Science Improves Our Quality of Life
Examples of science, technology, and invention improving the human condition.
Folksonomies: science technology quality of life
Memes
02 JAN 2014
Human History is One of Neccessity VS Freedom
The history of mankind is one of continuous development from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. This process is never-ending. In any society in which classes exist class struggle will never end. In classless society the struggle between the new and the old and between truth and falsehood will never end. In the fields of the struggle for production and scientific experiment, mankind makes constant progress and nature undergoes constant change, they never remain at the same level. ...
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And science is the tool that brings us increasing freedom.
09 JUN 2012
The Wonders of Science
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,—such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched. A survey of them and how the improve the quality of life in the 1850s.
25 APR 2012
The Importance of Hay
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially importa...Folksonomies: invention agriculture
Folksonomies: invention agriculture
As an invention, it allowed humans to migrate into northern Europe.
28 MAR 2012
The Wonder of Curing Polio
The most compelling cases of preferring fact to fiction are the most practical. All the prayer, animal sacrifice, and chanting in the world couldn’t cure polio—the Salk vaccine did. And how did we find it? Through rigorous, skeptical, critical thinking and testing and doubting of every proposed solution to the problem of polio until only one solution was left standing. Let others find uncritical acceptance of pretty notions a wonderful thing. I’m more awestruck by the idea of ending polio bec...It was someone who immersed themself in testable reality that cured polio, no amount of prayer or chanting achieved this.
14 JAN 2012
A Early Definition of Human Social Progress
Disease is largely a removable evil. It continues to afflict humanity, not only because of incomplete knowledge of its causes and lack of individual and public hygiene, but also because it is extensively fostered by harsh economic and industrial conditions and by wretched housing in congested communities. ... The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress. It means the saving and lengthening of lives of thousands of citizens, the ext...That emphasizes a reduction in the death rate and argues that this is something we can do through education and improving the quality of life.
02 JAN 2012
Description of Humphrey Davy's Safety Lamp
The final version of the lamp was wonderfully simple and surprisingly small. It was a standard uninsulated oil lamp, approximately sixteen inches high, with an adjustable cotton wick, enclosed in a tall column or ‘chimney’ of fine iron mesh. Astonishingly, the lamp required no other protection. In later models Davy added various improvements, largely designed to withstand rough use in the mine.
Yet the fundamental notion that flame would not pass through gauze appeared so unlikely, so comple...Folksonomies: engineering invention
Folksonomies: engineering invention
The flame was exposed, but surrounded by a wire mesh that acted as a heat sink to prevent the flame from igniting the gases surrounding it.
12 SEP 2011
The Engineer is the Key Figure in the Material Progress o...
The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.Folksonomies: engineering
Folksonomies: engineering
He translates scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor.
01 JAN 2010
The Science Haves and Have-Nots
Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as widely believes, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures. Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences--physics, chemistry, and biology--humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep, shadowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the wor...Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism
Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism
Without science, people are trapped within a "cognitive prison".
References
02 JAN 2014
Quotations Friom Chairman Mao Tsetung
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Mao, Zedong (2006-03-01), Quotations Friom Chairman Mao Tsetung, Synergy International of the Americas, Retrieved on 2014-01-02Source Material [books.google.com]
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09 JUN 2012
President's Address to the British Association, Leeds (1858)
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Owen, Sir Richard (1859), President's Address to the British Association, Leeds (1858), Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art, Retrieved on 2012-06-09Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science
Folksonomies: science
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25 APR 2012
Infinite in All Directions
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Dyson , Freeman J. (2004-07-22), Infinite in All Directions, Harper Perennial, Retrieved on 2012-04-25Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: religion
Folksonomies: religion
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28 MAR 2012
Teaching Kids to Yawn at Counterfeit Wonder
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book Chapter: McGowan, Ph.D., Dale (2007), Teaching Kids to Yawn at Counterfeit Wonder, Retrieved on 2012-03-28
Folksonomies: wonder
Folksonomies: wonder
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14 JAN 2012
Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Dipht...
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Hammonds , Evelynn Maxine (2002-01), Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2012-01-14Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: medical
Folksonomies: medical
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02 JAN 2012
The Age of Wonder
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Holmes , Richard (2010-03-02), The Age of Wonder, Vintage, Retrieved on 2012-01-02Source Material [books.google.com]
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12 SEP 2011
Foundations of Engineering
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Sporn , Philip (1963), Foundations of Engineering, Macmillan, Retrieved on 2011-09-12
Folksonomies: engineering
Folksonomies: engineering
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01 JAN 2010
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Wilson, E. O. (1998), Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, Retrieved on -0001-11-30
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