3-D Printer

New 'Molecule-Making Machine' Could Speed The Development Of Life-Saving Drugs

By: Macrina Cooper-White

Source: Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/14/3d-print-molecules-machine-drugs_n_6864636.html?utm_hp_ref=science

  3-D printing is the new invention that everyone is talking about. 3-D printing is not just ant original printer; it prints anything one would want in 3-D. Thanks to 3-D printing it is now possible to print from pizza to prosthetics to human organs with just a push of a button. 3-D printing works on the atomic scale, it assembles complex molecules from scratch. This machine can revolutionize the drug- development process. Dr.Martin D.Burke, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois said, “We’re really excited about the immediate impacts that this will have on drug discovery.” This 3-D printer can synthesize small molecules, which requires a step-by-step series of chemical reactions. The process is time consuming and requires someone with a lot of expertise. The new printer simplifies the molecule-making process and makes it accessible to non-chemists. When one puts power into technology a tremendous impact will make history. Dr.Martin D.Burke also said, “A 3-D printer for molecules could allow us to harness all the creativity, innovation, and outside-the-box thinking that comes when non-experts start to use technology that used to only be in the hands of a select few.” To create such a machine like this Dr. Brooke and his collaborators analyzed thousands of molecules and identified the chemical building blocks. The 3-D printer snaps these building blocks together like LEGOs and then washed away byproducts. This printer is capable of building fourteen classes of small molecules, and the researchers hope to develop the technology to the point that is can assemble almost any kind of small molecule. This article is important because it shows how important a 3-D printer can be and how useful it will once it works properly.   

Gender Equality

  In our society today men and women still discuss the issue if women are equal to men. Some men think that women should stay home, cook, clean, be a hostess, and take care of the children. This is the twenty-first century and women can work, clean, go to school, and also take care of the children. In marriages they also do have equal rights for money, and children.  In today’s society men and women have equal rights under certain circumstances. Men and women are equal in politics. Women can vote, run for office, serve in the Senate and the House of representatives, and vote on legislation. Women are powerful in politics and have equal say and vote on what needs to be passed. In jobs, women and men do not have equal rights. An example can be if a women or a man is running for CEO at a top business firm, a man would most likely be able to get the job. Women feel like it is important to have equal rights for jobs because women can run company as well as a man can. Women still have equal rights in theory, but there is still discrimination. Society slowly does accept women in different situations, like work. No matter what men will always have the upper hand because they are the strong ones and the head of the house. Women now have taken over and do the same, maybe in a few years men and women will have equal rights because society enforces equality in men and women. 

President Obama's Speech In Selma

“In Selma, a chance to hear a president and be part of history”

By: Ann M. Simmons

Source: LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-selma-speech-20150307-story.html

  President Obama spoke in front of thousands of people at the Edmund Pettus Bridge; a site of violence and bitterness had become one peace and triumph. Everyone was inspired and president Obama had recognized and included his race and all other races in his speech. “ Fifty years from ‘Bloody Sunday’, our march is not yet finished, but we’re getting closer. Two hundred and thirty nine-years after the nations founding, our union is not yet perfect, but we are getting closer. Our job’s easier because somebody already got us through that first mile. Somebody already got us through that first mile. Somebody already got us over that bridge” quoted Obama (Simmons, 1). George Holmes a retired Department Corrections worker said he was eighteen years old in March 1965 and did not participate in the Bloody Sunday march, but he did take part in the demonstrations in his hometown of Birmingham. On Saturday it was the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. President Obama was there to give a wide-ranging speech that mentioned diverse characters of Susan B. Anthony, James Baldwin, Lewis and Clark, and more. People In the crowd loved Obama’s speech and it affected the audience emotionally. Obama had said appropriate things and stated true facts about racial discrimination. Students also attended this ceremony and caught a glimpse of how this day is important and what it means for the others who were affected by discrimination. Obama’s speech in Selma was powerful and emotional; no one will forget this memorable day.