Life Diary

Cooking is an art as well as a necessity of our lives. It can bring great joy to both the cook, as well as those who partake of the well-prepared meal and it can also be a valuable and nutritious addition to our overall health and well being. One might think that cooking and science have little in common, yet that is simply not true, as cooking offers a wide variety of opportunities to teach science to our young. By sharing quality time cooking with our children, they can learn valuable lessons not only in the ethic of work and responsibility but also in the area of science.

Experimenting In The Kitchen

Simple scientific experiments can be conducted within the comfortable confines of ones own kitchen and the end results can be edible! What an approach to science! Yet because the students are learning in a comforting and enjoyable atmosphere, it is not like the stifled book-learning approach to science. Cooking offers the child a hands on and tangible experience, while at the same time teaching them a life skill they can use daily. Children from kindergarten to college can gain practical applications and life-long knowledge by using this approach. Some example of fun experiments parents can incorporate include making candyfloss and ice cream. Making ice cream, for example, allows the exploration of the freezing point of matter. One can also talk about the role of temperature, whipping and foaming during the process. Children can learn a wide range of science concepts while they enjoy the learning process. What is more is that they get to enjoy a tasty treat at the end of the process.  Read more...

Science is nothing other than discovery and understanding things. To some it’s a study to others an adventure. One of the earliest of sciences it fails to loose its place as the number one in research and development. Every year great minds mull over the year that has been and list what the top 10 or 20 science discoveries for the year are.

In 2006 leaders among science discoveries were:

1. A chance to know mankind’s primordial past by the study of comet particles brought back to earth by NASA’s spaceship Stardust. The comet particles are said to contain gases and dust from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Around 150 scientists all over the world are involved in the study of and discovery from the comet remains.

2. Paleontologists have found in Nunavut in Canada a 375 million year old fossil that bridges the gap between land and aquatic creatures. Names Tiktaalik roseae or fishapod the fossil may well solve many mysteries of evolution.

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In this article we will look at some interesting experiments and science fair projects you can easily do with eggs from the refrigerator. You will discover that the common egg has some amazing properties you might not be aware of.

There are a number of egg science projects you can do but I will mention just a few here to spark your interest. I’m sure you will be able to think of many more by using a little imagination.

The Egg Drop Science Experiment

For this experiment you will come up with a way to cushion an egg in a small container so it doesn’t break when dropped from a certain height. You can use something like a small coffee can that leaves enough room for your packaging around the egg to protect it from the fall.

You will need to do a little research to determine what might be suitable materials to keep the egg from breaking. Lots of room to experiment here for sure with different materials and arrangements of the egg in the container.  Read more...

It goes without saying that sometimes it is very hard to compare the science and the art due to their various essence and different ideas which are presented to people. But sometimes the structure of analysis is more or less similar as these two point (science and art) are the contrary parts and the analysis of each should be regarded as the opposition.

Science tries to give the definition to that what is going on around us and art tries to interpret all these actions. Probably, science takes place above the interpretations, but it is more useful and clear when we try to understand the nature of facts. So, the science can state certain points of vision the reality, but art, from its side, can easily break down it due to the close analysis of the surrounding.

The arts are more worried about positive reception of that which is supposed to be, and an explanation of the same. Take an example: as an alternative to breaking down a wheat field into many wheat pieces composed of a stems and vascular bags and pith etc, one painter or poet will merely glance on the real beauty of the whole field and put in writing or paint of what he or she sees. The results will be different and different people are going to have different points of view.
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It is a common belief that the social sciences are inferior to the natural ones when it comes to bear the name of “science”. Some sects in the society even deny the claim of the social sciences to be called “science”. Some factions of the society regard social science in general as the inferior ones when compared to the natural science and majority of them even does not regard social sciences as a particular science at all. The current article, assaults this argument by pointing out some aspects of comparison between the two spheres of knowledge aiming to achieve clarity and a final answer as for the matter at hand. These are the aspects that the author of the article distinguished: inalterability of observations, neutrality of observations and clarification, reliability of hypothesis, precision of findings, measurability of phenomena, permanency of numerical relations, predictability of future incidents, distance from everyday events, and standards of admittance and requirements. The aspects represented by the author of the selection will be regarded in this paper in such a way that clarity and clearness may be reached. In this respect, the author of this article made up his mind to divide his work into a few headings, just like what the initial writer did, and each heading of the article will be followed by the authors own interpretation of the matter at hand. In this way, the author tries to arrive at a scholarly work that can clear up the matter at hand.

