Carolina to Argentina.
Their genus name nephila in Ancient Greek means “fond of spinning” but their origin is way older then Ancient Greek times. Nephila spiders are the oldest surviving spider genus in the world, dating back 165 million years to the middle Jurassic period, so maybe they’ll throw them in the next Jurassic Park Sequel.
Now they may not be Jurassic sized like the giant huntsman spider, the largest spider in the world, but a 2 and ¾ inch banana spider was seen catching, killing, and eating an entire finch, and another one in Queensland Australia was seen killing and eating a foot and a half long brown tree snake.
Golden orb-weavers have a venom with a neurotoxic effect similar to black widow spider but MUCH less powerful. If one bit YOU, the redness and swelling would be gone in about a day. People have described the bite as being much less severe than even a bee sting.
Speaking of bees let’s talk about the AMAZING strength AND uses for the silk orb-weavers webbing.
With the thickness of a human hair It has the strength to stop a bee flying 12.5 mph, almost twice the top speed of a house fly. It’s 6 x stronger than steel and even stronger then Kevlar, but possibly it’s best quality is that it’s very stretchy.
These three qualities has lent too a WIDE variety of uses for the spider’s silk webbing. It’s been used to produce the cross hairs in microscope eyepieces, spun into violin strings in Japan, and even used to make an entire golden cape.
Fisherman in the indo-pacific ocean ball it up and throw it into the water where it expands to become a net to catch bait fish, and natives in the South Pacific eat the pregnant females, raw or roasted, as a protein supplement.
The most amazing potential use for the golden silk orb-weaver’s webbing is in the field of medicine. Research is being done involving the growth of nerve cells ON the web filaments, and then using those as nerve grafts.
The beauty is that the immune system doesn’t recognize the silk so the body won’t attack or reject it. Now there’s a spider that can be called a productive member of society.
World’s Deadliest Spider http://youtu.be/pQYWBmk_V2g
World’s Largest Spider http://youtu.be/gths8z60j_w
Videos (Creative Commons Attribution):
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How come Sunset is Red?
by Kristen Anne Uy, 3AD-7
The sunset shines upon the ground,
With people standing, staring, astound,
The colors soaking into them,
The art evoking heart in them.
I find them very pretty
I watch them glisten upon my city
But I always see myself ponder in bed
Why oh why are they color red
When the time has come for sun to veer
The sunlight goes through more of the atmosphere
Light scatters and only shades of red pass our eyes so clear
And that learning, I will share to my peers
Authors Note: Since I will not be joining the creative writing workshop of the varsitarian, I created this short poem to comply with Sir Cumagun’s requirement. 🙂
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What Does Sound Look Like?
What Does Sound Look Like?
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What If The Moon Was a Disco Ball?
posted by Ihna Marie S. Del Rosario
What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?
Published on Apr 3, 2014
DISCO BALL MOON INFORMATION:
The large mirror-tiles are 150km squared, and the small ones are 100km squared.
They are all 10 km thick with glass (with an IOR of 1.56)
There are 3012 mirrored tiles
When as near as the ISS, the Earth surface to disco-ball-moon surface distance is 420 km or so The orbital period in relation to the earth is realistic, about a 2.1 hour period.
When the disco moon is in low orbit, each reflection of the sun as a caustic is effectively a tiny sun, although you can never reflect enough light to get above the temperature of the surface of the sun (about 6000 degrees).
Since the sunlight is going through glass first, glass will in general filter out a lot of the UV, so your caustics shouldn’t reflect too much UV. The projection of a mirror-tile is larger than the projection of the sun when seen from low altitude. .
Our World Is Amazing by Vsauce
when seen from far away the tile is smaller than the sun, and hence the caustic isn’t as bright . Basically the disco tiles are glass with a silvered backing. Some of the light will not penetrate the glass, and will be simply reflected off the first surface of the glass, This reflection strength increases as the angle of incidence approaches 90, generally referred to as a Fresnel reflection.. or rather the strength follows that equation. This reflected light will generally be full spectrum
The center of the giant flat mirror is orbiting at a distance of 2157.4 Km above the Surface of the earth, It’s diameter is 3474.8 km (same as the moon), It’s orbital period would be longer than the disco moon simply because it has less mass. But in this video it has the same orbital period as in the moon.
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The actual mass of the giant mirror is absurd.. it’s way over-engineered.. if a real one were to be built it wouldn’t have huge thick rims, it would more likely resemble a girder work, with Mylar films. Not huge death star like mirror with towers, and strobe lights (and a strange lack of solar panels)
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Students Joining This Workshop Gets Perfect Score
Students Joining This Workshop Gets Perfect Score for Linguistic Intelligence PROJECT.
Message specially addressed to
- ADPRAC4-3AD-4,
- ADPRAC4-3AD-6
- NS102-3AD-6
- NS102-3AD-7
Feel free to choose any theme you wish to develop. I suggest however, that you write in the science fiction genre both for tackling the themes of either Advertising or Natural Science. For students who are enrolled in both of my classes, you submit only one entry (as the workshop rules say) but get perfect score for the assessment of linguistic intelligence in both subjects in my class.
For those not joining: You are required to write a short story or poem and publish it in our mutual blogsite. Those not joining the contest are limited to the themes on science and advertising. The deadline for posting is the same deadline indicated in the competition guidelines. Not included in the guidelines, but since you are artists, you are required to add a visual component to your story or poem. Note: ADPRAC4-3AD-6 & NS102-3AD-6 are required to write two creative writing projects —one short story and one poem to comply requirements for each of your two subjects.
Ideas for everyone: Recall our class exercise on Einstein’s “riding the beam of light.” Do the exercise on your own again and visit science and advertising places riding your Light-beam Transporter and write the story of your journey. For the classes that have not done this with me, I suggest you try this exercise on your own. For all my classes, I can accurately say that we have discussed the importance of imagination in our study. Joining this workshop is the best time to apply imaginative techniques in our academic and professional work.
NS102 3AD-7
Prof. Rom Cumagun
