Science In Everyday Life

The twentieth century is the science age. Modern science has discovered different type
of wonders. It has brought very far reaching changes in everyday life. Huge undeniably
are the blessings of science. It has enlarged human comforts and given man powers
that are only for God. Some people says truly science has given eyes to blind, ears to
deaf, and limbs to the cripple. Science has given us artificial wings also that we cannot
get naturally. Science is a compulsory subject of study for all examinations. Let us
discuss, in brief, some various blessings that science has bestowed upon the modern
man. It is the age of science. There are many wonders of science. Science plays an
important part in our daily life. It has made our life easier and more comfortable.
Science is nothing but a systematic way of knowledge and living. Man’s behavior of
inquiringly, alertness and keen observation of changes in natural happenings has given
birth to science and scientific study.

Science has developed, invented and discovered different mediums of swift

communication that are very useful for us in our everyday life. Time and distance have
been conquered and traveling has become a pleasure. Trains and Railways are now
used for travel and transport. Man can fly like birds nowadays. Traveling around the
world in small amount of time is not a big deal nowadays. The globe is shrinked and the
whole world now looks like a small family. Sea-voyages have now become perfectly
safe and have lost all their terrors. In the modern steam-ship, we can travel with perfect
ease and safety. The world has now become one long bazaar and mangoes about
buying and selling with perfect ease.

Science has invented different types of machines that are very useful for us in our daily
life. Everything that the modern man uses from morning till night has been
manufactured by one machine or the other. Machine lifts weight from us, plough our
fields, cook our food and also serve it for us. Computers have made each and
everything easy like calculations and other stuff beyond our imagination. The invention
of such machines, that save our time and drudgery, is a great blessing for mankind.
Scientists have invented several things and machines that are big and small through
observation of very simple events. Boiling water in a kettle has given us idea of coal
railway engine. Apples falling from a tree helped Newton to discover a new law that is
now known as law of gravity. Electricity is the greatest invention of man. It serves us in
hundreds and thousands of ways. It runs our trains, mills and factories. It cools and
keeps our houses warm. It washes and irons our clothes. It gives us cool air and
entertains us through Cinema, TV and radio, besides lighting our houses. Modern life is
impossible without electricity.

The greatest blessings of science are its inventions in the field of medicine and surgery.
Human pain and treatment of different types of diseases that don’t have any treatment
available in the early times that have now become very easy and and the human life
survival rate is increased. Science has invented a number of wonderful drugs that are
used for pain killing and due to the use of these drugs the pain is finished and these
drugs are very useful in everyday life. X-Ray and body scanning machines are the
window through which we can get a peep into the inside of our body. There are
machines and different types of scanners and detectors which can sense and tell us
about the diseases that are inside the human body. Major operations can now be
performed and broken limbs set right without the patient feeling any pain. Different parts
of the body can now be replaced by artificial parts. It is expected that atomic energy,
when used for peaceful purpose on a large scale, would transform human life.

Science has given comfort to human life very much. With electricity man can turn night
into day and carry on his work with perfect ease. In the summer season, he enjoys cool
breeze by the use of electric fans and air-conditions. Many inventions of science are for
our enjoyment and entertainment. Cinema is very cheap means of entertainment that
provides enjoyment both for rich and poor. Through radio we can enjoy music,
dialogues, dramas, short stories. Through the television we can see dramas, dances,
etc; being staged at the television station. Man can reach any part of the world within
hours. He has even reached the other planets with the help of science. The day is not
so far when man will be able to travel easily to other stars and planets.
Science has done wonders. Heart surgery and heart transplantation have become
ordinary things nowadays. Science has discovered and controlled incurable different
types of life taking dangerous diseases. With the discovery of atomic energy man has
found an inexhaustible source of energy. It can meet the demands of energy of the
world for a long time. Modern science is nothing but a skill magician. One after one, it is
providing the mankind with wonders. It has absolutely conquered and discovered the
resolute forces of nature.

Electricity is the first wonder of modern science. It is the driving force of modern
civilization. Without it, the development of modern science is impossible.

Television is another great wonder of modern science. It is a popular medium of

entertainment, enjoyment, thoughts and opinions. Television shows us the videos and
live shows and the interesting thing is that through television we can see and also hear
through the speakers. It leaves a permanent effect on the people.

Computer is one of the greatest inventions of modern Science. It is a substitute for the
human brain. In every field of life man has been using computer. It seems that in the
future man will be a puppet and computer will do every brain work.

