What "science" are you thankful and explain why it matters to you.
I wasn't going to do a blog this week but I keep hearing that you want a blog. I thought I would make it easy on you for this happy short week, so everyone gives thanks or is thankful for something on Thanksgiving. Well, it was suggested to me, to blog about what we are thankful as far as science that we are thankful for. Good idea Frank.
What "science" are you thankful and explain why it matters to you. I remember many many years ago - 28 years to be exact, I sat in my organic chemistry class and remember to this very day an interesting conversion my professor and I had about the most important element for human survival. I naturally said oxygen and he went into this long explanation on how we will for the next millions and millions of years have enough oxygen to sustain human life. He then question me on the element that is most vital to keep the human species alive. I countered with carbon being the most abundant organic molecule. He once again explained how carbon is not going to be our problem - but this little respected organic molecule of Phosphorous. I remember reading 28 years ago a grad paper on research on how long we had before phosphorous would run out of easily trapped resource. Here it is again, more updated in a popular science magazine.
read -- > /uploads/8/5/5/5/8555272/phosphorus-cycle-sci-am.pdf Very interesting. Something that was just a blur in a organic chemistry class almost 30 years ago - now being bought in the attention of the scientific community. To this day, I don't remember my organic professor name and not even what classroom I sat in but I do remember what he taught me not only organic chemistry but of how organic chemistry was applied to very broad and general problems. After reading this article, can you think of how we can solve this problems. In the article they give some good suggestions but all I can say is that we better be nice to Morocco. |
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