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Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Human Physiology and Prostanoid Receptors

to be not as hydrophobic as they were once thought and that they do not incorporate into or permeate cell membranes (Narumiya, Sug...

Science and the Piltdown Man Hoax

skull ("Piltdown"). The discovery was touted as the missing link and thought to go back to the prehistory of humanity ("Piltdown")...

Autobiographical Recollections and Their Accuracy

In four pages this paper examines scientific findings in an assessment of the accuracy of autobiographical recollections and a con...

Design, Empirical Research, and Scientific Method

technology (McPherson, 2001). As this suggests, there are other legitimate forms of scientific investigation besides the classical...

Ice Sculpture, Science, Theology, and Sensations

rationalize our mental processes. Beliefs such as those involving our ice sculpture are typically viewed from the foundationalist...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

Life and Work of Marie Curie

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

Transformational Leadership Models

been occurring throughout history. History also indicates that the different forms of leadership used to make transformation may b...

Ancient Islam and Greece, Religion, Culture, and Science

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

The East Coast Problem of Beach Erosion

In fact, some project the future as being very different from the beaches that are present today. There is a fear that the beaches...

Reward System Development

difficulties of this approach are seen when the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor and scientific management in action. Taylors ...

Personal Point of View on Stem Cell Transplantation Issues

The controversy surrounding stem cell transplantation is rooted in the fact that stem cells must be harvested from human beings. ...

Leadership of BMW

supervisory board (aufsichtsrat), and the management board (vorstand). This has a strong historic presence and has mandatory since...

Sociology's Father Auguste Comte

"a system that was built on an intellectual and moral basis and allowed for science...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

19th and 20th Centuries' Changes in Scientific Research Funding

the aim of advancing in terms of methodology when uncovering longitude at sea (1991). This situation had been for the most part re...

Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Science

California National Assembly Health Committee, and as Wakefield reports, this is what makes the current situation so untenable. ...

The Reputation of Alfred Russel Wallace

of existence. The Enlightenment symbolized the chance to break free from such constraints as heretofore placed upon the concept o...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Lawn Comparison Scientific Case Study

grass watered (both volume and frequency)? Are any other chemicals, enhancers, etc. used? A secondary source of information may be...

Europe of the 1930s and the Relationships Between Government and Science

commune for the people of Germany. The need to establish communes and become self-supporting nations is a Marxist princip...

Quaternary Geology Field and Dendrochronology

the next years new growth cells that make this tree ring and make the dating possible(Easerbro 2004). Working backward through...

Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Atkins Diet Success

effect can be seen almost everywhere. Atkins has influenced the commodities market, advertising, marketing and even changed the w...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...