...Science in my daily life As the Earth completes yet another turn around it axis, the sunlight pours into my bedroom indicating it is time to wake up. In case I miss the hint, my alarm clock set, as usual, for seven o’clock will do the trick. I get up and enter the bathroom, pleasantly warm thanks to the radiator fed with hot water through a series of pipes connected to a central heating boiler. I remain a couple of extra minutes under the shower enjoying the warm water – courtesy again of my boiler -, and finally I am ready to get dressed, opting for a suit cut out of one of these new fabrics that are comfortable, warm and light all at the same time. In the kitchen, I prepare breakfast for four. I turn on the electric kettle to boil water for tea, while a jar of milk heats in the microwave. I turn on the gas oven to warm up the brioche I baked yesterday. It smells delicious and it looks even better, golden and spongy due to the work of yeast. And, while the rest of the family comes down to have breakfast, I turn on the radio to listen to the latest news around the Globe. I have been awaken for just some twenty minutes and science is all around me: the movement of planets, the electricity, the water treatment, the transformation and piping of the gas we use to cook and heat out homes, the chemistry behind new fabrics, the radio waves or the power of the small fungi we use for our pastries. Whatever I do, whatever I see, science is at the heart of everything. And the day...
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...front door, unlock it, and reach in to turn on the light switch located inside by the front door. The light strangely does not turn on, now what? Its clear that there must be some explanation as is to why the light did not turn on, my first reaction would be to try one more time to see if “it really was the light” and not human error. Using the scientific method, I came up with two different reasons/scenarios as to how and why the light did not turn on in hopes that one will solve the current situation. Trial #1: * Observe: I have observed that the light does not work, since I tried flicking the switch a couple of times. * Hypothesis: Since the light is not working my first thought would be that the light bulb has burnt out. * Experiment: Since the house is dark, I take out my phone in hopes it will shine a path to the next light switch, which is a couple feet away. I switch on that light and observe if it or isn’t working. * Data: Once I have figured out if the other lights are working or not I can come up with my conclusion and collect my data. My data would conclude if the lights in the other part of the house were working or not. * Communicate/Conclusion: Once I observed my option of turning on another light I can see if my hypothesis was correct. If the light in another room worked I could conclude that the light walking in the front door has burnt out and I need to replace the light bulb. If the lights in the other room do not turn on I need to regroup...
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...Science is defined as “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment (Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, n.d.).” Science may have been, is, or will be a part of someone’s life. Personally, science always has been, is, and will be not only a part of my life, but my life itself. My interest in science came from my experiences with animals from as early as I can remember. Something interesting that I have learned about science in my time at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School is that it is limitless; or as once stated by Carl Sagan, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Science fits into my future goals absolutely. My interest in science came from my experiences with animals from as early as I can remember. To this day I have had practically every pet available at pet retail stores, as popular as my first pet; a cat, to as exotic as my current pets; a miniature macaw, a ball python, a house gecko, and more. Because my interest in science came from my experiences with animals from as early as I can remember, science always has been, is, and will be not only a part of my life, but my life itself. Something interesting that I have learned about science in my time at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School is that it is limitless; or as once stated by Carl Sagan, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” To this day...
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...Meets Science Real Life 1 Science Meets Real Life: Unit 10 Final Project Lashundra T. Jones Kaplan University SC300-09 Professor Morris December 5, 2010 Science Meets Real Life 2 Science Meets Real Life: Unit 10 Final Project With life you never know what to expect, a famous actor once quoted in a movie Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you will get. (Forrest Gump, 2000). That was an understatement if you were to ask me! But what most individuals dont realize is that life and science go hand and hand. We use reasoning to denote certain things about people or places. We even use the scientific method to solve everyday problems without even realizing it. Take a look at two of my life scenarios and see how I applied the scientific method to each of these problems and came up with my solution. After that we will take a ride and see why I cannot live with or without science. So hold this should be an interesting journey. As I started my entrance into my home one night after getting off late to find that the light to the front room would not come on. I asked myself two questions; why did the light not come on and what could be wrong with it? Here is where we use the scientific method in our lives without even giving it a second thought. After I asked those two questions I had to do some research and come up with a few good reasons or in science terms (construct a hypothesis) as to why the light did not come on. After careful consideration I came up with two hypotheses...
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...SCIENTIFIC METHOD There is no mistaking it - the benefits from science are all around us. It has made our daily lives better through medicine, healthcare, technological, electrical and even mechanical innovation. If you are reading this paper on a computer, it is science that made it all possible. Understanding the many complexities of science can be quite a difficult undertaking, however, there is a common denominator that all scientists use in achieving the amazing results that they achieve; they use the scientific method. The scientific method allows scientists to utilize a common approach to address the requirements of the scientific community. These techniques allow other scientists, as well as just the layman, to know that there has been a standardized system applied to the scientific process. I will present a brief example of what the scientific method is and how to apply it to a real life issue. I have just arrived at home after a late night at work. I begin walking up to my front door and observe that the front porch light is not on. "That is interesting", I think to myself, "I wonder what it could be?" I begin to gather other information. I notice that there are lights on in my neighbor's house as well as a light being on in my own house in the kitchen. This tells me that there is not a power outage in my neighborhood. I open my front door and flip the interior light switch on and off; still the light does not come on. I...
