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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 ...

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 ...

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...

Considering the Soul and Psychology

while the second cannot be perceived by are "intelligible (grasped by thought), not composed of parts, and exempt from dissolution...

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...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Future of Pharmacy

the procedures for preparing medications, procedures for dispensing medications, and the responsibilities of a pharmacy profession...

Craven's What's the Worst that Could Happen?

Rationality of the Magic Grid Cravens risk or credibility grid has been called many things, most of them related...

New Methods of Instruction for Teachers at all Levels

help teachers meet the demands of their students and motivate teachers and enhance teacher performance. Background...

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...

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...

Changes in Education: The Field of Science and Social Change

about science instruction that falls into areas of ethics have influenced how many science educators pursue instructional content....

Applying the Scientific Method: Science in Everyday Life

Observation of the light bulb might also support this hypothesis. In order to test the hypothesis, I would change the light bulb ...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Forensics/A Career in Criminal Justice

that there is an increasing demand for individuals trained in forensic science, as estimates project that 10,000 new graduates in ...

Forensics and a Personal Code of Ethics

discusses a personal code of ethics that a student might adopt in regards to career in forensic science. Personal code of ...

Including Art in Third Grade Science Lesson

titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...

Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Was Washoe Cognitive and What is Hard Science?

the requirement of awareness. When deaf children learn signing from a young age it may be argued that at first the process is beha...

HEAT, TEMPERATURE AND OTHER QUESTIONS

Heat can be described as a type of energy that flows between two samples of matter due to difference in temperature (Helmenstine, ...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Science and Serendipity

fungi mold began to grow in one of his petri dishes (Lightman, 2006). Fleming realized, of course, that the mold was successful in...

Personal Reflection on Science in Daily Life

PART I: SCIENTIFIC METHOD The scientific method is reflected in many aspects of day-to-day life. The scientific method...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...