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Sean Watson

Robert Hooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Jump to: navigation, search Robert Hooke Portrait of Hooke, 2004. Born 18 July 1635Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England Died 3 March 1703 (aged 67)London, England Fields Physics and chemistry Institutions Oxford University Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford Academic advisors Robert Boyle Known for Hooke's LawMicroscopyapplied the word 'cell' Influences Richard Busby Contents [hide] 1 Life and works 1.1 Early life 1.2 Oxford 1.3 The Watch Balance Spring 1.4 Royal Society 2 Personality and disputes 3 Hooke the scientist 3.1 Mechanics 3.2 Gravitation 3.3 Microscopy 3.4 Astronomy 4 Hooke the architect 5 Likenesses 6 Commemorations 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links //
  • Hooke is known for his law of elasticity (Hooke's law), his book, Micrographia, and for first applying the word "cell" to describe the basic unit of life
  • Micrographia
Sean Watson

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • In 1672, the journal published Newton's first paper New Theory about Light and Colours
  • it has remained in continuous publication ever since, making it the world's longest running scientific journal
  • The use of the word "philosophical" in the title derives from the phrase "natural philosophy", which was the equivalent of what we would now generically call "science
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  • Oldenburg published the journal at his own personal expense and seems to have entered into an agreement with the Council of the Royal Society allowing him to keep any resulting profits
  • He was to be disappointed, however, since the journal performed poorly from a financial point of view during Oldenburg's lifetime
  • Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin
anonymous

Edward R. Murrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • See It Now focused on a number of controversial issues in the 1950s, but it is best-remembered as the show that criticized McCarthyism and the Red Scare, contributing if not leading to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. On March 9, 1954, Murrow, Friendly, and their news team produced a half-hour See It Now special entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".[9] Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and point out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow knew full well that he was using the medium of television to attack a single man and expose him to nationwide scrutiny, and he was often quoted as having doubts about the methods he used for the report. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper advertisement for the program; they were not allowed to use CBS' money for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo. Nevertheless, the broadcast contributed to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and is seen as a turning point in the history of television. It provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor. In a retrospective produced for Biography, Friendly noted how truck drivers pulled up to Murrow on the street in subsequent days and shouted "Good show, Ed. Good show, Ed." Murrow offered McCarthy a chance to appear on See It Now to respond to the criticism. McCarthy accepted the invitation and made his appearance three weeks later,[10] but his rebuttal only served to further decrease his already fading popularity.[11] In the program following McCarthy's appearance, Murrow commented that the senator had "made no reference to any statements of fact that we made" and contested the personal attacks made by "the junior senator from Wisconsin" against himself.[12]
Andrew DeWitt

Modernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • From the 1870s onward, the ideas that history and civilization were inherently progressive and that progress was always good came under increasing attack.
  • Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection undermined the religious certainty
  • Karl Marx argued there were fundamental contradictions within the capitalist system
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  • The miseries of industrial urbanism and the possibilities created by scientific examination of subjects brought changes that would shake a European civilization which had, until then, regarded itself as having a continuous and progressive line of development from the Renaissance. With the telegraph's harnessing of a new power, offering instant communication at a distance, the experience of time itself was altered.
Gideon Burton

digital research tools wiki (DiRT) - 0 views

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    A librarian-hosted wiki about digital research tools. Looks like it mostly was produced around 2008 but still has much useful info, including categories of tools and reviews of these.
Bri Zabriskie

About Us (Open Library) - 0 views

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    This is an open source wiki-like record of (eventually) all books ever published. I stumbled across it while looking for information about a book for another class. Interesting.
Gideon Burton

wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit - 1 views

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    One of the major do-it-yourself sites, set up as a wiki
Mike Lemon

G. Stanley Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • There, Hall objected vehemently to the emphasis on teaching traditional subjects, e.g., Latin, mathematics, science and history, in high school, arguing instead that high school should focus more on the education of adolescents than on preparing students for college.
  • Hall believed that humans are by nature non-reasoning and instinct driven, requiring a charismatic leader to manipulate their herd instincts for the well-being of society. He predicted that the American emphasis on individual human right and dignity would lead to a fall that he analogized to the sinking of Atlantis.
  • Hall coined the phrase "storm and stress" with reference to adolescence, taken from the German Sturm und Drang movement. Its three key aspects are conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and risky behavior.
Kevin Watson

Wikimedia Foundation - 0 views

    • Kevin Watson
       
      It's interesting how many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia as a source, but in light of this digital civilization class, isn't it a form of Open Access Information, and shouldn't it be praised in a way?
  • Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
Madeline Rupard

