You Got Served: No Sex By the Robot Please!...No Sex Please! By: Jorge Zhingre Th e animal king-domR...
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Science and Technology Page 8 No Sex Please! By: Jorge Zhingre The animal king- dom has shown to be versatile when it comes to reproducing. Only non- mammals can reproduce offspring asexually meaning only one individ- ual organism is needed. Asexual reproduction is ac- complished through mitosis, the process in which a body cell solely splits its chromosomes and creates two matching sets in two nuclei. Hence the offspring of these non mat- ing organisms are exact copies of each other. Asexual reproduction can occur in a form that is best known as parthenogenesis. All that is required is the parent to form unfertilized eggs which can develop into a new organ- ism. Animals without sex chromo- somes such as vertebrates, invertebrates, and insects are exam- ples. Even boa constrictors, lizards, sharks, fish, and some birds exhibit this form of reproduction. The female boa constrictors were found to produce female babies that resemble their mothers. Dr. War- ren Booth discovered that only these female snakes are able to produce this way if they had two W chromosomes, proving that no male snakes were needed. Male boa constrictors aren’t able to reproduce this way and require mating with females. No environment changes were noted and this snake is consid- ered a “genetic freak of nature.” An- other discovery came in December 2001 at Henry Doorly Zoo in Ne- braska when a small hammerhead shark was born. It was shocking to ex- perts due to the fact that the baby had to come from one of the three female sharks that had no male interaction since their capture as infants. An examination of the shark’s DNA that contained no male DNA eliminated a possibility that the females mated and its identical DNA to one of the mothers showed it was an example of parthenogenesis. An in depth study on this breakthrough is high demand. Compared to sexual repro- duction, the asexual process has its certain advantages and disadvan- tages. In a constant environment that hardly changes, asexual is preferred because if organisms stay in one area they are unable to mate with others. This eliminates the energy loss it takes for sexual reproduction. In turn this energy and time can be used for survival. The main disadvantage that exists is that since the offspring are identical there is no variety and they all have similar properties and weak- nesses. The animal world proves to adapt and surprise us in order to maintain survival. You Got Served: By the Robot By: Jorge Zhingre Early in December of 2010, the Dalu Restaurant was opened in Jinan in northern Shan- dong province. It is considered China’s first ro- botic restaurant or robot hotpot eatery. The restaurant was described as giving a futuristic look with the robots re- sembling the Star Wars droids. As of now the restaurant contains more than a dozen robots that work in serving a crowd of up to 100 costumers. Among the staff are two robot receptionists, six robot waiters, and other robot enter- tainers or greeters. The way the restaurant is designed also reflects this robotic ex- perience. As people enter the dim environment lined up with blinking neon lights, they are greeted by a female robot with a decorative dress, eye- lashes, and an electronic “Welcome.” Consumers are seated at tables in a circular arrangement while the robots move in a conveyor belt system. Each of the robot operated carts or servers have a motion sensor designed to stop track movement whenever a person comes in its path, making it easy for the costumer to reach and pick out any beverage or dish they want. As if that weren’t enough, the cos- tumers are also entertained by animated robot dancers. However, there are certain limitations to this technology. The robots cannot physically serve the costumers or refill their beverages. Also the ro- bots aren’t involved in the food preparation. Human chiefs are required to make the dishes for the hotpot restaurant while the robots simply transport the food. Still the public finds these ro- bots amusing and first time costumer Li Xiaomei stated that “They have a better service attitude than humans.” Restaurant owner Zhang Yongpei stated that his inspira- tion came from space exploration, robot innovation and technology. Yongpei also men- tioned that he hopes that his restaurant will prove to the world that China is ad- vancing in science and technology. So what is the next step? Yongpei replied that he wants to develop 30 extra robots alongside the Shandong Dalu Science and Technology Company, who designed the first dozen robots for the restau- rant. Each robot cost about 6000 US dollars and will be now programmed to have more human like characteristics such as the ability to walk between tables, walk through stairs, and actually serve the