Topic 2: Measurement units of the past
Ancient Roman Units of Measurement
Acetabulum was a measure of volume (fluid and dry) used by the Ancient Romans.
Amphora was a unit for measuring liquids or bulk goods in the Roman Empire, and for estimating the size of ships and the production of vineyards.
Duella was an ancient Roman unit of weight
Who: The Ancient Romans
What: Weight Length and Volume
When: 27 BC-476 AD
Where: Ancient Rome
Why: For the complex measuring problems of civilization - surveying land to register property rights, or selling a commodity by length - a more precise unit is required.
How:The ancient Roman Units of Measurements were built on the Hellenic system with Egyptian Hebrew, and Mesopotamian influences. The Roman units were comparatively consistent and well documented.
Topic 4: What is time
To me, time is not definable. I define time as a film and just a fabric for us to move and act.
Time may be there or not be there to me time is just a measurement thought up by man explaining something that is not understood to satisfy his need to be all knowing.
B: Critical reviews
3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon?http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/
The main purpose of this article is to remind us how human race have impacted on nature. The key scientific question that the author is addressing is how humans have been driving species to extinction
This article is about a postdoctoral associate at National Taiwan Normal University tried to find out how the passenger pigeon species was wiped out.
I think this article will really help in helping people realize the huge and negative impacts humans can have on nature and make them change their way of living which can hugely impact the course of nature and could well determine the future of the human race for we just might be like the pigeons and the boom and bust scenario may happen to us and our advancement might very well lead to our own doom.
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