Helium--An interesting idea. - 0 views

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    I stumbled upon this website the other day. Its an article site with a bunch of hired authors. "Wait--hired authors!!" You say, in righteous defense of the open "wiki" model. But the cool thing about hired authors is that they are all viewing and rating each other's articles. Hence, "helium," the best articles rise to the top. I mean who decided that it was the best system to have bored 40 year olds living with their parents as the main source of information. (Let's be honest, those wikipedia articles didn't write themselves.) The good thing about a paid workforce is that there is a sense of pressure under writing the articles. Their business model is in and of itself an "invisible hand." Anyways, i thought it was a cool idea. Voila.
Andrew DeWitt

The Nature of the Firm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Coase's analysis proceeds by considering the conditions under which it makes sense for an entrepreneur to seek hired help instead of contracting out for some particular task
  • because the market is "efficient" (that is, those who are best at providing each good or service most cheaply are already doing so), it should always be cheaper to contract out than to hire
  • Coase noted, however, that there are a number of transaction costs to using the market
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  • This suggests that firms will arise when they can arrange to produce what they need internally and somehow avoid these costs.
  • There is a natural limit to what can be produced internally, however.
anonymous

Tabula rasa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      I think this philosophy fits well with the idea that a person can determine hi own future. A very humanistic view
LeeAnne Lowry

Open Source - 1 views

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    The history on this site was really cool to read. Open source was basically created to dispel the monopolies that were being created by automobile developers.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Simon-Ehrlich wager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • Jeffrey Whitlock
       
      This Article shows that increases in efficiency as a result of technological imporvement have lead to lower real prices in most goods.
Kristi Koerner

Joseph Weydemeyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Other leading communist.
Braquel Burnett

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111dar.html - 1 views

    • Erin Hamson
       
      Selective breeding 
  • There is no obvious reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature.
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      Logical Conclusion
  • With animals having separated sexes there will in most cases be a struggle between the males for possession of the females.
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      One type of competition
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  • No one can draw any clear distinction between individual differences and slight varieties; or between more plainly marked varieties and subspecies, and species.
  • why should we doubt that variations in any way useful to beings, under their excessively complex relations of life, would be preserved, accumulated, and inherited?
    • Erin Hamson
       
      Progression, in species rather than individual people.
  • The theory of natural selection, even if we looked no further than this, seems to me to be in itself probable. I have already recapitulated, as fairly as I could, the opposed difficulties and objections: now let us turn to the special facts and arguments in favour of the theory.
    • Erin Hamson
       
      It seems perfectly logical.
  • On the view that species are only strongly marked and permanent varieties, and that each species first existed as a variety, we can see why it is that no line of demarcation can be drawn between species, commonly supposed to have been produced by special acts of creation, and varieties which are acknowledged to have been produced by secondary laws. On this same view we can understand how it is that in each region where many species of a genus have been produced, and where they now flourish, these same species should present many varieties; for where the manufactory of species has been active, we might expect, as a general rule, to find it still in action; and this is the case if varieties be incipient species.
    • Erin Hamson
       
      Starting with the premise that species came from one, ie "first existed as a variety", if they were each distinctly created, then this logic is false, because the premise is false. 
  • preserve the most divergent offspring
  • Hence during a long-continued course of modification, the slight differences, characteristic of varieties of the same species, tend to be augmented into the greater differences characteristic of species of the same genus.
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      How species come about.
  • New and improved varieties will inevitably supplant and exterminate the older, less improved and intermediate varieties; and thus species are rendered to a large extent defined and distinct objects.
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      Extinction
  • This grand fact of the grouping of all organic beings seems to me utterly inexplicable on the theory of creation.
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      The fact that there are relations among different species. 
  • But why this should be a law of nature if each species has been independently created, no man can explain.
  • As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, successive, favourable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short and slow steps
    • Erin Hamson
       
      Where is the evidence for these short steps? 
  • The wonder indeed is, on the theory of natural selection, that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been observed.
  • As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates;
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      Imperfection of Nature
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      STILL NEEDS FAITH?
  • Natura non facit saltum
    • Braquel Burnett
       
      It means "nature does not make jumps." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura_non_facit_saltus)
Andrew DeWitt

Pay it forward - Wikipedia - 0 views

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    The concept that debt be repaid to a third party not the original creditor.  Consider how this idea is moving and shaping the open software movement.
Andrew DeWitt

Steampunk - Wikipedia - 0 views

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    A sub-genre of science fiction based of a Victorian era, steam-powered, Britain. Tuesday's digital culture component. Steampunk you make recognize: Wild Wild West (movie), Sherlock Holmes (movie)
LeeAnne Lowry

Philo Farnsworth - 0 views

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    The top ten inventions post got me interested in learning how they were invented, and I especially like the explanation of the invention of the television--not to mention it was invented by Philo Farnworth, a "Mormon"!
Bri Zabriskie

Wearable computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    It sounds like science fiction! LOL
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