Will bioassays and mycoplasma-detection technology run the market distance?

There are over 200,000 thousand laboratories in the United States alone1 and additional life science companies also include pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology and blood/tissue organizations. Most of these companies are usually respected within their production and sales communities and some companies even rise to the brilliant flavor of scientific ideas that have the potential to affect so many lives for the better.

However, even the outstanding life science companies can forget that ideas are only ideas until they are implemented and that the manner in which those ideas are produced can, in the long term, greatly affect the future successes of the company itself. For instance, even some of the most brilliant life science companies have less than brilliant quality systems and fail to comply with FDA, ISO, EMEA (Europe), and SOX regulations efficiently and quickly. Most life science companies also needlessly separate their quality system processes and their regulatory compliance processes and even more amazingly still use manual or hybrid processes, which in the long run are costing them more time, more money and more loyal and intelligent employees.  Read more...

If you enjoy working with computers, learning new programs or testing out the latest computer software products, earning a computer science degree is necessary if you want to find a well paying job in the computer or IT field. Popular hot jobs you can apply for after you graduate include:

Database administrator
Software Support
Software engineer
Computer engineer
Interface designer
Systems analyst
Computer programmer
Network Administrator

Each of these careers is rewarding and necessary as more and more companies are in need of those who can use this technology to further their businesses.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition, over half of all computer programmers have at least a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. This means that earning a computer science degree online will increase your chances of finding your dream job.

What will you learn through an Online Computer Degree Program?

A computer science online degree will prepare you for a career in IT, Computer Security or any of the above positions in the same way as a traditional classroom degree. But instead of having to go to class, rearrange your work schedule, or disturb other areas of your life, you can take classes online, study at your convenience and not have to worry about the added costs of parking or leaving work early to attend classes.  Read more...

While being on summer vacation can be a fun time for kids when they get out of school, it is also important to encourage the learning process even outside of the classroom. Planning cool science experiments is a great way for parents and children to spend time together, while making it interesting and productive.

Taking field trips to local science museums can turn learning into an exciting field trip, and also a way to get out of the house! Girls and boys can be exposed to many different learning subjects, but often, girls lose interest in science while boys find it much more interesting. The key to involving girls is to make it fun for them, using the things they like or subjects they may be interested in.

Science can affect or explain many things that are used day-to-day, so showing how it works can be relevant and exciting for any child in school, especially those in the younger elementary levels. Encouraging your child’s interest in science, even if you, the parent, aren’t “good” in the subject, is important.  Read more...

The relationship between religion and science takes many forms as the two fields are both broad. They employ different methods and address sometimes different questions. The scientific method relies on an objective approach to measure, calculate, and describe the natural/physical/material universe. Religious methods are more subjective (or intersubjective in community), relying on varying notions of authority, ideas believed to have been revealed, intuition, belief in the supernatural, individual experience, or a combination of these to understand the universe.

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.  Read more...

On Saturday, 20/September, the XIVth World Congress of Psychiatry opens its doors in Prague, Chech Republic. Their motto is “Science and Humanism: For a Person-Centered Psychiatry” What a blatant lie!

First of all, psychiatry is NOT a science. For what is science? Let’s see a few definitions:

“a systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject”
“the study of the physical and natural world and phenomena, especially by using systematic observation and experiment”
“the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding”
“knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method”

How does this apply to psychiatry?

“In 1886, Emil Kraepelin, the undisputed founder of modern psychiatry as a medical specialty and science, declared: “Our science has not arrived at a consensus on even its most fundamental principles, let alone on appropriate ends or even on the means to those ends.” Eighty years later, the encyclopedic American Handbook of Psychiatry opened with this statement: “Perhaps no other field of human endeavor is so … difficult to define as that of psychiatry.” Andrew Lakoff, a professor of sociology at the University of California in San Diego, airily opines: “Two centuries after its invention, psychiatry’s illnesses have neither known causes nor definitive treatments.”  Read more...