Stanford Prison

4. If you were a prisoner, would you have been able to endure the experience? What would you have done differently than those subjects did? If you were imprisoned in a "real" prison for five years or more, could you take it?

I don't think that I could have endured the experience of being a prisoner. I would feel useless, lonely, and dirty. I would want to be able to see my friends and family, shower, and be treated like a human being. I would not want to be locked up in a small room, with no rights. If I had been in the prison, I would have listened to the guards, and been on my best behavior, hoping that that may result in an early release, or special privileges. If I showed the guards that I could obey, they would't abuse, and mock me. If I was imprisoned in a "real prison" for five years or more, I definitely would not be able to endure it. I would not get the normal luxuries I am accustomed to, which will not be available in jail. I will have limited food selection, limited family and friend visitations, and no contact with the outside world, behind the prison gates. I would go crazy of being bored and loneliness if I had to stay in prison.

16. Knowing what this research says about the power of prison situations to have a corrosive effect on human nature, what recommendations would you make about changing the correctional system in your country?

I would suggest that the guards take their aggression way down. There is no need to be so aggressive and dehumanizing. The prisoners are treated like animals, and they feel hate and disgust towards the guards, after they punish and abuse the prisoners. The prisoners are already in jail for the crimes they committed, they have to face the loneliness of jail, but the abuse from the guards in not necessary. The guards need to be told to treat the prisoners like humans, and if they don't, extreme punishment would follow. They need to respect the prisoners as humans, even if they did do something wrong.

Soft and Hard Science

3. If soft sciences really count as science at all. He says that "academic freedom means that outsiders can't raise the issue of a scholar's politics but other scholars can." He believes it's hypocritical because scholars can criticize other scholars on their politics, but people who are not scholars, or of that status cannot criticize them.

5. He says science is more than a "decimal point" or "controlled experiment", that it is explaining, predicting, and gaining knowledge of a natural phenomenon by testing ones theory.

6. Because you can't control all variables, or even any, and it can be very had to find variables. You can't stop and start it whenever you want.

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Math- A number system to count how much is "many".

Chemistry- Identify some property of a substance of interest, or of a related substance into which the first can be converted.

Ecology-An intuitive idea of habitat complexity is operationalized as what's called a foliage height diversity index, a single number.

Psychology-A "questionnaire that other scientists had developed by extracting statements from sources like tape-recorded doctors' meetings and then asking other doctors to express their degree of agreement with each statement" that drew conclusions that the doctors who had value in early diagnostics and aggressive treatment were more frank with their patients.

12. Because Lang says "How does Huntington measure things like social frustration?", meaning he is ignorant to the measurements taken, not thinking you can measure the social sciences.

14. He believes that soft sciences are more valuable because our survival depends on them. I agree, they are very important to humans living. If we find out whats frustrating humans, we can fix this problem and lead to a greater future for humans. I also feel hard sciences are important too, to understand the soft sciences and the relationship between the both.

Krishna

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Abel Chapter 10

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1)Science describes, rather than explains. Abel says that there can be no sharp line between description and explanation. He uses examples of bad things happening, resulting from sin, or defining law.

2)Science explains the strange by the familiar. Abel says that it is actually reverse, that familiar is explained by unfamiliar concepts.

3)Scientific explanation is not the same as "understanding" in the sense in which it is said. Abel says understanding is more like knowledge by acquaintance or knowing how.

4) A scientific explanation need not be a casual law. Abel says it may be a law of simultaneous existence rather than of succession.

6. Because the scientific explanation is made up of many different parts, to make the full scientific explanation. For example, hypothesis, question, and experiment all belong in the system, and you need all of these to make up the explanation.

10. He means that the growing of science will not be an easy, clean path, and it will not lead to ultimate truth. Science will be forever, with new information added and taken off, and it will not always lead to the truth, but will get us closer to the truth.

12. It is to find new ways to approach science and to consider other conclusions, possibilities, and discoveries.

Group 4 Question:

7. develop and apply the students’ information and communication technology skills in the study of
science

As a group, we were able to provide each other with information on our particular sciences. The chemistry student provided information on the pH. The environmental student, me, was able to provide information on the estuary, and its ecosystems. The biology student was able to provide information on the algae and the different organisms in the samples. The physics student was able to provide information on the velocity. All of this information was gathered to test and try to prove or falsify our hypothesis. Technology played a big part in our lab. We used the Labquest, which allowed us to test the pH, salinity, and temperature by using different probes. This information was very important to our hypothesis and experimenting.

BP Oil Research

Step 1

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Step 2

1. April 20, 2010- An explosion on a offshore oil rig, called the Deepwater Horizon, occurs 52 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. 11 people died in the explosion.
2. April 24, 2010- The Coast Guard confirmed that oil is leaking from 2 different places and about 42,000 gallons a day was leaking out of the well. 30 vessels went out to try and help contain the oil.
3. April 29, 2010-Threatens Louisiana Coast. Crisis of national significance. Recourses from across the country can now be helped to clean up the spill.
4. May 5, 2010- The smallest of the three leaking points is capped. Containment dome is brought to help stop the leaking.
5. May 12, 2010- Obama proposes an extra $118 million in funds to help clean the spill. BP is expected to reimburse it. 8-cent tax on oil barrels to get funds to help clean the spill.
6. May 18, 2010- 19 % of the Gulf is closed for fishing.
7. July 15, 2010- Oil stops flooding into the Gulf.

Key Terms-

• Capped- to contain, get under control.
• Explosion- A violent expansion or bursting noise.
• Disaster- A calamitous event

Scientists- The scientists research different ways to clean the oil spill, how the oil spill has affected the environment, the direct effect on animals, etc.

BP- BP has taken action to clean up the oil. They fund the clean up, adding to costs of $2 billion and counting.

Engineers- Build the devices used to contain/stop the oil. For example, the cap used to stop the oil.

Fishermen- Cannot fish in many areas affected by the oil, they now try and help contain and clean the oil.

Step 4

2. WHOI scientists and technical specialists

Introduction:

Hello, I am a scientist from WHOI. I specialize in the study of birds. I plan to help save the birds affected by the Gulf Oil spill. I will research new methods to clean the birds, and get them healthy and safe. I will find ways to do it quickly, and to save as many birds as possible. All kinds of birds were greatly affected by the oil spill and it is my job to help them live their lives normally.