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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This book review pertains to "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot and tells how HeLa cells, which have played ...

Intelligent Design and Scientific Evidence

This essay argues in favor of intelligent design by drawing heavily on Michael J. Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box." Three pages in...

Kuhn's theory of the paradigm shift

which contradicts the paradigm, and which cannot be explained within the terms of the paradigm. This gives rise to further researc...

Ethics, Society, and the Science of Genetic Testing/Screening and Counseling

including confirmation of a suspected medical diagnosis, as a predictor to an individuals susceptibility to a particular illness a...

Relationship Between Baconian And Cartesian Philosophy During The Scientific Revolution

his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

'No Miracles' Argument and Scientific Realism

not in the business of representing aspects of the world, there is no way to argue for a plurality of moral truths, simply from th...

Plant Modification Through Genetics

creation of specific plant types through cross-breading was a standard in agricultural research for decades. The introduction o...

Science Achievement and Gender Differences Proposal

National Science Foundation reported that half of the people working in social sciences were women but only 8 percent of engineers...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Enlightenment and Environmental Creation by the Scientific Revolution

and inextricably a branch of religion. Beginning with the radical Copernicus, who taught that the earth revolved around the sun, E...

Adolescent Suicide and Depression

In six pages scientific research regarding depression and how it is manifested differently among genders and the factors that infl...

Evolutionary and Creation Scientific Theories

were placed upon the earth. The Darwinian theory of natural selection states, in effect, that creatures adapt to their sur...

Scientific Knowledge on Phantom Limb Pain

In five pages this research paper examines the incidence of limb pain in lost organs in a consideration of scientific knowledge re...

Science of Healthcare

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

Various Models of Management

be observed with the result being a standard method that the worker would then be required to follow (Foner and Garraty, 1991). T...

Contraceptive Selection

and testes, the male reproductive system also includes the prostate gland, the scrotum and the urethra (Medical and Health: Reprod...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Impact of Isaac Newton and That Apple Tree

the notion of gravity. Although its uncertain if the story is true (Newton was known for observing the fall of apples from his mot...

Laudan, Boyd, and Putnam on Scientific Realism

In four pages scientific realism is examined in the concepts of Laudan, Putnam, and Boyd. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Workings of Science

probability that is usually scarcely less than complete proof (PG). Sometimes things have been demonstrated by the principles and ...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

Comparison of Gould and Bacon

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

Overview of OPC3

large role in the stabilization of collagen and elastin, which are two basic proteins in the connective tissues that surround most...

Discoveries Resulting From Fruit Fly Research

it has the ability to reproduce quickly, has a short life span, and has a limited amount of chromosomes. Part of the reason people...

Mind Philosophy

In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

A Biography of Alessandro Volta

In five pages this paper discusses the life and scientific contributions of electrical energy pioneer Alessandro Volta. There are...