Cool Science by Emma V.

On Monday, 08-29-2016, we’ve done some interesting things in cool science. We’ve read an article about the creation of a new kind of milk. It’s about roach milk. We are used to milk from cows, goats, sheep and even oat milk and rice milk. Milk from a cockroach would be something totally new in our culture, where insects don’t belong to our general meal. Those milk should be a few times more nutritious than the milk we’re used to drink. It includes sugar with a fatty acid fastened to it. Furthermore, the protein in the milk contains essential amino acids, building blocks for proteins which our body can’t build. On the other hand, it takes a whole lot of roaches to produce a bit of milk. That means that we have to kill a lot of them for a meager gain. According to me, it’s a step further for the science and for the food industry, but I’m not sure if it’s that efficient. Would you think it’s worth a try?

Source drawing: http://www.unexco.com/roach1.html

During the other part of the class, we’ve observed objects on the fields beside the school building. You could choose yourself which aspect satisfied you the most. I’ve observed a flower, others looked at a feather or even the environment in general. It’s surprising how you can see more than a quarter long new things on one small flower. You see things you won’t see when just passing by. The colors of the flower I observed are way more variable than you see after one look. You learn to really watch to something and to link different elements from just inside the object, but also from the relation from the object to the surroundings. Objects are mostly more curious and complicated than you think at the first sight, even if it’s about something that you pass daily.