![]() There's actually a finite number of them. Kind of you could imagine the legos that really make up everything. That we're seeing before, that at the end of the day, things are made of basic building blocks. Periodic table of elements, that all of this complexity Which is also exciting, cause we don't want the full answer. To be able to learnĬhemistry where we are now is that we get the answer. And why it's very lucky for all of us to be born when we are now or to be around when we are now. How do you make the sense of all of this? And it was not an easy path, but over thousands of years, we did start to make sense of it. And you could imagine as a species, this is kind of overwhelming. The complexity and theĮlectrochemical interactions. Just like a infinite spectrum of differentness out of there. In life, you see all of this complexity and all of these different things and it looks like there's Even in the planets, you see meteorological patterns. You see things likeįire and rock and water. If you look at the world around us, and it doesn't even have to be our planet, it could be the universe around us, you see all these different substances that seem to be different in certain ways. But this is the product of, frankly, thousands of years of human beings trying to get to an understanding of all of the differentĬomplexity in the world. ![]() Of any chemistry classroom, you take it for granted. Periodic table of elements, which you'll see at the front And chemistry is one of the sciences that really just helps us understand and make models and make But I want you to do in this video is appreciate what at itsĮssence chemistry is all about. And all of these things areĪ big part of chemistry. Of the different molecules that can be depicted different ways. Things will react together to form other things. Some of them boiling and changing colors. Working on a bench with the different vials ![]() Here some picture of what most people associate Do you feel the food is too cheap or too expensive? What does go into the process of producing food that affects its price? You buy food that you eat every day and pay for it. ![]() Well, that's just one example but we could go on like that forever. How will you regulate the price of your potatoes in those cases? If you collect them by hand, you might save some money but you will lose more time and maybe still have less crop. How will you get rid of them? Will you collect potato beetles by hand or use pesticides? If you buy pesticides that will cost you more, but that will also affect the quality of your potatoes. Will that price be affordable to most people? To whom will you sell your potatoes? What type of soil do potatoes prefer? If you buy a more fertile arable land, will you be able to grow more potatoes with less expenses? There are pests too, they might eat seedlings, leafs, tubers. Have you ever grown potatoes? Do you know how much money you need to invest to grow one kg of potatoes? You can make it cheaper if you don't use fertilizers, but how will that affect your crop? Will you get less potatoes? Does it pay off to buy fertilizers or not? At what cost will you sell your potatoes? Obviously, you can't sell them for the same amount of money you've invested to grow them, you need to earn something too. Even nowadays there are many examples of biology influencing economics. Back in the days of feudalism when arable land was the most valuable possession and the main source of income, knowledge about plants and how all the biotic and abiotic factors affect their growth were essential. Did you notice both economics and ecology have the same prefix, eco- ? It is derived from Greek word οἶκος (oikos) which means house or home. ![]()
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