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  Science, Technology and Innovation Program: Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming viewpoint
The idea that the development of science has driven the rapid economic growth of the Western world enjoys wide acceptance today.
This highly favorable view of the scientific method conflicts, however, with a substantial literature on the practice of science that points to the highly political and often subjective nature of the debates surrounding scientific advances.
For example, if much of the benefit of science accrues from its norms of openness, then public funding of research should include stipulations of quick and public disclosure of results to take advantage of the potential societal benefits.
www.cid.harvard.edu /cidbiotech/comments/comments157.htm   (946 words)

  
 David Ketterer- The SF Element in the Work of Poe: A Chronological Survey
It is the "happier star" mentioned in "Sonnet--To Science," which functions as a proem to "Al Aaraaf"; here the world of myth, displaced on earth by science, has taken refuge.
In this fourth doppelganger grotesque (see #33), the result of the narrator's mutilating his fl cat (a projection of those aspects of his personality he wishes to exorcise) is a series of catastrophes culminating in the death of his wife-i.e., his potential for arabesque awareness.
Claims that Poe was "the first writer of science centered fiction to base his stories firmly on a rational kind of explanation, avoiding the supernatural" (p4l7); counts seven of the tales as SF: ## 13, 58, 59, 62, 74, 81, 83.
www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/3/ketter3bib.htm   (6434 words)

  
 Online Etymology Dictionary
To blind (someone) with science "confuse by the use of big words or complex explanations" is attested from 1937, originally noted as a phrase from Australia and New Zealand.
Phrase cool as a cucumber (c.1732) embodies ancient folk knowledge confirmed by science in 1970: inside of a field cucumber on a warm day is 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature.
It is thus a cousin to science and conscience.
www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=science&searchmode=phrase   (3173 words)

  
 Poe
The "scientific reports" were supposedly taken from the Edinburgh Journal of Science (once a real journal, but one which had actually suspended publication several years earlier), and they were strikingly technical and official in tone--eminently believable, in other words.
when we hear so much of the benefits which science is to derive from the art of aerostation" and a propos of a near future when "a journey to the moon may not be considered a matter of mere moonshine" (Thomas 160).
By the summer of 1844, Poe was doing correspondence work for a small Pennsylvania newspaper, the Columbia Spy, and one of his letters to the paper tried to renew interest in what had been a flat failure.
www.geocities.com /~roggenkamp/poe.html   (4172 words)

  
 2002 Syllabus
Science and religion, in other words, exist within cultural frameworks and are thus defined and shaped by prevailing cultural beliefs and norms.
I have also attempted to demonstrate that science and religion, though possessed of their own respective intricacies and internal logics, are nonetheless shaped by cultural beliefs and norms.
Since the aim of science—be it the hard sciences or the social sciences—is also to gain a better understanding of our lives, cultures, and societies, then perhaps one day the two domains of social life will merge beautifully to help expand a body of knowledge that forms the essence of the human condition.
www.williams.edu /Physics/scrampton/oeur.html   (2373 words)

  
 Internet History of Science Sourcebook
The achievements of this period have not been negated by the discoveries and theories of the late 19th and 20th centuries, but are now seen as accurate only with certain boundaries.
Andrew White: The Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom 1898 [At Hanover]
This is one of the most successful, and early, statements on Materialism stemming from the conclusions of the New Science.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/science/sciencesbook.html   (2786 words)

  
 Dexter Kozen's Online Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Volume 1 of the 11th Int.
Kleene algebras are an important class of algebraic structures that arise in diverse areas of computer science: program logic and semantics, relational algebra, automata theory, and the design and analysis of algorithms.
The system was designed to simplify, streamline, and automate many aspects of the workflow associated with running a large course, such as course creation, importing students, management of student workgroups, online submission of assignments, assignment of graders, grading, handling regrade requests, and preparation of final grades.
www.cs.cornell.edu /kozen/papers   (7190 words)

  
 1844   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On 20 December 1844, readers of the New York Tribune...
By 1844 both Whigs and Democrats were convinced that music...
December 8 - Émile Reynaud, French science teacher, responsible for the first animation films.
hallencyclopedia.com /1844   (837 words)

