Science

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Weißl Thomas
Muchitsch Matthias

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Axolotl
Overwatch
Nintendo Switch
Sightseeing in Graz
Coronavirus in Austria
Climate change and protection

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Axolotl
The Axolotl is a Mexican, underwater
caudate. Axolotls are so called
“duration-larva”. That means when the
Axolotl is sexually mature, he doesn’t
leave the form of a larva. The name of
the Axolotl comes from the Aztec word
“Nahuatl” and this means “Watermonster”.
Alexander von Humbold
brought the first Axolotl to Europe in
August 1804. Could you imagine having
such creature as a pet?
The Axolotl is 23 to 28-centimetre-long
but in rare occasions it is possible that
this animal can be about 30 centimetres
big. Their tail is a so-called rudder tail.
On their side they have furrows. Their
limbs are quite short but strong. On the
flat and wide head, you can find gills on
both sides and behind you can find
cartilage teeth.
The big mouth is subordinate, the snout
is a bit round and the lidless eyes are far
away. You can only know their gender
when you look at their cloacae. If it is a
man, the cloacae is a bit arched out but
if it is a woman the cloacae is flat. Their
usual skin colour is dark grey or brown
marbled and on the belly side a bit
lighter. Today many other colour
variants got breed.
The normal home place of Axolotls is
the Xochimilc-lake and the Chalco-lake
in Mexico-city. These lakes are
remnants of a water system. In the
Texcoco-lake all Axolotl disappeared.
These animals are nocturnal, like cold
and oxygenated water.
It can be an amazing pet, but it could be
hard to handle. What do you think of an
Axolotl now?

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Overwatch
Overwatch is a third person shooter game published by
Blizzard in the 24 th of May 2016. The game has about 28
maps to play on. There are 28 heroes you can play and 8
different game modes.
Every of the 28 heroes has unique abilities and the game
developer even made own short movies for the heroes to
show their personality traits. All heroes even have their own
sprays and slogans. The heroes are subdivided into three
categories. These three categories are “Tank”, “Damage” and
“Support”. Every hero gets put into a category depending on
their abilities. The “Supporters” can heal. The “Tanks” have
much health or a shield. The “Damagers” do much damage
with their weapon or have abilities which make good damage.

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Overwatch
The 8 different game modes are: Control, Assault, Escort, Capture the
flag, Hybrid, Elimination, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. In
Control you have to capture a point and you have to defend this point
for an amount of time. Assault is where you just have to capture two
points, but the enemy team has to defend these points or the opposite.
In Escort you have to escort a car to the end of the way and the enemy
team has to defend it again or the opposite. This game mode is
sometimes mixed with Assault and that’s called Hybrid. The game
mode Capture the flag is self-explaining. You or the enemy team have
to get the flag and carry it into your base but your character you play is
slower than normally. Elimination is one of the game modes where you
can play alone. You have to kill your opponent to win one round. You
have to win three rounds to win the game. This game mode is also
possible to be played in teams. And the last two game modes are Team
Deathmatch and Deathmatch. In Deathmatch you have to kill other
players to get points. One round ends after one player has 20 points.
Team Deathmatch is the same but with teams.
So, know you something about Overwatch. A bit about the heroes and
the game modes. Why not consider buying it?

Nintendo Switch
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The Nintendo Switch (Switch for short)
is the first hybrid gaming console of the
Japanese developer company Nintendo. It
was released on the 3 rd of March 2017 in
Europe. You can play over TV or you can
take the handheld console and play with
that. Did u ever consider buying it?
The console is similar to tablets or
smartphones but with removable
controllers so called Joy-Cons. The Joy-
Cons can be used to play alone or together
with your friends. To play on a TV you
have to put the handheld console into a
station which you connected with a screen.
You can buy a Pro Controller who looks
like a classic gamepad. To play a game you
can buy and download it in the Nintendo E-
Shop or you buy so called Game Cards.
The storage of the Nintendo switch is
32 GB big and it can extend until 2
TB. The handheld consoles screen
has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
The processor is based on the Tegra-
Series and runs with 1020 MHz. The
RAM is 4 GB big and is type
LPDDR4. The battery of the
Nintendo switch remains for 2 to 6
hours.
Now you know something about the
Nintendo switch. Do you want to buy
it now?

