Shark Fin Soup: To eat or not to eat?

Recently there has been a ban enforced on the sale of shark fin. This post is to exhibit my views on this ban.

Although the sale of shark fins has been grossly taken advantage of by illegal fisherman off the coast of certain countries around the world, the banning of sharkfins in Toronto still is a slight mystery to me. City hall has not decided to ban the whole shark, yet only the fin, triggering, in my mind, certain qualities of racism within City hall. The reason I claim this is simple; there is only the fin banned from the market, yet other parts of the shark are allowed to thrive. I believe if the city wants to ban shark fin, the best option the city could make is to ban the entire shark itself, as opposed to only the fin.

Nonetheless, banning the fin itself does have its benefits to Mother Nature. I'm sure the amount of illegal shark hunting will go down after the ban takes effect. Nothing political, no matter how beneficial, comes cleanly without criticism; this much is obvious.

Clothespin Lab

The clothespin lab was an experiment conducted to determine how many times my partners Timothy, Charlie, Peter, and Mohammed could open and close a clothespin in 30 seconds. The added challenge was that we had to go for 6 rounds with little rest in between rounds. Some interesting conclusions were drawn based on several attempts with several different participants:

1. the dominant hand always had more clicks compared to the round with the non-dominant hand.
2. The number of clicks was inversely proportional to the round number.
3. The last round always seemed to have more clicks than the second last round.
4. The pain was documented to be directy proportional to the round number

This lab was a great introduction to cellular respiration, and also a great chance for our group to exhibit our extraordinary finger strength :)