7/11/18

Part 1:

Today, I watched a video called "Shaq's 10-year beef with David Robinson included the pettiest 71-point game and one huge lie". The video talks about the fighting between Shaq and David Robinson from the early 1990's to the early 2000s. The beef started when during the 1994 All-Star, normally a fun, slow game, the West all-star team conspired to destroy Shaq. They held Shaq to 2-12 shooting, and Shaq promised he would have his revenge. Then, when Shaq played Robinson and the Spurs, he did well, scoring 32 points and 11 rebounds. But Robinson scored 36 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 6 blocks, and 3 steals, which is ridiculous. The San Antonio crowd yelled MVP, and Shaq got pissed, saying he was the real MVP. But Robinson's teammates told him David played a way better game. Then, Shaq told the media everyone was jealous of him, and Robinson laughed at the idea. The next part of the beef happened when Shaq was going to lead the NBA in points in his second year. He was leading Robinson by 33 points and Robinson and the Spurs knew this. They gave him the ball, possession after possession until David put up 71 points, and the scoring title. For a little while, the beef cooled down, and when Shaq dunked on Robinson in the All-Star game, nothing really happened. Then, Shaq joined the Western Conference and the Lakers, meaning they would face each other in the playoffs often. But Robinson was getting old and Tim Duncan was the new face of the franchise. The big lie from the title was Shaq said David Robinson refused Shaq an autograph when Shaq was a kid. But this story was fake and was a way to fuel Shaq with anger. This was an awesome video.

Part 2:

Today, I went to the PALY Science camp, and we did two different activities. The first activity we did was called copper plating a key. We clipped two wires to a key and a strip of copper. The wires were clipped to a battery and we submerged the key and copper in copper sulfate. The copper plated the key but because I didn't submerge the key all the way and the key was super clean, the copper looked a little weird. Since it looked weird, I just rubbed off the copper. The second activity was dissecting an owl pellet. The owl pellet was the size of a golf ball and is a mixture of hair and bones. My partner and I found two rodent heads along with a bunch of tiny bones. Then, we had a competition. If you eat one of the owl pellets, you would get five lottery tickets. It was super disgusting, so I didn't do it, but 4 kids did.