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Sightseeing in Graz
Have you ever been in Graz? Have you
seen this beautiful city? – No? Then you
definitely miss something.
Graz is the capital city of the province
Styria in Austria and the population is about
300.000 inhabitants and therefore is Graz
the 2 nd largest city of Austria. The Mur is a
big river and flows through the city.
If you go to Graz you have to see all the
great sights, for example the Schlossberg.
The Schlossberg is a beautiful hill among
the city. On the Schlossberg you have a
great view over the entire city. Another
highlight is the Clock Tower, which is on
the top of the Schlossberg. You can climb
up the hill by foot or you can use the
“Schlossbergbahn” or the elevator.
There are also a lot of amazing
buildings in Graz like the
“Kunsthaus”, the Island in the Mur,
the “Hauptplatz” with the “Rathaus”,
palace Eggenberg, the Landhaus, the
courtyard or the armoury. The
armoury is a house where all the old
weapons and armour are issued.
And when you are on a sightseeing
tour and you get hungry – no
problem. Graz has a lot of great
restaurants, bars and Coffeehouses.
Concluding I only can recommend
seeing this beautiful city with these
amazing sights. So, if you go to
Graz have a nice time and enjoy the
city.

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Coronavirus in Austria
Have you noticed the Corona
Virus? I’m sure you have. This
article will inform you what COVID-
19 is and what the consequences are.
The Corona Virus is an infectious
disease, which is dangerous, as you
don’t recognise that you have the
virus in your body, since you get the
symptoms about 10 days after you
got infected. The spreading is very
fast, because it is easy to transfer the
virus. It is very dangerous for the
older generation and for people with
pre-existing illnesses.
To protect the people and especially the highrisk
groups almost every government inserted
measures to embank the spreading. In Austria
we have following measures: almost everyone
has to stay at home, there are only three reasons
to leave the house: to buy essential things, to
help other people and to go for a walk (but only
alone or with people of your household).
Actual we have 10.636 infected people and
1.071 of them are in a hospital, 215 need
intensive care. Unfortunately, there are already
146 cases od death. (01.04.2020)
To stop the spreading of the virus everyone has
to follow the instructions of the government. I
only want to say one last thing, please stay at
home if you can.

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Climate change and protection
How would you feel about living in a flooded city? This
may sound crazy now, but it could happen earlier than you
might expect. And the reason is called “Climate change”.
The climate change is a long-term change in the weather of
a region (or the whole world) over a particular period of
time. As the climate is changing, consequences for the earth
and people appear. There are different consequences like:
cities could get flooded, as the world gets heated and the ice
on the polar caps melt, the water level rises. If the level
rises cities by the sea (like Sydney) could get flooded. Other
effects are extreme weather situations and different animal
and plant species may extinct.
To fight against the climate change everyone is needed.
Everyone can contribute to stop the climate change and here
are some ways how.

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Climate change and protection
Eco-friendly traveling: Try to use the public
transport to get from one place to the other. For short
distances try to walk or ride your bike and when
there is no other possibility and you use your car,
you could do ride sharing. Furthermore, if it is
possible avoid flying.
Overthink your consumer behaviour: Only buy
things you really need and if you buy them, buy ecofriendly
products. If you buy food, you could buy at
local business. Also stop buying fruits and
vegetables in the winter if they grow in summer.
Save energy: There are such easy and logical ways
to save energy, like turning the light off when you
leave a room, or drying your clothes in the sun when
it is possible. Another point is to shut down the
devices which are in the standby modus.
This are only some points, though there are so many
small things you could do to help to stop the climate
change and only if everyone helps, we can stop it.
So, lets help as long as we can do it.

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