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... been the object of the exercise. My intention is to give the reader an impression and understanding of changing human relations and the long-term and far-reaching consequences thereof for human society. ... less come to them. However, the movement of these flocks would have to be restricted—most probably with the aid of dogs—in orde r to stop them consuming the best of the grain, and their numbers ... greatly marginalised, there was another important and alternative way of life that evolved alongside agriculture which involved neither the drudgery of tilling the land nor the harvesting of crops. While the spread...

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... that ropes A and C were the two ends of the same rope and B and D were two ends of another rope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of another rope, and her explanation ... Science Dating the Earth One of the greatest scientific triumphs of the last two centuries has been the discovery of the vast expanse of geologic time. Early methods of calculating the age of the earth relied ... biological evolution and the nature and history of science. ã Chapter 5, Frequently Asked Questions About Evolution and the Nature of Science, ” gives short answers to some of the questions asked...

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... to show the relative positions and movements of the sun, planets, and moon as they cir- cled the earth. As the center of the uni- verse, the earth was a sphere in the center of the orrery. The other ... that ropes A and C were the two ends of the same rope and B and D were two ends of another rope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of another rope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty of the heavens, but by a deeper understanding of nature and by an appreci- ation of the power of the human intellect. This triumph of the human mind says...

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... between the two offshore islands and the mainland. As part of that expansion of the mini-three links, the Taiwanese government also expanded the list of products that the offshore islands can ... total of 152,438 passenger trips between the offshore islands and Fujian Province, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands ... NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, the defense agencies, the Department of the Navy, the U.S. intelligence community,...

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... Proximity of the Atlantic or the Mediterranean coastlines, of allogen rivers or of Lake Chad, constitute yet other factors of differentiation, while the nature of the soil (whether it is rocky or sandy) ... deposited along the bedding planes of the sandstone bedrock as a consequence of the recharge of the hydrographic net inside the mountain and they implicate a high precipitation rate. A number of U/Th ... (Fedoroff and Courty, 1989; Cremaschi and Trombino, 1998). According to the stratigraphic sequence of Uan Afuda, in which this type of soil was observed at the top of Unit 3, the development of the...

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... director of the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, co-founding editor of Social Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Above and beyond these ... the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Wiebe E. Bijker, Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 29 given way to a constellation of ... between the more “theoretical” and the more “activist” sides to STS, but there are plenty of Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 19 Technical decisions are the focus of Collins and...

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... the democratization of science and technology come to the fore. THE LANGUAGE OF STS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context of the crisis of representation, and the question of whether insti- tutional ... both elicit, they are rendered comparable by the process of time to which they both submit. The great virtue of the innovative directors and designers of the gallery, on the top floor of the Museum, ... British government’s Of ce of Science and Innovation, part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), emphasizes the shift from the older PUS (Public Understanding of Science) model to a new...

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