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Science World, September 7, 2009

Teen Dinosaur Hunters

Before the incoming Freshman's first year started at The Webb School, they all took a trip into the California Desert to a dig site. This dig site was a site that contained prehistoric fossils ranging from teeth, turtle shells and one of the largest collection of fossilized footprints totaling over 150,000 discoveries. The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is the only accredited museum on a high school campus in the country.

I Want That Job

Manuela Veloso is a robot scientist that created the world's first Robot World Cup for soccer. She enjoys trying to create ways to have robots work together in team situations. Though the RoboCup is a small scale test she is also trying to create robotic firefighters. A robot scientist makes about 40,000 to 50,000 dollars per year, with a PhD the salary could jump to 100,000 for those who work for universitie. The wage could even double if the scientist works for a company.

In Search of Snow Leopards

Tashi Tundup and Steve Winter journeyed into the Indian Himalayas with their team to locate the elusive snow leopard. At 4,000 meters they had entered the cat's territory, hard to believe that hardly anything grows that far up do to the lack of oxygen. Scientists claim that snow leopards are on the endagered speices list due to the fact that the cat's eat the people's livestock so they are killed. poaching is also a huge problem for the leopards.

Squishy Snack

In Northern Thailand a fast food chain serves nothing close to french fries. A restaurant called Insect Inter serves fried insects, a major snack there is an insect larve in its immature form. It is said that 80 percent of the worlds population practices entomophagy, ths is also known as eating bugs. Bugs are packed with calcium and iron along with tons of minerals and nutrients.