Race in Medicine—The Positive Side of a Seemingly “Wrong” Action
by Racial discrimination has been a critical issue in society. Such a phenomenon has raised tremendous and numerous opinions whenever the topic includes specific words like …
Author: Cathy Wang
Dooms of Democracy—Misuse and Deviated application of Science
Science and democracy seem to be two distinct elements in society, as they belong to two poles. Science is one pole of rationality and scrutinization …
The Effect of Science in Society–Perceived from Darwinian Evolution Theory
Although Darwin was famous for his Evolution by natural selection theory among scientists, his theory was not confined to the scientific field. Most people would …
Justified or Not? The Consideration of Physicists’ Choices in World War II
Atomic bombs significantly intertwined with World War II, one of the cruelest warfare in history. The giant mushroom clouds formed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were …
Literary Culture: Still A Pressing Need of the 21st Century
As C. P. Snow contributed most of the emergence and enlargement of two cultures to the literary culture supporters, more and more people started to …
Bias as Barriers
Females are always connected with such words as “sympathetic,” “tender,” “weak,” and “emotional” from a long time ago, and these tags based on gender have …
The Message from Frankenstein: Responsibilities, Controls, and Ethics Education
Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein, as the first gothic romantic novel, has evoked long-lasting effects on people’s perception of science and nature over 200 years. The …
The Effect of Scientific Revolution on Society
During the 16th and 17th centuries, significant and groundbreaking changes in Science shed light in the society, and such a series of phenomena is described …
The Power of Values: How Social Values Promote the Emergence of Technological Applications
While technologies are developing fast in contemporary society, they rapidly alter our mindset and values in different facets. It is hard to imagine our lives …
Science as A “Cemetery”
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913 When I browsed through the list of quotes about …