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* [[Time Capsules:About | About Science Time Capsules]]
* [[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 ===
* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
* [[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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* [[Evolution and the Vatican]]
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* [[Office of Technology Assessment]]
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* V.Bush: Science - The Endless Frontier (July 1945)
=== From the 19th Century ===
=== From the 19th Century ===
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* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
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== Briefings & Reviews ==
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== Scienticity Recommended Reading ==
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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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* 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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* 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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==== Committees ====
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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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==== Presidents ====
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=== Supreme Court ===
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Decisions
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=== Federal Courts ===
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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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=== 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 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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* 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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* 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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* Exploratorium
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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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* 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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== Interviews ==
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== Education & Learning ==
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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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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== Reading List ==
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* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
* [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]]
* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008]]
* [[Science-Book Challenge 2008]]
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* Recommended Blogs
* Recommended Blogs
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* [[Biology Resources]]
* [[Biology Resources]]
* [[Geography and Cartography Resources]]
* [[Geography and Cartography Resources]]

Revision as of 22:47, 1 April 2009

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 Bookmarks and Resources

Quotations

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