The invention of nuclear energy is a marvelous wonder of modern science. Now man
can make atom Bomb, Hydrogen Bomb, Neutron Bomb, Missiles etc. with the help of
this energy. Man may use this power either in destructive or constructive works.

Space travel is the most wonderful success of modern science. Landing on a moon was
just an imagination of a man few years back. But by the help of modern science man
has also done this impossible work. So it is possible now to turn man’s imagination into
reality.

Science has created wonders in the field of communication. Telephone, telex, fax,
internet, networking, cell phones, laptops, gps systems, E-mail, VSATs, wireless,
telegrams are great wonders. They have brought the world closer to us. We can send
news from one corner of the world to other within a single moment. Human life would
get transformed into new horizons and heights of prosperity when atomic energy is fully
utilized for peaceful purposes.

Science is very much helpful in our daily life. The world would have been stopped
without inventions of the Science. There is shortage of space everywhere in the world
such as, high buildings are constructed both for commercial and residential purposes.
Inventions of lifts working in these highly constructed buildings have made life very
easy. A housewife can cook tasty food with the help of different kitchen machines that
are invented by science. In this condition she is able to save too much wastage of time
and give that time to perform other house works and also her family. Cloth washing
systems are also very easy because of invention of washing machines from modern
science. All this is possible with the production of fully automatic washing machines.

In spite of Science as a blessing in our daily life, but on the other hand it is also very
dangerous because science has invented very dangerous weapons that can kill
humanity very easily. Another disadvantage of science is the misuse of mass media for
propaganda. Sometimes different types of stories and rumors are out and they create
many tensions for people all over the world. Much of communicating tension within the
country has been the creation of media. Mass media is used by anti-social elements to
spread rumors and false information. Once a story is circulated, it spreads like a fire,
thanks to mass media. It is certainly up to mankind to utilize the benefits of Science for
welfare of all or to indulge in making mass destruction weapons for miseries of future
generations.

Science has metamorphosed the mode of our daily life. Science has stepped up the
speed of life; it has widened the range of our occupations, extended all of the limits of
our curiosity, it has increased the ways of utilizing our leisure ; it has given us comforts
and facilities undreamt of by our forefathers.
As regarding food by the help of science now we can know that which food has how
much proteins and calories. It has analyzed and classified the various constituents of
our diet according to vitamin content, caloric value, mineral basis etc. It has explained to
us the factors that make a balanced diet. With the help of all this knowledge, the State
can provide school children with cheap but nutritious food in order to build up the
physique of future generations. This shows how much science can contribute to the
improvement of national well-being. Science even has started producing synthetic food
in the Laboratory, to supplement our food deficit.

Next item of our necessity is our dress. Modern science has taught us the utility of light
dress in a tropical country. Our knowledge of science has helped up to manufacture
dress materials more comfortable, more enduring and in the long run more economical
and adjusted to the prevailing environment. Today we are certainly better clothed than
ever before.

Also science has shown us how we can do a long time work in short time and with less
physical effort and sweat. It has placed at our disposal innumerable devices that can be
used to save our labor and the expenses on that labor, so that, life can become far less
difficult than it is.

They save us from the drudgery of manual work to be done and thus enable us to do
much more work with greater output potential than our ancestors. At the same time,
scientific process creates plenty of leisure, which we may devote to cultural pursuits.
The modern man is thus able to live a full enjoyable and many sided life.

In our sickness, we have got to many benefits from science. The physicians and
surgeons nowadays are much surer in their diagnosis of diseases through clinical tests,
brain scanning and supersonic devices. The physicians nowadays are more confident in
their ability to cure or to control them.

Associated to this is the role that science has made to our ideas of sanitation and
hygiene. Infectious diseases have been either completely eradicated, or brought under
control, due to better sanitation and sewerage arrangements. Cholera, smallpox
typhoid’s, aids and the like epidemic diseases have been largely tamed.

Other killing ailments like TB, Cancer, Coronary attacks are also considerably
submissive, thanks to wonderful progress and developments in medical research.
Dysentery, typhoid etc. have ceased in countries, which believe in science and make its
full use. Epidemic malaria has greatly been diminished. As a result of all these,
progressive developments the human life has been doubled as compare to our
ancestors and forefathers and more than 100 years back.

Science helped mankind in countless ways. The scientific inventions have brought
about many changes in our lives. The civilizations of the world have progressed by leap
and bounds.

