Three Branches of ScienceAndrew RamboMs. Gardener10th Grade BiologySeptember 11, 2000Science is such a wide area that it is divided into branches. Biology, chemistry and geology are three of these branches. Each branch of science are very different. They use many of the same techniques in the study...

During the presentation the speaker, Baruch Blumberg spoke on the aspects of Astrobiology. If one doesn't know who Blumberg is he is a scientist that research infectious diseases and came up with a treatment for the Hepatitis B virus. As he spoke on this subject he also talked about what h...

What was so enlightened about the enlightenment? Where is the evidence of how it enlightened anybody? The enlightenment was a period where previous notions of our world were disregarded and new views adopted in their place. Authority no longer came from divine scripture, ancient philosophers, or th...

According to Robert J. Samuelson, "Every environmental ill is depicted as an onrushing calamity that-if not stopped-will end life as we know it" (Samuelson 462). Pollution may or may not lead to the end of the world, but I find that highly unlikely. The problems with the environment hav...

Oceanography as Viewed from SpaceIntroductionAt first thought, studying the oceans from space seems to be a bizarre idea. Space observation helps oceanographers do research with manned and unmanned space systems. The space systems can be satellites and/or space shuttles that observe various features...