first day and post

Over the past weekend I began my research. I was very general with my research and because of this did not find information that I will definitley use in the project, but it did give me a general idea about the subject.

When researching today the most important thing I realized was how important it is to look at the source of the information you are recieving. I passed on certain information that was provided by random blogs or theorists or other sources which I did not fully trust. With this subject being enviromental there are a lot of theories that are unproven, also there can be many different scientific opinions on one subject.

I think tonight was very helpful for setting a foudation for the rest of my project. I am hoping that my group will have researched tonight as well so we will all be prepared. Tonight my research was about synthetic pesticides, although I attempted to focus on this subject only, i did find information about pesticides on a broader level.Tomorow when researching natural pesticides I will make sure that I don't find the same information and that i try to focus on natural pesticides.

Since this is my first blog I am not sure how much we are supposed to write. I can't imaging that we have to write more than this, especially because we are doing this every night).

Helpful Websites I used (not all the websites):

http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/sun/1997/sun6.html - the effects of pesticides on the body ( lots of info)

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/531534/#imagetop - pesticides in 80% of American schools

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6012.cfm - banana farmers suing for infertility

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/human.htm - various pesticides and their affect ( not that good)

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/synthetic-v-natural-pesticides/ - pesticides on food we eat, synthetic vs natural

http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/pesticides/ec2505.htm - scientific info