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  Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The series features his fictional science of Psychohistory in which the future course of the history of large populations can be predicted.
At the same time, he greatly increased his non-fiction production, writing mostly on science topics; the launch of Sputnik in 1957 engendered public concern over a "science gap", which Asimov's publishers were eager to fill with as much material as he could write.
These columns, periodically collected into books by his principal publisher, Doubleday, helped make Asimov's reputation as a "Great Explainer" of science and were referred to by him as his only pop-science writing in which he never had to assume complete ignorance of the subjects at hand on the part of his readers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov   (6962 words)

  
 SUNLINK WOTM - Science Experiments
This is a given in the life of a library media center each year: teachers will assign science fair projects and students will come looking for ideas and assistance.
Probe : a handbook for teachers of elementary science; [compiled from games, activities, and experiments which were submitted by 55 cooperating teachers], 1962.
Science experiments for elementary schools : a manual for conducting classroom demonstrations, 1971.
www.sunlink.ucf.edu /weed/archive/science.html   (604 words)

  
 Science Fiction
Science fiction has proven to be one of the most durable of film genres.
Several of French film pioneer Georges Méliès's one-reelers can be categorized as science fiction, most notably Trip to the Moon (1902), which was loosely based on both Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H.G. Wells's First Men in the Moon.
Fans of written science fiction have traditionally scorned the genre's film incarnations, citing film's rejection of speculative ideas in favor of action and special effects.
www.research.umbc.edu /~landon/Local_Information_Files/ScienceFiction.htm   (531 words)

  
 Articles / Impact / Evolution: The Secret Behind The Propaganda - Institute for Creation Research
Such statements and other similar ones over the years have convinced many that science in general and evolution in particular are based on observations from the natural world and thus they are empirically or factually based.
Some scientists also claim that science is an all or nothing proposition with no room for a critical evaluation of individual aspects of the discipline.
Since the importance of empirical data in science has long since been downgraded to a subsidiary importance relative to theory, the PBS statements concerning evolution and creation are all the more interesting.
www.icr.org /index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=303   (1945 words)

  
 Science Fiction:the Post-War Era
Science fiction had to reach out for new subject matter.
Blish, who is also a respected critic and academic scholar, used science fiction to tackle religious issues first raised by C.S. Lewis in his Perelandra Trilogy.
Bradbury, one of the best known science fiction writers of his generation, tends to write science fiction that verges on fantasy.
www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/scifi/history/postww2.htm   (375 words)

  
 Science Ethics Bibliography
Grinnell, "Ambiguity in the Practice of Science" Science 1996 April 19; 272 (5260):333 (in Editorial).
Marshall, "ETHICS IN SCIENCE: Is Data-Hoarding Slowing the Assault on Pathogens?" Science.
Science on trial: The whistle-blower, the accused, and the Nobel laureate.
www.chem.vt.edu /chem-ed/ethics/vinny/ethxbibl.html   (3650 words)

  
 Philadelphia Science Center to Expand
The incubator for science- and technology-based companies in Philadelphia will begin construction in August on a 130,000-square-foot speculative research laboratory, 15,000 square feet of retail space and a 500-car parking structure.
Hess said the Science Center also expects to erect a 300,000-square-foot-research building on the same development parcel but wouldn't begin planning that until it obtains an anchor company.
Since its inception in 1965, the Science Center has launched more than 350 companies and created over 26,000 jobs in the region.
www.cpnonline.com /cpn/property_type/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002464624   (383 words)

  
 Library and Information Science 1965-85   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
A content analysis of the research of library and information science (LIS) from 1965 to 85 is reported.
The study samples consist of 142, 359, and 449 full-length research articles published in 1965, 1975 and 1985, respectively, in core LIS journals.
The most remarkable changes from 1965 to 85 is the loss of interest in methodology and in the analysis of LIS and the change of interest in information storage and retrieval from classification and indexing (from 22 to 6 %) to retrieval (from 4 to 13 %).
www.uta.fi /~likaja/abstracts/JaVaLIS65_85ipm.html   (249 words)

  
 Eberly College of Science News - Mary McCammon Retires
She also was involved with the establishment of computer-science courses in the Department of Mathematics and went on to help establish the Department of Computer Science in 1965.
She also won the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society Distinguished Service Award for her inspiring teaching and advising in 1991, the Teresa Cohen Service Award for her work in the Department of Mathematics in 1984, and the Christian R.
She earned three degrees from the University of London in England, including the bachelor of science in 1949, the master of science in 1950, and a doctorate in 1953.
www.science.psu.edu /alert/McCammon11-98.htm   (568 words)

