Superpowers and Science

As I said before, I love science fiction, since I was little I dreamed of having superpowers like magic or flying , so this particular article caught my attention.


The "Top 5 Science-borne Superpowers"! 


With the current technology and human inventiveness today(and before) may be possible to have some amazing abilities, in this article of the HowStuffWorks web (here), are 5 superpowers, only imagined before in comics and fantasy movies, that soon we can use through science:


5. Seeing Through Walls
with a microwave radar that projects 3-D image of whatever is hiding behind the walls.
4. Defying Gravity
the scientists have been working to develop a synthetic adhesive that mimics the gecko's special ability to stick effortlessly to most of surfaces.
3. Superhuman Strength
with a titanium exoskeleton powered by hydraulics which make easy to heavy lifting.
2. Stopping Bullets
Bionic Body Armor, the device could sense when a bullet is on its way to you and also could compel you to move away from danger.
1. Manipulating the Weather
cloud seeding, a tecnic from 1940s, with chemicals(silver iodide, salt and ammonium nitrate) are shoot up to the clouds  to increase precipitation.

If I had to choose, personally, I opt for a mix of the bionic body armor and the exoskeleton with super strengh, like Iron man hehe. I don't like spy through the walls or be stick to the roof, but have a sunny day can be good too.

"Changing the education paradigms"

In this talk, Ken Robinson, talks about a worldwide reform of education and this is mainly for two reasons:

Economic: to teach children their place in the current economy.

Cultural: give them a cultural identity through education and they can pass it to the rest of the world (globalization).

Which is difficult because there're problems with the current education system:

- Try to advance with past mistakes.
- School dropouts, because have a college degree don't ensures a good job.
- Decrease in arts because it's more important for them teach math (decreasing the opportunities for children to release their creativity)
- "School as a factory", as has industrialized the process of education, and how children are treated as a group, rather than being treated as individuals.
- The false epidemic of ADHD(Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) and how the system numbs our children with dangerous drugs and turn them into zombies.

And all of this trying to maintain an educational system designed for the era of industrial revolution.

I entirely agree with his approach to the topic. And we should get a prompt solution so, for the next generations, the education can be better.