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Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stress...
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Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006] Credits: lecturer:Professor Richard A. Muller, producers:Educational Technology Services
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Scientific Theory of Organic Evolution is possibly the most beautiful, and most misunders...
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Scientific Theory of Organic Evolution is possibly the most beautiful, and most misunderstood, fact of Science and the Natural World.
The Theory of Organic Evolution is a very well established scientific fact. And it's probably one of the crowning achievement of the human intellect!
"Richard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naïvely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution. It's the theory that makes every other theory possible.Yet Dawkins also came to realize that a disturbingly large percentage of the American and British public didn't share his enthusiasm for evolution. In fact, they actively abhorred the idea, since it seemed to contradict the Bible and diminish the role of God. So Dawkins decided to write a book for these history-deniers, in which he would dispassionately demonstrate the truth of evolution beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt. While The Greatest Show on Earth might fail as a work of persuasive rhetoric—Dawkins is too angry and acerbic to convince his opponents—it succeeds as an encyclopedic summary of evolutionary biology. If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up. As Darwin famously noted, There is grandeur in this view of life. What Dawkins demonstrates is that this view of life isn't just grand: it's also undeniably true." -- Jonah Lehrer
To read this book by Richard Dawkins, you can find it here:
http://is.gd/4D3Da
To read more about Evolution, you can start here:
http://talkorigins.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://evolution-textbook.org/index.html
To read more about Human Evolution, you can start here:
http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_ev...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sap...
To read more about the Human Genome, you can start here:
http://genome.gov/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
To read more about the Evolution of the Genome, you can start here:
http://evolutionofdna.com/
http://jameswatkins.com/evolution.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_o...
To read more about Abiogenesis, you can start here:
http://exploringorigins.org/
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
http://pokey.arc.nasa.gov/~astrochm/L...
http://student.science.uva.nl/~jckast...
http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/news_stories/...
http://scientificamerican.com/article...
http://web.archive.org/web/2006101500...
http://pnas.org/content/97/23/12503.f...
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