Andrew

Reading Log

6/2/10 The Lighting Thief 30 minutes 6/2/10 The Lighting Thief 30 minutes 6/2/10 The Lightning Thief 30 minutes 6/2/10 The Sea of Monsters 30 minutes 6/2/10 The Sea of Monsters 30 minutes 6/2/10 The Sea of Monsters 30 minutes 6/3/10 The Titan's Curse 30 minutes 6/3/10 The Titan's Curse 30 minutes 6/3/10 The Titan's Curse 30 minutes 6/3/10 The Battle of the Labyrinth 30 minutes 6/3/10 The Battle of the Labyrinth 30 minutes 6/3/10 The Battle of the Labyrinth 30 minutes 6/5/10 Spy Kids 30 minutes 6/5/10 Spy Kids 30 minutes 6/5/10 Monster Origami 30 minutes 6/5/10 Monster Origami 30 minutes 6/6/10 Action Origami 30 minutes 6/6/10 Action Origami 30 minutes 6/6/10 Origami Boxes 30 minutes 6/6/10 Origami Boxes 30 minutes 6/6/10 Holiday Origami 30 minutes 6/6/10 Holiday Origami 30 minutes 6/8/10 Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism 30 minutes 6/8/10 Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism 30minutes 6/8/10 Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism 30 minutes 6/9/10 The Diamond of Darkhold 30 minutes 6/9/10 The Diamond of Darkhold 30 minutes 6/11/10 The Last Olympian 30 minutes 6/11/10 The Last Olympian 30 minutes 6/11/10 The Last Olympian 30 minutes 6/25/10 The Red Pyramid 30 minutes 6/25/10 The Red Pyramid 30 minutes 6/26/10 The Red Pyramid 30 minutes 6/26/10 The Red Pyramid 30 minutes 6/26/10 The Red Pyramid 30 minutes 6/27/10 Nerds 30 minutes 6/27/10 Nerds 30 minutes 6/27/10 Nerds 30 minutes

Wonder Question/Response

Who invented the Internet?
Leonard Kleinrock is credited with the idea of the Internet after he published his first paper "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" in 1961. However the actual creation of the Internet began in the late 1960's. Ray Tomlinson introduced e-mail in 1972. In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML which hugely contributed to how we navigate and view the Internet today.

Who invented origami?
Origami comes from 2 Japanese words. "Ori" meaning fold and "Kami" meaning paper. Even though it's name comes from Japanese, origami originated in China. Some models that look very complex use more than one piece of paper. That type of origami is called modular origami. If you just use 1 square and no cuts' glue, tape ect, it is called pure origami. If you cut the paper it is called kirigami.

What is a MMORPG game?
MMORPG stands for Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Some examples are World of Warcraft, Runescape, Evony, and lots of other games. There are hundreds of them with thousands of players in each game.

How was Youtube formed?
3 former PayPal Employees created Youtube in 2005. The employees were Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawid Karim. In 2006, Google bought Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars. The site name, Youtube, led problems to another site named utube so utube changed its name to utubeonline.

Why are the different time zones?
There are different time zones because if the US is in daylight, the other side of the world like China and Russia would be in darkness. So if you normally lived in the US and you visited Russia you'd get very confused because you would be used to the time zone in the US.

When was the first dictionary published?
One of the earliest dictionaries known, was written in Latin during the reign of the emperor Augustus. It is known by the title De Significatu Verborum ("On the meaning of words") and was originally compiled by Verrius Flaccus.

When was the first book made?
The first book ever to be made by woodblock printing was made in China, and was called 'The Diamond Sutra', a Buddhist text published in China in the year 868.

What are the different types of calendars?
//1. Purely lunar calendars// //2. Purely solar calendars// //3. Lunisolar calendars// //4. Solilunar calendars// //5. Solar-count lunar calendars// //6. Other calendars...We use other calendars as lunar calendars use the moon and solar calenders use the cycle of the seasons, we use months so we are part of the 'other' calendars//

What is an electro-magnetic pulse?
An EMP or electro-magenetic pulse is a burst of electro-magnetic radiation caused by an explosion are a giant solar flare. In military terminology, an EMP bomb detonated hundreds of kilometers above the earth's surface is known as a **high-altitude electromagnetic pulse** (**HEMP**) device. The fact that an electromagnetic pulse is produced by a nuclear explosion was known since the earliest days of nuclear weapons testing, but the magnitude of the EMP and the significance of its effects were not realized for some time.

When was email invented and who invented it? Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.  The invention of the modem, an electronic device that connects a computer to a telephone line, made possible the transmission of electronic messages.

 What book series is the most popular?  The Lord of the Ring series has sold between 100 million and 1 billion copies.  The Hobbit has also sold between 100 million and 1 billion copies.  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has sold between 50 to 100 million copies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#More_than_1_billion_copies