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Thales' Philosophy

in his approach, believing in a grand truth beyond our own reality (Eklor, 2003). By determining the basic component of life, Th...

Hellenistic and Classical Eras' Achievements in Science, Art, and Literature

say that a great deal of struggle was not taking place during part of the Classical era, but it was a time of ideas and trading an...

Quaternary Geology Field and Dendrochronology

the next years new growth cells that make this tree ring and make the dating possible(Easerbro 2004). Working backward through...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...

Antarctic Research and What is Learned from the Connection Between Politics and Science

the changes in the worlds political and economic foundation (Elzinga, 1991). Looking at the area today, there are twenty four co...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Human Kind's Place In The Universe And How The Nature Of Drama Changes In "Tartuffe"

between tragic drama and comedic drama that had heretofore not been portrayed through theatrical productions. Indeed, tragedy con...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

19th and 20th Centuries' Changes in Scientific Research Funding

the aim of advancing in terms of methodology when uncovering longitude at sea (1991). This situation had been for the most part re...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Science

California National Assembly Health Committee, and as Wakefield reports, this is what makes the current situation so untenable. ...

The Reputation of Alfred Russel Wallace

of existence. The Enlightenment symbolized the chance to break free from such constraints as heretofore placed upon the concept o...

Should Man's Maximum Life Span Be Revealed?

knowledge is not necessarily a dangerous commodity; rather, it is the extent to which man uses that knowledge to alter the natural...

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...

Issues Surrounding Legalization Of Marijuana

life instead of being the stronger aspects inherent to sizable social forces and requirements. Being deprived of a sound ed...

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...

Kuhn's theory of the paradigm shift

which contradicts the paradigm, and which cannot be explained within the terms of the paradigm. This gives rise to further researc...

Organizational Structure and the Perspectives of Frederick Taylor and Max Weber

modern society and the expansion of the meaning of class through an integrated view of individuals separation within a culture. ...

Global Warming: Real or Imagined?

surrounding the issues of global warming is a belief, a belief that is shaped "by a dance of emotion and reason" (Colborn, 2007, 6...

Dieting

days and will lose between two and seven pounds. However, as soon as the client goes back to eating normally, all of the weight is...

Durkheim and Dawkins

and evolve (Durkheim, 1965). He argued that society had to be present within an individual, and that religion was a way of reinfor...

The Debate Regarding Scientific Progress

the first who heralded with major changes. His revelation that it was the sun, not the Earth, that was the center of the universe...

Leonardo da Vinci as a Renaissance Man Par Excellence

received by his Florentine father (Craven 83-84). From the earliest age, young Leonardo exhibited what appeared to be an endless ...

Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion

note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Should Gay Couples Be Allowed to Adopt Children?

far back into our history. Indeed, the concept of family itself can be described as the "oldest fundamental of all social institu...

Outline for the Effect of Jury Selection and Trial Outcome

the same applies to research into the efficacy of scientific jury selection. Outline I. Introduction A. Clarence Darrow 1. Jury pe...

On Science: Constructivist Views vs. Rationalist Views

programs and results can be explained ... as the result of social interests" (Campa). There is another group of constructivists le...

Data for Assessing a Site to Hold Hazardous Waste

is responsible for the collocations and storage of a number of different statistics, including population density. The main popu...

Critique of "Does Race Exist?"

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...