Blog: 2009.10.09
I have come to a conclusion that I am spending an excessive amount of time composing (and completing) these blog posts. I looked around at other people’s blogs via the Blog Feed and noticed many different types of compositions. Some blogs are focused around songs (and music), movies, and books, while other blogs are written about personal life. In many cases, these blogs can be written freely based on one’s opinion, which can easily be recalled by memory. However, blogging concentrated about sciences (I feel) may be a bit more of a challenging, albeit fun, topic – as blogging about accurate scientific requires research, instead of freeform opinion of other topics – not to say that science blogging always requires research or other topics lack freeform opinions. Nevertheless I feel that the researching for these blogs is time-consuming compared to the composition of a story. That said I believe I will limit the number of science-related blogs (or at least those surrounding the world of modern medicine that is constantly altered).

Hopefully that introduction did not give you the impression I was going to speak of another topic (ha). On the other hand, I can reduce the quantity extensive research contributing to the blog post.

On one of my previous blogs, “The Basics of Science” (click here), I ended with a wide-ranged list of sciences (mostly, if not all, natural sciences). And this would be a valid list, considering that the first ideas of science that come to mind are the natural sciences. What is so interesting is how science only refers to a state of knowing, in its broadest interpretation. If you look at the introduction of “The Basics of Science” you may note that I define science in terms of the natural sciences, the chemists’, biologists’, physicists’, geologists’, medical doctors’, etc. point of view; I defined science as:

[…] knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws, especially as obtained and tested through scientific method. It is a framework for gaining and organizing this knowledge. However, it is not simply a set of facts but it is also a plan of action – a procedure for processing and understanding certain types of information.

With this limited definition, we see only the natural sciences – those concerning physical objects that we can test and study (or hypothesize) with the scientific method. Broadening the scope to just a state of knowledge, an introduction of social sciences becomes available.

Ahh. I need to post this. I will continue.