What The *Exclamatory* is Science?

          After reading a nice little article about Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, I decided (was assigned) to write a nice little blog about the occurrence of science in our society, and why it is useful for people to be aware of what science is and-or does.  Science is one of the leading factors in television shows such as (but not only) anything on the Discovery channel, CSI (sometimes) and the NBA (think physics).  It also determines some laws, such as the fact that our frontal cortex, which help us control our actions in somewhat impulsive situations, is fully developed around the age of 25, which puts the alcohol drinking age limit at 21.  While this doesn't exactly seem logical it makes a lot of teens with just 21 year old siblings that like to party happy, because they get to drink underaged.  This is one point where people need to learn some science.  Alcohol can really tear through your brain (believe it or not).  If more people knew that drinking before you are 25 could stop and even reverse decision based brain development, less college students would be passing out on a beach in the spring time, or anywhere else any other time for that matter.

          Excuse me as I break this block of text with an empty space.  People seem to be intimidated nowadays by big blocks of text such as War and Peace, Moby Dick, or The Bible, especially people who frequent fast paced video games or movies.  This is because of the lack of dopamine induced by the lack of activity on the screen or paper or whatever medium you prefer.  

          Todays society seems to be full of things that provide instant entertainment with the least bit of effort, which causes massive amounts of dopamine to be used up in your brain, which in turn leaves you entertained and feeling "happy".  Then, when you take a look at large books like The Lord of the Rings trilogy (plus one)*, you pass it off as being big and boring and miss a large and very entertaining part of the story by just watching the movies (plus two)**.  

          I guess what I am trying to say with all of this is that all of these flaws of our society are probably caused by ignorance of science, or they are caused by the people that run the general show not caring but the prior option is probably more likely.  If we as people just realized some of the things that are blatantly obvious, we might be making a lot better choices with our lives than monkeys would.  In fact monkeys DO make better choices than us, particularly in their choice of diet and cleanliness, which is quite degrading to most of us who realize this fact.

*The Hobbit, and plus two if you feel "intuitive" enough to add in The Silmarillion, or ten if you include the rest of the books thrown in.

**There were two films made of the hobbit which were very bad and shouldn't be seen, and as of my knowledge, no one has been dedicated enough to make a film of The Silmarillion yet.