  
 ACJ Special: The Affirmative Masquerade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Out of the poststructuralist turn in the humanities and social sciences emerged a "critical rhetoric," in which a Foucaultian emphasis on the production and disciplining of subjects amends and/or replaces the concern of the ideological turn with unmasking power in discourse.
Raymie McKerrow (1989, 1991a, 1991b) tries to combine the "critique of domination," or of repressive power enacted by interested agents of discourse; and the "critique of freedom," by which he means the Foucaultian project of describing how discourse, as its own agent of power, is productive of subjects and social relations.
At the core of the issue is a debate across the humanities and social sciences with regard to whether we live in a "new economy," an allegedly postmodern, information-driven historical moment in which, it is argued, organized mass movements are no longer effective in making material demands of system and structure (Melucci, 1996).
acjournal.org /holdings/vol4/iss3/special/cloud.htm   (4805 words)

  
 Lateral Science - Artificial Volcanism
"The lessons of science should be experimental also.
The sight of the planet through a telescope, is worth all the course on astronomy: the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, out-values all the theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry."
Ralph Waldo Emerson - New England Reformers - 1844
www.lateralscience.co.uk /volcano   (411 words)

  
 Critique of Hegel's Philosophy in General, Marx, 1844   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Therefore, that which constitutes the essence of philosophy – the alienation of man who knows himself, or alienated science thinking itself - Hegel grasps as its essence; and in contradistinction to previous philosophy he is therefore able to combine its separate aspects, and to present his philosophy as the philosophy.
What the other philosophers did – that they grasped separate phases of nature and of human life as phases of self-consciousness, namely, of human life as phases of self-consciousness – is known to Hegel as the doings of philosophy.
Instead, the actual estrangement – that which appears real – is according to its inner-most, hidden nature (which is only brought to light by philosophy) nothing but the manifestation of the estrangement of the real human essence, of self-consciousness.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm   (5576 words)

  
 Educational Psychology and Biblical Faith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There are complexities in both biblical faith and secular science which converge, like two raging rivers, swollen from rapidly melting snow, to create dangerous eddies and undertows, causing misunderstanding on both sides.
One definition of science focuses on a methodology of gaining knowledge about the world in which we live.
Such statements reflect the prediction of Karl Marx (1844), "Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science" [6].
members.aol.com /wyount/yalta.htm   (3445 words)

  
 ES&T Online News: The evidence linking hurricanes and climate change
In recent months, two studies in the journal Science and one in Nature have found that hurricanes are growing fiercer.
Judith Curry is the chair of the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and coauthor of one of the Science papers on hurricanes and climate change.
I noticed that in a recent news story in Science he was listed as a “climatologist”, and he made no attempt to correct that.
pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/oct/policy/pt_curry.html   (2133 words)

  
 THE MUSEUM OF ENGLISH RURAL LIFE
Traditionally, farmers had to rely on their own experience and a combination of local lore and potions to deal with a sick or suffering animal.
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons received its charter in 1844 and veterinary science emerged in its own right during the second half of the nineteenth century.
The picture shows a vet in the early 1950s using an adapted version of a wartime mine detector to test whether a cow had a piece of baler wire lodged in its stomach.
www.rdg.ac.uk /Instits/im/interface/public/farming/science/science_veterinary.html   (155 words)

  
 BRETT M. CLIFTON, resume   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Political Science Association (Nominator: Howard Reiter, University of Connecticut).
Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 2001.
June 1998 to December 2000, Department of Political Science Graduate Student Liason, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University.
www.brown.edu /Departments/Political_Science/gradstudents/clifton.html   (1074 words)

  
 Moon
Thompson, J. Veverka and C. Sagan, Galileo multispectral imaging of the North Polar and Eastern Limb regions of the Moon, Science, 264, 1112-1115, 1993.
Johnson, B. Paczkowski, C.B. Pilcher and J. Veverka, Lunar impact basins and crustal heterogeneity: New western limb and farside data from Galileo, Science, 255, 570-576, 1992.
959 Pieters, C.M. and G.J. Taylor, Millimeter petrology and kilometer mineralogical exploration of the Moon, Proceedings of the Twentieth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 115-125, 1989.
www.planetary.brown.edu /planetary/publications_list/moon.html   (5078 words)

  
 stb - pafg11 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry "Sr." Baugh was born on 4 Apr 1762 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania.
Maria Margaretha Philippi was born on 17 Jan 1769 in Warwick, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania.
She died on 31 Jul 1844 in Science Hill, Pulaski Co, Kentucky.
members.aol.com /mpbennett1/pafg11.htm   (709 words)