It has helped us in countless ways to make our everyday life comfortable. For travelling
or transportation we have many types of vehicles. We need not walk on foot or travel by
slow moving bullock carts. Today we have scooters, cars, buses, trains, aero planes to
take from one place to another.

The invention of electricity has helped us in many ways. We use bulbs or tube lights to
illuminate our house, room heaters to keep us warm and cooler and AC’s to drive away
heat during summer days. Means of communication have vastly improved. Today news
travels faster than before. A person sitting in India on telephone can talk to his relative
sitting in America or any other part of the world. Communication satellites moving in
their orbits above the earth’s atmosphere can forecast weather reports, cyclones, tidal
changes in the sea etc. much in advance. These forecasts help us to reduce the
disasters likely to take place.

We have developed instruments to help us in agriculture, irrigation,

generating electricity, building dams, curing many fatal diseases. Man’s life span has
been increased with the advancement of the medical science. Today life
without science is unthinkable.

In its broadest meaning of ‘knowledge’, science enters the life of even the most primitive
human being, who knows the safe from the poisonous berry, who has stored up some
rudimentary ideas about building a hut, sharpening a spear, and fishing in the river. This
knowledge, or accumulation of experience, distinguishes man from the animal which
has to rely on instinct.

The Renaissance first taught man to realize the value of scientific progress, but it was
not until the 18th century technology was very old and industry was very slow in
working. Until about 1920, the development and technological progress was very slow
but nowadays science has very latest inventions and has discovered latest technologies
and the process of implementing science on different things and in various types of
fields have now made human life very easy. The rate of progress in these years is too
much high and every day new device or machine or other things are discovered and
invented rapidly.

Today, there are available many kinds and range of consumer goods from the simple
needle to the jet plane, from the automatic clocks to the computer. All these things
serve to make life easier and more pleasant, yet in themselves do not constitute
civilization with its comfortable distinct. Progress in real life has achieved less than the
progress due to science and through education, the arts and the love of beauty. Science
has nothing to say to us in these categories, providing aids and short-cuts. Without
them, life would be no more than the struggle for survival; there would be no time and
not any other way or incentive to pursue higher things.

Science gives us safe food, free from harmful bacteria, in clean containers or hygienic
tins. It also teaches us to eat properly, indicating a diet balanced in proteins and
carbohydrates and containing vitamins like A, B, and vitamin E that is most important for
human body and very useful. The results are freedom from disease and prolonged life.
In pre-scientific days, food was droning and sometimes dangerous; today it is safe and
varied. It is varied because through improved sea, land and air transport food can now
be freely imported and exported. Science has also improved clothing and made it more
appropriate for climatic and working conditions. These clothes are also made according
to season variations. Man-made fibers and versatile spinning machines today enable us
to dress in clothes both comfortable and smart without being expensive.

Home, school and office all bear witness to the progress and application of science.
Nowadays, most homes possess electric lighting and cooking, but many also have
washing machines, vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliances, all designed to increase
comfort and cleanliness and reduce hard work. Science produces the fan which cools
the air, the machinery which makes the furniture and fabrics, and hundred and one
other features for good living. The books and papers are at school, and again
everything from the piece of chalk to the closed-circuit television of instructions is the
direct or indirect results of scientific progress. The latest invention of science is that now
we have projectors for different type of views. Learning is therefore easier. And clerical
work is made far more speedy and efficient by the office typewriter, quite apart from the
hundreds of different machines.

In the old days, the idea of travel or taking a holiday was the monopoly of the privileged
few. Today, science has given us the steamer, the aircraft and the motor-car. New
horizons are opened to us and the increase of wealth brought about by science has
given us the means to enjoy the new leisure we have been given by science. But to
enjoy life at all, we must be healthy and it is perhaps in the sphere of medicine that
some of the greatest advances have been made. Today, because of the use of
antibiotic and isotopes, many diseases are speedily cured and man has become, on the
whole, a healthier being, set free from pain and illness.

Science is a great blessing for mankind. Its utilities in everyday life are unlimited. But
the inventions of science are being distorted in many different ways. Instead of using
the aero-planes for travel, we use them to drop bombs. In this way, this blessing has
turned into a curse, and it is feared that one day science will destroy humanity. Science
should be a compulsory subject of study so that man may understand its true nature,
and put it to right use. If we want our country to progress, then more scientists are
urgently needed. Therefore, science should be taught everywhere in the whole world.
Science has been completely beneficial to ordinary living when properly applied. When
misused, it is equally harmful. Land can be poisoned by chemicals, workers can suffer
industrial disease, war can mobilize science to man’s own destruction. Science is a
good servant, but man must remain master. To conclude we can say that science is the
magical genie of today. It can do wonders for us if it is used carefully.

