Galileo

Galileo was an Italian mathematician, scientist and philosopher. On Brainpop you’ll see what Galileo discovered about the moon, the Milky Way and Jupiter. When you are done on Brainpop go on the comments for this post and tell me something about Galileo. Have fun!! Click on the link below to take you to Brainpop on Galileo.

http://www.brainpop.com/science/famousscientists/galileogalilei/preview.weml

Would you like to live forever?

In our GRA book The Fourteen Goldfish Ellie’s grandfather has made a formula to turn him back to a teenager.
In nature the Jellyfish has the ability to make itself young again. Here is an article from CNN.com about Shin Kubota’s research in Shirahana Japan about the Scarlet Jellyfish. Click on the link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/28/world/asia/can-immortal-jellyfish-unlock-everlasting-life/index.html?sr=sharebar_twitter

This got us thinking about being immortal (which means to be able to live forever). Would you want to be able to live forever or not? What if you did but no one else around you did? What would you do with your life if you could live forever? In the comments for this post write about if you would want to be immortal and why?

Below is a video on exotic jellyfish.