costumers. More development and advancement in the robotic technology will continue to be an in- teresting concept that could bring the Dalu Restaurant future success. A glance at the robot waiters Editorials The Over- achievers By: Taisha Vargas The Consumers in the Business of Higher Ed- ucation... Every high school has them. The students who complain about getting a 97 and not the 100 on their essay, the students who for some reason never leave the school, the students who never get a good night sleep because they stayed up studying for numerous AP exams the following day. The group of overachievers: highly motivated students who dedicated their high school careers on strictly getting into the top col- leges in the nation. Over the past decades, the envi- ronment in school has changed from an in- stitute of learning into a “dog- eat- dog world”, fixated around facts and figures. Students who aim for the top score are not doing so for the love and passion of learning but to have a competitive edge to get into the over- glorified Ivy League and competi- tive colleges throughout the country. The entrance into colleges has now revolved around superficial numbers from standard- ized exams rather than the applicant’s pas- sions, interest and dedication for a higher education. Sadly, students have no choice but to put a halt to their own health, hobbies and social life to conform and compete against each other for the top grade so that they can even be considere getting accepted into a good college. The large demand for higher stan- dardized test scores presented a business opportunity for large companies such as Ka- plan and the Princeton Review to emerge. Kaplan and the Princeton Review generate revenue of 2.6 and 35.9 billon dollars re- spectively. Because of their ability to in- crease scores with the exchange of money, parents enroll students as old as twelve to start prepping for the SAT. However, ongo- ing research has exposed the flaw of the “ap- titude” test, showing that the more money spent on test prep such as Kaplan and the Princeton Review, the higher the score, gives the short end of the stick to lower mid- dle-class students who are unable to raise money for test prep. One study shows that the SAT also favors students who learn based on memorization rather than deep understanding of the subject at hand. Ac- cording to studies done by Ford and Cam- pos of ETS, the SAT “ranges in accuracy from 8 to 15% in the prediction of freshman grade point average.” Nonetheless, because the SAT is an important factor in the college application process, particularly in compet- itive schools, parents as well as students stress the impor- tance of the SAT. B e - cause of the complicated col- lege application process and the demand from parents to get students into top notch schools, private college consolers had also emerged into a large busi- ness in which emphasis is- placed on get- ting the applicant into “the best college out there” rather than “the best college fit for the student”. There is also the fact that private college consolers also try their best to maintain a reputation of getting students into Ivy Leagues. Al- though companies such as IvyWise, IvySuc- cess, and PlayIvy attempt to drive clients into thinking that their motivation is to get students into the best school possible for them, their ultimate goal is to get students into the top twenty schools by strategizing a plan for studends as early as twelve. Alexan- dra Robbins book The Overachievers dis- cusses the extent in which these companies would go for to maintaining their prestige. “New Jersey Ivy Success consult- ant Robert Shaw had an Asian client who was in the top fifth of her class at Holmdel High, a school where Asian- Americans comprise 22 percent of the student body. In order to make the student better resemble Ivy League material, Shaw told her to move. She and her family moved ten miles north to a school district with fewer Asians and an SAT average that was 300 points lower than in her old district. At her new school, the girl was class valedictorian. She was accepted to Yale and MIT.” As a result from the constant pres- sure from parents and teachers to force stu- dents to strive for the “best”, students, particularly overachievers, whio are driven into this world of competition rather than focusing on finding out who they are and what their personal best is. Such pressure to be focused on an image to please other people rather than the students own personal perception of their goals and character drives students to forget their own health and fail to determine that line which establishes when “enough is enough”. The stresses as an Aviation High School Student is unconventional compared to an average high school student. The em- phasis of technicality, professionalism and discipline created by the FAA program at the school pushes students to “grow up