Pluto Change Society

In Jeanne Fahnestock’s (1998) article “Accommodating Science: the rhetorical life of scientific facts”, she observes the distortions that occur when attempting to accommodate scientific discourse for a popular audience. Fahnestock cautions that although accommodating has its place in conveying scientific discoveries to the public, it is vital to evaluate how accommodating methods affect the accuracy of interpreting such discoveries. Through assessing the shift in genre, the shift in information and classical stasis theory, Fahnestock examines how scientific writings are altered through the process of accommodating.

Imagine going to the doctor’s office and as you walk in, you see the doctor smoking a cigarette! The doctor continues to check you and gives you medicine that was made in the 1900s. Most people would agree that changes in scientific knowledge is for the best, but some people just won’t allow for change. For example, some people think that the Earth is flat, notwithstanding all the evidence put against them. As scientific knowledge changes over time, society has adapted to the new knowledge for the better. For instance, we have medical knowledge. If medical knowledge didn’t change, we wouldn’t know how to make new medicine. Some people like to keep to the older ways like smoking. Once in a while, there comes someone who won’t use any medicine

Over the course of the years, society has been reformed by new ideas of science. We learn more and more about global warming, outer space, and technology. However, this pattern of gaining knowledge did not pick up significantly until the Scientific Revolution. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the Scientific Revolution started, which concerned the fields of astronomy, mechanics, and medicine. These new scientists used math and observations strongly contradicting religious thought at the time, which was dependent on the Aristotelian-Ptolemy theory. However, astronomers like Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton accepted the heliocentric theory. Astronomical findings of the Scientific Revolution disproved the fact that humans were

Many issues have arisen from the debate whether or not Pluto is a planet. Some astronomers say that Pluto should be classified as a “minor planet” due to its size, physical characteristics, and other factors. On the other hand, some astronomers defend Pluto’s planet status, citing several key features.

MyPlate is the name given to the illustration for the 2010 dietary guidelines for Americans. This illustration depicts a plate with the four common food groups (grains, vegetables, fruits, and proteins) on the plate in different representative sizes and a cup to the side of the plate for dairy. This illustration suggests that whenever someone makes their plate for a meal their proportion of each food group should be similar to the food proportions on the MyPlate illustration. This illustration is a strength and a weakness of this dietary approach. The strength of this illustration is that it creates a visual that could be easy to follow and used as a rough guideline when trying to eat healthy. The weakness with this illustration is that by itself it does not give any indication of what a healthy portion size actually is or what size the plate should be. It forces people to look online for more detailed information which may not be easy or convenient for

New technology allows for a better understanding of artifacts that change previous interpretations. For example, Pluto is a dwarf planet so now there is only eight planets in the solar system. Pluto was probably never an actual planet, but because of advanced technology, people were able to realize the

For centuries, scientific development has been a hot issue among media. Especially since the invention of cloning technology, more and more arguments about the developing pattern and power gained from such a development worried people globally. No doubt that the rapid development did provide us numerous conveniences and improving our life greatly, though, in regard to the increasing acknowledgment that people have from our nature, and the unpredictable human nature, likewise Dr. Abnesti in the fiction story, Escape from Spiderhead. From my pass readings and experiences, I think that human need to take every step of scientific development extremely seriously. As see from now, people are arguing about

How then, do different scientists find different results? Look at Manouvier’s research, Gould says, “when he corrected for what he called “sexual mass” women actually came out slightly ahead in brain size.” These men researching the exact same thing with the same tools had opposite results. Then think of something different not involving Gould and Broca; something like the periodic table. It’s true that the law of octaves has not changed in over a hundred years, but what about other organizations of this important scientific chart? Some time periods believe the table is set up according to atomic mass, while others believe it is because of atomic number. Think about the atom as well, the idea of an atom is so much different now then what it was a hundred years ago. Science doesn’t stay still and who knows what it will be in the

In the outer limits of our solar system there is a planet unlike any other, Pluto. Pluto was discovered in February of 1930 by an American astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh. It is the only planet to have been discovered by an American. All though we have known of the existence of Pluto for over thirty years now, there are still many mysteries surrounding this celestial body. Being the farthest planet has made it difficult to study Pluto, Adding to the obscurity of this strange planet is that the capability to send spacecraft such distances has never been achieved. Through the wonders of science and astronomy, there are many things that can be determined, concluded, and hypothesized about this obscure planet.

The Food Pyramid was introduced to the United States of America as a general dietary guideline but was replaced with a more up to date and simpler logo. Its replacement was issued in 2005 and was called “MyPyramid.” MyPyramid was created to promote the 2005 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Many say that the nutritional information given in MyPyramid is complex and hard to understand. In 2011, the USDA introduced MyPlate as simple, familiar, and easy to

For instance, if you were considering the galaxy and you wanted to know how to differentiate a flying rock from a planet, you would first try to assign terms to the characteristics that describe planets and not those flying rocks. For decades, our understanding of what planets are was fairly simple and straight forward. In that, planets tended to be anything that had sufficient amounts of gravity that it developed a spherical shape, tend to have moons and some other defining characteristics. However, some problems came with the discovery of Pluto. While Pluto may possess some of these defining characteristics, the magnitude of Pluto’s size is so small in comparison to the other planets that it brings into question of whether our understanding of what makes a planet a planet was valid in the first place. With a bit of debate and the addition of new meaning to some preexisting terms, the status of Pluto was changed to Dwarf Planet. While this debate over the status of Pluto may seem insignificant in comparison to the other issues modern scientist have to tackle, the debate illustrates considerably how having too general definitions of things can lead to things being considered that of which they are not. Which gives way to the question whether the systems that we

Knowledge is always changing we are always finding out new information and are coming to an understanding of things we did not know long ago. Most of these changes are all thanks to technology. The article The Half-Life of Facts states that “You have to look up things more often and recognize that most of the stuff you learned as when you were younger is not as cutting edge.”

More recently, the Catholic Church and the Pope do not have a definite answer about creation, but believe people should not take Genesis literally (Singer-Towns 22). This is a significant change because the Catholic Church originally condemned modern teachings of creation, but now are taking them into consideration, which is a huge change in believe. It makes one wonder if they were finally conforming to society or if they were wrong for so many years, it is hard to know. That is why it is important for one to decide one believes for oneself, not just believe what their religion, family, or country believes. Scientists, clergy, philosophers, professors, and others still have varying beliefs, constantly contemplating

The newest high-resolution eye-candy images of Pluto were released by the New Horizons mission team at a press conference today and, again, they did not disappoint. Details flow in and questions continue to mount as the formerly most-mysterious body in the solar system drops her veils. See below for images and video.

The “scientific mind”, or how people think about the world, has changed multiple times throughout history. Before the 1700s, people had a more religious-based point of view on life; the church was considered to be far more important than it is today. With the church’s iron grip over society and its people, it came with a shock as the 1700s passed by and more and more people started to think for themselves. The acceptance of having more freedom, when it came to religion and change, changed the world forever.During the scientific revolution, Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, and Francis Bacon all came up with principal scientific