Fighting cancer With space research?

Hey guys I'm back.
And today I will be writing about a new space thing that's happening right now. 

Galaxies have been analysed using machine learning algorithms. The same
technology  has now been applied to cancer images as well.

So I was told to go on to NASA's blog and find something new that was happening and research about it. And I found this which caught my attention. nnn

Every day, NASA spacecraft beam down hundreds of petabytes of data, all of which has to be codified, stored and distributed to scientists across the globe. For the past 15 years these techniques have revolutionized biomedical research. On September 6, 2016, JPL and National Cancer Institute renewed a research partnership through 2021, making so that data science that originated in space exploration is now supporting cancer discoveries.

In the time they have worked together, JPL and EDRN‘s efforts have led to the discovery of six new Food and medicine Administration-approved cancer biomarkers and nine biomarkers approved for use in Laboratory Improvement Amendments labs. The FDA has approved each of these biomarkers for use in cancer research and diagnosis. These biomarkers have been used in more than 1 million patient diagnostic tests worldwide.

Well that's all for now guys, there is more in the article but most of it is more about other types of data rather from the cancer research. BYE!!!

SPACE INQUIRY!!!

Hey guys I'm back, and today I will be writing about a space activity that I have completed.

The space activity that did was the maths activity which was to figure out my weight on every planet in our solar system. I don't want to bore with a bunch of maths... but I will. I got the equation mass x gravity = weight, but I was also told that your weight isn't your mass. So I divided my weight by earths' gravity and got my mass. Then I multiplied my mass to the gravity of all the different planets. 

Honestly there wasn't too much to enjoy about this task. It was slightly funny to see my weights on other planets, but that was it. In this task I learned how gravity is measured, how to figure out my mass and I roughly remember the different gravity of other planets. I didn't really learn any more skills because it was just a maths activity.

Well that's all for now, BYE!!!

Time management skills? (what time management skills?)

Hey guys, I'm back.

And today I will be writing about my time management skills. I know I know, you'll all be like, "DJ, You don't have any time management skills (let alone any)." And I'll say,
"Well, you may be right, but I'm making this post anyway.

Time management is extremely important for all people. It's a basic life skill that everyone needs to master. Especially when you get to points in your life through out and after college. I think my time management skills are alright. I always finish my tasks either before or on Friday (unless I'm sick during the week). I take a few tasks home everyday and I do most of my tasks at home. When I have time I try to complete as many tasks as I can at school, but I admit I do at times mess around with my friends. I do think most of the time I'm making the most of the time I have, but sometimes I do mess around a bit. Some things that help me concentrate are not friends distracting me. What I do to stay concentrated is to tune out of everything and just focus on my work.

Well that's all for. Seeya.

Wearable tech gives an advantage to atheletes at rio?

Hello, I'm back. The answer was hair to the riddle.


Today I will be writing about some tech athletes used at the Olympics.

Now days technology is extremely important to us, and it's the same for Olympic athletes. But the tech is not just helping them, it is also protecting them from getting injured.

All athletes know that the right meal is very important to a athletes performance, but now you can do this with headphones. The headphones send electric signals through the scalp and into the motor cortex. This helps trigger the brain and stimulate the muscles. 

Even though this isn't fitted with any tech, the bright-hued shoes are worn by elite sprinters, took four years of algorithmic software design and months of 3D prototype testing.

(And my personal favourite) the visa ring. The visa ring was fitted with a microchip made by digital security company Gemalto. Athletes in Brazil could pay for things they bought at the Olympic village just by tapping the ring close to any terminals capable of using the rings.

If you want a less brief version of all the tech stuff go to this link 

 http://www.dogonews.com/2016/8/13/wearable-tech-gives-athletes-an-edge-at-the-2016-rio-olympics

That's all for now, BYE

RIDDLE?

Riddle, riddle, riddle me this.


I come in different colours
The younger I am, the more I grow
The older I am, the more I disappear
people get paid to kill me
but I always come back

Weightlifting Stuff

Hey guys,

I'm back. And today I'm going to write about weightlifting. The weightlifting event I watched was the men's 56 kg group A. 

The people who got on the podium were Long Qingquan from China who got gold by lifting 307 kg (which is a world record),
Om Yun-Chul from 
North Korea who got silver by lifting 303 kg, and Sinphet Kruithong from Thailand who got bronze by lifting 289. But what's really interesting is that the guy who got silver in this event (which is called total) has the world record for clean and jerk, which is a single lift compared to total which is a bunch of lifts. The most exciting bit was probably the last lift by Long which is the one in the picture. He was shaking, and at one point he looked like he was about to explode, but then he finally lifted it up. Then he dropped it purposely and started screaming for joy. 

There wasn't really anything I learned from watching that because I've been watching weightlifting for a long time now, and know the proper techniques, and the different types of weightlifting. But I still wouldn't count myself as an expert.


Well, that's all for now. Bye. 

BOOK GROUPS

Hey guys, I'm back. And today I'll be writing about my book group.

So the book I'm reading as you can see is called Hatchet. It's about a boy who has his family divorced for some reason (They haven't explained why yet, I've only read two chapters) and has to fly to another country to see his Dad. But on the way there his plane crashes in a rainforest, and all he has is a hatchet that his mother gave him.

So far I think it's quite interesting, it is quite early to tell whether it will be a really good book but I think I will enjoy it. I like how it has mystery about why his parents divorced, and yeah.

The group I'm in is working quite well. I'm with Fraser, Iraklis, JL and Jesse. We all read to where we are supposed to, we all contribute to the discussion well, we don't go off topic (to much  :)    ). To make our book group even better we could try to go off topic less, and come prepared to talk with more ideas.