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The Niels Bohr's draft letter 1957 to Werner Heisenberg.
Abrupt Climate Change thresholds
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- Air: carbon dioxide levels May 2013 hit 400 parts per million; a level never before witnessed by humans.
- American economy
- Ancient sources
- Ancient medicine
- Anne Taylor Flemming re-interpreting the impact of 9/11
- Anomalies
- Atmospheric Science in the face of denial
- Bateson's laws
- Beyond the Tipping Point
- Biological game of life
- Biotic wealth
- Birds
- Bloom's taxonomy
- Bohr atom (model) discussed
- Cadillac Desert
- California Energy market: article on the cutting edge of reducing waste in delivering electricity
- Commission for Racial Justice
- Conservation, A new view
- Cultural slide
- Diamond, Jared on the qualites of a commons
- dimensions
- Documentary films
- Ecological citizenship
- Economy and recessions
- Ehrlich, The Dominant Animal
- Film Art, Bordwell
- Gardens
- Genes
- greenhouse gas problems
- Hawking and black holes
- Hawking on the Universe
- Hazrdous Algal Blooms
- India
- Isotopic evidence for human induced climate change
- landscape artists, American
- population pressures
- Capra
- cognitive science
- Diamond, Collapse
- Eating the Sun, How Plants Power the Planet.
- Ecological Justice
- Ecological Literacy
- Ehrlich
- estuary protection
- Faulkner
- Feynman
- Galbraith
- Greider
- Kaku on Einstein
- Keller
- Kemp
- Lakoff
- Laws of ecology
- Lavoisier
- Postman, Amusing
- Sontag
- Stegner
- Synergy defined
- The Open Space of Democracy
- Visual archive
- Visual cortex
- Visualizations. Kemp
- When the Killing's Done
Land, labor, and wealth, the economic relations among
Atoms | Bohr | Electromagnetism | Light quanta | Quantum biology | Quantum scale | Quantum Universe | Radiation is
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photograph index
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Presenting information to people verbally.
Foreign Press | Gallery of Genes | Genes | Global Warming Index | Nature Index | Photographs | Population Index | Science Index | Site Analysis
Writing | Science index | Government | Ecology | Feedback | Museums | Technology
New nature index
A State of the Union analysis of differences. (worldviews)
Advocating transformations education.
Advocacy the true costs and benefits of pollution-remission.
Advocacy and the Media as conscience of a Community.
Agile Gene, by Matt Ridley .
Alphabetical listing of pages on this site.
Antonyms -- a list of some really opposing views!
An Analysis of The Improbable World, by Neil Postman...
Any course -- how to survive and do well.
Assimilative and carrying capacity contrasted.
Attending class -- its value to you
Bachelard, Gaston on science
biology: changes in worldview concerning life sciences.
biological game of life is a very different view of nature.
Biological diversity explained in detail.
Body of knowledge (corpus), what is a "body of knowledge?"
Bronowski, Jacob; Science and Human Values, notes
Buffers, what are vegetational screens?
Carbon dioxide as a critical control element
Caribbean history, definition of the region
Caribbean a summary.
Cartesian Coordinate System.html
Charette, what is it and how is it used?
Climate change, a guide to pages related to global warming, the issue examined and discussed.
Comedians, The; a novel by Graham Greene set in Haiti
Common Ecological Problems, What precisely is one
Commons, what is a common property resource?
Complexity of nature and the biosphere.
Concepts explained and tied to essays
Conservation as if economics matters.
Criteria, defining
Crosby, Alfred; The Columbian Exchange,
Darwin index to all pages --on this site-- related to Darwin, Darwinism and the Darwinian revolution.
Darwinian revolution
Determining the verity, or veracity of knowledge.
Dialogue in technology and techniques
Distinguishing ideas from images.
Diversity, Edward O. Wilson on biological diversity as a measure of wealth.
Demographic index to related information on population.
Design, ecological principles of
Double Helix, by James Watson, notes
Dozen levels of material existence's organization
Bio dynamic aspects of ecology.
