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- 1It refers to the systematic and methodical activity of building and organizing knowledge about how the universe behaves through observation, experimentation, or both.Science
- 2it is the application of scientific knowledge, laws, and principles to produce services, materials, tools, and machines aimed at solving real-world problems.Technology
- 3is composed of a group of people living together in a more or less ordered community.Society
- 4It is a situation where a person is forced to choose between two or more conflicting options neither of which is acceptable.Dilemma
- 5are situations where persons, who are called "moral agents" in ethics, are forced to choose between two or more conflicting options, neither of which resolves the situation in a morally acceptable manner.Ethical Dilemmas
- 6a digital app store designed to read genomes.Helix
- 7a hands-free camera that lets the user capture every moment effortlessly.Google Clips
- 8an app that notifies users of ongoing crimes or major events in a specific area.Citizen App
- 9a heavy flat disk made up of hardened clay that was spun horizontally on an axis.Ancient Wheel
- 10Roughly around 3000 B.C., the ancient Egyptians began writing on papyrus, a material similar to thick paper.Paper
- 11was an early tool invented and used by Egyptians to irrigate the land.Shadoof
- 12Even before the invention of the antecedents of the modern computer, the Greeks had already invented the ancient world's analog computer orrery.Antikythera Mechanism
- 13Also known as the Hero's engine, the aeolipile is widely believed to be the ancient precursor of the steam engine.Aeolipile
- 14This is one of the most important technological innovations during the middle ages.Heavy Plow
- 15Around 850 A.D., Chinese civilizations alchemists accidentally inventedGunpowder
- 16A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Jansen is credited for the invention of the firstCompound Microscope
- 17This invention could magnify objects 20 times larger than the Dutch perspective glasses.Telescope
- 18The Scottish engineer John Logie Baird is largely credited for the invention ofTelevision
- 19formulated the heliocentric model of the universe. At the time, the belief was that the earth was the center of the solar system based on the geocentric model of Ptolemy.Nicolaus Copernicus
- 20Famous for his theory of evolution, which posited that populations pass through a process of natural selection in which only the fittest would survive. He published his book The Origin of Species in 1589.Charles Darwin
- 21is known for his school of thought known as "Psychoanalysis." This school of thought is a scientific method of understanding inner and unconscious conflicts embedded within one's personality, springing from free associations, dreams, and fantasies of the individual.Sigmund Freud
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