Sci&Tech History

A friend of mine have difficulties in kept promises especially related with time. This habit doesn’t occur when he is taking a train or an airplane. Similar, offices also use machine with finger print or card to control their employee office hours. Suddenly, we become much more like machine than we realize. In the same […]

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“When we look at garbage, we don’t see garbage, O.K.?” said Robert Reed, a spokesman for Norcal Waste Systems, the parent company of Sunset Scavenger and Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling Company, the main garbage collectors in the city. “We see food, we see paper, we see metal, we see glass.” (NY Times, May 7, […]

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In what condition someone can get a bright idea to make a change? Moreover, how can the idea be brought into a prototype and than be commercialized? From references I have read, success innovation cames out not only by bright ideas but also by their network to make it formal/institutionalized. For example, by register it […]

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On July, 2004, Nature published a feature entitled The Scientific Impact of Nations. The article discuss relation between citation intensity and wealth intensity represented by a positive slope. In the graphic, we can see that citation intensity has a strong relation with wealth of a nation. The question is does wealth and citation intensity work […]

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A study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, involved a detailed analysis of a large social network of 12,067 people who had been closely followed for 32 years, from 1971 to 2003.
The investigators knew who was friends with whom as well as who was a spouse or sibling or neighbor, and they knew […]

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When people find difficulties in gaining food, is bio energy development still relevant? Does food or energy have a correlation with poverty? Both, rice or jatropha can be exchanged with money, but still the question arise, for whom we develop energy cultivation?
According to Michael Ableman, the global food system now faces a crisis of unprecedented […]

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What would you do, if you know something? Would you tell it to somebody else, or just keep it in a closed system, where people have to spend their money to access it? Dichotomy between closed and open knowledge system can be traced in copy right and copy left approach. Both of the approach have […]

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Does scientist has a role in nation development? This question keep haunting me recently. For example, when the nation has a food crises, should the scientist from indirect field involved in that issues or they have nothing to do with that and run business as usual? Does scientist have to aware about national issues, such […]

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Politics stuff such as election, candidate popularity, trend analysis always include statistic to ‘read’ constituent trend. Below we can see how this relation was examined in New York times, as follows:
This is a remarkably detailed and vivid account of the political sociology of the American electorate. What is even more remarkable is that it is […]

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Score, rank and number are always become our concern rather to decide something is good or bad. The question is how this score, rank, and number been accepted and constructed? Moreover, who have the ‘right’ to do that and what aspects need to be highlighted? As mentioned earlier, Latour pointed four professionals to be taken […]

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