Women and Science

 Typically, women and Science might be considered an oxymoron. Women are supposed to be hyper sensitive which they are. That does not, however, rule out being hyper sensible! In fact, any person who is highly sensitive is sharply aware of all possible subtleties of the context, and hence can get hurt by all the subtexts that are carefully hidden. 

Such intuition is a kind of hyper rationality which is the base of the scientific enquiry. In other words, science and women are not diametrically opposed. Rather, they are complementary to each other. 

Want a live proof daily experienced? Even the most uneducated woman knows the medicinal values of every item in her kitchen, and this kind of authentic wisdom might not be codified academically. Yet it works, and most efficiently. 

In an era of Tessy Thomas and G.Madhavi Lata, why talk of the lowest common denominator when it comes to 'women and science'? Well, in a way, both of them are the creamy layer that hides the submerged iceberg of the community's attitude to women and science. Hence the attempt to prove that even illiterate women have a scientific in-sight! Long live the day dedicated to women (with-n-)in science!

Pratima@Most pertinent is the fact that the first ever science fiction, which, moreover, explores the dystopian (im)possibilities of science without a soul/heart was written by a woman who predicted almost two centuries ago what happens when man plays God irresponsibly!

Quote of the day:                                                           "Science and everyday life cannot, and should not, be separated," says Rosalind Franklin. 

Word of the day: rational                                        Rational means based on or in accordance with reason or logic. It is based in a way in the sensory experiences provided by the five senses. Such perception leads to cognition, that is, awareness/knowledge.

Let us learn grammar:                                               Let us look at another sentence structure today. It is s+v+object+object complement. An object complement provides extra information about the object. Look at the following examples. The CSK team chose Dhoni "to be the captain". The committee named her "the president" . We know a child prodigy "who completed his post graduation at fourteen". The expressions within the quotation marks are object complents which can be a noun or a prepositional phrase or a subordinate clause.