ACID!!!!

  
        Now I don't know what kind of acid you thinking of, but i'm talking about STOMACH acid.  Makayla Apadoca, Melody Franklin, and myself all participated in a lab where we put antacids in vinegar that represented stomach acid.  In this lab we monitored what happened to the antacids as we dropped them in.  They would bubble and what not, but then settle before to long.  The better things I learned were the differences between acids and basis on the Ph scale.  Acids are on the lower end of the Ph scale.  But The higher end of it is bases.  The scale ranges from 0 to 14.
      In the lab the Vinegar turned out to be very acidic.  Once after we had added the antacid, The Ph strip showed that the Vinegar had become mostly a base.  In the experiment, I learned the different between the basis, and the acids.  I also learned that if i get a stomach ache, i'm a ganna be takin some flavored Tums cuase they work better.

H2O, aqua......water

        Water has allot of different things/actions that it can do.  It melts stuff, it bubbles, it sticks to other things, and covers the earth.  The question is,  who cares ?!  Well the answer to that would be the people who actually witness these properties in action.  In class, we did different exercises that allowed us to get a more in depth look at the physical properties or water.  We put 51 drops of water onto a penny, before it fell off of the coin.  this is the strong attraction that water has that can build up the surface tension.  It's also a great example of how sticky water is.  Then we tried to cut a water droplet in half with a tooth pick on wax paper, and all it did was stick to the tooth pick and get drug around the piece of wax paper.  The funnest part of all of it is when my group got a piece of string 3.4 meters long and then poured the water down the string from beaker to beaker.
       Syphoning.  What is that?  A good example is when people steal gas from someones car.  They stick a long straw down the gas tank and then suck on the other end till gas starts coming out of the straw/hose.  Then the gas will stay flowing through that straw almost magically.  I told you that so i could tell you this.  If trees don't have a heart, then how in the world does the water get through its veins.  Well the syphoning exercise i told you about is a very good idea to have when you think about how it gets around.  the waters' sticky physicality gives it the ability to be able to flow through a tree.  The suction that the tree has on the water leads it through those tiny veins and out the other end to be evaporated.  Thats how waters physical properties are used through out different parts of life other than just interesting science experiments.
         Water is more than just a habitat, but its a great solvent as well. meaning that it can dissolve most any thing that you put into it.  This occurs when the molecules bounce around randomly and the electrons start to pull apart the molecules within the object, or liquid.
        Even though it may be in different forms, ice (solid), liquid, or vapor (gas), it's still water.  Or is it H2O?  Or is it aqua?

Binge Eatin'

      There is a study that took place at Yale University during 2002 on the Disorder of Binge Eating.  Binge Eating, if you haven't already guessed it, is when some one puts as much food in their gut as possible.  The plans of the administrators at Yale, were to not treat the disorder with drugs, but rather therapy.  I find this interesting.  These guys didn't make it easy on themselves by just creating a drug of some sort to put in there subjects, if you will.
     They took the time to take these people in and try a certain therapeutic  technique.  That very technique was called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).  This is where they monitor and take in too mind the triggers that set these people into an eating craze.  Then they take there notes and discuss ways to to turn CBT into BWL (Behavioral Weight Loss).
     Now, for your information, not every binge eater is obese.  They can be small, even unhealthily under-weight.  The BWL technique tries to change their behavior.  Simple right ?  What it basically does is return people to there normal weight, and life style, whether they have to gain or loose their weight.  But it's just an experiment though, just have to see how it works.
     On a personal note, I think it might just work for these patients.  I hate to admit it, but I too had a problem with this disorder in february of 2010.  Right after State wrestling.  I could NOT stop eating, because for the 4 months that season gave me, I couldn't hardly eat a darn thing because I was wrestling at a low weight class.  But any way, once season was over i told myself, I wouldn't bee like the others and the temptation of being able to finally eat what ever you wanted, was just to much.  Now, I have adjusted back, and gotten back to regular life style.  And can't I wait for wrestling season to start agian.
    But what i'm trying to get at is that I did the BWL on my own.  It really just consists of people getting a grip on the important things in life, and then living it.  O and the study was a success by the way....