Katie's GeoCon Blog

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Girl Dies After a Fight Over a Boy

Joanna Ramos, 11, got in a fist fight after school with a fellow classmate in Long Beach over a boy. After the fight, she was crying and complaining that she had a headache. She told her friends and aunt Celina that her head hurt. Her mother rushed Joanna to the hospital. She had no visible injuries, but she underwent surgery and was put in intensive care. Just two hours later, at 5:50pm, she stopped breathing. She was pronounced dead just after 9 pm after failed attempts at reviving her. Officers say that the cause of her death is ‘undetermined’. The cause of her death is still being determined and no arrests have been made.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/girl-who-died-after-school-fight-complained-of-headache.html

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Britain Is The Bomb Diggity. Also, Adele likes her middle finger.

Last night, Tuesday February 22, 2011, were the Brit Awards and Adele won two BRIT awards, after returning to Britain with her six Grammys. She received her first award, Best Female artist without problem, but it was as she was accepting her second award: British Album of the Year, for 21, that she was cut off but the emcee. He said he couldn't believe he had to cut her acceptance speech short, and apologized as he began guiding her off the stage so he could introduce the Blur’s performance. Adele had a few last words before she was pushed of the stage, and she followed those words with raising her middle finger in the air. The audience cheered for her as she made her way off the stage.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Eating More, Remembering Less

Studies prove that in the elderly, consuming over 2,100 calories a day can lead to memory loss or 'mild cognitive impairment'. Eating more calories makes the risk of suffering from memory loss much greater. After conducting an experiment on how calorie intake affects the elderly, researchers found that keeping a diet low in calories could even prevent Alzheimer’s disease. In the study, scientists found that of the 1,200 people, age 70 to 89, whom they tested, 163 have memory problems and the risk was twice as great for those with high calorie diets. So, keeping calorie intake in the elderly below 2,100 calories a day, can help keep their minds sharp.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2100191/Over-eating-old-age-double-chance-memory-loss.html

Sunday, February 5, 2012

A Whole Town Wins... Almost

In the small town of Sodeto, Spain, everyone's celebrating, except for one man. The whole town has only 70 households, and 69 of them (so chill) chipped in to buy a lottery ticket for Spain’s Christmas lottery, El Gordo. The little village made up mostly of farmers and unemployed carpenters won $950 million. Costis Mitsotakis was the only person who didn’t chip in and isn’t getting any of the winnings. The smallest amount of money a household received from the lottery was $130,000 (excluding Mitsotakis, of course). However, one of the winning townspeople has offered to buy a piece of Mitsotakis’s land that he has been unable to sell, so all’s well that ends well.

Friday, January 20, 2012

The SOPA is on the Back Burner

This shows where the Congressmen and Congresswomen
stand on the anti-piracy legislations.

Today, Friday, January 20, 2012, lawmakers have decided to indefinitely postpone the passing of SOPA and PIPA, the anti-piracy bills. The legislations are targeting illegal media sharing by outlawing pirated content. However, many popular sites on the Internet fear that the passing of SOPA and PIPA could mean fewer freedoms, unnecessary lawsuits, and ultimately the end of their ability to keep their sites up and running. After protests from some of the most popular sites on Wednesday, a number of senators who supported the bill are now opposed to it and there are no longer enough supporters to pass it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-usa-congress-internet-idUSTRE80J10X20120120

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Lost on a Mountain, Burning Money

In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 photo provided by Yong Chun Kim, of Tacoma, Wash., Kim sits in a snow vehicle after he was rescued. (AP / Courtesy Yong Chun Kim)

Yong Chun Kim in a snow vehicle after being rescued.

Yong Chun Kim, age 66, got lost snowshoeing on Mount Rainier in Tacoma, Washington. He had been hiking with a snowshoeing club, and became separated from them. He was lost for two days and in order to survive, he had to keep moving to stay warm. He’d sleep standing up for five to ten minutes at a time. Finally, he dug a tunnel in the snow and he began to burn his possessions to keep warm. Extra socks, Band-Aids, toothbrush, packaging, and even $6 were all set aflame to keep Kim alive. He was rescued on Monday, January 16, 2012.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120117/lost-snowshoer-burned-his-money-for-warmth-120117/

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Another Iranian Nuclear Scientist Murdered

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan

On January 11, 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, age 32, became the fifth Iranian nuclear scientist to be murdered since 2007. According to the Iranian media, Roshan was driving his car on Tehran Street when two attackers on a motorcycle planted a magnetic bomb on the bottom of his car and set it off. Iranian officials claim that the attacks are the work of either the United States or Israel. However, both countries deny everything; and some people even speculate that Iranians themselves may be behind the killings of these scientists who are supposedly connected to the country’s nuclear weapons program.