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The article is about whether or not NFTs are bad or not. It first started by explaining what NFTs are and how they work, then explained how it affects the environment, and last if NFTs could be environmentally friendly. The author thinks that currently, NFTs are bad for the environment but that they will eventually become eco-friendly. I agree with the points the author made; that NFTs are pretty harmful to the environment but in the future, they would find ways to become eco-friendly.

]]> 2022-08-30 02:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2275598709 fkalmad https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2283948909 The article that i read was about food holidays in japan. The article explained that the holidays come from wordplay of dates in japanese because japanese has lost of words that sound the same, and that japanese is a inferential language. Some unofficial holidays are banana day, strawberry day, shortcake day, cat day, and many more. Nobody really knows where these holidays come from but people guess it's either from school kids, social media or trade associations, and that the food related holidays are used for marketing. I just chose this article because it seemed interesting.]]> 2022-09-06 04:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2283948909 fkalmad https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2293553458 The article talked about five societies that collapsed due to drought. The first one is Mesa Verde which had around 6,000 people living in it, in a.d. 1277 there was a drought for 23 years, and by a.d. 1300 the people left Mesa Verde. The second was the Akkadian empire, it is considered one of the first great empires and it was in the middle east, it lasted from 2350-2150 bc. the third one is the Mayan empire, which was in Mexico and they were skilled in arts languages and agriculture, in 900 ad the place was abandoned. the fourth is the late bronze age, it collapsed in 1200 bc, it was in the eastern Mediterranean and the society was centered around bronze. the last one is the tang dynasty, which lasted from 618 to 906 ad, and was considered a golden age of arts and culture in china. the article is mostly an informative article about societies that collapsed because of drought.]]> 2022-09-13 04:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2293553458 fkalmad https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2334641873 The article talks about a possible connection between Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In 2016 participants with HSAM were tested for memory then the ones who passed did a phone interview alongside a control group to test their memory, people with HSAM recalled more events. HSAM means to recall memory without skill and recall in detail but they can also have false information. some of the participants in the 2016 study met the criteria for OCD, which lead researchers to say that OCD contributed to HSAM and that the participants replayed events in their heads. I think the author's point of view is that they can see the connection between HSAM and OCD but there still needs to be more research about them. The article interested me because I kind of have a good memory and sort of have OCD so I wanted to see the connection between them]]> 2022-10-11 05:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2334641873 fkalmad https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2344803035 The article was about wendigo. The wendigo is a legend from north America about a creature that looks like a tall, thin human that eats people and the way someone turns into a wendigo is by eating human flesh. The most popular case of wendigo was in 1878 when a man ate his whole family during winter and the people of the town hanged him because they believed he was a wendigo. In Minnesota, there is a lake called windigo and people there think that there is a wendigo inside the lake. The article interested me because I played a game that had wendigo in it. I think the point of this article is to inform people about the wendigo legend, the author of this article has been writing on this site for 10 years and he also wrote a book that won an award.]]> 2022-10-18 09:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2344803035 fkalmad https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2354220743 The article was about why pumpkins are popular on Halloween and their benefits of them. The carving of faces on pumpkins comes from an Irish tradition of carving grotesque faces on turnips to keep the spirit of jack, who was a trickster, away. The tradition went to the Scottish, English but with beets, and in the US when Irish and Scottish people first came, and they used pumpkins instead of turnips. Since the pumpkins are naturally found in Mexico, they are used in a Mayan dish to celebrate Día de Los Muertos. Pumpkins have health benefits and are used in medicine, and the smaller pumpkins are used to make food. Just like carving pumpkins during Halloween, pumpkins have been made to grow into very large sizes to win championships. I thought it was interesting to learn about why pumpkins are so common on Halloween. The article was published recently so the information is current, it is an informative article and the author has linked where they got the information from. The author graduated from the University of Wisconsin and is currently working as an assistant digital editor at Kalmbach Media which owns Discover Magazine Online. The intent of the article was to inform people about pumpkins.]]> 2022-10-24 19:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/fkalmad/jfagy9y7tbpgqvix/wish/2354220743