CUNY Academic Commons | Azhar Samad | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/azhar12/activity/ Activity feed for Azhar Samad. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 8bf48cf313315dd6f227070f3bdd703d Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 8: Mid semester recap, on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/10/27/module-8-mid-semester-recap/#comment-294 Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:17:19 -0500 Something that I can take with me to my broader education, from what we’ve gone over in class so far, is probably that science is not neutral at all. I never really gave it any thought before. Still, when we a […]

]]> 95829350bb0584de8d48835f7af871eb Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 8: Mid semester recap, on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/10/27/module-8-mid-semester-recap/#comment-293 Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:16:59 -0500 Something that I can take with me to my broader education, from what we’ve gone over in class so far, is probably that science is not neutral at all. I never really gave it any thought before. Still, when we a […]

]]> 85584caf604292a12fa44ff2b381b0f7 Azhar Samad's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/881749/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 04:44:27 -0500 aa187b5bf187c8e4ecb722cbdf5eb1b1 Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 6: Research remix, on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/10/12/module-6-research-remix/#comment-268 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:06:42 -0400 An article that I sought out is called “Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Matsuo Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi”. I stumbled upon this article while trying to look for an in-depth analysis of Ric […]

]]> 705b8d0da685c2482fd55743c80eaeff Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 4: Crafting new worlds, on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/09/19/module-4-crafting-new-worlds-2/#comment-260 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:43:39 -0400 If instead of proclaiming neutrality we create a new world-embracing subjectivity then I’m very sure that there would be a lot more conflict in the world. For example, not all world leaders’ subjective opinions or […]

]]> 53061d55bf98fc471804c7130932d7d2 Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 3: Who benefits from science?, on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/09/12/module-3-who-benefits-from-science/#comment-243 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 04:02:47 -0400 In business, a technological development that many overlooks is the stock market. The market is biased towards the wealthy/people in power. The more money and influence over people you have, the more manipulative […]

]]> e63f95e980f001904c2836ea4255d8eb Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 2: Science is probably not neutral., on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/09/05/module-2-science-is-probably-not-neutral/#comment-229 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:25:13 -0400 STEM is one of the more difficult career paths out there. It can be more difficult for some than others due to the structural barriers built around it. As long as it’s been known the majority demographic of people […]

]]> 5e9fa4e37b07f94ab37de14e48196a55 Azhar Samad commented on the post, Module 1: Asynchronous Welcome!, on the site Writing for the Sciences https://wfs21003fa22.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/08/30/module-1-asynchronous-welcome/#comment-214 Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:47:49 -0400 I learned that science was objective when I was in middle school. I knew that many experiments were done multiple times to avoid human errors and mistakes. The bias of humans affects almost everything we do which […]

]]> 1b16dc52e5bd24cf99e154a987f9c087 Azhar Samad became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/804591/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:40:45 -0500