Monday, August 19, 2013

5 GO-TO SOURCES FOR GOOD NONFICTION

1. Online. There are having many websites that have lists and reviews about nonfiction. In fact those reviews will be very helpful in choosing a book that's to your liking. Also those websites will give a preview to want you're going to read and have links to where you can buy that particular book.

2. Your local public library is good source though it may be somewhat hard to find some good nonfiction but everybody has different tastes so it'll be difficult no matter what. Also the school library is another source for all you students out there. They fall in the same category because they're almost same.

3. Ask a friend. I'm sure your friends can recommend books to you or help you choose to your likely if you and your friend don't have the same taste.

4. Apps. They're many apps that allow you to purchase and read books on your smartphone. What's great about that is that you can do that on the go.


5. The Huffington Post to me is a really good source for nonfiction. It is an online news aggregator and blog. Unfortunately if you don't have internet then you cannot look at it but from my experience it is a very good source. I have found lots of interesting articles on there and if you look back to my previous post I talk about one of the articles I found most interesting.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

A TRULY INTERESTING PIECE OF NON-FICTION

I've read a truly interesting piece of non-fiction.  It's an article from The Huffington Post called "Urine Stem Cells Used To Grow Teeth In Cell Regeneration Study" by Sarah Gates. The article talks exactly what is on the title. Chinese researchers say that they may have developed a way to grow human teeth. Which is good news but the way that they do it might turn people away. Urine stem cells are being used to create teeth inside mice. That's not the only research that's happening either. In the UK researchers are trying the same thing but they're using something else than urine stem cells. They're still doing research so this is all in the early stages. One on the problems they face is creating different types of teeth in varies shapes and sizes. It seems like they're going further and further with stem cell research. Maybe 10 years or so they might find a way to create limbs or important organs. I've posted the link to the article in case anybody is interested.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/urine-stem-cells-grow-teeth_n_3677753.html

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

MY BIG QUESTION

What sets us different from each other when we are all the same underneath? I know there's a lot of factors involved like personality, culture, and environment. There are many more than what I'll typed so far but my real question is how do we pick up these things? How do we get our personality? Can we change it? Is it even possible? I don't know. How can some people be more afraid than others? Why are some people smarter than others? Do we pick it up along the way or is some or all of it embedded into us? I mean we are just random if you think about it in scientific point of view. We get half of our genes from our mother and the other half from our father. To top it all off those genes are selected at random. We are all random humans. How does that make you feel knowing that your genes and body were selected at random? Can all my questions be answered? Who knows? Maybe in good time they will. Or not. We still have questions left unanswered to this day and age. It seems like when we answer a question a new one rises. It goes around in a circle. Will there be a time where no more new questions are asked? If we had the answer to every question how will that affect life? Our life? Society?