I'd Like To Own a Prius

Earth Day, in general, is a day in which all beings on Earth can come to appreciate how important the Earth is and realize we as human beings are very lucky. So yea, Earth Day is great; I'm tired.














Stay Cool!
(you wouldn't want global warming now do you?)

Motivator

Motivation to do a certain action can be many different reasons and many of the reasons can be totally different from each other. I think a lot of the things students do for school such as homework and school work are extrinsicly motivated. Even though a certain subject at school might be very interesting for a person, I think any learning, if learned at school, is extrinscly motivated simply because we have to by the teacher or to get that certain grade. I think grades are a big extrinsic motivator on the certain quality of work a student might turn in and because of this I think a lot of what motivates students have a lot to do with the whole topic of grades we had to do for our last post. To further elaborate on this, I think if we get rid of grades I think a person will have a much easier time finding out what intrinsicly motivates us in school. Personally, I feel like learning Chemistry for myself is something that is extrinsicly motivated by the fact that it is an academic subject and just have to do good at. Even though I'm very extrinsicly motivated to learn Chemistry I think Chemistry is very interesting subject to those who are intrinsicly motivated to figure out how and why the world operates as it is. Personally I feel more intrinsicly motivated to learn Biology (more specificly Human Biology) than Chemistry.

Bitter-Sweet Relationship Between Politics and Science

(two blog entries?! now that's just insane..)

Science is used for good and evil based on politics.
Evidence:

EVIL - Orthodox Cancer Treatments (esp. Chemo) - look it up on google
few stuff:
http://www.cancertutor.com/
The Cancer Industry and Questioning Chemotherapy both by Ralph W. Moss, PhD

GOOD - Research for Alternative Energy

GOOD - Stark Industries for shutting down its weapons division and CEO creating a giant flying mechanical robot suit because he wanted to be a humanitarian and ensure homeland security.

EVIL - The atomic bomb brought upon many deaths

GOOD - The atomic bomb saved lives by ending the war

EVIL - Nukes made during the Cold War

GOOD - Space race

EVIL - The McDonald lady suing McDonalds because science made her coffee too hot

EVIL - Use of rainbow herbicides to help out American soldiers fighting Vietnam

EVIL - The dictator of San Lorenzo bribing the son of Felix Hoenikker to obtain a piece of Ice 9 in which later killed the entire world in a few days

GOOD - With the eventual death of the planet, world leaders devise a plan to build a tiny nanobot containing all the genetic information for all life on Earth in which they plan to shoot it into space through a black hole just before the planet dies which would then travel through a wormhole coming out into a parallel universe in which the nanobot would then possibly land on an uninhabited parallel universe Earth or a planet suitable to sustain Earth life in which then millions of years later (or thousands of years later) organisms would fully grow and an entire new generation of humans will then emerge

Can I be your son Mrs. Gallagher?

(another blog entry, how crazy!)

Dear Mrs. Gallagher,
All I have to say is, I wish you were my parent because to be fairly honest, it's too damn demanding to be an asian student in a neighborhood where there are like a trillion other asian students for my parents to compare my grades to. (Good thing I don't live in California, there are as much asians living there than the number of rice you can count in a rice patty) I really admire your belief of academics being the most important thing when growing up in life. I too believe there should be a good balance with everything else in life and academics. I also admire the fact that you try to get the point across by not showing your children their report cards; but, with all due respect, I still believe this idea is crazy and I think a grade is the best way so far in terms of efficiency to mark down a person's academic achievements in simple paper form. It's sort of like entering into a competition only to figure out the contest holders are withholding the results because they believe everyone's a winner. I also don't think in the end college boards would necessarily care if you tried your hardest. But you are right about the fact, and I totally agree, that there should be a healthy, natural balance between everything in life and one's achievements should be based on what you have learned and did, not just in academics. Ultimately grades only tell one's personal achievement that doesn't reflect anything on a person's personality to do well. Even George W. Bush said, "...even the C students can become the President of the United States." (Even though I think it's kind of late to quote former President Bush by now) >.>

Sealed With Much Love,
Chris