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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 ==
		+	* [http://scienticity.net Scienticity Project Home Page] (currently redirects to Scienticity Wiki Main Page)
		+	* [[Main Page | Scienticity Wiki Main Page]]
		+	* [[Scienticity:About | About the Scienticity Project]]
		+	* [[Euclid, the Crow | About Our Mascot, Euclid the Crow]]
	* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About | About Ars Hermeneutica]]		* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About | About Ars Hermeneutica]]
-	* [[Science Besieged Project:About | About the Science Besieged Project]]
	* [[Style Manual]]		* [[Style Manual]]
	* [[Submission Guidelines]]		* [[Submission Guidelines]]
-	* [[Information Sources]]	+	* [[Scienticity:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]
-	* [[Ars Hermeneutica:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]	+
-	== Incident Reports ==
-	* [[Incidents 2006]]
-	* Incidents 2005
-	* Incidents 2004
-	* Incidents 2003
-	* Incidents 2002
-	* Incidents 2001
-	== Briefings & Reviews ==	+	== Science Book Challenge ==
-	* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]	+	* [[Science-Book Challenge:About | About the Science Book Challenge]]
-	* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]	+	* [[Science-Book Challenge 2009 | The 2009 Science Book Challenge]]
-	* Intelligent Design	+	* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008 | The 2008 Science Book Challenge]]
-	* Man-caused Climate Change	+
-	* Pseudo-Science Boondoggles	+	== Science Book Notes ==
-	* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People	+	* [[Book Notes:About | About Science Book Notes]]
-	* The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports	+	* [[Notes on Book Notes]]
-	* EPA Shenanigans	+	* [[Book-note_ratings | About Book-Note Ratings]]
-	* Plan B	+	* [[:Category:Book Notes | All Book Notes]]
-	* Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money	+	* [[:Category:Top-Rated Books | Top-Rated Books]]
-	* Stem-Cell Research	+	* [[:Category:Video Book Notes | Video Book Notes]]
-	* Abstinence-Only Sex Education	+	* [[:Category:Audio Books | Book Notes about Audio Books]]
-	* Missile-Defense "Testing"	+
-	* Bad Newspaper Headlines	+
-	* Social Darwinism	+
-	* Eugenics	+
-	* Hollywood & Gravity	+
-	* Science on Trial	+
-	* Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives	+
-	* "Mad Scientists"	+
-	* Grand Canyon Origins	+
-	== Case Studies in Science ==	+	== Science Time Capsules ==
-	* Plate Tectonics	+
-	* Solar-Flare Cycles	+
-	* The Age of the Earth	+
-	* Solar Energy and Fusion	+
-	* Atomic Metaphysics and the Discovery of the Electron	+
-	* The Lumineferous Ether	+
-	* The Positron	+
-	* The Neutrino	+
-	== Time Capsules ==	+	* [[Time Capsules:About | About Science Time Capsules]]
	* Science & Technology Timeline		* Science & Technology Timeline
		+	* [[Presidential Science Advisors]]
	=== From the 21st Century ===		=== From the 21st Century ===
		+	* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
		+	* [[Citizens' Alliances for Science]]
	* [[Darby, Montana School Board]]		* [[Darby, Montana School Board]]
		+	* [[Rahall: Weird Science]] (17 December 2002)
		+	* [[Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration]] (August 2003)
	* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]		* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]
-	* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
	* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]		* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
		+	* [[National Center for Science Education]]
		+	* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
	=== From the 20th Century ===		=== From the 20th Century ===
-	* Congress Closed OTA	+	* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
-	* Nixon Abolished OST	+	* [[Office of Technology Assessment]]
-	* The Apollo Mission	+	* V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)
-	* McCarthyism and Science	+
-	* Origin of the National Science Foundation	+
-	* Transistor & Laser: Useful & Useless	+
-	* Lysenkoism	+
