Friday, January 25, 2008

Journey of Man Part 1 and Living Cells

Hi All,

At the halfway point of the Journey of Man, I hope that you are enjoying the scientific and cultural intensity of this film. Spencer Wells sums up the common difficulty of bridging science and culture when he asks, "What do you do when everything you believe in flies in the face of everything you know?" As a good scientist, he sets out with a set of hypotheses to gather data and test those hypotheses. Please answer the following two questions in your science notebooks for Monday, January 28th:
1. For you, what was the most profound or useful scientific information or phenomenon addressed in the film so far? How and why did it affect you?

2. What was the most interesting or profound cultural element addressed in the film so far ? How and why did it affect you?

Finally, also for Monday, 1/28, please freewrite in as much detail as you can in response to this prompt:
What are living cells?

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