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- Main Page |The [http://scienticity.net Scienticity Home Page] is the center of it all, where you will find the best program overview, …3 KB (411 words) - 15:36, 23 December 2010
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- Main Page |The [http://scienticity.net Scienticity Home Page] is the center of it all, where you will find the best program overview, …3 KB (411 words) - 15:36, 23 December 2010
- Status Briefing August 2005 …egulatory science. No doubt helped by the prominence of the scientists who first signed on to the "Restoring Scientific Integrity" statement, it dramatical… …ience advisor to the President{{ref|mar1}}, issued an unprecedented twenty-page statement to Congress{{ref|mar2}} on 2 April 2004 that was intended to ref…14 KB (2023 words) - 03:09, 2 April 2009
- Outline …ienticity Project Home Page] (currently redirects to Scienticity Wiki Main Page) * [[Main Page | Scienticity Wiki Main Page]]3 KB (351 words) - 20:10, 5 September 2009
- Statements on Teaching Evolution The Ninety-first Annual Meeting, held in 2005, of the American Association of University Pr… The AIBS maintains a useful resource page, [http://www.aibs.org/public-policy/teaching_evolution.html "Policy Issues…32 KB (4678 words) - 18:04, 28 December 2006
- National Center for Science Education …e events of the trial{{ref|doverpr}} and maintaining an extensive resource page.{{ref|doverres}}3 KB (384 words) - 03:13, 2 April 2009
- Submission Guidelines … might help or, if that's too much choice, try a [[Special:Random | random page]].2 KB (239 words) - 22:56, 31 March 2009
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Director Demoted * First, the administration did not try to suppress or manipulate data, though it … …e situation is unclear. Lawrence Greenfled is still listed on at least one page of the Bureau's website as its Director,{{ref|bjs02}} and no additional ne…9 KB (1313 words) - 16:34, 30 October 2005
- Citizens' Alliances for Science …education in a way that appeases sectarian interests. Amici contend that a first-class science education provides students with vital, meaningful ways to u… …ated to science, religion, evolution, and creationism. Also of note is the page of local history titled [http://www.scienceormyth.org/discoveryinstitute.h…27 KB (4076 words) - 03:14, 2 April 2009
- Darby, Montana School Board … inevitably will include discussions of intelligent design....Darby is the first school district in Montana to take up such a decision, according to Montan… The same report noted that this vote by the school board was only the first reading, and that a second and final vote was needed to implement the poli…28 KB (4314 words) - 22:18, 1 November 2005
- Waxman: Politics and Science in the Bush Administration On 6 Augsut 2003, US Representative [[Henry Waxman]] released a 39-page report, ''Politics and Science in the Bush Administration''{{ref|waxman200… …nd a fax trail showing that information about his planned appearance . . . first passed from an environmental advocacy group to a Des Moines TV station, th…29 KB (4186 words) - 03:12, 2 April 2009
- Office of Technology Assessment …y Assessment: Current Trends and the Myth of a Formula]", remarks at the ''First Meeting of the International Association of Technology Assessment and Fore… …2-95]", ''Congressional Record, Extension of Remarks - September 28, 1995, Page E1868-1870'', reproduced at ''The OTA Legacy''.5 KB (690 words) - 04:48, 6 May 2006
- Surveying the American West …aho, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Wheeler produced the first contour maps of the region and also produced 27 land classification maps t… The material on this page is Copyright © 2003 Andromeda Oxford Ltd and may not be reproduced wi…5 KB (712 words) - 02:08, 2 September 2009
- Geography and Cartography Resources ….com/furuti/MapProj/CartIndex/cartIndex.html Map Projection Pages] and his page of [http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldout/foldout…2 KB (267 words) - 22:16, 14 September 2006
- Sacks: Uncle Tungsten …parents never to give chemistry sets to their children! I thought it was a page-turner, but with depth: bits of it have stayed with me long after I finish…731 B (107 words) - 01:25, 15 April 2009
- Notes on Book Notes … book's title (if the book has a subtitle, use just the main title for the page name) …conjunctions, and short prepositions in the title. Recall: when typing the page name as a URL, use the underscore "_" in place of the space " ".4 KB (595 words) - 21:08, 21 May 2008
- Ferguson: Tycho and Kepler …ry might have viewed astrology (NB: before Newton described gravity). From page 61:3 KB (462 words) - 00:12, 15 April 2009
