Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Blogpost #4: Cameras atached too gannets teach us about their habits

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                              (combining the two above we learn the habits of the second image)


                                            
For a start this was made by putting small cameras on gannet's heads to monitor their behaviors that we can't normally see because they are in the middle of the ocean or in the middle of the night. But so on  they found that gannets are eating garbage in the ocean. The cameras also have a GPS intregated to them.

The persons that did did these test afterwards saw on the cameras where amusing from flying in ridiculous speeds and their famous high-speeds dives to cacht fish (or plastic).

So all in all this study shows that gannets have ridicuous speeds even over their colonies or catch fish in a blink.


Thursday, November 7, 2013

Blogpost #3: Trees Shield vulneravel species from climate change

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(under this "sea" of trees vulneravel species live with no fear from climate change)
 
 
I belive that this is important because there are rare and endangered species close to extinction well atleast from the everchanging tempeartures of this world.
 
The way scientist monitor this is by going to a specific location  and marking different trees and bushes and this is done every 35.5 years and after that time they noticed that in uncoverd areas one third of the vegetation died.
 
So at the end we see how letting big canopy full of trees allows the flora below too adapt themselfs to the everchanging temperatures of our world.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Blogpost #2: Birds in cities deal better in the cold than their woodland counterparts

Birds in cities deal better with cold than their woodland counterparts


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(Blue Tits)


This article that  takes a look at and Great tits in their native forests were compared to those who live in  Cambridge.

As it appears to be the ones that live on the woodlands are more reliable one one source of food than the ones that live in cities.Example: woodland birds are more reliable on one source of food like, caterpillars.

Also the birds on the woodlands breed, hatched and fleged less chicks than those at the city, also they took at least twice as much to hatch.

I think this article is interesting because it treats with two very common bird species in Europe but specificaly in the United Kingdom, and tells how they are affected by climate changes in both the woodlands and in in the cities Eg.: Cambridge

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Blogpost #1: Samsung backs 64-bit chip smartphone chip switch

Link to article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24060694

This annoucement follows the launch of Apple's Iphone 5S the first cellphone to ever use this technology.

An interesting fact about the 64-bit tehcnology is that it can in teory address 18,400,000 trillion values, which if a app has been desingned for this technology it means it retrives data from larger memory insted of let's say the hard disk, speeding up the processing chain.

32-bit processor can handle 4GB of RAM but 64-bit processor can handle 16 billion gigabytes of RAM, but more RAMmakes it expensive an power-hungry, that is why the Samsung note 3 has a bigger than normal battery: 3,200 mAh battery.

So all-in-all the technology is a straight upgrade to the old 32-bit technology.