faster” because their high school is not only an educational facility but a place where a foundation of work etiquette is built. The pressure to get the airframe and power plant ratings are implemented once fresh- men walk into the building. In addition to regular academic courses, a junior at Avia- tion spends half of their day in shop classes, learning the complexity of engines and air- craft structure. Shop teachers are known to be blunt towards students to reassure that students are well prepared for the harsh en- vironment provided in the aviation indus- try. Jeffrey Ho, this year’s class Vale- dictorian describes his junior year “flipping through the study guides days and nights while worrying about AP US History home- work...” The pressure and stress becomes so intense that student’s physiological con- ditions change for the worse. Students claimed to have lost weight, hair thinning, deficiency of essential vitamins and miner- als, and overall lack of focus due to the large amount of stress. Many students also lack sleep due to the amount of studying that has to be done for shop finals, memo- rizing over 200 questions and answers just to stay FAA. An overachiever also deal with the large amount of AP course work given each night, stresses caused by their work- load in extra curricular activities, and their attempt to balance or create social lives for themselves. No, this article’s intention is not to oppose the environment that Aviation High School has instilled. It is evitable that life after school is difficult filled with many stresses concerning work and family. The one thing that the majority of Aviation High School students can agree on is the fact that Aviation prepared them to deal with stress in a professional environment. My main issue, as a student, as an overachiever, is the failure of students such as myself to step outside and look at the big- ger picture and ask themselves, “Am I happy with what I am doing?” “Who am I” “What are MY goals, not my parents, teach- ers or society’s goals, for MY future?” A se- lected few can answer those questions right off the bat, while others still remain in a haze. The over-competitiveness that high school has become is not producing fu- ture leaders and scholars but robot- like stu- dents who function based on the primary goal to satisfy others and not themselves. A student preparing for an overbearing examination
Transcript of You Got Served: No Sex By the Robot Please!...No Sex Please! By: Jorge Zhingre Th e animal king-domR...
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No SexPlease!By: Jorge Zhingre
The animal king-dom has shown to be versatile when itcomes to reproducing. Only non-mammals can reproduce offspringasexually meaning only one individ-ual organism is needed.
Asexual reproduction is ac-complished through mitosis, theprocess in which a body cell solelysplits its chromosomes and createstwo matching sets in two nuclei.Hence the offspring of these non mat-ing organisms are exact copies of eachother.
Asexual reproduction canoccur in a form that is best known asparthenogenesis. All that is requiredis the parent to form unfertilized eggswhich can develop into a new organ-ism. Animals without sex chromo-somes such as vertebrates,invertebrates, and insects are exam-ples. Even boa constrictors, lizards,sharks, fish, and some birds exhibitthis form of reproduction.
The female boa constrictorswere found to produce female babiesthat resemble their mothers. Dr. War-ren Booth discovered that only thesefemale snakes are able to produce thisway if they had two W chromosomes,proving that no male snakes were
needed. Male boa constrictors aren’table to reproduce this way and requiremating with females.
No environment changeswere noted and this snake is consid-ered a “genetic freak of nature.” An-other discovery came in December2001 at Henry Doorly Zoo in Ne-braska when a small hammerheadshark was born. It was shocking to ex-perts due to the fact that the baby hadto come from one of the three femalesharks that had no male interactionsince their capture as infants.
An examination of theshark’s DNA that contained no maleDNA eliminated a possibility that thefemales mated and its identical DNAto one of the mothers showed it wasan example of parthenogenesis. An indepth study on this breakthrough ishigh demand.
Compared to sexual repro-duction, the asexual process has itscertain advantages and disadvan-tages. In a constant environment thathardly changes, asexual is preferredbecause if organisms stay in one areathey are unable to mate with others.This eliminates the energy loss ittakes for sexual reproduction. In turnthis energy and time can be used forsurvival. The main disadvantage thatexists is that since the offspring areidentical there is no variety and theyall have similar properties and weak-nesses. The animal world proves toadapt and surprise us in order tomaintain survival.
