It's Adventure Van here, with a blog about ASL. ASL is a branch off of plain Sign Language, with almost every country having their own version. ASL is a first or secondary language of Deaf and Hard Hearing People. It's a language which is almost entirely dependent upon hands. American Sign Language is also NOT a word for word comparison, being with it's own grammar, word placement, and some words not existing and some words existing. It's honestly just a complete other language, slightly based off English.
(I'll be doing more blogs about this in the future)
Adventure Van, 'sign'ing out.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Unity!
Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about Unity, one of the current main video game producing code systems alongside Java. It's a 3d/2d engine that is quite simple to use and works well for creating things like 'Right Click to Necromance' and 'Wizard Swipe', popular games for both tablets and computers, as well as animations and Virtual Reality. It's also what I'm currently using to code my game(s), so it's extremely easy if I can do it.
Adventure Van, coding out.
Adventure Van, coding out.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Sugar, a drug?
Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about Sugar and its dangers. It's come up again that sugar can lower your lifespan, and is as addictive as some drugs. Sugar comes in pre-made packs called candy and soda, which makes it easy to 'overdose' and get to a level of unhealthy that can kill in bad situations. While some disagree about how dangerous it is, it's barely possible to eat enough natural foods and get the same amount of sugar as in a coke.
While we had this same problem in the 1970's, sugar and candy companies turned it around to try to convince that sugar actually helps you not want to eat as much, which will result in losing wait. The ad below and others like it were produced by the Sugar Information group, a group 'sponsored' by sugar and candy companies. During 1970 and 2000, sugar consumption went up 30%, alongside obesity rates doubling.
We also still have no medical response to the addiction that sugar gives, being able to trigger rewards in our brain to make us want more. That response is from when sugar was a rare treat, and the more of it we had, the more energy we got. However, in a world where everything from burgers to 'Savory' chips are laced with sugar, it's hard not to get addicted.
That's Adventure Van, going on a sugar ruuuusssshhhhhhhh.....
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| One of the many 'Sugar Ads' that were thrown into papers. |
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Glass!
Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about glass, that little noticed thing that you're seeing this post thru right now. But what if it didn't exist? What do you think would've happened in a world where glass didn't let light thru? If you said/thought that'd we'd just continue without skyscrapers and windows, you'd be wrong.
Before I continue that thought, let's look at how glass was invented. Glass was invented by: A, a lighting strike, B, a very fearsome punch, or C, some bored Egyptians baking bread? While there's no definite answer, most historians believe that the correct one is C. However it was found, it was circulated around Egypt, some of it ending up in King Tut's Tomb! It was then taken by the Romans who experimented with it to begin making it stronger and bigger.
Glass was important with plenty of things, but some of the most needed things it was used for were mirrors, that completely changed art and our self images as we knew them, telescopes and microscopes, which allowed us to place our self in the world, screens, which allowed us to make TVs and smart phones, and just giant panes of glass, which we use for skyscrapers today.
Some misconceptions about glass are: it being a slow moving liquid, it being made perfectly clear, that glass and plastic are easily interchangeable, and that glass acts like a magnifier in one piece. The actual truths: builders put panes in upside down so that there was less weight at the top, it took years to perfect clearness, glass and plastic are not interchangeable as they have separate chemical compounds that changes the amount of light absorbed, and glass needs 2 or more pieces in order to magnify.
Now, if we didn't have glass, we wouldn't have started with the Egyptians having glass, meaning the Romans wouldn't have had it and experimented with it, creating early structures, and we also wouldn't have the mirror, which would have completely changed the Renaissance's view of the human body.
We also wouldn't have Galileo's and other such scientists discoveries because of the missing components of telescopes. We'd also fall sick to preventable diseases because we wouldn't be able to examine and find cures for them because of the lack of microscopes. On the same note, we also wouldn't be able to prove atoms and cells, completely changing scientific history. Not having glass would've completely changed things from the point where the Egyptians found it. Makes you look at it differently, doesn't it?
That's Adventure Van, signing out.
Before I continue that thought, let's look at how glass was invented. Glass was invented by: A, a lighting strike, B, a very fearsome punch, or C, some bored Egyptians baking bread? While there's no definite answer, most historians believe that the correct one is C. However it was found, it was circulated around Egypt, some of it ending up in King Tut's Tomb! It was then taken by the Romans who experimented with it to begin making it stronger and bigger.
Glass was important with plenty of things, but some of the most needed things it was used for were mirrors, that completely changed art and our self images as we knew them, telescopes and microscopes, which allowed us to place our self in the world, screens, which allowed us to make TVs and smart phones, and just giant panes of glass, which we use for skyscrapers today.
Some misconceptions about glass are: it being a slow moving liquid, it being made perfectly clear, that glass and plastic are easily interchangeable, and that glass acts like a magnifier in one piece. The actual truths: builders put panes in upside down so that there was less weight at the top, it took years to perfect clearness, glass and plastic are not interchangeable as they have separate chemical compounds that changes the amount of light absorbed, and glass needs 2 or more pieces in order to magnify.
Now, if we didn't have glass, we wouldn't have started with the Egyptians having glass, meaning the Romans wouldn't have had it and experimented with it, creating early structures, and we also wouldn't have the mirror, which would have completely changed the Renaissance's view of the human body.
We also wouldn't have Galileo's and other such scientists discoveries because of the missing components of telescopes. We'd also fall sick to preventable diseases because we wouldn't be able to examine and find cures for them because of the lack of microscopes. On the same note, we also wouldn't be able to prove atoms and cells, completely changing scientific history. Not having glass would've completely changed things from the point where the Egyptians found it. Makes you look at it differently, doesn't it?
That's Adventure Van, signing out.
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