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EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Forensics Ballistics

the commission of the crime, they will run ballistics tests as well. The distinctive marks called "striations form the bedrock of...

Political Views on National Infrastructure, Space Exploration, 2008 Political Candidates, and Foreign Policy

despite the value infrastructure holds in this country in terms of the quality of life, industry, and national security. Ob...

Psychology: Informal Practice To Bona Fide Science

importance of Lightner Witmer, considered to be the first patient of psychological treatment. As the discipline continued forward...

Eugenics: Science and Pseudoscience

This 4 page paper discusses several points having to do with genetics, evaluates them from the standpoint of science and pseudosci...

Is Walking Beneficial for Human Health?

day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

Questions and Answers in Social Science

be changed by the individual who takes on a role and this is a positive aspect of roles. There are effects or consequences attache...

Ethics, Society, and the Science of Genetic Testing/Screening and Counseling

including confirmation of a suspected medical diagnosis, as a predictor to an individuals susceptibility to a particular illness a...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

Philosophy And Science: Primary Differences

itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand (Harris, 2004). Why, then, would this be drawn into question ...

Proper Nutrition And Good Health: Culinary Cause And Effect

being; changing the way people eat by introducing them to more bioavailable food sources is but one of many aspects inherent to cu...

Teaching : Art Or Science

what this person means by control. Teachers are never going to have complete control over their classrooms. There are just too man...

Ethics

are a small minority (we hope). It is important for scientists to not get so intent on proving one thing or another that they vi...

Science And Religion, Galileo And Copernicus

between science and religion is not easily attained, inasmuch as science is based within a foundation of undeniable proof, while r...

Science Instruction and Safety Issues

and materials are stored properly and that any potentially hazardous materials were not inadvertently left out in the classroom (E...

Street Science And Environmental Health

become involved in the all-out fight against environmental degradation by adding local voices to policymaking efforts historically...

Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

2002). Despite the appeal of the traditional story, historical evidence shows that Newtons theory of universal gravitation did not...

Science v Religion

our world which to some are unquestionable and indubitable. Foundational knowledge serves as the immovable and irrefutable corners...

B.F. Skinner and William James

prominent philosopher, Carl Lange, was coining his own version of that theory. The resulting combination became known as the Jame...

Discussion of the Scientific Method

sunny window and the other cup was placed outside that it received direct sunlight. In both cases, the plants grew straight up unt...

Theism and Worldview

"worldviews can be evaluated for their logic, explanatory power and coherence" (Smith, 2005). Smith argues in favor of a sort of O...

Multifractal Models in Forecasting Volatility

of differing influences has been seen is in the financial market and the way stocks or share prices behave. While some theories ha...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

A cirtical evaluation of What the Bleep do we Know

then go on to say that the same principle should be applied in ones personal life: "when you break free of your assumptions about ...

Genetic Influence on Elite Athletic Performance

of the test in making an educated guess as to a childs athletic future when a child is below age 9 (Lite). In other words, the tes...

Science as the Foundation of Today’s World

cosmology in the 1600s. It seemed quite logical to Aristotle that the sun revolves around the earth, because that is what seems to...

Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" - Technology

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...