the postmodern exaltation of the history of science

... From the Social to the Moral to the Spiritual: The Postmodern Exaltation of the History of Science Paul Forman 49 Between Science and History Evelyn Fox Keller 57 The Search for Autonomy in History ... in professional history of science journals, hold professorships in university departments of history or history of science and win prizes offered by history of science societies Thus, the premise ... challenge for the community of historians of science, and can be addressed only Positioning the History of Science by enlarging the interface between science and the history of science But can...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... blind the historian to reading such works as contributions to a nascent field of the history of science In general the history of science produced before the subject was professionalized in the ... Theory of Light In the final, added, paragraph of the translation the eminent French men of science listed were Laplacians and advocates of the corpuscular theory of light There is no appearance of ... sympathy for Leibniz on the question of the invention of the calculus The ‘official’ history, created by Newton and the Royal Society, had accused Leibniz of stealing the idea of fluxions from Newton...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... for the description of ontogenetic development in psychology—and quite a fashionable one too The theory that goes the farthest in its theoretical borrowing from the history of science is the “theory ... save the theory through the construction of ad hoc hypotheses Finally, the new theory emerges—often as an extension of an idea that was already implicit in the earlier theory Gopnik and Meltzoff ... Psychology and the History of Science BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Editors ROBERT S COHEN, Boston University JÜRGEN RENN, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science KOSTAS...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 16:05

... 2007 15:15 The frontiersmen of mankind the liberation of their continent made the second half of the twentieth century a triumphant period for the peoples of Africa, but at the end of the century ... of the world on behalf of the entire human race That has been their chief contribution to history It is why they deserve admiration, support, and careful study The central themes of African history ... components of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... interest in it Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t They must, though, be able to learn science, be ... all kinds of things with this theory The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron They should be connected together, if this theory was right, by a certain ... deeply with the ma- Ideas into Words terial as they with the readers Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of ... Layout of KNUST sewage treatment plant Methodology Sample of the sewage from the PST was collected and analysed to determine the quality of the sewage The main component of interest was the Total ... in Figure 1, the same cannot be said of the residential apartment of lecturers and other staff of the university Figure Feeds into the sewage treatment plant After the sewage enters the treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... trigger their adrenaline So they often thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to mention the boss) Gregarious types may not need goading but wilt in a life that leaves them alone ... water and fertilize and weed There is work to be done But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and microclimate of the particular garden Is there some subject or writing ... would arrive at the of ce and see that, actually, the work was not so bad So I’d patch and polish (always fun, the exercise of craft), then start a new segment on that momentum The next day I...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... all kinds of things with this theory The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron They should be connected together, if this theory was right, by a certain ... part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits It answers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends There’s ... it’s off by percent.” Then I remember the percent It was like a prediction for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neutron decay should be off by percent, and they tell me the next...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... gallons per day of ethanol, utilizing Saccharomyces for the process (Harris 1946) This yield of 50 gallons per ton of wood was approximately 50% of the theoretical yield The indicated loss of sugars ... renewed interest in the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals In 1978, the first of a series of conferences on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals A View of The History of Biochemical Engineering ... because of the concerns of future exhaustion of non-renewable fossil fuels One of the authors of this article, Raphael Katzen, had his first personal experience in wood hydrolysis 60 years ago in the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 17:20

... but rather a vital part of the war effort; they turned lipstick into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger, a symbol that would boost the morale of both the women wearing the lipstick ... from, the additive and of any substance formed in or on food, drugs or devices, or cosmetics because of the use of the additive, (ii) the cumulative effect of such additive in the diet of man ... the distinction between FD&C and D&C colors matters much less to the history of cosmetics like lipstick than it does to the history of food, the body text of this paper does not obsess over the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 22:20

... past the point where I paid it any mind So I sat and waited while she finished Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... left blank words Mastering the Craft of Science Writing ideas into Elise Hancock Foreword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore & London For my father, who would have been ... Index 147 ©2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel All rights reserved Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The Johns Hopkins...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... interest in it Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t They must, though, be able to learn science, be ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Elise was a member of this breed; she was an ... count, too But rather of a rich sensibility of respect For language For ideas For people For the surprising and the deliciously weird in us all And most of all, respect for the world, the endlessly...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... deeply with the ma- Ideas into Words terial as they with the readers Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process ... always have the reader in mind, not only as they write but also in the finding out that comes before They their research with integrity, digging deep, and they write with the same care They connect ... interesting about how the world works, and then another something, and another, and another For the rest of your working life, you will get paid to talk to people and pass along the great stuff you...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... parties, people often tell me that they have decided they want to be writers, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when they get a new ... way of Being that in turn gives rise to appropriate Doing You can spot the best mentors, like the best parents and the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out there doing the work They ... they can afford to go back to school, or after the precession of the equinoxes, or something When I was still an editor, a few would even say they’d get started when they had an assignment, then...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To understand the phenomenon then ... Well, you get the picture Spot what appeals to the visual sense Today’s technology lets us look at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars, from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday ... 34 as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing their full size only as they connect Sometimes it’s hard to know what you think till someone asks the right question or offers one...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... is the topic of this chapter But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a commitment to science and the public understanding thereof—upon ... expertise to the table .The science writer knows how to translate science for the public, while the scientist knows the science Whenever you start writing about any particular piece of research, ... complex issue there is a fabulous book to be written Go for it The beauty of case studies is that they carry the reader along on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... make the h1 exactly the same size as the image, and use overflow: hidden to cut off any text that exceeds the boundaries of the h1 Also, the span must be the same size as the image if all of the ... as many of these as you like, each effecting a different type of element The function takes a number of arguments that effect the display of the Flash replacement There are a few of these arguments, ... depending upon the number of characters in the HTML text Conversely, if the HTML text is wrapping when the Flash text isn’t, then the sIFR will 20 The Art & Science of CSS When you examine the comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 07:20

... of research and not some other? Why now and not before? Guaranteed, there must have been other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advantage of this one? The answers are always part of ... fact, the better the scientific team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior Research and the Interview 53 Ideas into Words members—who are their future colleagues, after all They ... either the science or the research strategy or both How, precisely, was the research performed? You want to know at about this level: “We this because A, then that to create B Then we put the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... my rapport with the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the words blur into a succession of letter combinations ... pleasure, and you’ll get a lot by osmosis Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is also weekly, and its front section of science news is without peer Because ... successfully out the other side, because then you’ll know in your bones that feeling hopeless is just a phase After that, you’ll probably find the process rather fun It has all the joys of solving the New...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... head at the close “We could a lot of good for other countries where they really need the camels for meat,” Skidmore said “Where they really need them for milk Where they desperately need them for ... ones? If the mother is nursing the baby, does that make a difference? Not all the readers would have thought to ask those questions, but they will all care about the answers Then consider the pregnant ... focused on the core concern shared by the subgroups You directly address the key reader, offering 100 percent of what that person needs (e.g., rudimentary world news) Then you throw the others a...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20