Computer
Computer has brought about an amazing revolution in life around the present day
world. Its use, now it so seems, has become a necessity, and has created for itself
indispensability.
Whether one goes to a railway station or to an airport for reservations or goes to the
market for purchases or to any bank to withdraw money or to know the balance of one’s
account — on the table or the counter is the computer telling one in no time all the
details that one wants to know.

Does it not look wonderful that sitting in one city up north one can get his enervations in
trains done or cancelled in deep South of one’s country thousands of miles away; or to
perform the same feat in one’s air-travels from one country to another.

Messages can be transmitted in the twinkling of an eye on E-mail or Fax. Letters which
used to take days and even weeks sometimes are sent and delivered right here and
now.

Money can be withdrawn from one’s account by just pressing the button of the booth of
our bank by the road side, sliding into it one’s account number card and crisp notes are
available in another slot of the same machine, no hassles of presenting the cheque,
asking for the balance or getting the payment — everything so automatic and so quick.

In the busy world as of today, going busier every day, such ready service is saving so
much time, so much energy, so much manpower which can be better utilized in some
other profitable pursuit. In the medical science, particularly in the field of surgery,
unthinkable and unimaginable feats are being performed — all with the help of
computerized gadgets.
It should not now be laughed at as a craze, it is now the need of the age and now when
we have entered the new century, we cannot imagine what further wonders are in store
for us.

So what is this computer? — This must be a natural ‘inquisitiveness. A computer is

defined as an electronic device which has the ability to accept data and instructions;
store them, perform mathematical and logical operations and output the results.

What are important about computers are their characteristics which are speed, storage,
accuracy and versatility. Taking UP these characteristics one by one, speed is to be
found in the operations of computers which are caused h electrical pulses.
As the electricity travels at the speed of light, a computer too can perform innumerable
number of operations in just one second. This speed is measured in nanoseconds —
one nanosecond is equal to billionth of a second.

So far the capacity of ‘storage’ is concerned; it has a very large storage capacity. The
contents of around two hundred sheets of A4 size of paper can be stored on a small
floppy disc which is not even half the size of one sheet of paper.

As about the accuracy of computers — it should be said that computers do not make
mistakes. Errors in computing are caused generally due to human negligence —
feeding an inaccurate data, improper procedure, poor design etc., rather than
technological faults.

Then comes the versatility of the computer. It can perform a wide range of jobs with
speed and accuracy. In any organisation sometimes the same computer is used for
diverse purposes such as preparing bills, generating pay slips, keeping track of the
manager’s appointments and engagements; helping the secretaries in managing their
correspondence etc.

There are several fields in which computers may be used or applied.

The first such use is in business application. A business organisation — it may be public
or private — a company, a government or a semi-government office” computers have
been found as a very useful tool. They are used to take care of financial accounts,
inventory control, stock control and similar other controls. The preprocessing of financial
accounts and transactions through computes has made the job faster and accurate.

The other use is in scientific applications. Science and research scholars are making
use of computers for storing their information. Launching of a rocket, spaceship,
whether forecasting, astronomical calculations etc. are controlled through computers
only.

Their medical application has made the medical science most effective and life-saving.
Computers are used for planning and control purposes by health care professionals.
They are used for treatment, planning and monitoring patients in the hospitals.

Medical diagnosis has become easier and more accurate with the help of computers.
For example — the symptoms detected by the physician could be fed into the computer
and be compared with other symptoms and indications associated with the illness and
probable diagnosis thus arrived at together with the prescriptions recommended earlier
can be helpful in the process of treatment.

For sophisticated operations like open heart surgery computerized machines are taken
use of with successful results.

In the field of Engineering, computers are used as designing tool by architects and
designers. CAD (Computer Aided Designing) is finding wide importance and
acceptance in electronic, electrical and mechanical engineering. Apart from CAD,
computers have moved into CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) whereby they drive a
set of CNC (Computerized Numeric Control) machines to manufacture various
components without any human intervention.

Even our educational programmes are finding the use of computers very convenient
and more effective There are programmes written down to assist, students learn
different subjects like Mathematics, Physics Chemistry, Biology, Geography,
Anthropology and such other subjects through computers. All these programmes form a
part of Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) which helps students to execute the
programmes as many times as they like at any place.

Schools and educational institutions are using computers to keep students records for
ready retrieval. Also, the examination results are processed on these machines.

