As a child, and even today, I had heard about the yin and yang many times. In my elementary school that I attended in fourth and fifth grade, instead of learning Spanish like many schools do, we learned Chinese. This is probably the earliest time I can recall being introduced to this topic. I had seen the symbol on many things before, but never really knew what it was.
As time went on I started to notice that yin and yang isn’t always referred to something having to do with China or something peaceful like Tai Chi. I started to hear it referred to two things as complete opposites, no matter what they were. As I knew, and as expressed throughout the Daodejing, yin is opposite of yang, but that is as far as the poems went. This article that was published a few weeks ago is an excellent example of the yin and yang being used to refer to something totally unrelated. I understand enough sciencey stuff to know that the basics of this article involve the fact that there are two enzymes that are total opposites but work together quite nicely. I found it interesting because it is in a field of study that is not my own, or even a field of study that I would expect to see a yin yang reference. I thought it was pretty cool that the stuff we are learning about in this class can be applied to many areas of study!