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Dr. Hudspeth grew up in the rural outskirts of Houston, Texas where he has said that his interest in science and nature flourished. He was a passionate collector of rocks, fossils, and shells along with a variety of animals. Hudspeth started his first research job at the age of 13 working with Dr. Peter Kellaway, who was a neurophysiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hudspeth’s passion for hearing was sparked while pursuing a Ph.D at Harvard. He states that the his interest was…

1.7.3 Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad Planet Earth Pavilion of Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad The Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad is functioning under the aegis of Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat. Objectives of the Science City are: • To develop a scientific temper • To nurture and stimulate scientific faculties of mind • To promote innovative and experimental activities • To showcase breakthroughs in Science and Technology • To establish a countrywide network…

offered a worthwhile contribution to today’s life is John Locke. Born in October 1632 in Wrington, Locke’s work laid the steadfast foundation of political liberalism and philosophical empiricism. It is believed that Locke inspired both the US Constitution and European Enlightenment. Moreover, his thinking in philosophy was linked to that of the initiators of modern science such as Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and other scientists…

Despite the fact that I am a biology major at LSU, my interests outside of academics are quite varied. I love the complexity and mystery that the scientific field possesses, but my passions tend to fall more along the lines of science fiction as opposed to fact. My brothers and I all have supernatural thrillers, scifi adventures, and comic books about aliens and mutants stacked up on the shelves of our bookcases. That’s why, when I was telling my family about how I needed a topic relating to my…

I think Tsing’s pointing out the need for a sociopolitical model of egalitarian reciprocity, where all living things would find and establish mutually rewarding encounters that preempt no voices in the process of its foundation. She states, “Perhaps…we need to tell and tell until all our stories…are standing with us to face the challenges of the present” (34). However, there is a problem of fear of implication in the messy history of human disturbances that seems to suspend…

1. Background The National Institutes of Health created a number of programs to increase diversity in research workforce (Ginther, 2011). The creation of these programs allowed for minority scientists to receive additional mentoring support to become competitive for NIH R01 funding. Yet, NIH failed to determine the effectiveness of these programs, impacting the priority scores of these grant applications and the awarding of grants to the scientific teams lead by Black researchers (Ginther,…

In the 1896 science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells depicts the island home of an insane doctor, who creates human-like beings from animals. Moreau’s goal was to engineer a human being by only using animals for his experiments and then replicate the process. Which is crazy because then would have totally weird cat videos, oh and animal rights and all that stuff. At the time the novel was written, gene splicing was considered science fiction. However, for the past…

Rhetorical Analysis: The Danger of Science Denial It is important to appreciate the current nature and status of the world because there are individuals who laid the appropriate foundation for it. As Michael Specter’s TED Talk on The Danger of Science Denial, he outlined the challenges that might emanate from science denial. There are reasons that ought to be checked critically since they affect the current and future generation and they include health, wealth, mobility, opportunity and…

For instance, at the Lovelace Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, experimenters forced sixty-four beagles to inhale radioactive Strontium 90 as part of a larger “Fission Product Inhalation Program” which began in 1961 and has been paid for by the US Atomic Energy Commission. In this experiment…

other fields for many years now. It is due to vagueness and lack of any scientific backing that, for this paper, we will be supporting the claim that astrology is a pseudoscience. We chose to focus our final report around the idea of astrology as a science. The question we are asking is whether or not astrology,…