Wednesday 26 March 2014

Science and uncertainity

It is about the uncertainty in science and as we move on in this world new inventions and discoveries occur and so the limitations in science change. For e.g. first there was only the geocentric model of the universe and then as the research was conducted further they found that the planets are revolving around the sun not the earth and then the scientists found that it is the heliocentric universe galaxy or milky-way and so science has no real conclusion because it changes according to the time and that's why science is based on uncertainty and i always thought that behind a tradition,religion,custom there is a science but it changes.It was quite hard to believe that "science is uncertain" but somehow still i think science can prove but also believe the fact that it changes according to time.

Monday 3 March 2014

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I Learnt about the indigenous knowledge systems in the class and according to my research Indigenous knowledge (IK) is the local knowledge – knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society. IK contrasts with the international knowledge system generated by universities, research institutions and private firms. It is the basis for local-level decision making in agriculture, health care, food preparation, education, natural-resource management, and a host of other activities in rural communities. 
 
My example is about the Indigenous knowledge systems in the Igbo traditional agriculture. we have a slight idea about the Igbo culture because of the novel things fall apart.So now about the agriculture as the people of igbo culture believed that going to a farm and growing yams is a work of manhood and they made varieties of foods using those yams.
 
'kola nuts' that play a significant role in the socio-cultural and socio-economic lives of igbo people. Important ceremonies like marriage,funeral,wedding and child naming are marked on the breaking of kola nuts.kola nuts are also used as a symbol of warm and acceptance of visitors.To keep the kola nuts fresh they use the banana leaves and in occasions like marriage to make soups the use the ripened seeds of castor oil by using the banana leaves which is used for ripening them fast
 
so as they consider these things as a part of their culture and as globalization has occurred some of people do not believe in the igbo tradition and some do. People of igbo culture are found in Africa and believe that kola nuts are apart of their as a part of its culture.

 
 

Monday 20 January 2014



IS HISTORY A SCIENCE ?

History is such a thing which can be experienced once only but whereas science is a subject that can be experienced in our day to day life (for e.g. we are always on the earth attracted towards it due to gravitational force, technology we consume in our day to day life remembered every time and the food we eat digestion all has a scientific proof, but the fact that they were discovered in history.)

In history history took the help of science to defeat its enemies i mean to say that hitler who once was nominated for peace he took help of science in making vans he used nuclear powers for destroying his enemies.

A simple question who came first the chicken or the egg ?
It is a question that has vexed philosophers since the Greeks. But it seems we may now have the answer to the beguilingly simple question: "Which came first?"Its the egg

A man imagines two non-chicken parents getting together and giving rise to the first individual of a new species because of a genetic mutation. "The first chicken must have differed from its parents by some genetic change, perhaps a very subtle one, but one which caused this bird to be the first ever to fulfil our criteria for truly being a chicken," said Prof Brookfield.

but science proved that the chicken came first because it coontains such a protein without which a egg can't hatch.

Here they do not match but maybe both are right at their own places.

history has many wonders in the world like a pyramid historians think that they might have very nice engineers that could build such enormous structures which are hard to build today they preserved the body of their pharaohs (kings) and can still be found the same today maybe people used science in history....