You Got Served:By the Robot
By: Jorge Zhingre
Early in December of 2010, the DaluRestaurant was opened in Jinan in northern Shan-dong province. It is considered China’s first ro-botic restaurant or robot hotpot eatery. Therestaurant was described as giving a futuristic lookwith the robots re-sembling the StarWars droids. As ofnow the restaurantcontains more than adozen robots thatwork in serving acrowd of up to 100costumers.
Among thestaff are two robotreceptionists, sixrobot waiters, andother robot enter-tainers or greeters.
The way therestaurant is designed also reflects this robotic ex-perience. As people enter the dim environmentlined up with blinking neon lights, they are greetedby a female robot with a decorative dress, eye-lashes, and an electronic “Welcome.” Consumersare seated at tables in a circular arrangement whilethe robots move in a conveyor belt system. Each ofthe robot operated carts or servers have a motionsensor designed to stop track movement whenevera person comes in its path, making it easy for thecostumer to reach and pick out any beverage or
dish they want. As if that weren’t enough, the cos-tumers are also entertained by animated robotdancers.
However, there are certain limitations tothis technology. The robots cannot physically servethe costumers or refill their beverages. Also the ro-bots aren’t involved in the food preparation.Human chiefs are required to make the dishes forthe hotpot restaurant while the robots simplytransport the food. Still the public finds these ro-bots amusing and first time costumer Li Xiaomeistated that “They have a better service attitudethan humans.”
Restaurantowner ZhangYongpei statedthat his inspira-tion came fromspace exploration,robot innovationand technology.Yongpei also men-tioned that hehopes that hisrestaurant willprove to the worldthat China is ad-vancing in scienceand technology. So
what is the next step? Yongpei replied that hewants to develop 30 extra robots alongside theShandong Dalu Science and Technology Company,who designed the first dozen robots for the restau-rant. Each robot cost about 6000 US dollars andwill be now programmed to have more human likecharacteristics such as the ability to walk betweentables, walk through stairs, and actually serve thecostumers. More development and advancementin the robotic technology will continue to be an in-teresting concept that could bring the DaluRestaurant future success.
A glance at the robot waiters
EditorialsThe Over-achievers
By: Taisha Vargas
The Consumers in theBusiness of Higher Ed-
ucation...
Every high school has them. Thestudents who complain about getting a 97and not the 100 on their essay, the studentswho for some reason never leave the school,the students who never get a good nightsleep because they stayed up studying fornumerous AP exams the following day. Thegroup of overachievers: highly motivatedstudents who dedicated their high schoolcareers on strictly getting into the top col-leges in the nation.
Over the past decades, the envi-ronment in school has changed from an in-stitute of learning into a “dog- eat- dogworld”, fixated around facts and figures.Students who aim for the top score are notdoing so for the love and passion of learningbut to have a competitive edge to get intothe over- glorified Ivy League and competi-tive colleges throughout the country. Theentrance into colleges has now revolvedaround superficial numbers from standard-ized exams rather than the applicant’s pas-sions, interest and dedication for a highereducation. Sadly, students have no choicebut to put a halt to their own health, hobbiesand social life to conform and competeagainst each other for the top grade so thatthey can even be considere getting acceptedinto a good college.
The large demand for higher stan-dardized test scores presented a businessopportunity for large companies such as Ka-plan and the Princeton Review to emerge.Kaplan and the Princeton Review generaterevenue of 2.6 and 35.9 billon dollars re-spectively. Because of their ability to in-crease scores with the exchange of money,parents enroll students as old as twelve tostart prepping for the SAT. However, ongo-ing research has exposed the flaw of the “ap-titude” test, showing that the more money
spent on test prep such as Kaplan and thePrinceton Review, the higher the score,gives the short end of the stick to lower mid-dle-class students who are unable to raisemoney for test prep. One study shows thatthe SAT also favors students who learnbased on memorization rather than deepunderstanding of the subject at hand. Ac-cording to studies done by Ford and Cam-pos of ETS, the SAT “ranges in accuracyfrom 8 to 15% in the prediction of freshmangrade point average.” Nonetheless, becausethe SAT is an important factor in the collegeapplication process, particularly in compet-itive schools,parents as wellas studentsstress the impor-tance of the SAT.
