wasted genius wants to catch up, how?

Question

i have never studied science, as i used my brains only for religious studies. now i wanna catch up, but all scientific terms are foreign to me.
where can i learn them online?.
i need a website that explains them in simple english.

Answer 1

You would be *far* better off reading books. Go to a bookstore or library and spend a half-hour browsing the Science section. If you can't find a book that grabs your attention, find a biggger bookstore. (Personally, I *love* used bookstores ... you find unusual stuff that you don't find in new bookstores ... but either one is OK.) If you have a specific topic in mind, I can probably come up with a few suggestions.

As for the Internet, there is a lot of very good, and a lot of equally BAD material online. Without a solid foundation, you will have a hard time telling the difference. Be careful with just getting small snippets of things from people with a certain agenda ... it is *really* easy for people to distort science by picking the 5% they agree with, and ignoring the 95% of science that disagrees with them (which is a *very* common tactic with people attacking mainstream science).

Wikipedia is also a really good *starting* place for any term. (Just go to http://www.wikipedia.com and type the term in the search box.) It will have links to other terms.

There is also a "simple engish" version of wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.org/). This has simpler versions of the definitions, but it is intensionally not as complete and detailed.

I also stress that wikipedia (and simple.wikipedia) is a good place to *start*. Like any encyclopedia, the key phrase is "trust but verify". It occasionally has errors, or people have included unfounded opinions instead of facts ... but for the most part these are rare and I've found wiki to be *extremely* reliable ... and where facts are contested, there are usually links to other references where you can get other opinions.

Answer 2

The better way to catch up on what is going on in science is to read some good popular science books written by reliable writers. Just learning vocabulary and definitions won't help you to understand the exciting things that are going on in physics, biology, etc. Good authors to start with are Jared Diamond, Matt Ridley, Stephen Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Kellert, Jayant Narlikar, E. O. Wilson, Steven Rose. There are many others, and you will soon find what you are most interested in and follow your own leads.

Answer 3

Science is just the study of how things are around us.
Then think that what u don't know can kill U.