  
 Hugo Gernsbacks's What is Science Fiction 1965   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
What I detest is the parading of pure fantasy stories as science fiction and their sale as such to gullible readers.
There are two essential reasons why science fiction today is at its lowest ebb and generally in such disrepute.
Those who do know science cannot extrapolate their ideas and plots into the future--they are not gifted with imagination to anticipate what is ahead in 10, 50, or 500 years.
www.twd.net /ird/forecast/1965sci-fi.html   (1141 words)

  
 Plant Science Bulletin - December 1965, Volume 11, Issue 3
We are pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation has approved the University of Massachusetts' proposal for the Botanical Society's Sixth Summer Institute, scheduled for June 20 to July 15, 1966.
In the summer of 1965 The Botanical Society, with the financial aid and encouragement of the National Science Foundation, sponsored such an institute at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
The physical sciences and the animal sciences are pushing hard for funds to upgrade people in their fields.
www.botany.org /PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1965-11-3.php   (10615 words)

  
 Plant Science Bulletin - October 1965, Volume 11, Issue 2
The sciences are currently in the early stages of an in-formation explosion; higher education the world over is facing an ever-increasing number of students throughout the foreseeable future.
It was the consensus of our group that advanced courses in the biological sciences at the college level should not be taught this way, but by persons actively engaged in advancing the frontiers of at least some of the areas they present.
On July 1, 1965, Dr. Ted F. Andrews of Kansas State Teachers College assumed his duties as Associate Director of CUEBS, and Dr. Jay Barton II of St. Joseph's College was added to the office personnel as a Staff Biologist.
www.botany.org /PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1965-11-2.php   (5986 words)

  
 Rare Books and Special Collections: Science Fiction Sampler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
These are materials held in RBSC that serve as examples of the types of materials related to Science Fiction available in the Rare Book Room.
A landmark of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the recipient of the inaugural 1965 Nebula Award.
This is a foundational book for nearly all Science Fiction and Horror writing; it has influenced writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
www.niulib.niu.edu /RBSC/ScienceFictionbooks.htm   (444 words)

  
 Bikini Science--1965-1970
At Cannes, the site of a major international film festival, a horde of obliging movie starlets doff their tops and vie for the riotous attention of a horde of photographers snapping their pictures--and sending the message around the world (L196250, L196251).
In 1965 Playboy reports on "The Girls of the Riviera," who "take eye-filling advantage of a recent French court decision allowing topless beach attire." The monokini movement gains momentum when young French actress Brigitte Bardot introduces topless sunbathing at the Byblos Hotel in St. Tropez in 1967 (BB6710).
In 1965 Thelma Oliver bares her breasts in the Pawnbroker; it is the first such exposure since the advent of the Hays Code.
www.bikiniscience.com /chronology/1965-1970_SS/1965-1970.html   (1836 words)

  
 Earth System Science -- Lawton 292 (5524): 1965 -- Science
Polar-ice and ocean-sediment cores (the Vostok ice core from Antarctica, for example) provide a picture of the last half-million years of Earth's history unimaginable even two decades ago, and mark the emergence of ESS as the discipline that deals with our planet as a complex, interacting system.
A mere handful of U.S. and European institutions (including Penn State, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Maryland, the Danish Centre for Earth System Science, the Potsdam Insitute, and ETH in Zurich) offer graduate programs and the kind of interdisciplinary working environments that are essential for the rapid development of ESS.
John Lawton is a professor at the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, Silwood Park, and chief executive of the UK Natural Environment Research Council.
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/summary/292/5524/1965   (785 words)

  
 Mueller Science - Modell: Modellgeschichte
Lindley Darden (Hrsg): Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 1996 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Proceedings of the Colloquium Sponsored by the Division of Philosophy of Sciences of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Sciences, Organized in Utrecht, January 1960.
Essays on Henri Poincare's philosophy of science and the conventionalist tradition.
www.muellerscience.com /MODELL/Begriffsgeschichte/Literatur.zuModellgeschichteistKulturgeschichte.htm   (3852 words)

  
 Material Science Databases/Indexes
SCOPUS is a multidisciplinary database covering scientific, technical, medical and social science literature – over 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers.
Specifically, SCOPUS covers topics in health, life sciences, agricultural and biological sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, social science, psychology, and economics, business, and management.
Science Citation Index, part of ISI’s Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, citations, and bibliographies covering the journal literature of the sciences, including agriculture, astronomy, neuroscience, biology, pharmacology, physics, chemistry, computer science, medicine, and zoology.
www.utdallas.edu /library/collections/material.htm   (1046 words)

  
 Science & Theology News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science was born.
In 1954, scientists from the Committee on Science and Values of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an interfaith, religious coalition, hoping to revitalize religion for the needs of contemporary society, used Star Island to bring together the two disciplines with a specific goal in mind.
Shortly thereafter, the members of the seven-day conference established the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) to work toward the goal of relating science to religion as a constructive relationship, rather than one of ideological warfare.
www.stnews.org /print.php?article_id=2381   (464 words)

