The future is what Britain sees

So Britain has decided they need to educate younger kids about coding eh? Personally I think this is a phenomenal idea. After going through the early stages of schooling, and most of the later parts of it (that required by the United States government and 99% of every basic job), I have determined my opinion on education as we have it in our country.
It's flawed. Completely flawed, there is nothing that I can say is anywhere near perfect for our current setup. The elementary school years are very basic, as they should be. Sadly, this is also where the core of social problems start, and I could go on about that for hours in another post, but I'll save it for later. I personally think that we should integrate more arts and extra curricular things at an earlier point in life. I completely understand that it may seem like a bad idea because the performing arts is a very limited area for people in their adult lives. I understand that entirely, but I'm not saying that it should become a primary focus in a person's life that early, but there's no reason it shouldn't be integrated into schooling. By doing that, it's natural. School will always be a part of their life. Always. They will go 5 out of 7 days a week, for the next 13 years of their life in a minimum. If we can put something CREATIVE, not necessarily productive in the later parts of lives, I believe that we would be able to maintain a stable level of children not completely hating school. Most kids I know don't like school, for one reason or another, it doesn't matter. It's the fact that there is no way that we can fix that without revamping the whole system. Personally, I think we should revamp it.
The junior high/middle school period. I don't think this is necessary at all. The fact they take 2-3 years out to put you in another school to try and practice how high school is, is really dumb. "Practicing" for high school shouldn't be necessary. It should be a stereotypical practice throughout all years of basic schooling. Doing that, makes it again, a more natural thing. That way high school isn't daunting, and awful. People won't have to hate school if it's not drastically different or harder than what they've been doing for the past 9 years, and on top of that, if the whole stress of school is removed or significantly decreased, based on my suggestion (or others), then school isn't a chore.
High school. I could go on forever on every single little thing that is wrong with every single one in the country. That's not necessary, I believe with any previous changes made, we can just tweak the curriculum and alter it enough to make a difference in kid's lives.
Fixing school problems like this will open a lot of doors that were previously closed, because our population will be more diverse in how we go about various problems that arise, and eventually solving the current problems we have, making the world a better place.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/five-year-olds-learn-coding-as-britain-eyes-digital-future-1.2072508

Great Job Science

A brand new 3D microscope has been invented! We can now view cells and things like embryos in 3D! This is absolutely outstanding! Even though we don’t know for sure what practical uses this thing will be used for, I’m 100% sure without a doubt it will have a huge impact on research and the development of our species.

This is such a huge step. Humans could use this microscope to analyze how disease cells replicate, and figure out how to combat them. We could study human embryos while developing if there was suspicion of deformities, and figure out how to remedy that. What I feel to be the most important though, is the ability to study stem cells more. If we were able to study how stem cells replicated and decided what they were going to be, maybe we could find a way to reverse the process and turn, for example, a hair cell back into a stem cell. Then we could use this to grow replacement organs, or fix damaged ones.

This is going to be completely revolutionary once it gets going. I’m sure that this device is extraordinarily expensive, but once we can use this for practical things, we can advance the human race by leaps and bounds. While I do believe this is a huge step, we also have to be careful. There could be things that we can’t handle as a species yet, and that may be hidden within this new ability. I believe we need to solve our current debates and issues, work on preventing any further problems, and then start research and advancements using this. For now, we should just use it for more pressing things, things that could help us right now. Stem cells, vaccination progression, things of that nature should be top priority. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/24/microscope-cells-in-action_n_6041638.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World

Goodbye animals

Scientists have devised a way to accurately monitor the number of living animals on the planet right now. This new tool has been dubbed the "Living Planet Index," or LPI. It reflects the state of all 45,000 known vertebrates by analyzing 10,000 different populations, covering 3,000 species in total. The number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years, according to this new analysis. These creatures across land, rivers and the seas are being annihilated as humans hunt them to extreme degrees, and pollute or destroy their habitats. The Zoological Society of London's director of science Ken Norris as said, "If half the animals died in London zoo next week it would be front page news, but that is happening in the great outdoors. This damage is not inevitable but a consequence of the way we choose to live." Nature was essential for human well-being. We have lost one half of the animal population and knowing this is driven by human consumption, is clearing a call to arms and humans must act, according to Mike Barratt, director of science and policy at WWF. More of earth needs to be protected from development and deforestation, while food and evergy has to be produced in a sustainable manner.

There is a lot more to this article in the later 3/4, but this is a good section that I'd like to share my thoughts on. I'm not trying to sound like one of those people that just complain about how humans are destroying nature and how we have to do something about it right this instant. That's not going to happen with how humans are, at least not on a large scale. Governments are not going to dedicate any amount of money or time to preventing ecological problems, unless it's to one-up an opposing country, or that country has no pressing matters and is fairly well off in a political and economical sense. They're too focused on war and being the best, and trying to deal with human ethics, rather than the basic "Hey, why don't we all just stop killing our planet first, then deal with trying to kill each other with nuclear weapons." While I am in no way trying to say that we should just ignore this problem, people need to realize that they can't wait for a law that says you can't throw away [insert miscellaneous item here] and then follow the rules. Humans have to take this into their own hands, spread the word and hope that their acquaintances, friends and family have the heart, and/or time to help the cause. It has to start small, and off the radar. Kind of like a revolution.