Essay on Mysteries of Science and Technology

just a way of solving crime. It is an entire way of thinking, a mindset that can be applied to countless enterprises far removed from the foggy streets of the London underworld. It is an approach born out of the scientific method that transcends science and crime both and can serve as a model for thinking, a way of being, even, just as powerful in our time as it was in Conan Doyle’s. And that, I would argue, is the secret to Holmes’s enduring, overwhelming, and ubiquitous…

For parents, the question is all too familiar: “Mommy, Daddy—where do babies come from?” Parents have always been faced with the conundrum that comes with maturation. How should we introduce children to sex? In examining various samples of sexual education literature from the 20th century, we can trace a trajectory toward heightened information, honesty, and maturity. No more popular delusions—no more storks swooping down with babies from the sky. No more shrouding sex in ignorance. No more…

things really happen the way it was written. This goes for any old book really, it’s hard to decipher between the literal and metaphorical. Throughout the decades as science has progressed many Christians find it hard to accept both the bible and science. This paper will discuss how one can find validity in the Bible’s scriptures, if science and the bible be reconciled. As well as pointing to ways to decipher between literal and metaphorical understanding of the scriptures. In the Wesleyan…

Cadavers in Science: Symbolism in Roach’s Stiff Do you ever wonder what happens after you die? Although no living person has a guarantee of what becomes of your mind and soul, they do know what your body may endure. Mary Roach, author of Stiff, explored the usage of the dead in everything from bullet wounds to anatomy dissection to body decomposition. She also examined the history of corpse studies that lead to safer cars, different methods for disposing of remains, and an increase in forensic…

predominantly due to the fact that they convey a community’s moral, ethical and cultural concerns. The values of a society, including gender equality, justice, social security and science, as well as the changing contexts within a society, including the fear of communism, the mistrust of the authority, the advancement of technology and consumerism have…

Author (Sir) Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, in year 1886. Transcending literature onto stage and screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate audiences to this day. The Sherlock Holmes exhibition of The Museum of London titled “The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die”, London’s first on the detective since 1951, uses early film, photography and paintings plus original Victorian era artefacts to recreate the atmosphere of Sherlock’s London, and to…

Language, an everyday form of communication throughout history, has significant effects on the perceptions and viewpoints of the world, whether it relates to time, direction or patterns of life. Furthermore, with the spread of languages across the globe and more than half of earth’s six billion people speaking more than one language, bilingualism remains one of the most quintessential skills in the development of the world. However, the influence of bilingualism and the role it plays in this…

Arizona’s Meteor crater to an end, helped pioneer an entirely new field of science and co-discovered one of the most scientifically impactful comets ever found.Until Shoemaker and Chao’s publication on the subject of coesite in 1960, it was accepted by most geologists that meteor crater was formed by an underground explosion brought on by volcanism He was born in California in 1928 and attended the California Institute of Technology at the age of 16, completing a Geology bachelor's degree. He…

Myfanwy’s fear of not knowing her past and an unforeseeable future were one of her obstacles. (INSERT BOOK QUOTE) The main villainous group in The Rook, called the grafters an old horror thought to no longer exist, emerged from the shadows using technology and other heinous operations to animate mutilated bodies to assemble an army. Ron Hogan best describes her discovery of the group by writing, “…on her first day back at the office, she supervises an interrogation that reveals the return of…

Never Let Me Go and Frankenstein both belong to the science fiction genre, but are nearly completely different. Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro in 2004, is set in the past, in post World War II Great Britain. Kathy, the narrator of the novel, is a clone, who has been created by means of science. On the other hand, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley in 1618, is set in 18th century Europe. Victor Frankenstein, whose tale is being narrated by Robert Walton, is a scientist who has…