2011年5月25日水曜日

Are Cellphones Killing Honeybees?

Summary:There is a fact that the world honeybee population is decreasing around the globe. Scientists have various possible explanations for why that is happning, such as cold weather, genetically-modified crops, and viruses. They have another explanation now and it is mobile phones. Swiss researchers have done a study which is about the relationship between mobile phones and the honeybee population. One of the researchers, Daniel Favre says his study shows a relationship between the growing use of cellphones and declining bee populations. He recorded the bees' sounds with mobile phones in the hive. He observed what the bees were like when the mobile phones were active and inactive.  From this observation, it is discovered that the bees weren't disturbed by mobile phones that were inactive or on standby. However, active and ringing cellphones confused the bees and caused them to fly away from and leave the hive.  That shows that honeybees are sensitive to electromagnetic fields generated by the mobile telephones.

Comment: This news was very interesting to read.I was surprised at this article because I did not expect there was a relationship between mobile phones and the honeybee population. I think we should think about other animals or insects even though mobile phones are indispensable for us today. 

2011年5月18日水曜日

Golden Week

 How was your Golden Week? Even though  we did not really have it this year,

 mine was awesome. I went to shopping and hung out with my friends a lot.

My friend came to Hyogo from Gunma on May 3rd. He is one of my frineds

that went abroad with me.I was  so excited when I saw him because it was

the first time to see him in a year. We enjoyed  Takoyaki party together.

We went to Karaoke and sang all the night. He went back to Gunma on May 4th.

 My another friend came to Hyogo from Hiroshima, which is the city where

I'm from, on May 5th. She is my high shool friend and stayed with me for 4 days.

That 4days were awesome. We met other friends from high school who are in

Osaka and talked a lot. I felt like I went back to high school:)

  I was kind of sad when I found out  I could not go back to Hiroshima and see

my family and all my friends in Hiroshima, but I had so much fun with my friends

during Golden Week this year:)