The Science of Life

I am currently working on a YouTube project called "The Science They Don't Want You to Know", where I will cover science that various organizations and individuals don't want to be known by the general population for one reason or another.  It will be set up in seasons, since there are so many related topics to consider. The first season will cover conspiracy theories which affect public health.  In it, I will run be dependent on two papers, one which revolves around the mathematics of known conspiracies, and the other which describes the psychology of conspiracy theorists.  The math paper , which is written by Professor David Grimes of the University of Oxford, looks at various conspiracies which have been leaked to the public.  Examples of this include the NSA spying on us , the old syphilis "experiments" , and Watergate.  What he did was to use these known cases of conspiracies to develop a model for figuring out what the probability would be fo...

Hello everyone!  This is the sources list for my ocean acidification video, found here ! News Report:  http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/augusta-waterville/2015/02/05/ocean-acidification-state-report/22948213/ Report Published by the State of Maine:  http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/Oceanacidificationreport.pdf Dissolving: Chemistry: The Central Science Chapter 2 Scientific Papers: “Anthropogenic Ocean Acidification over the Twenty-First Century and its Impacts on Calcifying Organism”; Orr, J.C. et al; Science; 437; 2005; p. 681-686 “The Ocean Sink for Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide”; Sabine, C.L. et. al.; Ecience; 305; 2004; p. 367-371

Addendum: For those of you who got here through a search related to Environmental Law, I apologize.  This post is regarding the physics Laws of Thermodynamics as related to Climate Change, not Environmental Law. I have a weird hypothesis (see my Theory Blog for the term Hypothesis) regarding a possible additional cause of climate change. This hypothesis does not substantiate or rebute any other proposed cause for the planet changing as it is; it does, however, depend on the Greenhouse Effect theory, which is the theory that certain gases in Earths atmosphere prevent a fraction of energy (as heat) from leaving the Earth into space. It is named for the Greenhouse, a type of building used to emulate tropical conditions for the purpose of gardening. Think on this: Fossil fuels are used to produce energy for many processes. The fast motion of your vehicle to get you to your destination quickly while in air conditioning is a very common example of this kind of process. Ther...

I will begin with a conclusion which is... uncomfortable to say the least.  Then I will walk through how this conclusion was reached.  It is something which will have you call bullshit on me off the bat, but please hear me out (or read me out?).  I have written a theoretical ecology paper last summer which shows that the human population will stop growing no later than 2031, and will drop (not plateau) shortly thereafter.  The cause?  Resource depletion.  Please, read me out. Now, how did I come to this conclusion?  By the power of maths! In ecology, there is a situation where, when a major cause of death for a species is removed, the population of that species goes through what is called exponential growth .  This is where the rate of change (percent change) is constant, and since the population today is more than it was yesterday, the greater the net change.  Let's say the percent change is 1% and we started with $100.  Tomor...

The fashion industry is being affected by Global Climate Change. This is one of the lesser noticeable pieces of evidence of the environment changing around us. The opposite is also true; the fashion industry is also affecting the state of the environment. I will input my sources at the end. Recently, I wrote a paper for my environmental studies course on this very topic. Here I will adapt the paper for this blog. I feel the need, however, to differentiate between “Environment” and “Climate”. When I use the term “Environment”, I mean to use the scope of the entire planet, while when I use “Climate”, I mean to use a local scope. It's like differentiating between the global economy vs. the economy of the American state of Nevada, respectively. The fashion industry will be affected (and in fact already has begun being affected) by global environmental and climate changes on many fronts. For example, there is a far lower differential between the extrem...