Posted in Ethics, Media on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Look at Picture #6, of a little boy in a Palestinian refugee camp. Heartbreaking if you ask me. It’s also a perfect example of how we see things through a particular lens – such as the lens of the environment we are brought up in (one would just wish that a little child like that [...]
Posted in Emotion, Reason, history on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Four versions of 450 years of British history: The Subjectivity of History
Laws are based on reason, but sometimes reason makes no sense: A Sudanese Family Reunites in Brooklyn
Posted in Language, Natural Sciences on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
The Long Debate of Adding Ununbium to the Periodic Table: I find this to be a very interesting subject – but am still pondering to understand how exactly these recent elements are “created” (the idea that some chemical elements are discovered, and other are created…. yes, that’s just fascinating to me).
It also makes me [...]
Posted in Natural Sciences, history on Jun 12th, 2009 No Comments »
New Element to Be Included on Periodic Table: A good example of new knowledge in the sciences. It might work for the question on “provisional conclusions in the sciences”, but also the “discovered/invented” question. The article states:
Scientists at the Helmholtz Center have discovered six chemical elements, numbered 107-112, since 1981.The remaining five elements have already [...]
Posted in Emotion, Ethics, Natural Sciences on Jun 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Some more articles you might enjoy (or find interesting, depending on the topic):
Scientific Research into Humour. Somewhat related is this article, which considers the scientific nature of blushing.
Remember that ludicrous Facebook Quiz “Are you a potato?”? Seems like Proctor & Gamble should have taken that quiz: Pringles Are Potato Chips.
Not so light-hearted, on the other [...]
