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Metatopics
- About Ars Hermeneutica
- About the Science Besieged Project
- About Our Mascot, Euclid the Crow
- Style Manual
- Submission Guidelines
- Notes on Book Notes
- About Book-Note Ratings
- Copyright notice
Incident Reports
Position Statements
Time Capsules
- Science & Technology Timeline
From the 21st Century
- Darby, Montana School Board
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted
- The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin
From the 20th Century
- Congress Closed OTA
- Nixon Abolished OST
- The Apollo Mission
- 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
- Legislating the Value of Pi
- Surveying the American West
- International Meridian Conference
- Tomato: Vegetable or Fruit?
- Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
- A/C Power Distribution
- Daylight Savings Time
- Lewis & Clark
- Luddism
From the 18th Century and Before
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem (17th century)
- The Invention of Eyeglasses (13th century)
- Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Jefferson
- Timekeeping, Surveying, & Navigation
- Newton
- Galileo's Telescope
- The Gregorian Calendar
- The Invention of the Clock
- Invention of the Magnetic Compass (12th Century)
Briefings & Reviews
- Evolution and the Vatican
- Status Briefing August 2005
- Intelligent Design
- Anthropogenic 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
- The Age of the Earth
- Solar Energy and Fusion
- Atomic Metaphysics and the Discovery of the Electron
- The Lumineferous Ether
- The Positron
- The Neutrino
People
Scientists
- David Baltimore
- Vannevar Bush
- Jacques Cousteau
- Richard Dawkins
- Freeman Dyson
- Sir Arthur Eddington
- Albert Einstein
- Richard Feynman
- Sandford Fleming
- 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 home
- House Committee on Science home
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation home
People
- Sherwood Boehlert
- John Conyers
- Vern Ehlers
- 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 (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
Instrumentalities
- National Academies
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
Education & Learning
- Statements on Teaching Evolution
- Science Textbooks
Science Museums
- Planetaria
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
- Book Notes
- Recommended Books in
- Numeracy
- Science
- Engineering
- Scientific Biography
- History of Science
- Science and Society
- Philosophy of Science
- Recommended Articles
- Recommended Websites
- Recommended Blogs