-	* The Scopes Trial	+
-	* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity	+
-	* Relativity as "Jewish Science"	+
-	* Robert Wood, René Blondlot, and N-Rays	+
	=== From the 19th Century ===		=== From the 19th Century ===
-	* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]	+	* [[Legislating the Value of Pi]]
		+	* [[Starlings Arrive in North America]]
	* [[Surveying the American West]]		* [[Surveying the American West]]
-	* Tomato: Vegetable or Fruit?
-	* Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
-	* Time Zones
-	* A/C Power Distribution
-	* Daylight Savings Time
-	* Lewis & Clark
-	* Luddism
	=== From the 18th Century and Before ===		=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
-	* Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory	+	* [[John Harrison and the Longitude Problem]] (17th century)
-	* Benjamin Franklin	+	* [[The Invention of Eyeglasses]] (13th century)
-	* Thomas Jefferson	+	* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
-	* Timekeeping, Surveying, & Navigation	+	* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
-	* Newton	+
-	* Galileo's Telescope	+
-	* The Gregorian Calendar	+
-	* The Invention of the Clock	+
-	* Invention of the Magnetic Compass (12th Century)	+
-		+
-	== People ==	+
-	=== Scientists ===	+
-	* David Baltimore	+
-	* Vannevar Bush	+
-	* Jacques Cousteau	+
-	* Richard Dawkins	+
-	* Freeman Dyson	+
-	* Sir Arthur Eddington	+
-	* Albert Einstein	+
-	* Richard Feynman	+
-	* Jane Goodall	+
-	* Stephen Jay Gould	+
-	* Brian Greene	+
-	* Stephen Hawking	+
-	* Danny Hillis	+
-	* Gerald Holton	+
-	* Nicholas Humphrey	+
-	* C. Everett Koop	+
-	* Richard Leakey	+
-	* Benoit Mandelbrot	+
-	* Peter Medawar	+
-	* Marvin Minsky	+
-	* Philip Morrison	+
-	* J. Robert Oppenheimer	+
-	* John Allen Paulos	+
-	* Roger Penrose	+
-	* Martin Rees	+
-	* Colin Renfrew	+
-	* Oliver Sacks	+
-	* Carl Sagan	+
-	* John Maynard Smith	+
-	* Ian Stewart	+
-	* Lewis Thomas	+
-		+
-	=== Science Writers ===	+
-	* Natalie Angier	+
-	* James Burke	+
-	* Kenneth Chang	+
-	* James Gleick	+
-	* Ben Goldacre	+
-	* David Harris	+
-	* Chris Mooney	+
-	* John Allen Paulos	+
-	* David Quammen	+
-	* Richard Rhodes	+
-	* Michael Shermer	+
-	* Takashi Tachibana	+
-	* Carl Zimmer	+
-		+
-	=== Other Writers ===	+
-	* Arthur C. Clarke	+
-	* Martin Gardner	+
-	* [[Hendrik Hertzberg]]	+
-	* Harold McGee	+
-	* H. L. Mencken	+
-	* [[Bill Moyers]]	+
-	* Robert Park	+
-	* Cynthia Tucker	+
-	* Edward Tufte	+
-		+
-	=== Still Others ===	+
-	* Alan Alda	+
-	* Jacob Bronowski	+
-	* Walter Cronkite	+
-	* James Randi	+
-	* Daniel Schorr	+
-		+
-	== US Government ==	+
-	=== Congress ===	+
-	* House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office [http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/ home]	+
-	* House Committee on Science [http://www.house.gov/science/ home]	+
-	* Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation [http://commerce.senate.gov/ home]	+
-	==== People ====	+
-	* [[Lamar Alexander]]	+
-	* [[Sherwood Boehlert]]	+
-	* John Conyers	+
-	* [[Vern Ehlers]]	+
-	* Rahm Emmanuel	+
-	* [[Rush Holt]]	+
-	* [[Henry Waxman]]	+
-	* [[Frank Wolf]]	+
-		+
-	==== STEM Scorecards ====	+
-	==== Committees ====	+
-	==== Legislation ====	+
-	==== Hearings & Testimony ====	+
-		+
-	=== White House ===	+
-	* OSTP	+
-	* President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)	+
-	* [[Presidential Science Advisors]]	+
-	==== Presidents ====	+
-	* Franklin D. Roosevelt	+
-	* Jimmy Carter ([http://www.jimmycarterlibrarty.org his presidential library])	+
-	==== Vice Presidents ====	+
-	* Al Gore	+
-		+
-	=== Supreme Court ===	+
-	Decisions	+
-	=== Federal Courts ===	+
-	Decisions	+
-	=== Agencies ===	+
-	* [[Department of Energy]]	+
-	* NASA	+
-	* National Science Foundation	+
-	* [[Office of Technology Assessment]]	+
-		+
-	=== National Laboratories ===	+
-	* Brookhaven National Laboratory	+
-	* Los Alamos	+
-	=== Local Jurisdictions ===	+
-		+
-	== Other Government ==	+
-	* Council of Minsters of Education, Canada	+
-		+
-	== Professional Societies ==	+
-	* American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)	+
