The Science of Life

This post will be predominately geared towards two groups of people; those who are presently in college or those who are looking to go to college. I have the people that have been in my study groups in chemistry, math, and physics in mind, but this applies to everyone going to college. With all degree programs, there are two important mentalities to have while going through with it: You have to have insatiable curiosity for the subject, and you have to love the subject. Without these two frames of thought, you will make your academic and professional careers a living nightmare. The vast majority of the students in all of my classes – this semester and in every semester for the past couple of years – have not had the curiosity required to be actually successful in these classes. Now let me stop here to explain what I mean by successful. In my mind, successful is more than merely the grade, though don't get me wrong; the grade is a part of it. A bigger part of success in ...

I apologize for taking so long with this entry of my blog. I have been abnormally busy lately with my academics and poetry. Today, I am writing on how all of the sciences are related to one another, in the hopes that you will come to realize that the sciences are not as separate as popular culture and news has us believe. This blog will be geared to those individuals – weather you're the average person or a student of science, or a full blown scientist – who have the opinion that the different fields of science are completely isolated from one another. This sentiment is not true, and I hope to show the false-hood of this concept here. In physics, we have the concept of “The Right-Hand-Rule”. This pretty much determines whether the a force perpendicular to two vectors is “positive” or “negative”. Torque is a good example of this. The amount of torque placed on, say, a bolt by a crescent wrench is perpendicular to the position vector and the fo...

I have had insufficient time to write a full-blown blog this week-end, so I will leave you with a poem. It seems appropriate, since this is a science poem on a science blog, and it ties in with next weeks blog topic, which is the interconnectivity of two particular branches of sciences. I hope you enjoy this. Two Two years. Two groups. One constant. The only person in either group who isn’t going for the “American Dream”, whose primary goal does not involve retiring wealthy. The only one who never did understand this whole war between them, at any level much less this one, seeing as how this peace will save humanity time and time and time again. Two years. Two fields of science . The only constant is the only poet. The only one of either group that realizes that science, too, is a kind of art. After all, Mother Nature is the most intrinsic, the fullest, and best poet in the...