Textbooks convey the basic concepts of science, but do they do enough to show how science has evolved and the history of innovation? We explore what science education doesn’t cover and the importance of paradigm shifts. How were you first introduced to science? Most of us first encounter science in school and receive a large part of our science education through school, and textbooks...
Is data ownership an individual’s right or a company’s asset? Let’s explore the issues between data subjects and big data holders and find a fair way forward. Records, such as transportation history, belong to individuals, and they are the ‘data subjects’. Data has no physical form and can be easily replicated and reused. When this data is aggregated and...
Is the effect of affirmations on water and rice a scientific fact or just a belief? Exploring the boundaries between pseudoscience and science. In Korea, PD Lee Young-don’s X-Files recently aired an episode about the power of words, in which he conducted experiments on bread and bean sprouts. It was an experiment that showed the difference between the effects of positive and negative...
Technologies that mimic nature are changing our lives, from artificial intelligence to self-healing concrete. How will these innovations shape our future? It’s no exaggeration to say that the conveniences of human civilization around the world are made possible by advances in engineering, but some of those engineering advances were made possible by mimicking nature. The way airplanes...
Search engines organize search results based on importance and relevance. This article explains how search engines work and how they determine rankings. Internet search engines find web pages that contain your search terms and display them on your screen. To quickly provide you with the information you want, search engines use very complex and sophisticated algorithms to organize search...
Value neutrality promotes academic and technological advancement, but its limits and ethical responsibilities are controversial. How far should we go? The idea of value neutrality in academia was advocated by Maximilian Carl Emil Weber. He introduced the concept of value neutrality in the early 1900s when he criticized the biased education in universities. The idea is that educators have a...
Digital image compression technology efficiently reduces data to make it easier to store and transfer. In this article, we’ll look at how it works and how it affects our lives. A digital image is a digital representation of a photograph or drawing. These digital images are made up of pixels, which are the smallest unit of dots, and each pixel is assigned a value that represents...
Humanity has evolved to adapt to its environment, but advances in biotechnology could shake up who we are. Where are we headed? Humanity has existed on Earth since its emergence millions of years ago. Over that time, we have evolved into the species we know today as Homo sapiens. The oldest fossils of Homo sapiens are estimated to be around 130,000 years old, which suggests that we have...
Cars have revolutionized human life and become an essential form of transportation. From the invention of the wheel to the electric car, we explore its evolutionary journey. A car is a vehicle with four wheels that travels on the road using various types of petroleum fuel as a power source. The automobile in the sense of the term appeared in the 17th century, made possible by the steam...
Public choice theory applies economic principles to analyze political decision-making. It explores the nature of politics through the lens of individual self-interest and market logic. Public choice theory is the application of economic principles and methodologies to explain public sector decision-making, an area of political science. Public choice theory differs from traditional...