  
 Rediscovering Biology - Unit 6 HIV and AIDS: Resources
Piot, P. 1998 The science of AIDS: A tale of two worlds.
One of the essays on science and society presented in Science.
The essays are directed to the educated lay reader, and can serve as the basis of discussion and debate in the classroom.
www.learner.org /channel/courses/biology/units/hiv/resources.html   (190 words)

  
 Official Site of Dr. Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist and acclaimed speaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Science’s materialist-reductionist-determinist philosophy led to the Human Genome Project, the multibillion-dollar program to map all of the genes.  Once this is accomplished, it is assumed that we can use that knowledge to repair or replace "defective" genes and in the process, realize Science’s mission of "controlling" the expression of an organism. 
Since 1953, biologists have assumed that DNA "controls" life.  In multicellular animals, the organ that "controls" life is known as the brain.  Since genes are presumed to control cellular life, and genes are contained in the cell’s nucleus, the nucleus would be expected to be the equivalent of the cell’s "brain." 
Most references are from the journal Science, this source is present in almost all local libraries and schools of higher learning.  Articles with an * are written for general reading audiences.
www.brucelipton.com /newbiology.php   (3986 words)

  
 Allen Thomson (www.whonamedit.com)
If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
Notice of several cases of malformation of the external ear, together with experiments on the state of hearing in such persons.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1395.html   (540 words)

  
 The heart of a Crab: New Chandra image released today
Lord Rosse named the nebula the "Crab" in 1844 because its tentacle-like structure resembled the legs of the crustacean.
Those images are to be released today in a Space Science Update at NASA headquarters.
Authors: Tom Kelleher and Dave Dooling, with materials from the Space Telescope Science Institute.
science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/ast28sep99_1.htm   (2348 words)

  
 Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet (www.whonamedit.com)
He received several honours and awards, in 1856 the golden medal from the Académie des sciences and a Monthyon prize.
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1847, 24: 340-344.
On the alleged infecundity of females born co-twins with males; with some notes on the average proportion of marriages without issue in general society.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2532.html   (1562 words)

  
 1844 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1844 was a (Click link for more info and facts about leap year starting on Monday) leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
January 15 - (Click link for more info and facts about University of Notre Dame) University of Notre Dame receives its charter from (A state in midwestern United States) Indiana.
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1844.htm   (1270 words)

  
 Impact
Chapman and the Galileo SSI Team, Galileo Observations of Ganymede Impact Crater Morphology, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXVIII, 1531-1532, 1997.
1741 Staid, M.I. and C.M. Pieters, Craters as indicators of compositional stratigraphy in Mare Tranquillitatis and Serenitatis, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXVII, 1259-1260, 1996.
243 Mouginis-Mark, P. J., Ejecta emplacement of the Martian impact crater Bamburg, Proceedings of the Tenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2651-2668, 1979.
www.planetary.brown.edu /planetary/publications_list/impact.html   (4287 words)

  
 On Quaternions; or on a new System of Imaginaries in Algebra
Graves has since pointed out to the writer that this theorem of ordinary algebra is not new, and has very elegantly extended it.
An improved form of this theorem of the spherical triangle was communicated by the writer to the Royal Irish Academy in November 1843, and has been published in the Philosophical Magazine for July 1844.
A pen has been drawn across a clause or two in the foregoing copy of this letter, as having reference only to this guess of a future physical application.
www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/QLetter/QLetter.html   (1869 words)

  
 Atoms & Molecules Jan 2003 Science Explorations Newsletter
John Dalton, the British chemist and physicist, was born in the Lake District of England in 1766, to a Quaker family.
His education was a conglomeration of sources: he was taught by his father, attended a Quaker school, was taught mathematics by a relative, and studied science on his own.
At the age of 12, he taught school for a short time.
www.hometrainingtools.com /articles/atoms-molecules-science-explorations-newsletter.html   (2371 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
1720-René Réaumur submits a report to the Paris Academy of Sciences proposing that a brief Noachian flood cannot account for the thick sedimentary layers (composed largely of broken shells) underlying the region of Tours.
1723-Antoine de Jussieu addresses a paper to the Académie des Sciences suggesting that an ancient object, e.g., a stone tool, made of the same material and by the same process as those used by a modern population probably has the same function.
The embryos all come from the Doushantuo phosphorites in southern China, and all are estimated to be approximately 570 million years old, making them the oldest fossil embryos so far discovered.
www.strangescience.net /timeline.htm   (10887 words)

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