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The world of
science
Korbankova Alexandra 8B
Sci
ence
in o
ur
life
Science? What is science? It is
a search for understanding.
Science has come to relieve
mankind from sufferings,
ignorance and to control
nature. Sometimes we forget
that it does so much for us. But
science has changed the world
in uncountable way. To make it
clear how deeply it is
interwoven with our lives, just
try imagining a day without
scientific progress. Just for
starters, without modern
science, there would be: no
plastic, no electricity, no
medicine, no modern
communication systems.
Nothing. So, you see that
science is a good subject to talk
about. Let’s do it.
The e
ssenti
al
pro
ble
ms
of
scie
nce
We only think, that modern science
knows almost everything. In fact,
scientists have answered only a
small part of questions. But it is
only a matter of time before the
unsolvable becomes solved. Many
scientists of ancient time thought
the Earth was flat with a huge
water fall at the end. The solutions
of old problems have brought more
difficult problems to the modern
world and some day our children
will solve the problems that we
face today. Here are some of them:
The problems
EcologySerious diseases
Climatic changesUFOs
Clim
ati
c ch
anges
Climatic changes is really the most serious
problem of our time. It is
one of the most serious
scientific, economic threats, facing to the
Earth. There are many
factors that lead to climate changes: a greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide excess,
etc. One of the most
serious change nowadays is the Global
warming. Unfortunately,
all the problems are caused by the human
activity.
Clim
ati
c ch
anges
The climate has changed a lot over
the past 100 years. But what is
going to happen to the climate in
the next 10 years? Is it time to buy
air conditioners or heaters? Or
should we expect that our local
climate will change only a bit in the
near future? Noone really knows.
Most scientists expect, that
because of the raising of
temperature and the melting of ice
the sea level will rise. In the tropics
the shortage of rainfall is expected.
That will lead to the extinction of
many animal and plant species.
But what can we do to prevent this
crisis. The best answer is: “Think
globally and act locally.”
Ste
phen
Sch
neid
er
Stephen Henry Schneider, a
climatologist, was born in 1945
in New York City and grew up on
Long Island. After taking a
degree in Mechanical
Engineering at Columbia
University, he went on to take a
doctorate in Mechanical
Engineering and Plasma Physics
in 1971. He wrote articles to
scinetific journals. In 1992 he
moved to Stanford University,
where he held chairs in
Interdisciplinary Environmental
Studies and Biological Sciences.
Ste
phen
Sch
neid
er
He served as a member of the
UN's Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change from its
inception in 1988 until his
death. He died in 2010 of a
heart attack while flying to
London from a science meeting
in Stockholm. He succeeded in
researching climatic changes
and got many awards. The most
prestigious was the Nobel prize
in international peace.
The N
obel P
rize
and it
s org
aniz
er
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish
chemist and inventor, was born in
1833 in Stockholm. After receiving
the education in St. Petersburg he
worked in his father’s company
developing explosives. In 1859 his
father went bankrupt and the
family returned to Sweden.
Nobel invented dynamite in 1867
and a smokeless gunpowder in
1887. Though he was a pacifist he
was labeled “a merchant of death”.
Perhaps to counter this label he
established the Nobel prizes, the
most prestigious awards in the
world. It is given annually for
outstanding achievements in
literature, economics, medicine,
chemistry, physics, international
peace.
Our modern life is closely
connected with science.
Does the science have the
future? Of course it has.
Science of the XXI century
will be fundamentally
different from the science
of the XX century. There
will be other supernatural
tasks. This is the theory of
risk management, neuroscience, and theoretical history. The
future of the science as a
social institution depends
on the successful solving of
these problems.
The f
utu
re o
f th
e
scie
nce