Instant Space Travel.

There is a weird law called quantum entanglement. This is when atoms get joined together by some means and when separated they act dependently among one another. So if one atom moves the other atom will move not only the same exact way the other atom moves but also do this instantaneously. And when I say instantly I mean instantly. For example one thing we think is instant is light. When we turn on a light bulb it "instantly" lights up the room. However light is relatively slow. It takes 7 minutes from light to reach the sun to Earth. And it would take 100,000 years to travel around the milky way galaxy at the speed of light. I could imagine in the future us finding a use for this weird phenomenon. We could use it to create worm holes to travel from place to place very easily. We could use this on Earth to visit friends and family whenever we wanted. And we could advance this technology so far that we could travel from solar system to solar system or galaxy to galaxy. This would allow us to populate other planets making earthlings a multi planetary species. It might introduce us to other intelligent species and either help there species advance or hopefully they would help our species advance. Not only would this dream technology help us travel and colonize, it would allow us to harvest more energy from other planets and stars potentially increasing all the technology we all ready have.

Summary Of Article

Camile Domonoske, an NPR journalist, reviews a study conducted by Sam Wineburg, a professor from Stanford University, in this study it shows how a large majority of students in middle school, high school, and even college do not know how to properly determine if a story is fake or real. In this study 7,800 students were evaluated in 12 states. His most shocking discovery was that 80% of middle schoolers believed that sponsored content AKA an ad was real news even though before they read it they knew it was sponsored content. The study on highschoolers showed that 80% of them believed a fake news story when presented with a picture that looked like it fit the story but had no connection to it at all. In the study on college student they were presented with a fake site that was disguised as the real reputable site. 75% of the college students believed that the fake site was the real site and therefore took the story on the site as fact. This study shows how much of a danger fake news is and how uninformed students are. It also shows how bad students are at determining if a source is credible or not. In an interview from Wineburg he says "We cant really blame young people because we've never taught them to do otherwise". The article concludes by stating how important it is to teach young people to fact check everything and how to properly fact check.

C.R.A.A.P Test

I found an article talking about how young people do not know how to detect fake news from real news. It was posted on November 23, 2016 so the information is current. All the links provided on the webiste work. The information relates to my topic and answers the question of why fake news is bad because in the studied they conducted the fake news stories they used were described as "a threat to democracy". The author is Camila Domonoske from NPR news so the article all ready seemed trustworthy. She also provided ways to contact her which gives this article even more reliability. The information provided is supported by a study lead by Sam Wineburg, a professor from Stanford University. The information provided on this website can be found with the links they provide to the actually study. The information is given to inform you and persuade you to start worrying about the increasing danger from fake news. This study done by Stanford showed that 80% of middle schoolers accepted "sponsored content" as real news. This was very surprising to the people involved in the study and they reported that young people must not know what "sponsored content" is. The information is meant to make you worry but at the same time does not really seem objective because the percentages are just so high.

Fake news

Everyone is losing there mind over fake news. People are saying it is destroying our country because it it changing the way everyone thinks and votes even when there is no facts to back it up. They are also saying how it is so prominent in today's society that you can not even tell if something is fake or not without extensive research on the topic. On the other hand some people do not think it is as bad as everyone else thinks. Some people believe that fake news is only rampant on social media websites and that most people do not make there political decisions based on what they find on social media. So should everyone really be in a panic about this "fake news" phenomenon? I mean look at yellow journalism. That was practically fake news and we turned out fine. Or is this new era of fake news way more terrifying then the others because of the fast spread of information on the internet?

Cyber Security

I try to be very safe on the internet because one time I had viruses so bad on my computer I had to trash it and get a new one. Ever since then I realized how common viruses are and began being much safer online. I have about 4 different passwords I use for all my accounts but make sure to save the most complex ones for things such as my email address. I also bought a virus scanner and run it at least once a week but usually more then that. FYI be careful downloading free virus scanners sometimes those are viruses themselves! Sometimes I feel like I am to careful when it comes to cyber security as I refuse to update certain applications on my computer that I do not use often just because in the back of my head that "update" could be a virus. I know that this is most likely me just being paranoid but if I rarely use the application anyways it makes me feel safer. The TED talk today made interested me a lot especially when the speaker brought up the dark web and said you could buy viruses to help you hack into someone else's computer. I mean just think about it, you are downloading something from a person who literally creates viruses for a living!

Designer Babies

Today in class we had a discussion to where or not "designer babies". Many people in our class were against it and I do not understand why. Some of the arguments were the babies would be to smart and become narcissistic or lazy because they wouldn't have to try in school. I think this logic is flawed because these traits are not genetic and if your son or daughter becomes narcissistic or lazy it is the parents fault. For example if you notice your child is having no struggle in school and is getting straight A's without studying it is your job as a parent to nurture there intelligence and to push them to achieve greater things. Not only does this make them reach there max potential it will prevent them from becoming lazy. Another argument is saying that it is just plain out unethical to do this. But the same people who say it is unethical to do this say it is ok to do this if it is only used to prevent disease. This just makes no since to me because how can you think it is unethical when you admit you would use it yourself? If genetic modification was possible and affordable when I came of age to have a child I would definitely pursue it to help my child.

Possible Topics

"Depressed? There's an App for That" seems like a very good topic because I know I have certain apps on my phone that help me relax and it interests me that people are creating so many possibilities for apps. I could learn about how effective these apps are or how ineffective they are. I could learn if these apps are scams or not.  "Teens Hooked on Screens" is another topic that interests me because of how much time i realize the average teen is looking at a screen a day. Does doing this impact us negativity? Positively? Neither? Or maybe a little bit of both? I also think that the next generation of teenagers will probably spend even more time then us on screens. Another topic that interests me is "Digital Friendships" this topic interests me on a personal level because I have many digital friends that I have never met and would like to learn about why some people think these types of relationships are bad.