Hydra Plants!

(on behalf of Sidharta)

You may be wondering why we call a hydra a hydra. We call hydras hydras because they can grow new heads, even if you cut one head off!

Well I'm going to tell you something weird...one time when I was going on a walk, I looked at a fallen branch. It was spring, 2010, but I've seen this branch a couple of times, whenever I went on walks. But this particular walk, I saw flowers growing on it, even though this particular branch had fallen off the tree. It was still growing flowers that used to be buds! And I decided to call this type of growing flowers "hydrasynthesis". Now if you see something like this, leave a comment on the Scientific Times!

If you just listen to me

You know why I have no comments? If you just listen to me, then everything that I have on my blog will seem interesting to you, like the miniature Germis or gemstones or Nepie, the Chinese dragon that survived. I just want to get more comments. And you may be noticing that I'm not trying to control your minds. I just want you to be interested in what a world we have. And I know that you may be thinking that I'm just trying to get attention. But I really want people to know what a world we have, and what is more to discover. So those who are listening to this posting, just listen to it, and then you may want to listen to the other postings I put into this blog.

So if there's any one of you that is outside my house and wants to send comments to my blog, click on the comments link below.

Nepie the Chinese surviving dragon

(On behalf of Sidharta)

If you are born on the year of the Dragon, you're pretty lucky. Especially when you find a real dragon. Scientists have found barely any dragons. Now you may be wondering why we call the largest lizard on Earth "Komodo Dragon". You may all know that's because of its size and strength of poison.

Nepie, however, is a dragon that has fire guarding all around its body. It's supposed to have eight legs, no wings and natural satellites that help it fly. The satellites that help it fly are a bit confusing. It attracts all the asteroids in space by shooting these natural lights into the cosmos. The lights pull the dragon up towards the sky. So if you see any sign of Nepie, leave me a comment here, on The Scientific Times blog.

Crystallized slime

You may be wondering that there's no such thing as slime that is crystallized. And this is what you'd be saying to me: "Oh, my god, you're such a liar! I wouldn't even want to go to your house and have a playdate with you."

Slime crystal is actually a real thing. If you put it in water, then partially dry it off, then rub the water that is left on the crystal as hard as you can, then you slime yourself! It feels like the slime is like crystallized, but it's not strong enough to be against water.

The slime crystal is always green, and it's not polygon shaped. So if you want to call about geology, then call me.

Germis, the small canine

Back at school I was looking for more gemstones. But then I found this strange fossil. I examined it and it seemed to belong to a very small undiscovered canine (which means dog). It happens to be two inches tall, five inches long, able to jump one foot and was a carnivore. I only found the upper jaw of its head. It hunted in packs and fed on herbivores and insects.

The bird of the mix

Imagine being in the spring of 2009. And it's spring break. And you look on a cherry tree, and you see a beautiful bird with a strange green on its wings and a beak of a toucan! That animal happened to be discovered by me, and I call it the Humming Pigeon Toucan. Why I call it that, is that in some features, it resembles a hummingbird, being so colorful. The strange green on its wings reminds me of pigeons. And the beak reminds me of toucans. I think this bird is a migrator. It only migrates to New Jersey of North America only in the spring. And I found this strange bird in the cherry tree in the front yard of my house.

Gemstones

Strangely scientists think that all the minerals of the world have been discovered. WRONG! I, Sidharta, have discovered some very interesting gemstones--or should I call them minerals. The first mineral I want you to be introduced to is the rainbow stone. Rainbow stone changes colors--blue or violet...if you're lucky, you might be able to find one that turns green, too! Another mineral or gemstone that I want you to be introduced to is Rochus (Ro-CUS): a mineral that can change colors if you rotate it in different angles. The next gemstone I will introduce you to is mint. Mint happens to be a green mineral; I call it mint because it reminds me of the plant mint. Usually the amount of mint that you would find on ordinary rocks is very little. Another mineral I would like to introduce you to is called green calcite. I found out it was calcite because usually calcite dissolves in vinegar and forms new calcite crystals. I knew this was calcite, only green, because it started dissolving in vinegar. Last, but not least, is called Fool's Silver! The scientific name for it is syrite. My sister, Annapurna, thought that it wouldn't be ordinary Pyrite, so I called this Fool's Silver, but I also had to give it a scientific name, so I called it syrite.

Happy New Years, all of you!