Blog #2: Think Critically about examples of "Popular Science"

The movie I have selected about “Popular Science” is Back to the Future. The kind of science that is involved with this movie is time travel, which is a fictional science. The character “Doc Emmitt Brown” (Christopher Lloyd) invented the Delorean. The movie took place in the year 1985. Doc Brown traveled with “Marty Mcfly” (Michael J. Fox). They traveled into the past and the future. I definitely believe that time travel is more attractive to an audience. It is something I do believe, we all wish we could travel through the course of time.
Time travel does give me a sense of awe. It is extremely appealing to me. It definitely inspires me, but at the same time, it does threaten me a little bit. If I could travel through time, I could see myself 20 or 30 years from now.It definitely is intriguing. I would be able to revisit my childhood, and my parents’ childhood. I would be able to see how they were as kids. It would threaten me because I might not like what I see in 20 to 30 years.
I think my response to my “imaginative” science (time travel) is typical. There are so many possibilities. I believe many people in the United States would have the same reaction. They might want to travel through time for other reasons, but the mentality would be the same. Some imaginative portrayals of science might succeed because the visual effects are attractive and intriguing to people. It would peak their interests. But, at the same time, it may fail because the imaginative portrayal of science may not appeal to people. They may not understand what they are looking at.Serious science may be harder to sell to audiences because many people might not be able understand it, but with science fiction, it may be easier to show how exciting it is on tv compared to reading it in a book or a description in a museum. Science is exciting to the public and there is no limit to how popular science can be.

critical thinking blog Assignment #1

My name is Adam Lazarus. This is my first ever blog. My major at Laguardia is liberal arts. My educational plans are hopefully to graduate in January and transfer to a four year school. I have a full-time job in retail
I believe I am a science and humanities person. I do not have experience in my major. But,I do have experience in my career of business as I have been employed with the same company for nearly seventeen years. I went to laguardia 11 years ago and stopped because I was pursuing my career. But, now I returned here because I am looking to my complete my credits and better myself so I have a degree in case I would like to change careers. I am aware I might not even need a degree to do this, but I would like to have one in case I do need it and a personal achievement.
I believe it splits between a younger generation and an older generation whether or not they like science/technology. Young people like to use and in a way obsessed with cell phones, ipods where at the older generation, older people just simply like to read a book and watch tv and not get involved with the newer technology. I do believe most people do accept science as a way of understanding their world because science has been around for thousands of years and will only continue to improve.