Science
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5 scientific revolutions, what are they and why did they change what we think about the world?
5 kingdoms of life (or 6?) what is the relation among plants, bacteria, fungus, monera, animals, and the phylum of archaeozoans?
Abrupt Climate Change, its here and its queer and we better get used to it, in the sense which J. B. S. Haldane suggested that "Nature is not only queerer than we think, but it is queerer than we can think."
Aspects and Character of scientific findings
Bachelard's paradox about ratioanlism and realism (experimentation).
Bacon's idols (four idols) define for this thinker, what were the prevailing and persistant obstacles to humans understanding?
Bainbridge on Sex, why there is more to gender than just genes and X or Y chromosomes.
Bias.
Bioligical diversity examined in some detail
Century of the Gene, E. F. Keller on genetics and a search for meaning.
Changes in the life sciences, and index.
Chelonian Institute, Oviedo, Fl.
Coastal conservation and design
Coast's, a question of change
Complexity theory and Murray Gell-Mannn theoretical physicist at Cal. Tech. theorized about quarks in protons and neutrons,
Darwin's mind, changes in his thinking.
Darwin's Origin of Species
Darwin's relation to ecology
Darwin, index to pages about natural selection and his finding.
Defining diversity, simply and what is biological diversity examoned in some detail, especially the varieties of diversity measures.
Double Helix, James Watson's book of discovery.
Ecology and chemical contamination
Einstein's thoughts about research and society.
Estuarine sciences, development of
Evolution was Charles Darwin's revolution
Feynman, Richard: The Meaning of it All
Focus of scientific study, Foci that characterize science: measurement, reliable information, accuracy, doubt, tested, reinforced, modified, discardedy, critical, skeptical.
Gell-Mann, Murray: The Quark and the Jaguar
Genome, unseen aspects by Wyatt Gibbs
Kaku, Michio
Keller, The Century of the Gene
Kuhn, Thomas on scientific revolutions
Richard Lewontin on genetics
Life Sciences, changes in
Living Downstream, ecology and cancer
machine, four parts of
Malthus, on populatiom
Margulis on our symbiotic planet
Matter, organization of
Margulis, Lynn Symbiosis in Ecosystems
Method, scientific pyramid of how we know.
Museums to virtually visit.
Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
Sir Isaac Newton
Newtonian and Darwinian Revolutions
Ockham's Razor, the importance of avoiding pleonasm in your writing!
On
the Origin of Species (1859)
notes on Darwin's book
Real versus ideal in knowing reality
Research Guide to other web sites for useful information for writing assignments.
Research institute for wildlife, turtles and world conservation.
Research; reliable sources on the internet for you to use.
rules of ecology; simply stated
Scale and levels of organization in nature.
Science is defined and analyzed here as one of several linked pages. Science is not however technology, though they are related.
Science and disease, related ideas on order and disorder.
Science Method, some surprising admissions from contemporary practitioners.
Symbiotic Planet, Lynn Margulis
Ian Tattersal, on science and how we humans & monkeys are so close as to be largely similar in our DNA, inheritance, not to mention behavioral responses to the world.
Technology is discussed and examined as the means
we have to solve the apparent difference between an existing and a desired
state of affairs or conditions.
Technology is defined here as the application
of knowledge to human affairs.
The
Triple Helix, by Richard Lewontin
Thinking like a Mountain, Aldo Leopold on wildlife ecology
Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell
Tools are the items used to identify and understand the power of technology and the techniques we use. Some synonyms for toos are: apparatus, devices, gadgets, implements, instruments, machinery, materials, robots.
Uncertainty in science, a valued role to play.
Unity of Nature, view of the natural sciences
Unseen Genome, by Wyatt Gibbs
James Watson's, The Double Helix
Writing: Writing about Science as ameans to measure your critical thinking.
Words; the importance of accurate expression and
the appropriate choice of terms is examined here. Eight of the most important
terms for my courses are defined here, as well as on other pages.
Worldviews, complex associations of personal and social constructions of how the world works compared to its actual conditions of existence.
World, the; as a scientific problem.
