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* [[Submission Guidelines]]
* [[Submission Guidelines]]
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== Situation Briefings ==
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== Briefings & Reviews ==
* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
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* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics]]
 
* Intelligent Design
* Intelligent Design
* Man-caused Climate Change
* Man-caused Climate Change
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* Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
* Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
* "Mad Scientists"
* "Mad Scientists"
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* Grand Canyon Origins
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== In the 21st Century ==
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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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== Time Capsules ==
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=== In the 21st Century ===
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* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]
* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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== In the 20th Century ==
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=== In the 20th Century ===
* Nixon Abolished OST
* Nixon Abolished OST
* The Apollo Mission
* The Apollo Mission
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* McCarthyism and Science
* Lysenkoism
* Lysenkoism
* The Scopes Trial
* The Scopes Trial
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* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
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== The 19th Century & Before ==
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=== The 19th Century & Before ===
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* Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
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* Lewis & Clark
* Luddism
* Luddism
* Benjamin Franklin
* Benjamin Franklin
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* Albert Einstein
* Albert Einstein
* Richard Feynman
* Richard Feynman
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* Jane Goodall
* Stephen Jay Gould
* Stephen Jay Gould
* Brian Greene
* Brian Greene
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* Martin Gardner
* Martin Gardner
* [[Hendrik Hertzberg]]
* [[Hendrik Hertzberg]]
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* Harold McGee
* H. L. Mencken
* H. L. Mencken
* [[Bill Moyers]]
* [[Bill Moyers]]
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* Daniel Schorr
* Daniel Schorr
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== Government ==
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== US Government ==
=== Congress ===
=== Congress ===
* House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office [http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/ home]
* House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office [http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/ home]
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* Los Alamos
* Los Alamos
=== Local Jurisdictions ===
=== Local Jurisdictions ===
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== Other Government ==
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* Council of Minsters of Education, Canada
== Professional Societies ==
== Professional Societies ==
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* Association for Women in Science
* Association for Women in Science
* Astronomical Society of the Pacific
* Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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* British Association for the Advancement of Science
* Council on Undergraduate Research
* Council on Undergraduate Research
* Engineering Deans Council
* Engineering Deans Council
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* Materials Research Society
* Materials Research Society
* Mathematical Association of America
* Mathematical Association of America
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* National Academies of Science
 
* National Association of Science Writers
* National Association of Science Writers
* National Science Teachers' Association
* National Science Teachers' Association
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* Optical Society of America [x]
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* The Royal Society of London
* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
* SPIE
* SPIE
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* National Academy of Sciences
* National Academy of Sciences
* [[National Center for Science Education]]
* [[National Center for Science Education]]
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* National Academies of Science
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* National Geographic Society
* SCICOP
* SCICOP
* The Skeptic's Society
* The Skeptic's Society
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* "Fact" and "Truth" in Science
* "Fact" and "Truth" in Science
* Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
* Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
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* Correlation vs. Cause: Leukemia & Cell Phones
== Reading List ==
== Reading List ==
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* Recommended Websites
* Recommended Websites
* Recommended Blogs
* Recommended Blogs
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== Timeline ==
 
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* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
 
== Quotations ==
== Quotations ==

Revision as of 18:59, 27 October 2005

This outline is a working summary of our thoughts on articles in preparation, articles in process, written articles, and how to organize them most usefully.

Contents

Introduction & Metatopics

Briefings & Reviews

  • Evolution and the Vatican
  • Status Briefing August 2005
  • Intelligent Design
  • Man-caused Climate Change
  • Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
  • Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
  • The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
  • EPA Shenanigans
  • Plan B
  • Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
  • Stem-Cell Research
  • Abstinence-Only Sex Education
  • 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

  • Plate Tectonics
  • Solar-Flare Cycles

Time Capsules

In the 21st Century

In the 20th Century

  • Nixon Abolished OST
  • The Apollo Mission
  • McCarthyism and Science
  • Lysenkoism
  • The Scopes Trial
  • 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
  • Relativity as "Jewish Science"

The 19th Century & Before

  • Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
  • Legislating the Vaue of Pi
  • Lewis & Clark
  • Luddism
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Newton
  • Galileo

People

Scientists

  • David Baltimore
  • Vannevar Bush
  • 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
  • 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

Still Others

  • Jacob Bronowski
  • Walter Cronkite
  • James Randi
  • Daniel Schorr

US Government

Congress

  • House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office home
  • House Committee on Science home
  • Office of Technology Assessment
  • Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation home

People

STEM Scorecards

Committees

Legislation

Hearings & Testimony

White House

Presidents

Vice Presidents

  • Al Gore

Supreme Court

Decisions

Federal Courts

Decisions

Agencies

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

Prizes

Reports and Recommendations

  • Waxman's Report on Politicization of Science
  • UCS Report on Scientific Integrity
  • ACLU Report on Politicization of Science
  • National Science Education Standards
  • NAS Report: "Rising Above the Gathering Storm"

Interviews

Journalism and Science News Reporting

  • US Newspapers
  • Foreign Newspapers

Education & Learning

The Scientific Enterprise

  • The Role of Skepticism

Philosophy of Science

  • The Greeks
  • Bacon
  • Karl Popper: Conjectures & Refutations and The Demarcation Problem
  • Carnap

Science & Society

  • Science Prizes

Ideas in Science

Essays

  • 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

Reading List

  • Recommended Books in
    • Numeracy
    • Science
    • Scientific Biography
    • History of Science
    • Science and Society
    • Philosophy of Science
  • Recommended Articles
  • Recommended Websites
  • Recommended Blogs

Quotations

Personal tools
science time-capsules