Ecological biotic community: examined and defined
Ecological design elements
Ecological Problem, What precisely is one?
Ecological subjects connected at this location; three laws
Ecological Thought as it developed from 1700-1970
Ecology, definition, examples, commentary and links
Ecology used as a model of relations among integrated parts : Carolyn Merchant's idea of ecological revolutions as they impact and are influenced by a set of biological, economic, social, political and institutional relationships.
Ecosystem services -- the work done by nature, natural assets.
End of Nature, Bill McKibben
Environmental Issues explained
Feedback is defined and examples of how it is used in these pages is explained.
Florida's trees and their varieties are discussed.
Forests and the importance of forestry for the health of the world, human economies and the ecosystem is explored.
Galbraith on the Great Crash, 1929.
Genetics, topics on
Genetics the history of in brief
Global security and ecology, Kennedy and Dodd's conclusionsGovernment agencies that have an environmental regulatory, scientific research, or a biological monitoring role to play are listed here.
Hawking's theory, Stephen Hawking and The Theory of Everything.
Hydraulic society, water and its meaning for civilization.
Images and ideas.
Intelligence is described as a variety of educated responses to the world, people, places and things around you.
International, multi-national focus, access to international Press .
Islands in the Stream course index
Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz
Land and Technology, Arnold Pacey on Meaning
Marshes of the Ocean Shore, digest of key ideas.
matrix is a site that explains what a table or matrix is by demonstrating the use of a categorical framework within which to express your ideas comprehensively.
McHarg, Ian, his Book on Design with Nature
Measure, the veracity of statements is tested by these criteria
Mercury and ecological accounting in natural systems
Message, staying focused on a point in advocating a position.
Methods: these are two related pages that discuss, examine in some detail and diagram the means we have from distinguishing facts from opinions. See also certainty, science, and vocabulary.
Model here is a schematic diagram of ecological relationships in any place.
Modern humanity's search & its technological implications, Harvard-IBM study of motives in 1970s.
Ockham's Razor, the importance of avoiding pleonasm in your writing!
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin; notes on critical passages
Ostrom, Elinor on the commons problem
pattern. This is a site that discusses the underlying and more obvious patterns to look for in the world we inhabit.
Paz, Octavio, summary and interpretation
Population momentum, discussed here in terms of what the ideas were about growth in 1966, remarks made in a Senate hearing on global population problems and some fanciful ideas on how to pay for growth.
Research Guide to other web sites for useful information
Research; reliable sources on on the internet for you to use.
Revolutions in science, meaning and worldview
Rules of ecology; simply stated
Scale and levels of organization in nature.
Science is defined and analyzed here as one of several linked pages. Science is not however technology, though they are related.Science as a pyramid of how we know things
Science, Revolutions in and ideas
Science texts, writing about the contemporary worldview
Survival kit for all classes.
Technology is discussed and examined as the means we have to solve the apparent difference between an existing and a desired state of affairs or conditions.Technology is defined here as the application of knowledge to human affairs.
Temperature is rising on the Earth's surface
The Double Helix, by James Watson, notes
Tools are the items used to identify and understand the power of technology and the techniques we use. Some synonyms for tools are: apparatus, devices, gadgets, implements, instruments, machinery, materials, robots.
Uncertainty in science, a valued role to play
USA map of the country from a satellite image (mosaic) taken in 1990 from the USGS.
Value defined
Verity, or veracity, Determining the reliability of information.
Water & hydraulics, their role in sustaining life & civilization
What precisely is an Ecological Problem ?
When writing, there are 4 things to always consider
Writing Criteria: listed as a form for your to review
Writing, or Free writing in class
Writing about Science as a means to measure your critical thinking.
Words; the importance of accurate expression and the appropriate choice of terms is examined here. Eight of the most important terms for my courses are defined here, as well as on other pages.
Worldview is discussed and analyzed at some length and a detailed discussion of ignorance and certainty as these ideas relate to knowledge, use of evidence and specific lessons is at this site.
Worldview, changes in the Life Sciences, (1859)
Worldviews are simply described here as ways of knowing our mistakes.
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