By Anonymous
For this assignment, we were tasked to spend one hour gathering information from both technology and media, then an hour outside in nature. For the first hour I decided to spend my time scrolling through Youtube and watching completely random videos instead of just one news channel, and here is what I learned. In narwhales, the larger the tusk, the larger the testicles, and the tusk is actually a tooth that pierces through their faces. I also learned that there are lava tubes on the moon and scientists think this would be a good place to start a moon colony. Next I learned that in far sighted people, your glasses will make your eyes look bigger, while in nearsighted people your glasses will make your eyes look smaller. I also learned that if you put a strawberry in bleach, you can remove the red from the strawberry. Lastly, I learned that companies actually own certain colors like barbie with pink and post it notes with yellow.
For my next hour, I went out to my back yard and sat next to the fire watching the wildlife in my pasture. I live out in Fauquier county, so we have a good amount of wildlife present compared to Fairfax. First off in my time outside, I learned that Vasoline or any petroleum jelly is a fantastic fire starter. During my time outside, I was greeted by a small population of deer that call my pasture home. We have around 8 doe that bed in the back and at this time, some should be pregnant with twins. In this group there are around 3 yearlings, which were just fawns last year. The next thing I learned is that my horse prefers to drink out of the pond, I believe this is because his water is most likely frozen on the top layer. After watching my horse, I noticed some of my neighbors chickens in the back. I believe this is because the chickens prefer the horse manure pasture because they’re able to find more to eat. Lastly for my hour outside I saw a couple of ducks stopping by my pond for rest as they fly south. These two ducks always come back to our pond around this time and also in the spring when it warms up. The cool part is they always come back and in the spring they bring their ducklings for the peace, quiet, and a good meal from our pond.
During this assignment I learned a lot about the differing information gathered from both media and Nature. I learned that when watching Youtube, I gathered a bunch of useless information regarding a bunch of different fields and not just one topic. I will probably forget a lot of this information a week from now since it has no impact on my life. Next with my time spent in nature, I didn’t learn a bunch but I still gathered information. This information I gathered will most likely be of more use to me since It has directly impacted me and my relative environment. I do not think either of these were bad forms of information gathering, but I think a combination of the two would be the most beneficial.