Humanities links
compiled by Daryl Culp
Unit 4: Science
Galileo
The Galileo Project: http://galileo.rice.edu/
Newton
“The Mind of Isaac Newton” http://www.ltrc.mcmaster.ca/newton/home.htm
Einstein
E=mc2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4144497206440839046
Exploratorium: How Do We Know What We Know? [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.exploratorium.edu/evidence/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/
evolution...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16/BNStory/politics
follow up article
David Attenborough on Darwin's "tree of life"
http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org/interactive/
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/contents.html
Nick Bostrom, a philosopher and director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/could-our-lives.html
Dennis Overbye comments on President
Obama's pledge to "“restore science to its rightful place”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/science/27essa.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
NY Times Magazine: Steven Pinker’s genome
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11Genome-t.html?_r=1
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg
A letter by Albert Einstein
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/science/17einsteinw.html
DNA as Art
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yIyOpNfFo
Website description: "The Daily Galaxy - News from Planet Earth & Beyond, is an eclectic text and video presentation of fascinating, often irreverent, news and insights on science, space exploration, technology, and popular culture."
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/
Chris Mooney NPR Interview: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5008303
global warming
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A3TG20100311
climate change. podcasts http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/index.html.
Just click on 'Past Shows'
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/genetics_reproduction/cloning.html (cloning)
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/07/f-stemcells.html (stem cells)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/genetics_modification (GMOs)
World Water Council [pdf, Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.worldwatercouncil.org