- Bondeson: Buried Alive Some things continue to puzzle me after closing the book on the last page. These are puzzlements not about the book, but about the human behavior it… …nent for someone to come up with a reliable, quick indicator of death. The first crude stethoscopes were just appearing and the winning idea was the lack o…3 KB (574 words) - 23:53, 14 April 2009
- Butcher: Jules Verne …clear and entertaining. Verne’s oeuvre is discussed in detail and every page is full of interest and insight.1 KB (215 words) - 23:56, 14 April 2009
- Burger: Flowers From the Acknowledgements (page 9):3 KB (459 words) - 23:55, 14 April 2009
- Ball: The Ingredients For instance, the first chapter discusses the evolution of the <i>idea</i> of elements. The Greek … Ball's writing is fresh, crisp, and inviting; for me the book was a page-turner. By the end of it I had decided that one reason was his refreshing …5 KB (779 words) - 23:48, 14 April 2009
- Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox …oire naturelle</i>, equally admired for both style and content, became the first great encyclopedia of modern approaches to the study of nature. [ ) <i>sic…6 KB (978 words) - 00:16, 15 April 2009
- Ball: Critical Mass …all about the real world, then we learn some revealing things about firms. First, they are not maximizers. Firms as a whole maximize neither profit nor ove… The notion that putting profits first does not make a firm successful should not come as a surprise to those in …9 KB (1368 words) - 23:48, 14 April 2009
- Baker: Double Fold The newspapers were first, but as the filmable remainder of their own bound backfiles dwindled, libr… …tly less than the expensive process of sawing apart and photographing each page of the subject volume. Another nail in that coffin: several libraries that…14 KB (2158 words) - 23:47, 14 April 2009
- Abbott: What A Way To Go …tion and other unsavory goings-on as might have happened at the Tower. The page of "also by" inside the book lists several other titles by the author alon…4 KB (645 words) - 23:36, 14 April 2009
- Roach: Spook …umn," and the tantalizing "Leaping, its consequences." There's even a full-page, near-infomercial-quality plug for something called the Flesh-Brush. (p. 8… I have one complaint about a passing scientific misstatement. On page 200 she refers to ''E-L-F'' and explains that it stands for Extremely Low …4 KB (705 words) - 01:21, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2008 …leave a comment at the [http://bearcastle.com/blog/?p=1054 Bearcastle Blog page] where we originally announced the Challenge. Use your own blog to spread … | valign="top" align="left" | proposes 3 books in 3 subjects!<br>''first subject is "cosmology & theoretical physics":''<br>Stephen Hawking, "The U…14 KB (2044 words) - 04:52, 9 January 2009
- Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful …" But contrary to the expectations of ''any'' biologist, most of the genes first identified as governing major aspects of fruit fly body organization were … The first shots in the Evo Devo revolution revealed that despite their great differe…7 KB (1172 words) - 23:59, 14 April 2009
- Dennett: Freedom Evolves …right in and say what he's about. Here is the first paragraph of the first page of the text of the book:4 KB (740 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Robinson: The Story of Measurement * On page 88 he shows a standard periodic table of the elements with, as usual, a di… * On page 89 there is a beautiful microphotograph of a salt crystal, but it is shown…6 KB (993 words) - 01:23, 15 April 2009
- Hayes: The Anatomist …ssic references such as Webster's Dictionary and Bulfinch's ''Mythology''. First printed in 1858, this year it marks 150 years as a viable medical textbook… …k about a book about anatomy." He cites two childhood favorite activities. First, his two best friends had doctor fathers who kept their medical books on t…3 KB (419 words) - 23:44, 14 April 2009
- Tyson: Death by Black Hole …o of these essays, which cover fascinating topics, from black holes to the first few seconds of the universe to light to stardust to more. This is the kind… …a lecture, or a conversation, don’t always translate well to the written page (I’ve noticed a tendency among popular science writers to include more t…8 KB (1293 words) - 01:38, 15 April 2009
- Marcus: Kluge …hich developed/evolved over time into what he have today. As he writes on page 2:1 KB (228 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
