Thursday, July 17, 2014


In this article” Beyond Global Warming: Ecology and Global Change”http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591 Peter (1994) explained that This is issue that affect us all in one way or another because we all live on same planet.  We need to be aware of how our environment is being hurt and damaged due manmade causes.  Unfortunately this problem can be addressed in much more effective way and a lot more can do done  fix this problem, however what prevent it is financial interest.  What many people do not know is “The fossil fuel industry has deep wells of it-no business in history has been as profitable as finding, refining, and combusting coal, oil and gas.  Six of the ten largest companies on earth are in the fossil fuel business.  Those companies have spent some small part of their wealth in recent years to underwrite climate change denialism” .  This information right here is vital because it explain the reasoning’s of why  affect of global warming are not addressed.  Money is a huge factor in this world, and whoever has the most of it will determine how  world function.  This is  sad fact of life, however that does not mean that we cannot change that.  It will take a lot of work to challenge those who are only concerned about their own personal wealth over  well being of the planet.  Besides the financially empowered people we have politicians that also have  important job of helping improve our environment.  Of course the unfortunate part is that the politicians are influenced and fund by those who are rich of companies that produce fossil fuels.   



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A Summary of “The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature”

            In the article “The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature,”http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/30/the-math-gender-gap-nurture-can-trump-nature/ Szalavitz (2011) discusses a study that has shown that culture can be responsible for differences in gender performance. Research was done that showed that there are not enough women professors in big universities, and we need to know why. A new researcher Moshe Hoffman researched about two tribes in India to prove if culture controls different gender performances in math. The tribes are same in almost everything but have different cultures. The Karbi has a culture where men control everything, but the Khasi is different because there is equality between men and women for education and jobs. It is difficult for women to have a good future in the Karbi because men always say that they are not smart enough, and the women do not try to change their positions in the tribe. On the other hand, women are very important in the Khasi because they control the house bills and money issues. When Hoffman tested the tribes with a math test that tested for spatial ability, which shows how smart the person is in math and science, Karbi men were better than women because they had more education, but the scores were the same for men and women in the Khasi tribe because they had equal education. Overall, the study showed that culture does affect math performance between men and women. Rebecca Goldin says that the test is good and it proves that, but the test can be improved by adding testing spatial rotation, too. She also said that we don’t know if biology makes a difference, and we learned from this study that we cannot say that culture is not important

 

            In general, Maia Szalavitz, convinced me that culture differences can affect performance in math and science. She has published a lot of articles in TIME Magazine that all usually are about neuroscience and what can affect it. She has also written books like Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential — and Endangered, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, and Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, which are all related to her skills in neuroscience, so she is definitely experienced in this field of study. In my opinion, the article was very well organized because all of the important information that was needed for us to understand what is going on was included before she discussed the results. Throughout the article the information about the tribes was given for both tribes in the same paragraph. Most of the language that Szalavitz used was formal enough for this kind of article. Everything was clear and described enough to be understood, and it was very smart to have the opinion of another person that also knows about neuroscience to discuss the results that Hoffman got. With all of this good qualities that were in this article, I believe that this was presented so that it can convince the reader.


 

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

In class we watched a speech given by Michael Pollan that was posted to Collective Evolution's website. This speech uses the example of McDonald's fries to make a case against corporate food. I agree with him that the coofing and eating at home is better than fast food , and that it is healthier than fast food. In my country, always cook and eat at the home because some of the ersturant are not clean. In my country, supervisory board closed some restaurants becouse of poor hygiene. http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/2014/04/do-you-really-need-to-be-afraid-to-eat.html