Computerized information collected and fed while investigating cases helps the law and
order agencies. Libraries or museums have in the computers a ready reckoned of their
data;-of the number and nature of specimen or books available — which otherwise
would have meant a Herculean effort earlier.

The major components of computers are — The Central Processing Unit (CPU); Input
devices; the CPU consists of three units — the control unit, the arithmetical and logical
unit (ALU) and the memory. The Control Unit interprets the instructions stored in the
memory; fetches the data required for the net instruction from the memory, coordinates
the activities of ALU, the memory and other devices.

The ALU performs all the arithmetical and local comparisons on the data selected from
the memory, that is to say, it performs multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and
logical comparisons.

Memory is the computer’s work area. All the data and programs are stored in it prior to
their output.

The input devices take up the data that is in human readable form from the user,
convert it to the binary equivalent and place in the memory. The input devices are the
keyboard, Mouse, Joystick etc.

What has been stored in the memory by the input devices are converted again into the
human readable form by the output devices and the result comes up for the user.
Monitors and Printers are the devices used by the output devices and the result is called
the ‘soft copy’ produced by the monitors and then the permanent copy called the Hard
copy, produced by the Printer.
Computers as described above are playing a very important role, now in the everyday
affairs and transactions of human life and it is therefore that, what were once called the
craze of modernity have become a necessity and the need of the day without which no
activity in any field seems possible.

Flooding In Bangladesh
Bangladesh is in southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal between India and Burma.
Bangladesh is an extremely poor and a country that is prone to extreme devastating
floods. The geography of Bangladesh does not help either. The population of
Bangladesh is 131,269,860 and the total area of the country is 144 thousand square
kilometers this works out to be a 900 people to a square kilometre. 82 percent of these
people are distributed in rural areas and 18 percent of these people are distributed in
urban areas. Bangladesh’s terrain is mostly flat and slightly hilly in the southeast. The
climate in Bangladesh is normally mild in the winter months (October to march) and hot
and humid in the summer months (march to June) then in the months of June through
October the climate is humid and warm with lots of rain, this is the time of the year that
the monsoon takes place. The land in Bangladesh is used in 4 main ways. Arable 73%,
permanent crops 2%, permanent pastures 5%, forests and woodlands 15% and the
other 5% is in other ways. 31,000 square kilometers of Bangladesh is irrigated.
Bangladesh is prone to many natural hazards such as; cyclones, draughts and of
course floods.
The floods in Bangladesh are due to a few main factors, which are coastal flooding,
river flooding, tidal surges, deforestation, erosion and the monsoon. The annual rainfall
in Bangladesh is approximately 1250 mm in the west of the country and about 5500 mm
in the north east, and this normally takes place in the months of June through October.
Bangladesh has a coastline of 580 Km. Coastal flooding counts to a lot of the flooding in
Bangladesh. Erosion of the riverbanks causes the banks to burst and flood certain
areas, when the river levels are high, this can cause extreme flooding. Deforestation
causes loss of vegetation and then a lower rate of interception causing a greater
amount of run of, thus leading to flooding. The monsoon is a huge factor that adds to
the flooding in Bangladesh.
Flooding in Bangladesh has many effects. One of the most severe effects is death.
Floods can cause people to become homeless. As the homes in Bangladesh are of
such poor quality the floods just destroy them. The floods cause land and crops to be
destroyed. Flooding can cause soil to become infertile, causing families’ lively hood to
be destroyed. The water can also become stagnant, people drinking the water can die
of all sorts of diseases spread by the water i.e. cholera.
As Bangladesh is such a poor country there is not much that they can do alone to
prevent the floods. Bangladesh relies on aid from different countries and world
organizations. There is nothing really that can be done to prevent floods but there are
ways to slow down floods, but these methods cost. If there was a warning system,
people could at least be prepared for the floods. World organizations such as the Red
Cross cannot prevent floods, but they can deliver aid to the country like clean water,
food, blankets… Some methods that could be used are dams and or embankment,
coastal and river dredging, tidal barriers. But all of these methods are expensive and
Bangladesh alone cannot afford this type of flood protection.
In conclusion, Bangladesh is a very poor possibly overpopulated country with to
many problems to handle. To solve Bangladesh’s problems like flooding, too much
money is needed and sadly Bangladesh just doesn’t have the money to solve these
problems. But with the help of the wealthier countries in the world Bangladesh could at
least begin to slow down some of its floods. And with the help of the Red Cross the
people will receive aid.