Saturday, January 11, 2014

Introduction to a Theory

This is a theory, and it needs your help. It needs you to look it over, it needs you to test it, it needs you and your own personal point of view. It will not be offended if you revise or replace it. It will not be offend if you question it's logic or ask for proof. Even if it's wrong, it desires to lead you to the truth, but it must be tested and changed again and again because science takes forever you see, it takes a long time to establish total certainty and people who have, are often proven wrong even after a theory was tested so much and excepted as fact for so long. Don't ever be afraid to be wrong ask how useful the theory is and check any alternatives, have the source been sited where did I here that? Are you questioning something that was presented as fact? We have proven that the majority of the universe. Question the methods, question the tests. Question the ethics of the Holocaust and transgenic mice, question the safety of genetically modified rice. Ask where the money is going and where it came from. Who stands to benefit? What the heck is it? Should this have ever been tested on human beings? It is good time to look at new ways of seeing things? Perhaps computers could tell us more than we ever knew before? If the theory seems correct then why not try to use it to find out more? What are the risk and who stands to gain? Repeat the process, and never be afraid to make it better. Trusting everything you have heard, that would be absurd.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Could Early Science Education be the Key to Harnessing the Power of Autism to Treat Mental Illness?

I am grateful for the advantages I enjoyed as a child. I would like to see the next generation of young children benefit from an even better head start in science. This is a list of useful knowledge for toddlers. I will follow it with an explanation of how this knowledge could prevent mental illness and help Autistic people reach their full potential.
1) Latin Roots could provided a huge advantage in learning language. Also this might help people better understand the errors that can occur in grammar realizing that grammar structure tends to vary from place to place.
2) The correct theory of evolution, that creatures who are adaptable to change tend to survive better than creatures who can not adapt. This would give hope to people who were born into environments they are not well suited for.
3) Colors of the rainbow and the electromagnetic spectrum. This could help people understand their unique place on the various spectrums of life.
4) Turn taking games and systemization. Games like chinese checkers and cards can teach children to look for patterns and take turns. These games also have an added advantage of teaching that winning is not that important and that people are equal and deserve equal treatment. So many adults misunderstand arrays that some parents are actually concerned when they find their children using arrangement of objects to solve problems.
5) Logical fallacies, learning these can help people recognise paranoid thinking styles and correct them. Crazy off the wall ideas are key to science. It is very unfortunate when people wrongly take those ideas for reality, when basic scientific testing and logic could lead to better hypothesizes and better lives.
6) The fibonacci sequence, this will be important for young man who may soon by deciding weather or not to sterilized and have their sperm stored in a genetic database so their children will not be brought into the world without their full consent.
7) How to use microscopes, telescopes and understand scientific notation. This will give children an early understanding of how things can be really big or small.
8) The scientific method. This could help children learn to do hypothesis tests when confronted with new information.