Is Science A Way of Life?

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
               ~Albert Einstein

       The funny thing is that most people don't notice that science is a way of life. Everything we do has something to do with science, and it's amazing, but sometimes confusing, just to think about it.
       This quote by Albert Einstein basically means that science isn't something complicated; it's all a form of common sense. Science has nothing magical or bizarre about it that would make people get lost, but it's about figuring out what you do everyday and relate it to science. Now, of course things like atoms and equations tend to confuse people when figuring it out. But when you understand the concept, then you will able to figure out anything that comes your way.
       Many of us do things that don't much mean common sense. However, if you change that, and make your thinking change to common sense, everything will become clearer. Science is the same way, but not at this simple of a level. Science is like a harder and newer way of common sense, by not only explaining yourself, but everything around you as well.
       After realizing the thinking part of it, there is still the "do". Use this quote by guiding your life. Just how science uses common sense to explain itself, using common sense in your life can change many things and solve many problems.
       And remember, Albert Einstein was a genius but still a human, and by using this and many other quotes, it might have helped him figure out things in his life as well.


Sources:
http://teachers.vestavia.k12.al.us/guroskyks/PM/Homework_Blog/Homework_Blog.html
            

Current Event; Book Review: Can Science Determine Which Foods Taste Best Together?

        To start off, science explains many things in the universe and so helps us understand how we and everything else around us are made.      
        Now scientists have found a book that was said that when any two or more foods have a same flavor compound, then they are bound to taste well together. So scientists set out to see if it was true. They then found that beef and jasmine both contain the compound skatole; and so they were had to taste well together. However, when scientist tried it out, it was a complete failure! They didn't taste well together at all!! And so I was surprised to see that. They went into some research and found a beverage that blended mint and caraway. However, it devised the principle and both herbs only had the same structure and not the same flavor compound. This surprised the scientists and they hoped to find more information on connecting foods with science. This article was posted on the 21st of March.

       However, scientists spent amounts of time on this in order for them to find a way to figure out how to make foods without all the trial and error.

       I believe that the idea was a great one especially because it gave a person a way to connect to science while doing something they enjoy to do. The only problem is that for people who like to cook, like me, wouldn't get to make anything without learning from it. I believe that a person cannot make something without actually making a mistake first; and so even though this experiment didn't go well for the scientists, I still hope the find another way to make foods and how to make us remember that science is all around us.

Sources:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/book-review-taste-buds-and-molecules
http://www.kerriganmeats.ie/
http://www.aroma-pure.com/jasmine.htm

      
      

The Periodic Table: Elements Learned So Far

       During this week, our class learned about a few elements on the periodic table and their symbol. They are the following:


* H- Hydrogen   * He- Helium    * N- Nitrogen    * Ni- Nickel    * Sn- Tin    * Fe- Iron
* Mg- Magnesium    * Cl- Chlorine    * S- Sulfur    * C- Carbon   
 * Ca- Calcium    * Cu- Copper    * Au- Gold    * O- Oxygen    * K- Potassium

Sources:
http://library.thinkquest.org/12909/main2.html