Attendance Log for SPRING 2014 Week 13, 14

Date of Class:

Thursday, April 10 and 17, 2014

I was not here for these two weeks, have a good rest of the year!

FUN AND INTERESTING MEDIA Week 13, 14

So i being really sick for a long time, I wasn't able bodied enough to finish that last stretch of the race, but here we are, at the last peg, thanks for taking a look at my blog, and seeing how this is the last time we'll talk, I hope you enjoyed my blog! Have a great life!

Insights and Discoveries Week 13, 14

I was not here for these lectures, I was really sick for a long time unfortunately, but i'm getting better!! Thanks for taking a look at my blog, and seeing how this is the last time we'll talk, I hope you enjoyed my blog! Have a great life!

FUN AND INTERESTING MEDIA Week 10

What can we learn from the stars?
Located in PotPourri from Dr. V. and the TA's found in From Dr. M. Bunch...

Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away....

CUE INTRO MUSIC!

Just kidding! If only right!! Today's TED Talk (click here) discussed how "...studying the properties of the universe's largest pieces...we can learn quite a lot about scientific mysteries in our own world and galaxy." First off I would like to say, this kid is too cute! You can just feel his energy flowing to the audience, his passion in his eyes, revealing just how much he loves astronomy! Overall, this partial TED talk was very interesting, when Henry Lin explains how big the universe is, it really puts into perspective how big it is. The part about stuff being made of dark matter, rather than atoms, was interesting as well, because it seems it has unlimited possibilities. What happens when galaxy clusters collide? A particle accelerator at a huge scale, meaning we could observe these transformations in science. His dark energy segment was also interesting because this explains the ever expanding universe!

I really liked his energy, it was so passionate that I wanted to pull out my old telescope and go look at the starts!

Attendance Log for SPRING 2014 - Week 12

Date of Class:

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Attendance Log for SPRING 2014 - Week 11

Date of Class:

Thursday, March 27, 2014

I was not here for this week!! See you next time!!!

FUN AND INTERESTING MEDIA Week 11

Unfortunately, I was not feeling well enough to finish the stuff for this week, thanks for taking a look at my blog and check back next week for an all new fun and interesting media review!

See you next week!

Insights and Discoveries Week 11

Unfortunately, I was not here for this week's lecture, I believe my allergies were affecting me too much this day, thanks for taking a look at my blog and check back next week for an all new live lecture review!

See you next week!

Attendance Log for SPRING 2014 - Week 10

Date of Class:

Thursday, March 20, 2014

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Insights and Discoveries Week 10

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." 

- William Butler Yeats

Missing Sections

So, I think Blogger may have deleted a couple sections of my blog maybe??? Because when I check the posts in my personal files, they're not there, even though they were done.....

YEah, I know RIGHT!!?

aNYHOO, if anything is missing, please check the PAGES section i.e. YOUR TICKET TO IMAGINATIONLAND! and any missing section should be there, thanks for your cooperation!

Now back to your regularly scheduled program!

P.S. Week 9 isn't here as well because that was Texas A&M's Spring Break! 

Insights and Discoveries Week 12

So today's lecture was returning speaker Prof. Rodney Hill! As great as his lecture was last time, I can't wait to see what he prepared for today!

Today's lecture was entitled, THE SINGULARITY, in which we firstly discussed, how the world's lifespan, fertility, and longevity, basically...it's looking okay, right now, but if we don't fix the problem of "falling fertility rates and increasing longevity, the ability to meet financial requirements for the elderly will diminish as the support ration (worker-to-retirees) will continue to shrink."

The next thing we talked about...was more interesting...I personally find The Singularity particularly interesting because it means humanity is evolving and excelling at things we, as humanity, thought never seemed possible. For example,

We might soon hear a new generation of robots say they will act and think just like humans.

The ambitious goal of DARPA's project "physical intelligence" is to create robots that are controlled by a living brain!

Lets just hope these robots don't try anything like this...

The prospect is still exciting nonetheless. I really enjoyed the section about all of the new things that humans are creating, creating things out of nothing, I believe that is the gift of the human race, and the human race sure is using their gift effectively! :)

3D printing life saving surgeries, robot journalists, and effective AI's are only some of the things changing humanity as a whole, and personally, I am excited to be born in this time and are able to experience all of the many changing lifestyles. My mother was always talking about wanting to have a bionic eye, because her eyes are very damaged, so hopefully soon, she will be able to have good, clear, successful vision because of what humanity has created for her!

One quote that stood out to me in this lecture

See you next week!! Thanks for stopping by!!