department of chemistry and biochemistry
 

HONS4345 : Science, Technology & Society

 

Dr. Eamonn F. Healy
 

  • Honors 4345 for course information
  • Honors 4345 for course syllabus
  • Notes on Psudoscience for an online notes on the topic of Pseudoscience
  • Honors 4345 Assignments for information and links for Fall 2004 Papers
  • Sample Presentation for a sample powerpoint from a previous year
  • Links to selected web resources in the area of History of Science and Technology.
  • The Engines of Our Ingenuity: an interesting collection of papers on a variety of topics in science, technology and our culture.
  • Technology Timeline : this interactive timeline, from PBS, covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.
  • howstuffworks.com : a wonderful site explaing the scientific and technical background of a host of everyday technological wonders.
  • Physics Demonstrations : Java Applets on Physics
  • HyperPhysics : a truly remarkable exploration environment for concepts in physics by Carl Nave at Georgia State University.
  • The Research Methods Knowledge Base by William Trochim of Cornell University is a comprehensive text available for undergraduate and graduate social science research methods courses.

    Special Topics :

  • Click here to view the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth; then move through space
    towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you move into a microscopic world
    that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the
    subatomic universe of electrons and protons
  • Table of Contents for the Electronic Journal of Anomolous Phenomena
  • Links for an extensive collection of links to sites dealing with various aspects of science including Evolution and the pseudoscience of Creationism
  • Risk Asessment in the use of DDT
  • On 13 December 1968, the late Garrett Hardin published an essay in Science that was destined to become one of the journal's most requested articles in the subsequent 35 years. Here one can find the original essay, and some of the scientific dialogue that Hardin's controversial ideas have spurred
  • Toward a general theory of pathological science : a wonderful essay on the issues of pseudoscience and pathological science by Nicholas J. Turro
  • Links on the topic of Cold Fusion - an example of pathological science.
  • Movie is an animated sequence detailing the various stages of operation of the internal combustion engine.
  • The Day They Turned The Falls On: historical and technical account of the project that shpaed and determined our standards for power generation.
  • Striling Engine : theory and prctice for a very clean and economical steam engine
  • ELECTROSTATIC APPARATUS : 18th and 19th century electrical machines
  • Kinetic Theory of Gases : Boltzmann's Distribution

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