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This outline summarizes the organization and content of the '''Scienticity Wiki only''', where we keep the content for the Science-Book Challenge, Science Book Notes, and Time Capsules. The more general [http://scienticity.net Scienticity website] is the main entry point for all of Ars Hermeneutica's informal science-education / science-outreach projects.
== Metatopics ==
== Metatopics ==
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* [http://scienticity.net Scienticity Project Home Page] (currently redirects to Scienticity Wiki Main Page)
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* [[Main Page | Scienticity Wiki Main Page]]
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* [[Scienticity:About | About the Scienticity Project]]
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* [[Euclid, the Crow | About Our Mascot, Euclid the Crow]]
* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About | About Ars Hermeneutica]]
* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About | About Ars Hermeneutica]]
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* [[Science Besieged Project:About | About the Science Besieged Project]]
 
* [[Style Manual]]
* [[Style Manual]]
* [[Submission Guidelines]]
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* [[Information Sources]]
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* [[Scienticity:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]
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* [[Ars Hermeneutica:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]
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== Incident Reports ==
 
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* [[Incidents 2006]]
 
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* Incidents 2005
 
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* Incidents 2004
 
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* Incidents 2003
 
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* Incidents 2002
 
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* Incidents 2001
 
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== Briefings & Reviews ==
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== Science Book Challenge ==
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* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
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* [[Science-Book Challenge:About | About the Science Book Challenge]]
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* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2009 | The 2009 Science Book Challenge]]
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* Intelligent Design
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008 | The 2008 Science Book Challenge]]
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* Man-caused Climate Change
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* Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
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== Science Book Notes ==
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* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
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* [[Book Notes:About | About Science Book Notes]]
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* The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
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* [[Notes on Book Notes]]
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* EPA Shenanigans
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* [[Book-note_ratings | About Book-Note Ratings]]
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* Plan B
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* [[:Category:Book Notes | All Book Notes]]
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* Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
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* [[:Category:Top-Rated Books | Top-Rated Books]]
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* Stem-Cell Research
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* [[:Category:Video Book Notes | Video Book Notes]]
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* Abstinence-Only Sex Education
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* [[:Category:Audio Books | Book Notes about Audio Books]]
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* Missile-Defense "Testing"
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* Bad Newspaper Headlines
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* Social Darwinism
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* Eugenics
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* Hollywood & Gravity
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* Science on Trial
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* Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
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* "Mad Scientists"
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* Grand Canyon Origins
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== Case Studies in Science ==
 
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* Plate Tectonics
 
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* Solar-Flare Cycles
 
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* The Age of the Earth
 
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* Solar Energy and Fusion
 
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* Atomic Metaphysics and the Discovery of the Electron
 
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* The Lumineferous Ether
 
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* The Positron
 
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* The Neutrino
 
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== Time Capsules ==
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== Science Time Capsules ==
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* [[Time Capsules:About | About Science Time Capsules]]
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* Science & Technology Timeline
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* [[Presidential Science Advisors]]
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=== From the 21st Century ===
=== From the 21st Century ===
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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* [[Citizens' Alliances for Science]]
* [[Darby, Montana School Board]]
* [[Darby, Montana School Board]]
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* [[Rahall: Weird Science]] (17 December 2002)
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* [[Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration]] (August 2003)
* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
 
* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
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* [[National Center for Science Education]]
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* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
=== From the 20th Century ===
=== From the 20th Century ===
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* Congress Closed OTA
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* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
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* Nixon Abolished OST
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* [[Office of Technology Assessment]]
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* The Apollo Mission
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* V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)
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* McCarthyism and Science
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* Origin of the National Science Foundation
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* Transistor & Laser: Useful & Useless
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* Lysenkoism
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* The Scopes Trial
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* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
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* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
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* Robert Wood, René Blondlot, and N-Rays
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=== From the 19th Century ===
=== From the 19th Century ===
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* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
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* Tomato: Vegetable or Fruit?
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* [[Starlings Arrive in North America]]
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* Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
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* [[Surveying the American West]]
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* Time Zones
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* A/C Power Distribution
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* Daylight Savings Time
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* Lewis & Clark
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* Luddism
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=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
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* Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory
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* [[John Harrison and the Longitude Problem]] (17th century)
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* Benjamin Franklin
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* [[The Invention of Eyeglasses]] (13th century)
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* Thomas Jefferson
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* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
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* Timekeeping, Surveying, & Navigation
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* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
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* Newton
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* Galileo's Telescope
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* The Gregorian Calendar
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* The Invention of the Clock
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== People ==
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=== Scientists ===
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* David Baltimore
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* Vannevar Bush
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* Jacques Cousteau
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* Richard Dawkins
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* Freeman Dyson
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* Sir Arthur Eddington
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* Albert Einstein
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* Richard Feynman
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* Jane Goodall
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* Stephen Jay Gould
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* Brian Greene
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* Stephen Hawking
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* Danny Hillis
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* Gerald Holton
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* Nicholas Humphrey
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* C. Everett Koop
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* Richard Leakey
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* Benoit Mandelbrot
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* Peter Medawar
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* Marvin Minsky
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* Philip Morrison
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* J. Robert Oppenheimer
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* John Allen Paulos
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* Roger Penrose
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* Martin Rees
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* Colin Renfrew
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* Oliver Sacks
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* Carl Sagan
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* John Maynard Smith
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* Ian Stewart
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* Lewis Thomas
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=== Science Writers ===
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* Natalie Angier
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* James Burke
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* Kenneth Chang
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* James Gleick
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* Ben Goldacre
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* David Harris
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* Chris Mooney
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* John Allen Paulos
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* David Quammen
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* Richard Rhodes
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* Michael Shermer
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* Takashi Tachibana
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* Carl Zimmer
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=== Other Writers ===
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* Arthur C. Clarke
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* Martin Gardner
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* [[Hendrik Hertzberg]]
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* Harold McGee
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* H. L. Mencken
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* [[Bill Moyers]]
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* Robert Park
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* Cynthia Tucker
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* Edward Tufte
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* Alan Alda
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* Jacob Bronowski
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* Walter Cronkite
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* James Randi
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* Daniel Schorr
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== US Government ==
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=== Congress ===
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* House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office [http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/ home]
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* House Committee on Science [http://www.house.gov/science/ home]
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* Office of Technology Assessment
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* Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation [http://commerce.senate.gov/ home]
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==== People ====
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* [[Lamar Alexander]]
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* [[Sherwood Boehlert]]
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* John Conyers
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* [[Vern Ehlers]]
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* Rahm Emmanuel
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* [[Rush Holt]]
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* [[Henry Waxman]]
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* [[Frank Wolf]]
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==== Committees ====
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==== Legislation ====
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=== White House ===
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* OSTP
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* President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
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* [[Presidential Science Advisors]]
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==== Presidents ====
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* Franklin D. Roosevelt
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* Jimmy Carter ([http://www.jimmycarterlibrarty.org his presidential library])
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* Al Gore
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=== Supreme Court ===
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Decisions
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=== Federal Courts ===
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=== Agencies ===
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* [[Department of Energy]]
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* NASA
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* National Science Foundation
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=== National Laboratories ===
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* Brookhaven National Laboratory
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* Los Alamos
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=== Local Jurisdictions ===
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== Other Government ==
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* Council of Minsters of Education, Canada
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== Professional Societies ==
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* American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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* American Association of Physicists in Medicine
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* American Association of Physics Teachers
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* [[American Astronomical Society]] (AAS)
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* American Chemical Society
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* American Geological Institute
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* American Geophysical Union
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* American Institute of Biological Sciences
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* American Institute of Physics
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* American Institute of Professional Geologists
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* American Mathematical Society
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* American Medical Association
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* [[American Physical Society]]
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* American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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* American Society of Engineering Education
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* Association for Women in Mathematics
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* Association for Women in Science
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* Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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* British Association for the Advancement of Science
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* Council on Undergraduate Research
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* Engineering Deans Council
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* Federation of Materials Societies
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* Geological Society of America
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* IEEE
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* The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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* Materials Research Society
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* Mathematical Association of America
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* National Association of Science Writers
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* National Science Teachers' Association
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* The Royal Society of London
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* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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* SPIE
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* Exploratorium
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* James Randi Educational Foundation
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* National Academy of Sciences
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* [[National Center for Science Education]]
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* National Academies of Science
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* National Geographic Society
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* SCICOP
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* The Skeptic's Society
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* UCS
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=== Prizes ===
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* Dirac Medal
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* Nobel Prize
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== Reports and Recommendations ==
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* V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)
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* [[Rahall: Weird Science]] (17 December 2002)
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* [[Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration]] (August 2003)
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* UCS: Scientific Integrity in Policymaking (March 2004)
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* ACLU: Science Under Siege (June 2005)
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* NAS: Rising Above the Gathering Storm (2005)
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* National Science Education Standards
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== Interviews ==
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== Journalism and Science News Reporting ==
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* US Newspapers
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* Foreign Newspapers
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== Education & Learning ==
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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* Science Textbooks
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=== Science Museums ===
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== The Scientific Enterprise ==
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* The Role of Skepticism
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== Philosophy of Science ==
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* The Greeks
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* Aristotle & Plato
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* Francis Bacon
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* Karl Popper: Conjectures & Refutations and The Demarcation Problem
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* Rudolph Carnap
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* Thomas Kuhn
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== Science & Society ==
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* Science in Art
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=== Public Health ===
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* Fluoridation of Water
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* Vaccination
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== Essays ==
 
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* Scientific Cuisine
 
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* What is the cost of anti-scientism?
 
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* Quantifying Anti-Scientism
 
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* Distorting the Scientific Process
 
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* Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology
 
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* The Language of Science
 
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* Science: What Good is it?
 
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* Poets vs. Scientists
 
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* Scientific Hyperbole: Walking on Water
 
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* "Fact" and "Truth" in Science
 
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* Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
 
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* Correlation vs. Cause: Leukemia & Cell Phones
 
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* "Snake Oil"
 
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== Reading List ==
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== Scienticity Recommended Reading ==
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* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008]]
* [[Recommended Books]] in
* [[Recommended Books]] in
** Numeracy
** Numeracy
** Science
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** Engineering
** Scientific Biography
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** History of Science
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* [[History Resources]]
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Current revision as of 20:10, 5 September 2009

This outline summarizes the organization and content of the Scienticity Wiki only, where we keep the content for the Science-Book Challenge, Science Book Notes, and Time Capsules. The more general Scienticity website is the main entry point for all of Ars Hermeneutica's informal science-education / science-outreach projects.

Contents

Metatopics


Science Book Challenge

Science Book Notes


Science Time Capsules

From the 21st Century

From the 20th Century

From the 19th Century

From the 18th Century and Before


Scienticity Recommended Reading

Scienticity Sources and Resources

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