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* Atomic Metaphysics and the Discovery of the Electron
* Atomic Metaphysics and the Discovery of the Electron
* The Lumineferous Ether
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* The Positron
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* The Neutrino
== Time Capsules ==
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* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
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* Robert Wood, René Blondlot, and N-Rays
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=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
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* Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory
* Benjamin Franklin
* Benjamin Franklin
* Thomas Jefferson
* Thomas Jefferson
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* David Baltimore
* David Baltimore
* Vannevar Bush
* Vannevar Bush
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* Jacques Cousteau
* Richard Dawkins
* Richard Dawkins
* Freeman Dyson
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* Gerald Holton
* Gerald Holton
* Nicholas Humphrey
* Nicholas Humphrey
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* C. Everett Koop
* Richard Leakey
* Richard Leakey
* Benoit Mandelbrot
* Benoit Mandelbrot
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=== Still Others ===
=== Still Others ===
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* Alan Alda
* Jacob Bronowski
* Jacob Bronowski
* Walter Cronkite
* Walter Cronkite
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=== Prizes ===
=== Prizes ===
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* Dirac Medal
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* Nobel Prize
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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=== Science Museums ===
== The Scientific Enterprise ==
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== Philosophy of Science ==
== Philosophy of Science ==
* The Greeks
* The Greeks
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* Aristotle & Plato
* Francis Bacon
* Francis Bacon
* Karl Popper: Conjectures & Refutations and The Demarcation Problem
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== Science & Society ==
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* Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
* Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
* Correlation vs. Cause: Leukemia & Cell Phones
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* "Snake Oil"
== Reading List ==
== Reading List ==

Revision as of 05:22, 12 January 2006

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

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
  • 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

From the 21st Century

From the 20th Century

  • Congress Closed OTA
  • Nixon Abolished OST
  • The Apollo Mission
  • McCarthyism and Science
  • Origin of the National Science Foundation
  • 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 18th Century and Before

  • Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Newton
  • Galileo

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

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
  • 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

  • Dirac Medal
  • Nobel Prize

Reports and Recommendations

Interviews

Journalism and Science News Reporting

  • US Newspapers
  • Foreign Newspapers

Education & Learning

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

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

  • 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