Week 15 Wikipedia Trail: from Nanoparticles to

Link 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoparticle
For my capstone class, we have to write a lot of papers about nanoparticles. I know a lot of detail about them, but I thought that it would be interesting to break it down to the rudimentary wikipedia page and see what it has to say about the topic.

Link 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity
I thought it would be interesting to read more about gravity because I have never been very good at physics. I thought it was particularly interesting to learn more about the history of the theory behind it.

Link 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet
I decided to follow the wikipedia trail to the planet page because I thought it would be an interesting read. I don't know much about astronomy and I thought that it was interesting to learn more about what criteria an object must meet in order to be considered a planet.

Link 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe
I had heard the name Tycho Brahe before and I vaguely remembered that it was astronomy related. I thought it was interesting, however, to learn more about the life he led besides his contributions to astronomy.

Caption: Tycho Brahe. Link.

Week 14 Wikipedia Trail: From the German Language to Greenhouse Gases

Article 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
I decided to choose the German language as the starting point for my wikipedia trail because I think it's really interesting and I've been studying it for 3 years so I thought it'd be interesting to read more about it. I did think it was really an interesting article because I didn't realize how many places it was actually spoken and the different dialects everywhere.

Articles 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony
I chose Saxony to be my second article because I'll be doing a study abroad this summer in Leipzig which is the capital of Saxony, so I thought it'd be interesting to learn more about it. I thought it was interesting to learn more about the industries of Saxony and I didn't know that it was nicknamed Silicon Saxony.

Article 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
I decided to follow the link to the European Union next because I thought it would be interesting to read more about. I thought it was interesting to see how little of the population was encompassed in the EU but how much of the world's GDP is produced by the EU.

Article 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
I decided to follow a link to learn more about Greenhouse Gases. You hear so much about carbon emissions and I really don't know how much I actually knew about greenhouses gases besides what causes them and the effect they have on the environment, so I thought that it was interesting to learn more about greenhouse gases.

Caption: A map of Saxony. Link.

Wikipedia Trail: From Grimms' Fairy Tales to National Park Service

Link 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms'_Fairy_Tales
I started with the Grimms' Fairy Tales. I read a lot of their stories this week and they're the focus of my storybook and I just find them really interesting so I wanted to learn a little more about them.

Link 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Yolen
I decided to explore a topic of somebody that I didn't know. This led me to the author Jane Yolen. She is an author that has written many a books.

Caption: Jane Yolen, the author, Link.

Link 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

I thought that it was interesting that Jane's wikipedia page contained a link to the statue of liberty because it's hard to see their connection by looking at them separately. I decided to follow this link because I thought it would be an interesting read and that I could stand to learn more about the topic. 

Link 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service

I admittedly do not know much about the National Park Service, so I decided to follow the link to its' page to learn more about it. I thought it was an interesting read and lead me to a very different ending than my beginning so I thought it was a good end to this trail.