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...Asif Chowdhury SC300: Big Ideas in Science Professor: Judy Ikawa Unit 9 11/22/2011 Many of us use the scientific method unconsciously on a daily basis, for work, tasks such as cooking and budgeting. The same elements present in traditional scientific inquiry are present in these everyday examples. Understanding how to apply the scientific method to these seemingly non-scientific problems can be valuable in furthering one's career and in making health-related decision. The scientific method is a process to ask question and answer scientific problem solving by making observation and doing experiments. We can follow the below steps to solve our problem scientifically: Observation This is the first part of scientific method is discovered upon direct observation of what is around us. As a scientist we have to look critically and attempt to avoid all kind if sources and bias in this observation. Ask question The second step in the scientific method is formulated by questions. Ask as many questions as we need to answer. Science can answer many questions, but there are some which cannot be answered by science. Hypothesis The next part of our scientific method is to form a hypothesis. This is simply an educated guess as to the answer for the question. Prediction The prediction is an official way to put a hypothesis to a test. If the test works most likely we are on a right track to solve our problem. If we have carefully designed our hypothesis to be sure it...
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...The word 'science' is derived from the Latin word 'scientia' which means knowledge. Therefore, science is about gaining knowledge either through observing, studying, experience, or practice. Entire knowledge acquired through science is about discovering truths, finding facts, uncovering phenomenon hidden by the nature. Observations and experimentation, in science, support in describing truth and realities through systematic processes and procedures. For me, science is an intellectual set of activities designed to uncover information about anything related to this world in which we live. The information gathered is organized through scientific methods to form eloquent patterns. In my opinion the primary objective of science is to gather information and to distinguish the order found between facts. What Science Means to Me as an Upcoming Scientist Science exposes several ideas along with significant themes so that I could test them independently and without any bias to arrive at solid conclusion. For this purpose exchange of data and materials is necessary. I am able to generate real and tangible facts supported by reliable evidence. Work of scientist is based on theoretical science. It means, in theoretical science, there is only a sign, just a hint on which discoveries could be made, facts could be found. While studying science I am always working for determining truth, based on my perceptions, judgment, observation, experience, and knowledge collected through several means...
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...SCIENCE MEETS REAL LIFE 2 The scientific method is the set of actions that one takes when trying to figure something out. It is based on the principle of cause and effect (Ward). By definition there must be five steps in order for the scientific method to occur. The first action is observing something that piques one’s curiosity. The second action, questioning, may occur simultaneously. Something is seen, and questions come into the observers mind like “Why does that work like that?”, or “What would happen if…” The third action is called the hypothesis, which everyone remembers from grade school means, an educated guess. This can also be referred to as a prediction. Logically, the fourth step is to test this hypothesis through experimentation. Finally, an explanation is created as a result of testing the hypothesis (Pruitt, 2006). It is important to note that the experimentation phase of the scientific method can be a very lengthy one. The results of experiments may support one’s hypothesis, but further experimentation may be needed to account for other factors or scenarios. If the experiment does not support the hypothesis, more research may be needed as to why. More experiments will follow. Experimenting can raise more questions, which may require one to start the process over from the first step again. People use the scientific method numerous times every day, without ever thinking of it. While the phrase “scientific method” normally conjures up images...
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...“It smells like a smell, a smelly type of smell, that smells smelly” my lab partner stated to me. He was right, it was a full gaseous aroma that was thick and felt like it weighed my lungs. If it was in the form of a gas cloud, it would be opaque with a deep dovetail gray. The preserved lamb heart made me ponder “Is this really what I want to do in life?” I was unsure, I believe in order to prosper in life I had to adapt to my environment and be willing to change without forcing myself to live a fraudulent life or to spend my life as someone else; for you only have one life why live it as someone else? In the beginning I prefered not to pursue the medical field. At least not human medicine, for I was more interested in veterinary science....
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...already been dark for a few hours, so I figured my dog would be lying on the other side waiting as usual. I didn’t want to trip or fall on him; I didn’t want to hurt myself or him, so when I unlocked the front door the first thing I did was reach into the doorway and felt for the light switch to the right. I wanted to turn the light on in the in the foyer before walking in so that I could see where I was going, and where he was lying, but when I flipped the switch nothing happened. I had a situation. Why wasn’t my light working and how was I going to fix it? I went back to the car and grabbed a flashlight from my trunk. First, I had to identify my problem; I had no light in the dark. Next, I mentally compiled data relevant to the situation; I flipped the light switch and nothing happened. I then had a few different hypotheses. One, the light bulb was burned out. Two, there may have been a blown fuse, or three my bill payment was not received by the electric company. In order for me to figure out which, if any, of my hypotheses were correct, I had a few experiments to perform. First, I walked to the room closest to the front door which was the dining room and turned the light switch on; the light came on; therefore, I believe that my bill payment had been received by the electric company because power to other sources that needed electricity worked. From the dining room, I went to the closet in the hall which housed the fuse box to my home. None of the switches were out of place...
