Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Racing Reopened
Racing Re-opened!
Following a six-day shutdown,
174 racing stables reopened on Wednesday 27th February. This was the result of
a major outbreak of one of the most contagious disease for horses, equine influenza.
At young Reporter, we are looking at the
effects that this shut down has had on the horse-riding community. Horse
enthusiasts Genevieve and Anisah at Bluecoat Wollaton Academy have been
interviewed to find their opinion on equine influenza.
Anisah stated that she believes that the latest
outbreak has had a big effect financially for horse racing and on horse racing
companies because lots of horse races have been cancelled.
Genevieve felt that there was much ignorance in
the general public about equine flu and that the news coverage had been quite
limited. She explained that she don’t feel like the flu will spread because the
shutdowns were quite far away from Nottingham, so therefore we are not worried,
but we are always prepared in case of an outbreak.
We are often complacent about this disease
because we expect hoses to be vaccinated however the proportion of horses
vaccinated in the UK(around 30%) falls well below that which is required to
prevent a major disease outbreak (around 70%)
I did a survey to see how many people in an
average class know about equine flu the results were 5/19 which is very little.
If we can educate more people who either own a horse or may own one in the
future about the importance of horse vaccinations, then we could limit the
amount of horses catching this terrible virus.
Report by Roxanne, Bluecoat
Wollaton Academy |
The Reality of Robotics
The reality of robotics
What exactly will robots be able to do in the future? There
are lots of different rumours floating around that robots will replace us and
take jobs and that ultimately humans won’t be needed. This is possible, but not
entirely true. Experts think that once robotics and A.I reach a certain level
they will work where it’s incredibly dangerous for humans to work for example
in nuclear power, up in space, deep in mines or at the bottom of oceans. Also
it would be very beneficial if robots could eventually handle the job of
sorting out the planet, as humans are currently destroying it. So actually
robots could end up being a huge environmental help.
In the future
First of all, in the future it is
predicted that even without robots, we could create a system that is able to
generate lots of energy from low cost, renewable energy. Robots would be a
great way to maintain these systems and fix them if it’s needed.
Also waterproof droids could use sensors to detect any
unwanted plastic or anything else in oceans and get rid of it, this could help
plastic pollution.
Overall the future in robots shows a
lot of hope and they could definitely solve a lot of current problems and
maintain or fix a lot of upcoming things. This is because they are always
active and can be programmed to fix any available problem; also they could definitely
become more mobile than us so it will be easier for them to get to the problem
first.
Investments into robotics
Driverless cars are
already making the headlines, for example just yesterday the fastest road car
was created, and it was driverless. Over £239m has been in driverless car projects all over the
UK in the hope that one day soon they will be full proof and efficient.
By 2050 we are estimated to need 60% more food than we do now
so the government has invested £90m to transform food production, this includes
ideas to get robots harvesting crops much faster than humans ever could.
Experiments have been done and have revealed that robots can pick strawberries
twice as fast as humans; also an entire barley crop has been planted, tented
and harvested by robots.
Final word
All of this sounds very exciting but there is one question
that still stands: will robots take our jobs? So in the future, while we’ll see
some jobs replaced entirely by machines, most will be augmented by them to make
our jobs safer, more flexible and more interesting. This is good news for
everyone – the increased productivity of a workforce where human and machine
skills are combined will help grow economies, and opportunities, worldwide.
By Sam Yr8
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