Gateways 2018-2019

By Jillian Spiller Making Up on Lost Sleep is Bad? Have you ever woken up in the morning and felt tired? Of course you have, everyone has done that. After a long weekend do you ever want to sleep in to “make up on sleep” because I know that I have. But did you know that sleeping too much can actually be unhealthy? Even though it might feel good to just sleep in for another few hours, you probably should watch how much extra sleep you’re getting. If you oversleep too regularly, you can get health problems, such as risk of heart disease and risk of diabetes. You may be wondering how is recharging your body unhealthy? Huff Post says that teens and young adults that enjoy oversleeping regularly often may have undiagnosed mental illnesses (depression and or anxiety). Oversleeping by itself can actually be a illness. This illness is called hypersomnia. What exactly is hypersomnia you ask? Hypersomnia is being sleepy almost 24/7. It could also be sleeping way too much where it become...

The man who knew Infinity By: Sonali Purohit Many people have heard of “The man who knew Infinity”, mostly from the movie made in 2015. He was credited as one the greatest mathematicians in history. Developing his very own theorems at age 13,  without no evidence of a formal math education. He showed his true talents at a young age, and by age 15 he acquired a book called Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics . This book would play a crucial part in his mathematic success. By the time he was a teenager,  he solving very complex problem that others his age couldn’t even dream of solving. However, his deep love and admiration for math made his attention shift to math and only math, which then led to him not being able to complete his degree and him dropping out of college. Ramanujan was struggling for work to support himself, tutoring and searching for jobs. At age 24, he was able to continue his research with the help of a man named Rao. With tha...

Radioisotopes   Throughout our first chapter of energy, I was not entirely curious about anythi ng . This all changed when we were assigned our Energy Posters and I realized that most people ended up just putting a nuclear power plant in the background which is  super  realistic that they just pop up everywhere. Anyway, this got me wondering; where else is nuclear energy used? That’s when I came upon the idea of radioisotopes.    I know it probably seems like a huge, weird word but it’s  actually pretty  cool. A radioisotope is a radioactive isotope, and an isotope is an element that differs from itself b ecaus e it has different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. I know that seems confusing so if you want to know more just google it. Moving on, my google search brought me to a site showing how radioisotopes are used every day. The most interesting one I found was that radioisotopes are used in agriculture. They are used specifically to...