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HEAT, TEMPERATURE AND OTHER QUESTIONS

Heat can be described as a type of energy that flows between two samples of matter due to difference in temperature (Helmenstine, ...

Changes in Education: The Field of Science and Social Change

about science instruction that falls into areas of ethics have influenced how many science educators pursue instructional content....

Applying the Scientific Method: Science in Everyday Life

Observation of the light bulb might also support this hypothesis. In order to test the hypothesis, I would change the light bulb ...

Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Was Washoe Cognitive and What is Hard Science?

the requirement of awareness. When deaf children learn signing from a young age it may be argued that at first the process is beha...

Forensic Science and the Question of Validity

way to widespread use of valid science within the criminal justice system; however, the NAS report indicates that this has failed ...

The Politics and Social Views Concerning Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Nanotechnology is a relativity recent science. The writer looks at the way it has been received by discussing the political rheto...

Science, Religion, and Being Set Free by Untruths in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

multimillionaire Julian Castle, who now resides on the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo. This impoverished country is also home to...

Worldviews, History in Nursing

This offers three posts that will be submitted to a nursing discussion board. These posts address various world views on science, ...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Forensics and a Personal Code of Ethics

discusses a personal code of ethics that a student might adopt in regards to career in forensic science. Personal code of ...

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

forensic methodologies such as phrenology. While there is some basic variation in regards to terminology and other superficial fac...

Master of Science in Nursing/Issues

This research paper addresses a variety of issues that concern earning a master's in nursing science and with nursing leadership. ...

Classroom Applications of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

In five pages this essay examines the physics, political science, and history classroom discussion that can be initiated by the co...

Global Warming and the Shortcomings of Scientific Investigation

Is global warming real? Can science either prove or disprove that fact? There are three sources listed in this three page paper. ...

Scientific Tests Demonstrate the Validity of Global Warming

This paper argues that it reasonable to conclude that government agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (N...

Genetically Modified Animals, An Overview

This research paper discusses the science, as well as the social and ethical issues, that are associated with genetically modified...

INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ETHICS

Examines ethics among the various sub-disciplines of information science. There are 2 sources listed in the bibliography of this 3...

Genetics, and the Future, Science Fiction

This research paper pertains to the topic of genetic manipulation and how advancements in this field were predicted by science fic...

Science is Freedom, Their Relationship

This essay draws on the philosophy of Kant and Fichte, and argues that science freed humanity by offering a means to understand re...

Defense Science Board Study

A Task Force of the Defense Science Board analyzed the energy strategies of the Department of Defense and found the Department had...

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

Science and 'Realistic' Computer Modeling

of humanity in ways that are sometimes incalculable. From the time of the scientific revolution, the extent to which technologica...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

History of Cloning

Scientists cloned another Jersey calf using the same "standard cell-culturing techniques as compared to the method most commonly u...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Science and its Power in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

Methodology and Theory in Crisis Intervention

the goal of problem resolution is unattainable, or that the problem may be outside of their capabilities or their ability to cope....

Paul Peterson and Clarence N. Stone on Political Science

the two, as well as illustrating the differences, we turn to Chapter 7 of Petersons book which is titled "The Politics of Developm...