Fictional scientists

Augmenting people for the sake of scientific advancement is a topic, which can lead to excitement and hope for the future. Sonia Miller believes that “[b]y welcoming and adopting new technologies [...], the human condition can be redesigned, allowing for personal growth beyond the current biological limitations” (Miller, 61). Although, this type of augmentation also raises serious ethical and social concerns among the general population. The depiction of augmented humans in popular media has…

An exploration of the idea of a plural form of gender that emerges from Schoene Harwood’s essay About Man making and Cixous’s Sortes. This essay will engage Schoene-Harwood’s essay on man making and Cixous’s essay on the tradtional binaries of gender to find a relation between these diverse yet similar theories of masculinity and feminism. This essay will predominantly focus on analysing the notion of a plural form of gender that emerges within both texts with an engagement of Gender and…

Because he, too, states a valid point of how we create the reality we (want to) see, which also seems to align with our recent undeveloped theories of relativity. I believe that Parmenides’ views would also be looked upon with favour by several scientists in present time because of how vague and unsolved the concept of reality is to us. While Heraclitus’ philosophies have evolved to become laws in our present, Parmenides’ philosophies might aim to be the key foundation to solving the riddle that…

Walls the size of skyscrapers. Vines climbing the walls, from the top to the bottom of the mountain of stone. The ground was cold stone. Everything seemed to be a path to somewhere undiscovered. A rashly put together pile of wood that was called home to a whole community. People think that they cannot learn from a book, let alone a book based on the future. However, The series that has shaped my view of the world is The Maze Runner series, because it shows that anyone can become a good person,…

hierarchy that perpetuates ethnic inequality by privileging a dominant group. This privileged group is the white male, whose culture permeates into all other cultures, subtly altering and eliciting behavior to conform to the white male’s norms. Social scientists acknowledge and personify such influence of and social pressure from this culture with notions such as “white gaze,” which depict a totalitarian view of social relations (Flores & Rosa, 2015, p. 150-151). To challenge the ethnic…

God is Real Famous scientist Isaac Newton once said “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.” It is safe to say that some people need more convincing than Isaac Newton to believe in God. There have been countless movies made to convince the existence of the existence of God. An example is Heaven is For Real; unfortunately, there was controversy as to whether it was made up in order to become wealthy. There always seems to be a reason as to why the…

Have you ever thought about “alien abductions” where there’s the beam of light that draws the person up into the ship, or in Star Wars, the beam that can dock spaceships? That thing you’re thinking of is a tractor beam. Tractor beams are possible, but they are not yet advanced to the extent of Star Wars or alien abductions. The theory is that beam can reel a particle in towards the source. Currently, there are three types of tractor beams, sonic, light, and laser beams. So far, each kind of…

Players operate “as a border control guard in a fictional Eastern European country, [and their] actions are mostly confined to shuffling papers and confirming or denying someone 's entry into Arstotzka” (Machkovech). Winner of the Games for Change Festival in 2014 for Most Innovative & Best Gameplay, Papers…

solar system revolves around the Sun, and the Earth is round. There also was a great deal of philosophers from ancient Greece that continue to influence the world thousands of years after their death. Archimedes One example of an ancient Greek scientist that has discovered a lot of what we know about physics is Archimedes. Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, and an inventor. He is known for inventing the Archimedean screw, the lever, the catapult, and crane. The Archimedean screw was…

theorem” Levin mentions that “[s]ome truths don’t emerge from a collection of biographical facts” but instead “through fiction” in some circumstances (qtd. in Chown). When asked about her favorite works of fiction which inspired anything about the scientist/novelist, the first answer was her “entrance[ment]” with “conceptually intriguing themes,” specifically mentioning The Road as the first example (Chown). Despite the intriguing conceptual themes, such as the crossroads and Christian symbols…