Myles Barnes

We Just Keep Growing, and Growing

Oh what joy it is to be in the year of 2018, a year of greatness and growth; but not just any ole type of growth, but the population growth in American , and across the globe is steadily rising.

Reported already , there about about 327 million people on earth , that number was about 2 million less about a year ago. However, why all the sudden change?

According to the U.S. Census Bureau , it can be seen that there have many more births than deaths with in the last couple of years. In fact they said that , ” The U.S. population grew to 326,971,407 on Jan.1, 2018, an increase of 2,314,238″. Based off of previous studies and other statistical data, it has been confirmed that the population grows about one person every twenty-nine seconds. That is astronomically fast, just think the amount of time it takes you in-hale, and exhale, a new life is born.

Giving the “Green-light” to Geo- Engineering

“Here’s the reason we’d never halt a geoengineering project midway through”

By- James Temple

Many would say that this only the tip of the iceberg but really it is much more than what we see. We are talking about the global warming crisis that has been going on for years, but it might be advantageous that we actually do not stop tampering with mother nature. For years, now scientist, and geo-engineers all over have tried to discover what is the actual solution towards global warming.Some have even suggested in this article that there should be “spraying tiny particles into the air to reflect more sunlight back into space, that wouldn’t reduce emissions..”, according to James Temple of the MIT REVIEW.

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There is no doubt that geo-engineering has done a lot of wrong for the planet, however, we have been doing it for so long that if we were to stop now , things such as greenhouse affect would have an ever bigger impact on the earths ecosystem. In the long run affecting various habitats for animals and plant life. With this being a global crisis, the issues in order to resolve these issues are going from various governments. With the ecosystems in certain areas being affected, it is also starting to interfere with various countries economic systems. It has been strong suggested that climate engineering should be something that should be managed so that we can control the affects on our ecosystem.

I believe that this blog does provide a very good sense of strong journalism because I believe that is structured an organized in such a way that it easy for the reader to extract details and main points of the article. Along with that, the sources that this information were extracted from are credible enough because they actually work with in this field. I believe that the editor gave allow of detail and showed a great rebuttal giving multiple perspectives on the topic.

Whats up in tech?- Looking to find out data in a speedy, watch out for “Ushahidi”

So whats going on in the tech world? As we know , data is very important as to how it tracks the movement of information. What if I told you that there was something out there that can allow you to see all types of data from the reach of your finger tips? I am talking about ” Ushahidi” – in Swahili means ” Testimony” , is a software program that allows everyday people to interact and learn of various things happening within that areas such as potential threats or dangers.

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Some of these features include:

-Data collection

Multiple sources from various social (media) outlets etc., Twitter, Facebook, text messages.
Compatible for iOS and Androids based devices.

– Data Management

Being able to save and collect data.
Allows interactions with other users
Beign able to retrieve data from other people that are using Ushahidi software

– Data Visualization / Alerts

Users are able to see the actual data being recorded whether it is in graph form , timelines.
Those alerts that were recorded on the map, then appear to show what area that information was being recorded in.

I beleive that this software is advantageous towards our society, because it allows each person to be able to affectively help eachother, and could possibly save lives of many.