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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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== Metatopics ==
== Metatopics ==
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* [[Ars Hermeneutica:About | About Ars Hermeneutica]]
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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 | About the Science Besieged Project]]
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* [[Main Page | Scienticity Wiki Main Page]]
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* [[Scienticity:About | About the Scienticity Project]]
* [[Euclid, the Crow | About Our Mascot, Euclid the Crow]]
* [[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]]
* [[Submission Guidelines]]
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* [[Scienticity:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]
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== Science Book Challenge ==
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* [[Science-Book Challenge:About | About the Science Book Challenge]]
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2009 | The 2009 Science Book Challenge]]
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* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008 | The 2008 Science Book Challenge]]
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== Science Book Notes ==
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* [[Book Notes:About | About Science Book Notes]]
* [[Notes on Book Notes]]
* [[Notes on Book Notes]]
* [[Book-note_ratings | About Book-Note Ratings]]
* [[Book-note_ratings | About Book-Note Ratings]]
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* [[Ars Hermeneutica:Copyrights | Copyright notice]]
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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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== Incident Reports ==
 
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* [[Incidents 2007]]
 
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* [[Incidents 2006]]
 
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== Position Statements ==
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== Science Time Capsules ==
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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* [[Statements on Global Warming]]
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== Time Capsules ==
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* [[Time Capsules:About | About Science Time Capsules]]
* Science & Technology Timeline
* Science & Technology Timeline
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* [[Presidential Science Advisors]]
=== 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]]
* [[Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted]]
* [[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 ===
* [[Legislating the Value of Pi]]
* [[Legislating the Value of Pi]]
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* [[Starlings Arrive in North America]]
* [[Surveying the American West]]
* [[Surveying the American West]]
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* [[International Meridian Conference]]
 
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* Tomato: Vegetable or Fruit?
 
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* Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
 
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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
 
=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
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* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
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* Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory
 
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* Benjamin Franklin
 
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* Thomas Jefferson
 
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* Timekeeping, Surveying, & Navigation
 
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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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* Invention of the Magnetic Compass (12th Century)
 
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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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* Anthropogenic 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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* 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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== 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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* Sandford Fleming
 
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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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=== Still Others ===
 
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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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* Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation [http://commerce.senate.gov/ home]
 
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==== People ====
 
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* [[Sherwood Boehlert]]
 
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* John Conyers
 
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* [[Vern Ehlers]]
 
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* [[Rush Holt]]
 
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* [[Henry Waxman]]
 
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* [[Frank Wolf]]
 
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==== STEM Scorecards ====
 
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==== Committees ====
 
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==== Legislation ====
 
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==== Hearings & Testimony ====
 
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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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==== Vice Presidents ====
 
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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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Decisions
 
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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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* [[Office of Technology Assessment]]
 
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=== Instrumentalities ===
 
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* National Academies
 
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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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* ACLU
 
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* [[Citizens' Alliances for Science]]
 
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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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== 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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* Planetaria
 
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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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* Politicizing Science
 
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=== Public Health ===
 
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* The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
 
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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 ==
* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008]]
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* Recommended Blogs
* Recommended Blogs
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== Resource Pages ==
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== Scienticity Sources and Resources ==
* [[Biology Resources]]
* [[Biology Resources]]
* [[Geography and Cartography Resources]]
* [[Geography and Cartography Resources]]
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* [[Mathematics Resources]]
* [[Mathematics Resources]]
* [[News Resources]]
* [[News Resources]]
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== Quotations ==
 
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* [[Quotations: On Scientific Process]]
 
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* [[Quotations: On Engineering Process]]
 
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* [[Quotations: Science and Philosophy]]
 
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[[Category:Metatopics]]
[[Category:Metatopics]]

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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