-	* American Association of Physicists in Medicine	+
-	* American Association of Physics Teachers	+
-	* [[American Astronomical Society]] (AAS)	+
-	* American Chemical Society	+
-	* American Geological Institute	+
-	* American Geophysical Union	+
-	* American Institute of Biological Sciences	+
-	* American Institute of Physics	+
-	* American Institute of Professional Geologists	+
-	* American Mathematical Society	+
-	* American Medical Association	+
-	* [[American Physical Society]]	+
-	* American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics	+
-	* American Society of Engineering Education	+
-	* Association for Women in Mathematics	+
-	* Association for Women in Science	+
-	* Astronomical Society of the Pacific	+
-	* British Association for the Advancement of Science	+
-	* Council on Undergraduate Research	+
-	* Engineering Deans Council	+
-	* Federation of Materials Societies	+
-	* Geological Society of America	+
-	* IEEE	+
-	* The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.	+
-	* Materials Research Society	+
-	* Mathematical Association of America	+
-	* National Association of Science Writers	+
-	* National Science Teachers' Association	+
-	* The Royal Society of London	+
-	* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics	+
-	* SPIE	+
-		+
-	== Organizations ==	+
-	* ACLU	+
-	* [[Citizens' Alliances for Science]]	+
-	* Exploratorium	+
-	* James Randi Educational Foundation	+
-	* National Academy of Sciences	+
-	* [[National Center for Science Education]]	+
-	* National Academies of Science	+
-	* National Geographic Society	+
-	* SCICOP	+
-	* The Skeptic's Society	+
-	* UCS	+
-		+
-	=== Prizes ===	+
-	* Dirac Medal	+
-	* Nobel Prize	+
-		+
-	== Reports and Recommendations ==	+
-	* V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)	+
-	* [[Rahall: Weird Science]] (17 December 2002)	+
-	* [[Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration]] (August 2003)	+
-	* UCS: Scientific Integrity in Policymaking (March 2004)	+
-	* ACLU: Science Under Siege (June 2005)	+
-	* NAS: Rising Above the Gathering Storm (2005)	+
-	* National Science Education Standards	+
-		+
-	== Interviews ==	+
-		+
-	== Journalism and Science News Reporting ==	+
-	* US Newspapers	+
-	* Foreign Newspapers	+
-		+
-	== Education & Learning ==	+
-	* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]	+
-	* Science Textbooks	+
-		+
-	=== Science Museums ===	+
-		+
-	== The Scientific Enterprise ==	+
-	* The Role of Skepticism	+
-		+
-	== Philosophy of Science ==	+
-	* The Greeks	+
-	* Aristotle & Plato	+
-	* Francis Bacon	+
-	* Karl Popper: Conjectures & Refutations and The Demarcation Problem	+
-	* Rudolph Carnap	+
-	* Thomas Kuhn	+
-		+
-	== Science & Society ==	+
-	* Science in Art	+
-	* Politicizing Science	+
-		+
-	=== Public Health ===	+
-	* The Tuskegee Syphilis Study	+
-	* Fluoridation of Water	+
-	* Vaccination	+
-	== Essays ==
-	* Scientific Cuisine
-	* What is the cost of anti-scientism?
-	* Quantifying Anti-Scientism
-	* Distorting the Scientific Process
-	* Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology
-	* The Language of Science
-	* Science: What Good is it?
-	* Poets vs. Scientists
-	* Scientific Hyperbole: Walking on Water
-	* "Fact" and "Truth" in Science
-	* Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
-	* Correlation vs. Cause: Leukemia & Cell Phones
-	* "Snake Oil"
-	== Reading List ==	+	== Scienticity Recommended Reading ==
		+	* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
		+	* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008]]
	* [[Recommended Books]] in		* [[Recommended Books]] in
	** Numeracy		** Numeracy
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	* Recommended Blogs		* Recommended Blogs
-	== Quotations ==	+	== Scienticity Sources and Resources ==
-	* [[Quotations: On Scientific Process]]	+	* [[Biology Resources]]
-	* [[Quotations: Science and Philosophy]]	+	* [[Geography and Cartography Resources]]
-	* [[Quotations: Science in the United States]]	+	* [[History Resources]]
		+	* [[Mathematics Resources]]
		+	* [[News Resources]]
	[[Category:Metatopics]]		[[Category:Metatopics]]

