The article that I chose on New York Times is : A Tiny Horse That Got Even Tinier as the Planet Heated Up. In this article, it talks about how scientist have just come across a study of the Sifrhippus, a prehistoric relative to the horse. Scientists have no more then fossils of this ancient animal, but all of these fossils (ancient bone) are indicating to scientist that these little horses went through adaptation. Adaptation is where a species of animals, over a long period of time, changes to be able to survive in their environment. The same thing happened with this cat-size horse. During the time period this horse species was living, the temperature of the earth was greatly increasing. The horses' bodies (through generations) lost weight and got even smaller. The article then connects this to how the earth is warming again, and connects with will man kind be able to adapt to change in our environment?
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Power of Definitions
Why is it important for us to define things? Its an important part of our communication skills. Every person is at different levels of what they know. How can a rocket scientist come into a class of freshmen and start teaching class about huge equations, things that the mer freshmen had never even hear of. Defining things will help our audiences' understanding grow. When we are writing we should never just assume our audience understands what we know is happening in our story. We also might need to pay attention to words that we use in certain conversations. Like the Professor was talking about with the word "BAD" or even "SICK". A group of guys skate boarding my comment on their friends neat skate boarding trick. They might call it sick....which actually means that the trick was really cool. But if their is a parent in the audience or even a doctor, sick has a whole new meaning. Defining the situation is important!
The article that I chose on New York Times is : A Tiny Horse That Got Even Tinier as the Planet Heated Up. In this article, it talks about how scientist have just come across a study of the Sifrhippus, a prehistoric relative to the horse. Scientists have no more then fossils of this ancient animal, but all of these fossils (ancient bone) are indicating to scientist that these little horses went through adaptation. Adaptation is where a species of animals, over a long period of time, changes to be able to survive in their environment. The same thing happened with this cat-size horse. During the time period this horse species was living, the temperature of the earth was greatly increasing. The horses' bodies (through generations) lost weight and got even smaller. The article then connects this to how the earth is warming again, and connects with will man kind be able to adapt to change in our environment?
The article that I chose on New York Times is : A Tiny Horse That Got Even Tinier as the Planet Heated Up. In this article, it talks about how scientist have just come across a study of the Sifrhippus, a prehistoric relative to the horse. Scientists have no more then fossils of this ancient animal, but all of these fossils (ancient bone) are indicating to scientist that these little horses went through adaptation. Adaptation is where a species of animals, over a long period of time, changes to be able to survive in their environment. The same thing happened with this cat-size horse. During the time period this horse species was living, the temperature of the earth was greatly increasing. The horses' bodies (through generations) lost weight and got even smaller. The article then connects this to how the earth is warming again, and connects with will man kind be able to adapt to change in our environment?
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True indeed. It is amazing how words are double if not tripleed meaning from slang to what they are actually supposed to mean.
ReplyDeleteAs for the article, humans are considered one of the most amazing animals for adaptation. Considering how far spread we are. Another way to look at this is in the states. Utahns, living so high up, are used to elevations without little oxygen and we can easily comprehend such similar settings. However, if you go to the coast where they are below sea level, they are used to a higher supply of oxygen and if they were to come here, would have a hard time breathing until their body has learned to adjust itself and change.