Forestfortrees's Favorite Links on science from Diigo

Science as Story

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:28:25 -0000

Tags: science education interview narrative story

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Science Musings Blog

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:22:39 -0000

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Scientific knowledge grows organically, like a tree.

only about half of published papers are cited by subsequent research

The problem is knowing which branches to prune.

More worrisome, science might become a self-perpetuating aristocracy, rather than an open meritocracy. It may be necessary to tolerate a substantial amount of fruitless research in order to insure that science remains open to the gifted young, and to others working outside of elite research establishments.

It may be that science grows best wastefully and wild, without the horticulturist's tidying hand.

Tags: science epistemology interesting

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The World's Fair : Corporate or chemistry icon? No contest people.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:57:57 -0000

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Tags: chemistry science humor irony capitalism

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JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:19:48 -0000

Tags: history anthropology science evolution map

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Consciousness and the Novel by David Lodge | Books | The Guardian

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:15:35 -0000

Tags: science literature philosophy

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Show Me Your Motion! (Of Mentors, Peers, and Mimesis and Alterity in Trinidad) « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:31:10 -0000

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True scientific knowledge, on the contrary, demands abandonment to the very life of the object

Tags: science epistemology anthropology culture research

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Spotlight on DML | David Shaffer: Epistemic Games, the Movie

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:28:54 -0000

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Tags: education learning technology urban science

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The Immanent Frame » Blog Archive » Which cognitive revolution?

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:24:07 -0000

Tags: cognition neuroscience critique science behavior

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The World's Fair : Darwin and Creationism Podcasts: on scientific method; the Cold War; and Jews, Catholics, Muslims

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:18:46 -0000

Tags: science podcasts philosophy religion research

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The World's Fair : Science. Technology. Nature. Lawn.

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:06:02 -0000

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Our lawn finally came in this year after three years in this house. We hadn't put much of an effort into it, I'll admit, though the original builder sought to. Our dirt is awful, just god awful. Ask my dad. He, the ardent gardener, is astonished by how poor the soil is. But this year the crabgrass grew in. And it looks good, real good. Plus it's helped prevent erosion from the occasional torrential downpours and for the most part it manages itself.

Elizabeth Kolbert recently did too in The New Yorker

Tags: lawn plants suburban culture science

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The World's Fair : One culture, two culture, three culture, four

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:01:52 -0000

Tags: science humanities culture academia

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UD PBL: Problem-Based Learning

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:33:48 -0000

Tags: pbl problem_based_learning learning education teaching

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Encyclopedia of Life

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:33:21 -0000

Tags: encyclopedia science reference biology nature

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Interview: Melissa Leach | Special Reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:29:57 -0000

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Leach and her colleagues had shown how experts can reach wildly wrong conclusions if local knowledge and history are not taken into account.

It promises to question the "assumption that the world is stable, predictable and knowable through a single form of knowledge that assumes one size fits all".

Leach wants the centre to involve "citizens and decision-makers of all levels".

"But we live in a world of dynamic change and uncertainty. We want to tackle these challenges head on, combining new theory with practical solutions that make science and technology work for the poor, and create sustainable environments from building on people's own knowledge. Economic growth is to be applauded, but one can't assume its benefits will trickle down to the poor."

"We urgently need new, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing situations that combine an understanding of social, technological and environmental processes,"

Tags: anthropology culture environment quantitative research

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The World's Fair : What's New in the Social Studies of Science?

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:29:21 -0000

Tags: science social research theory philosophy

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The World's Fair - Barry Commoner, Science, and Action: Part II

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:28:45 -0000

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In environmental circles, uncertainty reigns supreme. Whereas science has traditionally been regarded as an authoritative tool for providing solutions to many knowledge-based problems, it has been less successful in the recent environmental context because of increasing competition from other interests.

scientific findings are married with local knowledges, community surveys, leaked documents, and investigative journalism, breeding more confusion and less consensus. It doesn't matter how many scientists stand up and say that we should be really, really concerned about global warming or mercury poisoning or the loss of biodiversity, we're still not acting.

If there is uncertainty in science, then scientists have an obligation to inform the public about these uncertainties when they influence their health, lives, and livelihoods.

Tags: activism blog environment interviews policy

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Science Musings Blog - Three years on the porch

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:26:43 -0000

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It would appear we are a community of mostly like-minded people, who respect the scientific way of knowing, and exalt in the beauty and mystery of the world. We love questions more than answers, and distrust dogma wherever we find it, including, of course, in science.

Tags: community epistemology philosophy questions science

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Museum_explore

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:23:52 -0000

Tags: museum science art comics philosophy

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Mapping Science « Open Learning

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:52:45 -0000

Tags: mapping science design information

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SensibleUnits.com

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:50:45 -0000

Tags: conversion measurements science math education

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