  
 Smith College Libraries: Science Library
When the collections were merged in 1965, the Science Library was housed in Sabin-Reed Hall.
In 1991, the Science Library moved into Bass Hall and was named for benefactors Anita O'K.and Robert R. Young.
Read more about the Young Science Library and the science collections, including the Class of 1935 Map Room, on the libraries' web site under Smith Libraries and Collections.
www.smith.edu /library/fyi/110.htm   (106 words)

  
 History of Computer Science at Waterloo | SCS | UW
Today its four departments (Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization, Statistics and Actuarial Science) together with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science form one of the largest groups of mathematical talent in the world.
In 1965, four third-year mathematics students (Richard Shirley, Angus German, James Mitchell, and Bob Zarnke) wrote the WATFOR compiler for the FORTRAN programming language, under the direction of lecturer Peter Shantz.
Kelly Booth joined the Computer Science Department in 1977 and John Beatty in 1978 and in 1979, they began a research group in Computer Graphics and Interaction.
www.cs.uwaterloo.ca /about/history   (1159 words)

  
 HISTORY OF SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Professor Beaver’s gave a Science Bag Lunch talk on April 13 to Division III and Psychology colleagues on research productivity as reflected in the Report of Science at Williams, 1965-2002, including remarks on the epistemic authority of collaboration.
In January, he was asked to contribute an article about Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Williams for the Quarterly Newsletter of the Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology of the American Sociological Association.
In April, Professor Beaver was invited to give a paper at the 4th International Conference on University Evaluation and Research Evaluation to be held at Wuhan University in September, and hosted by The Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation and the Institute of Science and Technical Information of China.
www.williams.edu /go/sciencecenter/center/RS04html/RepSci2004-HISTORY.html   (259 words)

  
 Carolee Schneemann: Gift Science, 1965   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Erro gave the gift of a small stuffed bird; from Arman– a science toy of curved blades turning when heated by a light.
Gift Science continued my use of motors and kinetic elements (begun in 1963 with Four Fur Cutting Boards), composing fragile moving elements and small lights within the fractured mirror glass.
These mirrors were angled to capture the viewer's own presence, and to reflect continuously changing refractions which illuminate the glass interiors.
www.caroleeschneemann.com /giftscience.html   (168 words)

  
 Isaac Asimov
Highly prolific American writer, one of the three grand masters of science fiction with Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein.
For five decades Isaac Asimov was one of the central figures of science fiction.
Asimov was extraordinarily prolific writer of a prodigious number of works including science fiction, science fact, mystery, history, short stories, guides to the Bible and Shakespeare, and discussions of myth, humor, poems, limericks, as well as annotations of literary works.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /asimov.htm   (2469 words)

  
 1965 Building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The above image shows the change at the University of Alberta in Calgary (Pre-University of Calgary) between 1965 and 1963.
Science B - Main level + Basement built in 1964
Science B - Upper level built in 1965
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/SS/GEOG/Campus_Change/build65.html   (66 words)

  
 The 1965
There were three winners for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman.
Here is the presentation speech given by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
For the hydrogen atom, which has only one electron and consequently is the simplest atom to investigate theoretically, the calculation of the motion of the electron in the electric field of the nucleus led to results of such accuracy that 20 years elapsed until any error of the theory could be found experimentally..."
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu /forum_thread.php?id=6921   (136 words)

  
 KURT VONNEGUT: On Science Fiction
I have been a sore-headed occupant of a file-drawer labeled ''science- fiction'' ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a tall white fixture in a comfort station.
I taught for a while in a mildly unusual school for mildly unusual high-school children, and current science fiction was catnip to the boys, any science fiction at all.
Orwell and Ellison and Flaubert and Kafka are science fiction writers, too!'' They often say things like that.
www.vonnegutweb.com /archives/arc_scifi.html   (1252 words)

  
 AAAS - Science Talk, the AAAS Experts & Speakers Bureau
Leon M. Lederman, internationally renowned high-energy physicist, is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and holds an appointment as Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
He is a founder and the inaugural Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a 3-year residential public high school for the gifted.
He is a founder and chairman of the Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science, active in the professional development of primary school teachers in Chicago.
www.aaas.org /ScienceTalk/lederman.shtml   (234 words)

  
 Smith College Libraries: Computer Science
Covers the arts and humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, across all academic disciplines.
Covers general science topics including: anthropology, astronomy, pollution, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine, health, and more.
Use of many of these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the SMITH community and to individuals who use the Smith Libraries' facilities.
www.smith.edu /libraries/research/subject/computerscience.htm   (878 words)

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