Subject: Do You Like Science?
Posted by: sciencefreak88
Date: Jul 24 08
Do you like science? What type of science do you like the most?
I find Earth science and physics to be the most interesting.
Posted by: sciencefreak88
Date: Jul 24 08
Do you like science? What type of science do you like the most?
I find Earth science and physics to be the most interesting.
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Twodeez 
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I liked physics and chemistry at school. Hated biology, simply because of the experiments like disecting a bulls eyeball, then having cooking in home economics next lesson. Mechanical science is my favourite. I'm very curious as to how things work, why they work and who thought up such an idea. The TV programmes "How it's made" and "How things work" are two of my must see things on telly. Not that I watch much anyway. Reply #1. Jul 24 08, 11:23 PM |
t0mb0y_16
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I like all the Science subjects except geometry. I especially love Nuclear Physics, Quantum Physics, Anaylitical Chemistry, Physiology, Ecology and Medicine. I have a deep interest in Astronomical Sciences or Cosmology. I am a student of Neuro-sciences and Psychology... Mind is a very complicated creation, it fascinates me! Reply #2. Jul 25 08, 3:58 AM |
lesley153
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Maths and physics - wonderful subjects. Much logic and very little writing. Chemistry - unfathomable and pointless. The only decent mark I ever got for a piece of work in chemistry was about water softeners, because there was a practical application. I'm sure it all has a practical application; just the teachers forgot to mention it at the time. Biology wasn't too compelling, and I dropped the subject at 14 so didn't get to do much dissecting. I remember taking an earthworm in, and the way it felt as it ran over my hand. Bristly and tickly. Not slimy as you might expect. And I remember when we had to bring an eye in for dissection. On the way home from school, I passed a butcher's shop. This time, I walked in and asked if I could beg, borrow, steal or buy an eye. They were charming and obliging. One of them went round the back and came back with a whole pig's head, and I stood and watched... and I left the shop, gratefully clutching an eyeball in a little plastic bag. Got home to Mother: can I put this in the fridge please? Reply #3. Jul 25 08, 6:25 AM |
Cymruambyth
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Lesley, you give a whole new meaning to the common Canadian expression "In a pig's eye!" I remember dissecting a worm in biology and discovering that a worm has ten hearts. I remember my lab partner saying, "Oh, look, one mind with but one single thought, ten hearts that beat as one." I love it when guys quote poetry, even if they adapt it to fit the situation! I hated science when I was at school - it was too abstract for me, like algebra and geometry (I'm a full-tilt right-brainer). I do, however, have an interest in archaeology and astronomy, and I enjoy science shows like 'Nova' on PBS. Reply #4. Aug 07 08, 11:17 PM |
romeomikegolf
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I used to enjoy chemistry and biology at school. Hated physics, too many formulae to remember. It wasn't until I started an electronics apprenticeship that I realised the value of it. I remember once, when I was about 12 and we were doing animal biology. My uncle, who was a master butcher, gave me a cows heart and lungs to take to school so we could dissect them. The school cat got the left overs. It must have thought it had died and gone to heaven. Reply #5. Aug 08 08, 1:10 AM |
sherry75
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We used to disect dog fish and also white rats. The school bred its own rats which were dispatched by the biology teacher ready for use to use. At the time, didnt think anything of it, but can see the reasons why this no longer happens. Remember one or two classmates passing out. No idea why we used dog fish! Reply #6. Aug 08 08, 1:29 AM |
demurechicky
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I was good at biology and that was about it. Maths isn't a strong subject with me so physics was never a strong subject. My daughter recently was asked to take a pig's heart to school for disecting. Believe it or not they had sold out, so we had to get a lamb's heart. Needless to say it was stored in the beer fridge in the garage prior to being taken to school lol Reply #7. Aug 08 08, 2:40 AM |
| lesley153