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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 1 Metatopics 2 Science Book Challenge 3 Science Book Notes 4 Science Time Capsules 4.1 From the 21st Century 4.2 From the 20th Century 4.3 From the 19th Century 4.4 From the 18th Century and Before 5 Scienticity Recommended Reading 6 Scienticity Sources and Resources

Metatopics

• Scienticity Project Home Page (currently redirects to Scienticity Wiki Main Page)
• Scienticity Wiki Main Page
• About the Scienticity Project
• About Our Mascot, Euclid the Crow
• About Ars Hermeneutica
• Style Manual
• Submission Guidelines
• Copyright notice

Science Book Challenge

• About the Science Book Challenge
• The 2009 Science Book Challenge
• The 2008 Science Book Challenge

Science Book Notes

• About Science Book Notes
• Notes on Book Notes
• About Book-Note Ratings
• All Book Notes
• Top-Rated Books
• Video Book Notes
• Book Notes about Audio Books

Science Time Capsules

• About Science Time Capsules
• Science & Technology Timeline
• Presidential Science Advisors

From the 21st Century

• Statements on Teaching Evolution
• Citizens' Alliances for Science
• Darby, Montana School Board
• Rahall: Weird Science (17 December 2002)
• Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration (August 2003)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted
• The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin
• National Center for Science Education
• Status Briefing August 2005

From the 20th Century

• Evolution and the Vatican
• Office of Technology Assessment
• V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)

From the 19th Century

• Legislating the Value of Pi
• Starlings Arrive in North America
• Surveying the American West

From the 18th Century and Before

• John Harrison and the Longitude Problem (17th century)
• The Invention of Eyeglasses (13th century)
• Rhazes and Avicenna (10th century)
• The Latin Transmitters (4th century)

Scienticity Recommended Reading

• Book Notes
• Science-Book Challenge 2008
• Recommended Books in
  • Numeracy
  • Science
  • Engineering
  • Scientific Biography
  • History of Science
  • Science and Society
  • Philosophy of Science
• Recommended Articles
• Recommended Websites
• Recommended Blogs

Scienticity Sources and Resources

• Biology Resources
• Geography and Cartography Resources
• History Resources
• Mathematics Resources
• News Resources