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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.
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== Introduction & Metatopics ==
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== Metatopics ==
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* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About]]
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* [http://scienticity.net Scienticity Project Home Page] (currently redirects to Scienticity Wiki Main Page)
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* [[Science Besieged Project:About]]
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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]]
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* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About | About Ars Hermeneutica]]
* [[Style Manual]]
* [[Style Manual]]
* [[Submission Guidelines]]
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* [[Scienticity:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]
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== Briefings & Reviews ==
 
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* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
 
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* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
 
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* Intelligent Design
 
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* Man-caused Climate Change
 
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* Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
 
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* Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
 
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* The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
 
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* EPA Shenanigans
 
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* Plan B
 
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* Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
 
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* Stem-Cell Research
 
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* Abstinence-Only Sex Education
 
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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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== Science Book Challenge ==
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* Plate Tectonics
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* [[Science-Book Challenge:About | About the Science Book Challenge]]
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* Solar-Flare Cycles
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2009 | The 2009 Science Book Challenge]]
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* The Age of the Earth
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008 | The 2008 Science Book Challenge]]
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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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== Time Capsules ==
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== Science Book Notes ==
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=== In the 21st Century ===
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* [[Book Notes:About | About Science Book Notes]]
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* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]
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* [[Notes on Book Notes]]
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* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
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* [[Book-note_ratings | About Book-Note Ratings]]
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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* [[:Category:Book Notes | All Book Notes]]
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* [[:Category:Top-Rated Books | Top-Rated Books]]
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* [[:Category:Video Book Notes | Video Book Notes]]
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* [[:Category:Audio Books | Book Notes about Audio Books]]
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=== In the 20th Century ===
 
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* Nixon Abolished OST
 
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* The Apollo Mission
 
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* McCarthyism and Science
 
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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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=== The 19th Century & Before ===
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== Science Time Capsules ==
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* Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
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* [[Legislating the Vaue of Pi]]
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* Lewis & Clark
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* Luddism
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* Benjamin Franklin
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* Thomas Jefferson
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* Newton
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* Galileo
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== People ==
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* [[Time Capsules:About | About Science Time Capsules]]
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=== Scientists ===
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* Science & Technology Timeline
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* David Baltimore
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* Vannevar Bush
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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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* 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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* 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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* Jacob Bronowski
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* James Randi
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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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* John Conyers
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* Rahm Emmanuel
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* [[Rush Holt]]
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* [[Henry Waxman]]
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=== White House ===
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==== Presidents ====
 
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* Jimmy Carter ([http://www.jimmycarterlibrarty.org his presidential library])
 
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==== Vice Presidents ====
 
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=== Supreme Court ===
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=== From the 21st Century ===
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Decisions
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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=== Federal Courts ===
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* [[Citizens' Alliances for Science]]
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Decisions
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* [[Darby, Montana School Board]]
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=== Agencies ===
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* [[Rahall: Weird Science]] (17 December 2002)
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* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics]]
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* [[Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration]] (August 2003)
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* [[Department of Energy]]
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* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]
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* National Science Foundation
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* [[The Cardinal, The Astronomer, and Darwin]]
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* Brookhaven National Laboratory
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* Los Alamos
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== Other Government ==
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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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* 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 Academy of Sciences
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* [[National Center for Science Education]]
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* National Academies of Science
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* [[Status Briefing August 2005]]
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=== Prizes ===
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=== From the 20th Century ===
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* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
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* [[Office of Technology Assessment]]
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* V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)
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== Reports and Recommendations ==
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=== From the 19th Century ===
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* Waxman's Report on Politicization of Science
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* [[Legislating the Value of Pi]]
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* UCS Report on Scientific Integrity
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* [[Starlings Arrive in North America]]
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* ACLU Report on Politicization of Science
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* [[Surveying the American West]]
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* National Science Education Standards
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=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
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* [[John Harrison and the Longitude Problem]] (17th century)
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* [[The Invention of Eyeglasses]] (13th century)
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* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
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* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
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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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== Scienticity Recommended Reading ==
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
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* Science Textbooks
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008]]
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== The Scientific Enterprise ==
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== Philosophy of Science ==
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* The Greeks
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** Science
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** History of Science
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* [[Biology 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

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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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