Essay on Mysteries of Science and Technology

Looking at the two best-known horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King on a surface level, it is obvious that the two have similar styles in writing and genre. However, their biographies are far from similar. With analyzing the two, it is amazing to see how completely different the two truly is. The style of writing for Edgar Allan Poe was gothic writing. He started writing in his twenties and “continued to struggle living in poverty, got a break when one of his short stories won a…

novel Anthem by Ayn Rand is written in the future tense, where a man rebels against a collectivist society. Anthem explains how Equality 7-2521, a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things”, lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thoughts are crimes and where science and technology have regressed to its earliest levels. All expressions of individualism, such as personal possessions, individual preferences and romantic love, have been suppressed. Obedience in the…

Introduction When only a skeleton remains, is there any hope in identification? Due to the continuing advancements in technology, the answer to that question is, yes! Facial reconstruction is not a new avenue of identification, but is continually adapting to be more useful in the forensic community. The documentary, The Mad Trapper tells the story of a Canadian mystery where an unidentified criminal is exhumed in attempts to attain an actual identification using new forensic techniques. This…

in new scientific fields increase daily. One of the many achievements includes work in the realm of bioengineering. Bioengineering remains not as new found science or idea; however, the science stands now exponentially increasing as scientists are exploring more and more due to our ever-increasing knowledge of technology. Although technology and bioengineering may advance the knowledge held by man and furthermore help our species, bioengineering remains dangerous to pursue without proceeding…

You and Me Can Slow Down Technology Have you ever worried when a new form of technology has been presented to the world? Did you think the world would benefit from it? Brooke Gladstone says in her graphic text “The Influencing Machine” that technology innovations actually benefit the world and there is no reason to panic over them. Gladstone makes her inquiry in response to many writers’ publications, the main being Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making us Stupid?” Gladstone refers to Carr’s…

do all things through me who strengthens me”. Also human nature means that while the physical nature is part of the human being, it is our reason or thinking self which is unique to humans. How the human mind and body interact is something of a mystery. It is believed that our minds allow us to understand and rationally manage our lives. In the lyrics, it states “We are the champions, my friends” this indicates as humans we our the real Champions. It explains about our victory and triumph and…

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” - Neil Armstrong, the man who first set his foot on the moon, then a distant object and a source of awe; and it is in this quest of surmounting the unconquered and taming the wild which denotes man’s insatiate desire to understand Nature. Evolution has been the fundamental reason for progress of life on earth and the eclectic strategies employed by Mother Nature in the eternal perpetuation of the process are simply…

Adolf Hitler’s name is one remembered for all of the pain he has caused. The German Furur openly announced his desire to exterminate all races he considered contamination, and many have tragically perished by his name. Hitler’s blind hatred was shared by his followers, the Nazis, whom he gained the loyalty of through propaganda. Hitler blamed all of Germany’s problems on the Jewish people, and attempted to remind his followers that the German race must stay pure. Hitler felt that the atrocities…

On February 18th, 1930 the dwarf planet known as Pluto was discovered! It was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh and named by an 11-year-old girl. It was the farthest planet and the smallest. However when it was discovered it was named a planet because they did not have much information about it. They assumed it was a planet. It looked like a planet so they thought it was a planet. 76 years after Pluto was discovered on August 24th, 2006 astronomers demoted Pluto from planet status…

Use It or Lose It The human brain is the most complex, fascinating, and mysterious thing in the universe, and it has been studied since ancient times. The aura of mystery surrounding it has led over time to several misconceptions including the percentage of the brain we use at any given time. Albeit there is no scientific evidence, the commonly held notion is that humans use only the ten percent of their brain is the most diffuse among neuromyths. The lesser know reality is that we have access…