B e -cause of thecomplicated col-lege applicationprocess and thedemand fromparents to getstudents into topnotch schools,private collegeconsolers hadalso emergedinto a large busi-ness in whichemphasis is-placed on get-ting the applicantinto “the best college out there” rather than“the best college fit for the student”. Thereis also the fact that private college consolersalso try their best to maintain a reputationof getting students into Ivy Leagues. Al-though companies such as IvyWise, IvySuc-cess, and PlayIvy attempt to drive clientsinto thinking that their motivation is to getstudents into the best school possible forthem, their ultimate goal is to get studentsinto the top twenty schools by strategizing aplan for studends as early as twelve. Alexan-dra Robbins book The Overachievers dis-cusses the extent in which these companieswould go for to maintaining their prestige.
“New Jersey Ivy Success consult-ant Robert Shaw had an Asian client whowas in the top fifth of her class at HolmdelHigh, a school where Asian- Americans
comprise 22 percent of the student body. Inorder to make the student better resembleIvy League material, Shaw told her to move.She and her family moved ten miles northto a school district with fewer Asians and anSAT average that was 300 points lower thanin her old district. At her new school, the girlwas class valedictorian. She was accepted toYale and MIT.”
As a result from the constant pres-sure from parents and teachers to force stu-dents to strive for the “best”, students,particularly overachievers, whio are driveninto this world of competition rather than
focusing on finding out who they are andwhat their personal best is.
Such pressure to be focused on animage to please other people rather than thestudents own personal perception of theirgoals and character drives students to forgettheir own health and fail to determine thatline which establishes when “enough isenough”.
The stresses as an Aviation HighSchool Student is unconventional comparedto an average high school student. The em-phasis of technicality, professionalism anddiscipline created by the FAA program atthe school pushes students to “grow upfaster” because their high school is not onlyan educational facility but a place where afoundation of work etiquette is built. Thepressure to get the airframe and power
plant ratings are implemented once fresh-men walk into the building. In addition toregular academic courses, a junior at Avia-tion spends half of their day in shop classes,learning the complexity of engines and air-craft structure. Shop teachers are known tobe blunt towards students to reassure thatstudents are well prepared for the harsh en-vironment provided in the aviation indus-try.
Jeffrey Ho, this year’s class Vale-dictorian describes his junior year “flippingthrough the study guides days and nightswhile worrying about AP US History home-work...” The pressure and stress becomesso intense that student’s physiological con-ditions change for the worse. Studentsclaimed to have lost weight, hair thinning,deficiency of essential vitamins and miner-als, and overall lack of focus due to thelarge amount of stress. Many students alsolack sleep due to the amount of studyingthat has to be done for shop finals, memo-rizing over 200 questions and answers justto stay FAA. An overachiever also deal withthe large amount of AP course work giveneach night, stresses caused by their work-load in extra curricular activities, and theirattempt to balance or create social lives forthemselves.
No, this article’s intention is not tooppose the environment that Aviation HighSchool has instilled. It is evitable that lifeafter school is difficult filled with manystresses concerning work and family. Theone thing that the majority of Aviation HighSchool students can agree on is the fact thatAviation prepared them to deal with stressin a professional environment.
My main issue, as a student, as anoverachiever, is the failure of students suchas myself to step outside and look at the big-ger picture and ask themselves, “Am Ihappy with what I am doing?” “Who am I”“What are MY goals, not my parents, teach-ers or society’s goals, for MY future?” A se-lected few can answer those questions rightoff the bat, while others still remain in ahaze.
The over-competitiveness thathigh school has become is not producing fu-ture leaders and scholars but robot- like stu-dents who function based on the primarygoal to satisfy others and not themselves.
A student preparing for an overbearing examination
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