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A few years ago, we came home to find that one of the cats had been having a biology lesson of her own - she'd left us a disembowelled mouse. Nearby were a few tiny kidney-shaped pink things, which we guessed were embryos. I wrapped them in cling-film and put them in the fridge, while I prepared a portable refrigerator for the next morning. (OK, it wasn't exactly a fridge - more a see-through plastic pot from the deli, with a tight snap-on lid, and a layer of ice in the bottom. But fridge-like.) My son had taken odd things in to school in the past. When he was very small, a huge dead moth, notable for the splash of colour on its wings. When he was about eight, a multimeter and a lemon, and made an electric current pass through the lemon. The next morning, he took the little pot to school. The first lesson was biology. His class-mates gathered round, waiting to see this new and exciting offering. And what did the teacher do, to nurture this sense of curiosity and adventure in his young charges? He screamed at him. "Don't open that. Take it to the incinerator. NOW." After that. whenever there was something he could have taken in to school, he didn't bother. Reply #8. Aug 08 08, 5:35 AM |
Starlord
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Sherry the reason you used to dissect dogfish, was because it was one of the three animals that were on the dissection list for the A level practical, along with rat and earthworm. I don't think A level biology any longer includes dissection as part of the A level practical, more dumbing down of exams! I used to love the sciences at school especially chemistry, I now have a BSC. in biochemistry and chemistry and a MSc. in Analytical chemistry. I used to love chemistry club run by our chemistry teacher after school on Thursdays. I have seen what science is like in England to day and a lot of the interesting stuff has been removed and can be very boring. Mind you some of us students could have taught the IRA a thing or two about explosives, with the sort of things we got up to. :) Reply #9. Aug 10 08, 9:00 AM |
jk18
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I enjoyed Environmental science, this is when you learn about animals,forests, and pollutions just to name a few. Reply #10. Aug 10 08, 9:12 AM |
Rowena8482
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I like environmental science too - especially the phytoremediation and bioremediation stuff - using plants and microbes to clean up pollution. It's fascinating :-D Reply #11. Aug 11 08, 4:37 PM |
Percytherat
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Teh only true science is mathematics Reply #12. Aug 17 08, 5:57 PM |
vene
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Qua school I took the least scientific course package available: french, german, history, art.. english, dutch and the minimum required amount of maths. I did include biology, however, I suppose partially because my brother has been enthusiastic about biology (including dinosaurs, evolution) since we were kids. He's now a biologist. I'm a philosopher, but my PhD project involves the subject of evolution, and I'm quite thrilled about that. Qua interest: well, evolutionary biology obviously, psychology, neuroscience, astronomy and weird new scientific theories. I find the history of science (physics) fascinating as well, like the shapes of physical theories and the types of entities postulated by theories throughout the centuries. From matter equals extension to matter equals energy. Reply #13. Aug 18 08, 5:45 AM |
cag1970
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I definitely love science, always have. Aeronautics, astronomy, physics, civil engineering, meteorology. And although I won awards for biology and chemistry in high school, those aren't among my favorite fields of science. Reply #14. Oct 12 08, 8:22 PM |
emeney3
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I loved biology but I will admit, I refused to do any dissecting and was also guilty in sixth grade, of letting go all the frogs scheduled for disection that day lol. Reply #15. Oct 13 08, 7:54 PM |
| Bubnel
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I love Science. It's the one subject I've consistently gotten an A in throughout school. I took Biology last year and didn't really like it. I have Chemistry this year and I'm really looking forward to it because I know I'm going to be really good at it. Reply #16. Oct 15 08, 6:03 PM |
Jerry12
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I love science. I like reading about solar system, space, like that things. Reply #17. Nov 15 08, 8:53 AM |
jonnowales
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Science is just marvellous :) My favourite sciences are quantum physics, health physics, system biology, genetics, inorganic and structural chemistry and the entirety of maths. The relationship between maths and physics is also marvellous and these two sciences along with medicine are, for me, most elegant. Reply #18. Nov 15 08, 9:22 AM |
| Rowena8482
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jonno, come the 'Glorious Day' when you're in charge of R&D for some big Global company, and need a lab assistant, remember I knew you when you had nowt ;-) and send for me - I rather fancy being an 'associate team member' to a Nobel Laureate.... :-D Reply #19. Nov 15 08, 1:59 PM |
Mouldy-Carpets
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I never understood why people look at disecting a Bird in Biology class with such horror and disgust - but are perfectly happy to watch one have its giblets ripped out, roasted, then carved to bits and ravenously eaten on a Sunday afternoon. Reply #20. Nov 15 08, 2:39 PM |
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