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Do Science And Technology Provide A Solid Base For Technocra
Number of Words: 771 / Number of Pages: 3
... of individuals acting upon certain ideas upon which they are in agreement. Comparatively it differs from all other social movements since its common ideas are not the result of philosophic agreement. Technocracy does in fact in theory need science and technology to be based upon, but it is this “science and technology” that the populace overlooks and assumes it as engineered technology.
Ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of human nature and experience (Petroski preface). This statement by Petroski is the very basis of technocracy. With it one can claim that No, Scienc ...
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Alternative Medicine
Number of Words: 5205 / Number of Pages: 19
... treatments such as chiropractic to prevent or cure illness. The
more rigid and restrictive the policy provisos, the more
assurance for the companies that they will maximize their bottom
lines. Therefore, patients of alternative therapies as well as
doctors must show that such unconventional treatment provides
relief and prevention of illness. “The total projected out-of-
pocket expenditure for unconventional therapy plus
supplements(such as diet pills and megavitamins)was 10.3 billion
dollars in 1990. This is comparable to the out-of-pocket
expenditure for all hospital care in the Unite ...
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The Problem With The Amount Of Trash In The United States
Number of Words: 474 / Number of Pages: 2
... are throwing things on the floor all the time and
recycling has not been done as much as it should be. In New York city we
have one of the world’s most largest and most crowded landfills which is
proven in the article. Fresh Kills landfill, on Staten Island is extremely
big but will be closed in a few years. I New York State there were 1600
landfills in the 1960’s and today the figure is in the hundreds. Trash is
a big problem in our community and is still increasing.
The problem of trash needs to be fixed and there are some things
that we can do. One of the things we can do to help this p ...
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Nuclear Energy
Number of Words: 1733 / Number of Pages: 7
... together then split
many of many times, this is when the reactor grabs and pulls in the frictional
energy to be processed into electrical watts.
This usually causes heat or thermal energy, this must be removed by some
kind of a coolant. Most power plants use water or another type of liquid based
formula. these coolants are always base related, never acidic. Very few use
gas related coolants in there reactors, these are known as thermal reactor based
power plants. Another nuclear reactor type is a type that runs off of uranium
oxide, the uranium oxide is a gas form of the solid uranium. These fuel ...
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Greenhouse Effect
Number of Words: 924 / Number of Pages: 4
... dioxide is essential for plants who use it for photosynthesis, yet too
much can lead to serious threats. The problem lies in the disruption of the
balance between how much carbon dioxide plants intake, and what our population
produces. If this natural filtering process is unbalanced, the atmosphere will
receive too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Once these gases
form in the atmosphere, they act as barriers trapping in heat and warming the
earth.
This process is not new. In fact, without the greenhouse effect, the average
surface temperature of the earth would be about 59 Fahre ...
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Pheromones
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... are either
synthesized or extracted from natural products and are employed because of their
pleasant smell.
Scientific research suggests that there are human pheromones for both
the male and the female. Females have a better developed sense of smell and
testing indicates that they are more responsive to male pheromones than the
reverse.
Research over the years has found that the male pheromones belong to a
class of compounds called steroids, in particular derivatives of androstenone,
which are secreted by perspiration glands on our bodies.
The compound androstenone, and a related product andros ...
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Fossil Fuels: Our Society's Dependency
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... and instant millionaire and everyone will be happy.
There is one draw back of this way of solving problems, I mean sure it's great
to wait until the demand but we should still learn from our mistakes. We should
learn to plan ahead and see what the consequences could possibly be.
We still have other demands to meet, there are three major demands of
fossil fuels and they are heating, transportation, and industry. Although
transportation is taken care of, we may not like the thought of a solar car or
an electric car but there are solutions out there. Frankly the oil companies
don't want to lose th ...
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Genetic Cloning And Nuclear Fusion
Number of Words: 745 / Number of Pages: 3
... and help you understand their points.
“The procedures used in human embryo cloning have been around for many years, and have been used in the cloning of cattle and sheep embryos, for the production of animals with known genetic traits. The news of human embryo cloning did not surprise many people in the scientific community, but it shocked the general public.”(psu.edu) Many biologists believe that they have a personal duty to the improvement of society, perhaps even a moral obligation. To this end the techniques of embryonic cloning and alteration have been offered to society as an o ...
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Marie Curie And Her Discovery Of Radium And Polonium
Number of Words: 1135 / Number of Pages: 5
... to Paris to help pay for her older sister’s medical studies. In 1891, when Marie was twenty- four years old, she was invited to live with Bronya upon her completion of medical school. This enabled Marie to enroll at the University of Paris and begin her own dream of becoming a university student. Marie studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry. It was upon enrollment in college when she changed her first name from Manya to Marie. After three years of her education at college, she graduated top of her class and earned her degrees in physics and mathematics. The year that Marie graduated wi ...
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How Earthquakes Are Caused
Number of Words: 395 / Number of Pages: 2
... more into each other, locking the molten material in. This, by the way,
happens at all of the convergent boundaries. After much time, pressure
builds up as the molten material churns in its chamber. It gets hotter, and
as we know from the laws of physics, heat rises due to its kinetic energy.
So, as the pressure get to be too much, the molten material goes up.
As you may already know, molten material mostly does not just come
out of a big hole in the ground. It comes out of mountains. When the molten
material is pushing up through to the surface of the land, the earth
doesn't just move apart to let it ...
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