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...weapon which you can use to change the world” Nelson Mandela. I am the one who love science so much! As my father told me since I was in high school. He told me that I can get the goodness in this world or other world after the death by using knowledge, science. So I really use it as my soul of learning on my life. By loving science, I would hope that the knowlegde will love me and be my best friend in make the changes in life. As Mr. Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. That is really a powerful thought that make him really change the world. He struggled for the life of his peole in South Africa. He was the first black president in South Africa (1994-1999). And his powerful influence not only in his country, but in the world. His powerful thought is still popular until now. He is my inspiration about education. I had been teaching in Indonesia since December 2010 until November 2013 before I came to the Philippines to continue my study in Maternal and Child Nursing. I was an educator in the private scool of midwifery and also educator in alternative school in Karanganyar Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. This school is for children and teenage who were unfortunate enough to continue their high school because they had to work to get money for their family. It was really a worthy experience to teach in alternative school. My first experience in education was in midwivery college. The college is located in a foot...
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...Faith in the Life of Pi ¶When it comes to a battered subject such as faith, one could arguably say that faith is one of the most highly discussed and highly controversial subjects amongst humans all over the world. I, myself, have never really been much of a religious person during my life. My father was raised in a very Jewish household where he attended Hebrew school, celebrated Passover and Hanukkah every year and ate kosher meals. My mother was raised as a Christian, although I’m not too sure if she attended church on a regular basis because my grandmother was an immigrant from Japan so she wasn’t exactly the biggest Christian. So throughout my life we have celebrated Hanukkah and Christmas together as a family to keep in touch with both sides of our family, so as you can see my parents are the type of open minded people who do not force a religion upon me, they grant me my own religious freedom. ¶This freedom that my parents allowed me to grow up meant that I didn’t have to go to church every Sunday and I didn’t have to go to any type of Hebrew school if I didn’t want to. I went to some youth groups when I was younger and was not captured by anything I saw or heard and I’ve celebrated Passover with my father’s side of the family and I’ve heard both the stories from their religions and I still was not captured by anything I saw or heard. I have learned the major beliefs and morals of many religions around the world and none have made any sense to me yet. I agree with...
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...Unit 9: Importance of Science in Everyday Life Jacob Barac Kaplan University SC300- 16: Big Ideas in Science Instructor: Holly Painter October 27, 2012 Importance of Science in everyday Life For all the millenniums that humans have lived on the Earth, the most important aspect of existence has been the application of science in people’s life. Everything that occurs on earth, whether it is technological advancement or domestication of animals and crops is done by using science as the main catalyst or the driving force behind everyday humans’ success. It should not be surprising to anyone to see that science and its application of various methods is central and so essential to all the discoveries that people make around the world. Methodically, science is use as a guide to everything that humans do, and without it, life would be almost impossible to attain because human beings are not like other animals. The physical characteristics that humans have separate them from other known mammals. Therefore, innovative approach by means or through application of science and technology close the gap that exists between other animals and humans. With that being said, science is a machine that makes life easier to all humans on the planet. It is not surprising to witness humans looking for answers and solutions to all sorts of problem. This is so because humans are fond of using science to make discoveries. As normal as the life itself, the fact that light did not come on is not...
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...Frankenstein through its discrediting of science and the omnipotence of nature, confirms ands challenges our own habitual understandings of the world around us. The habitual understanding I will be focusing on is western hegemonic rationalism and the dominance of science as the ruler and explainer of my universe in comparison to the earlier more romantic ideology of Shelley’s time. Frankenstein also carries a warning about ambition. In a society that believes ambition to be a good thing, Shelley attempts to revel catastrophic consequences for humans over come with the quest for glory and science’s obsessive and overly ambitious nature. Western hegemonic ideal is the cultural identity that has conditioned me, becoming habitual, normal and routine. However, Shelley was privileged as she was writing at the beginning of the scientific enlightenment era, and could therefore identify what would be lost if science and technology were to usurp the position of God, nature and fate. Art, emotions, passion, suffering, humility etc were to be restricted into liminal spaces, creating a world not unlike Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World. Romantic philosophies have been endorsed in Frankenstein through the downfall of Victor due to scientific endeavour, the travelogue aspects of the story and the extreme emotions prevalent in the characters. This works to reveal the cracks in my own hegemonic, habitual understanding, confirming my personal romantic belief that life should be experienced, not studied...
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...It wasn’t the most eloquent choice of words but my roommate Nolan had a point. ‘… What I mean is that you are not a classical type of person; you’re on your way to become a politician and an aspiring scientist and a philanthropist like Bill Gates. You have potential but you don’t flaunt it. You are contradiction…’ His point verged on being a compliment. Laughing at his observation I responded to Nolan: ‘Well Nolan, I am a product of my own environment.’ I was an antsy baby born at the time when my dad was doing his military service. My curious soul has always pursued to learn everything it could. My passion for learning has evolved to be more powerful than ever, which leads me towards a path where I want to discover more about who I want...
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