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Scientific Community and the Future of Women

more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be disting...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

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...

Contrasting and Comparing Egyptian and Australian Creation Myths

time Atum decided that there should be more Earth and to this task Atum gave Shu and Tefnut. They created Geb (Earth) and Nut (sky...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

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...

Lawn Comparison Scientific Case Study

grass watered (both volume and frequency)? Are any other chemicals, enhancers, etc. used? A secondary source of information may be...

Mayan Games and Myths

of the Natural World III. Conclusions A....

Scientific American Article 'Does Race Exist?' Reviewed

five different groups of people whose ancestors were typically isolated by oceans, deserts or mountains" (Bamshad and Olson, 2003)...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Robots' Limitations and Scientific Method

process of deduction occurs, reasoning progresses from the specific to the general. In reality both processes are important to th...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Issues of Partnership and Scientific Integrity

For example, if scientists are supported by R.J. Reynolds, they realize the people who pay their salaries will not want to find ou...

Life Balance and Myths

the Internet that dealt with three topics: the values and beliefs of Hinduism; the advantages and disadvantages of a college educa...

Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

Migraine Triggers and the Scientific Method

these processes are useful in everything from helping a friend that seems upset to perfecting cooking strategies. Consider, for e...

The Hitler Myth by Ian Kershaw

had been only political, economic and social division. Kershaw begins by explaining that the "idea and image of a Fuhrer of the ...

Design, Empirical Research, and Scientific Method

technology (McPherson, 2001). As this suggests, there are other legitimate forms of scientific investigation besides the classical...

Nigerian Yoruba and Hindu Myths Regarding Creation

The Yoruba gods Olorun, Orunmila, Obatala, Olokun, and Eshu alike have many powers. The Hindu gods, in turn, represent the concep...

Human Explicit Memory and Advancement of Converging Scientific Evidence

this topic, the term "awareness" generally refers to explicit memory (Sigalovsky, 2003). Implicit memory refer to "change in perfo...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

The Jesus Myth by Andrew Greeley

edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Sociological Research and the Scientific Basis of Empiricism

in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious thought was that of other minds, a concept that was thoroughly devel...

Critiquing Barnes' and Bloor's 'Strong Programme' of Scientific Sociological Knowledge

counter the views of those sociologists who believe that this is not the case, that pure knowledge stands independent from social ...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois and Myth

in human society, agreed with Carl Jung that certain myths appear to represent archetypal forms that are common to all peoples. Ca...

Proof, Empirical Evidence, and Scientific Theory

a further truth, it is only common sense that the empirical evidence gathered up to that time is the evidence that is taken to be ...

Scientific Philosophies, Realism, and Antirealism

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

Scientific Method of Inquiry

natural phenomena consists of four steps: 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon of group of phenomena. 2. Formulation of...