- Angier: The Canon (2) …ting down how much I have left. She started out fine: her introduction and first three chapters (covering scientific thinking, statistics, and calibration)…6 KB (1100 words) - 23:45, 14 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen (2) …volution of Human Nature.'' New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994 (first American edition). 405 pages. …down to parasites, and here’s where we meet the Red Queen theory for the first time. In Alice and Wonderland, the Red Queen is a very fast runner who nev…15 KB (2521 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Crumpacker: Perfect Figures … sport with numbers, entertaining facts, and diverting quotations on every page that use that chapter's number. Why not! …ur studies, the quadrivium, or four paths—a crossroads of knowledge. The first study of the quadrivium was arithmetic; the second was the study of number…6 KB (1098 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2009
- Chornook: Walking with Wolf At first, this book was hard to follow--it has so many people and places, many with… …nd how together they started building their community and businesses. From page 49:4 KB (625 words) - 00:02, 15 April 2009
- Wilson: Lewis Carroll in Numberland …as Charles Dodgson, mathematician. Some of us know that he was one of the first photographers in England, and one of the finest. Few of us are aware of h… … no slouch in the story-telling side of his endeavor. From the very first page of the introduction, I was hooked. Wilson’s prose is clear and enjoyable…2 KB (320 words) - 01:45, 15 April 2009
- Orlean: The Orchid Thief (2) Passage from page 252:4 KB (726 words) - 01:01, 15 April 2009
- Fagan: The Little Ice Age …rld has experienced global warming on a massive scale—a rapid warming at first, then an equally dramatic, thousand-year cold snap some 12,000 years ago, … …s in Washington State in 1980 and exceeded Krakatau in 1883. Krakatau, the first major eruption to be studied at all systematically, is known to have reduc…10 KB (1567 words) - 00:11, 15 April 2009
- Science Book Challenge Every book-note contributor, challengers included, have an individual page ([[:Category: Book-Note Contributors | book-note contributors]]) that keep…6 KB (882 words) - 22:26, 25 February 2013
- Hutchins: The Secret Doorway … part of the book in my opinion. Almost every two-page spread includes one page of text and large illustration. Galaxies, stars, nebulae, planets, and man… * First (and most importantly) I'm not sure who the intended audience is. As someo…3 KB (505 words) - 20:21, 18 June 2009
- Morgan: Poles Apart …ans are contributing to climate change? Their conclusion comes on the last page:10 KB (1602 words) - 03:46, 24 September 2009
- Gawande: Complications As implied by the title, the book is about medicine in the twenty-first century, with all of its ambiguities. Gawande doesn’t shy away from toug… …nfiction, but there aren’t too many nonfiction books I would describe as page-turning. ''Complications'' is one of them.6 KB (1083 words) - 20:14, 30 September 2009
- Streever: Cold …kind of natural history-science book I love, the kind I can open up at any page and find something really intriguing. He includes writings by authors who …2 KB (270 words) - 22:33, 25 November 2009
- Sabbagh: The Riemann Hypothesis …ook at. In the 1800s a German mathematician, Bernhard Riemann, wrote an 8-page paper on his theory that all the zeros of a certain zeta function fall on …2 KB (251 words) - 22:57, 1 January 2010
- Tyson: The Pluto Files (2) …ld blue color and a cartoon, which is what attracted me to the book in the first place. …were accustomed to. There are 5 classes of objects that orbit our sun. The first four planets, the terrestrial planets, are separated from the gaseous plan…3 KB (471 words) - 03:56, 29 January 2010
- Schewe: The Grid Insull's first attempts at advertising the benefits of home electricity [for Chicago's Co… …e for referring casually to "some weird greenhouse mechanism" [p. 196]. On page 210, writing "A slimmer version of uranium is U-235, whose nucleus contain…8 KB (1380 words) - 05:28, 19 February 2010
- Spellberg: Rising Plague 40 pages before the end of this 218 page book, the author revealed his association with the pharmaceutical industry…5 KB (799 words) - 22:31, 1 June 2010
- Attenborough: Amazing Rare Things … all British species and comparatively modest in their appearance. On this page he shows the caterpillar of the swallowtail butterfly feeding on one of it… …and strong enough to read a paper by. She even gives a vivid and seemingly first-hand account of how one night she opened a box in which she had put a larg…8 KB (1258 words) - 20:37, 27 August 2010
- Science Book Challenge 2011 …nce Book Challenge public by adding you to the list of challengers on this page. Send us your name and a link to your blog, if you have one, using our [[S…12 KB (1745 words) - 02:22, 21 October 2011
