Hearing is very important, but you can't always hear what you want or need to hear.
Science challenge: create a hearing device that lets people choose what frequencies they can hear.
Recommended links:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ece103/LectureNotes/SRS_Pipe_Problems.pdf
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~meyer/
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Can You Invent a Energy Generator as Simple and Cheap as a Beany Baby?
Energy can be expensive, or it can be very cheap. A collection of energy generators could provide lasting energy at little or no cost.
Science challenge: Make inexpensive energy generator.
Recommended links:
This handy link can help you get the right current and voltage. Not good at math? Just use the software.
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-ohm.htm
AC generator
http://www.globalspec.com/reference/53093/203279/principles-characteristics-and-management-of-ac-generators-alternators
DC generator
http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/physics/core/motors/2696/PHY933net.htm
Harvesting electricity from plants
http://inhabitat.com/scientists-discover-methods-of-harvesting-electricity-from-plants/
Science challenge: Make inexpensive energy generator.
Recommended links:
This handy link can help you get the right current and voltage. Not good at math? Just use the software.
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-ohm.htm
AC generator
http://www.globalspec.com/reference/53093/203279/principles-characteristics-and-management-of-ac-generators-alternators
DC generator
http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/physics/core/motors/2696/PHY933net.htm
Harvesting electricity from plants
http://inhabitat.com/scientists-discover-methods-of-harvesting-electricity-from-plants/
Why Packaging Should Grow
One important part of science is coming up with new ideas or better yet old ideas that we can copy from nature. Humans through around trash like plants through around seeds, why couldn't our trash grow into something useful?
Science challenge: Make packaging that biodegrades and grows into a useful plant.
Science challenge: Make packaging that biodegrades and grows into a useful plant.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Looking at Sensory Disorder as a Physics Problem
I am very concerned about sensory disorder being looked at as a mental health issue rather than, what it actually is, a physics problem. It is a well known fact that the shape and density of objects changes the way they carry sound. Most people are sensitive to the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard. Some people find other sounds so painful it affects their perspective of pain. Looking at the actual physics of the ear should allow scientists to actually understand why this is happening and design hearing adjustment devices to help people hear what they need to hear instead of just hearing noise.
This is a link to lecture notes showing equations to help predict how things will sound.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ece103/LectureNotes/SRS_Pipe_Problems.pdf
This is a link to lecture notes showing equations to help predict how things will sound.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ece103/LectureNotes/SRS_Pipe_Problems.pdf
Monday, March 24, 2014
Time to Revise the Theory of Evolution?
Evolution is often seen as a competitive process, but really evidence may suggest it is really about adapting and sharing your environment. Humans ability to communicate and use their hands allows them to benefit from and help other creatures who benefit them. We are not competing with nature but enjoying the benefit of sharing our environment with plants and animals. Survival is a matter of cooperation, between living species. We are not just the product of our own evolution, plants and animals play a symbiotic role in our lives, not to mention all the microbes it takes to digest our food. We are not fighting life on Earth so that we might survive, but depending on it to help us survive. We have past the point where new territory can be won from outsiders and become one people. Will we adapt to this change or will we continue to fight and disregard life on this planet until there is none? I hope we will understand the value of life and protect it and not forget we depend on it. Survival of the most compassionate, ethical, logical, and inclusive is the revised theory.
Suggested reading:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2009/02/01/single-gene-allows-glowing-bacteria-to-switch-from-fish-to-squid/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/13/friendly-genes-are-more-likely-to-be-passed-around/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/01/how-a-quarter-of-the-cow-genome-came-from-snakes/
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/1786/the_viral_genesplicer.html
http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_25817209/huge-elephant-birds-dna-ties-little-kiwi-prompt
Suggested reading:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2009/02/01/single-gene-allows-glowing-bacteria-to-switch-from-fish-to-squid/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/13/friendly-genes-are-more-likely-to-be-passed-around/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/01/how-a-quarter-of-the-cow-genome-came-from-snakes/
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/1786/the_viral_genesplicer.html
http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_25817209/huge-elephant-birds-dna-ties-little-kiwi-prompt
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.
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.
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