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Category: Science

Scary Button Found Poem

Button, Button” is a story written by Richard Matheson. It is about a couple that found a button lying in front of their home. They were told that a press of the button will result in a reward of 50,000$. However, a slight side effect of the button would be that one stranger in the world would die.

This story shows some really interesting internal conflict told through the conversations between the couple. While the husband believes that this type of action in immoral and offends him, the wife seems quite intrigued by the idea of receiving 50,000$. “What would you like to do? Get the button back and push it? Murder someone?”“what’s the difference whom you kill? It’s still murder.” These are just some ideas the husband brought up. Through the uncertain tone of the wife’s sentences, we can see that she is in conflict with herself about wether pressing the button is wrong. The wife still pressed the button, thinking that the money was going to be used for the both of them, not knowing that the person dying would be her husband.

The black background shows how confusing this story can be. This story is very mysterious with how the button works.

 

Cup Insulator Challenge 61 Raymond & Luke

A) The problem is that liquid in the teacher’s mugs won’t stay heated for a long time.
B) We started off using a design we thought would work, we were going to make an insulator out of cotton balls and aluminum foil. But after we created our final product, although it did well insulating the water, it was floppy and ugly. Plus, it stuck weirdly onto the mug. So, we made a new design that looked better but didn’t work that well.

 

First Design                                                                       Second Design

 

Claim: Mug insulators do insulate heat!

Evidence: The total loss of the first insulator was 8 degrees less than the cup without an insulator.

Reasoning: because the mug gets warmer when it’s insulated.

I am proud of the aesthetics of the second design, I would have changed the inside of the second design to cotton balls or something.

 

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