SCIENCE and SOCIETY. Nathaniel Libatique, Ph.D. Science 10

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1 SCIENCE and SOCIETY Nathaniel Libatique, Ph.D. Science 10

2 Asking questions. Six questions. What, where, how, why, when, where. Which one is weightier, what is important? Reflect on your questions.

vis4.net/blog/posts/mapping-internet-and-population/ posted in visualized on 21/10/2011 by Gregor Aisch With this map I tried to visualize the global digital divide.

3 vis4.net/blog/posts/mapping-internet-and-population/ posted in visualized on 21/10/2011 by Gregor Aisch With this map I tried to visualize the global digital divide. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available.

5 Is the white European race genetically superior? The role of Climate and Food: domesticable animals and plants Crescent, China, Andes, Eastern N. America, Central America North South Axis, vs East West Axis

Certain Cultures and Civilizations provided fertile ground for fostering what has become the modern scientific worldview The notion of an ordered

aqueducts, armies and culture of Imperial Rome. The cosmos is not only a philosophical concept, it is living reality.

6 Certain Cultures and Civilizations provided fertile ground for fostering what has become the modern scientific worldview The notion of an ordered universe, a cosmos, is a strong theme among the Greek natural philosophers and Greek culture, and formed the basis for many of our modern achievements in science and thought. The theme of order is carried even further into the realms of governance, politics, law and society, visibly embodied in the legal structures, roads, aqueducts, armies and culture of Imperial Rome. The cosmos is not only a philosophical concept, it is living reality. The Judeo-Christian worldview further bolsters this theme of order, by proposing that the origin and the active agent of this order is a Personal God, a divine being incarnated in Christ, who is simultaneously the author and the pattern ( firstborn of all creation ) of the cosmos. Furthermore, the Christ is God s personified Word.

10 The 42-line Gutenberg Bible, completed in in 1456 by Johannes Gutenberg, Johann Fust & Peter Schöffer, is the earliest European book printed from movable

11 PEER REVIEW your paper is sent to peer experts for review, comments, acceptance or rejection! - also. we see here that science is done within a social network in fact the sharing of scientific information inspired among other things, the internet, the web browser, yahoo and google s page rank algorithm Journal Impact Factor Citations h-index

12 Science as a Body of Knowledge Internally consistent Logical interrelationship, coherent whole Predictive power, verifiable results, empirical observation What is known vs What is unknown; answers vs. questions

13 Science and Reality: Philosophical underpinnings Key assumption: nature has an inherent order Cosmos vs. Chaos Intelligible Structure Subject vs. Object Objective Reality vs. Post Modernism

14 10 Mathematical Equations That Changed The World

15 Our Models of the Reality Ideas: the atom, fields, mass, time simultaneity, etc Mathematics and Equations New approach: Algorithms and Simulations (computer/machineenhanced modeling and thinking)

16 Science as Method Scientific method Primacy of experiments and empirical observation Paradigms and Models The role of anomalies in scientific revolutions

17 Science as Human Activity Not just cold Logic and Reason, or texbook hypothesis experiment conclusion process Emotion and Passion: Intuition, Symmetry and Beauty, Curiosity Serendipity and Luck As way of life Social Network Economics/Business Embedded in Culture

Kekule s Dream Structure of the Benzene molecule In 1865 the German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was then teaching in Francophone Belgium) suggesting that the

18 Kekule s Dream Structure of the Benzene molecule In 1865 the German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was then teaching in Francophone Belgium) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds. The next year he published a much longer paper in German on the same subject.[5][6] Kekulé used evidence that had accumulated in the intervening years namely, that there always appeared to be only one isomer of any monoderivative of benzene, and that there always appeared to be exactly three isomers of every derivative to argue in support of his proposed structure. Kekulé's symmetrical ring could explain these curious facts, as well as benzene's 1:1 carbonhydrogen ratio.

20 Symmetry in action?

21 Symmetry in action

22 The equation is another way of saying that love can sometimes be complicated. It also implies that Love can be quantified. Love has symmetry. Love is not a Function, it is a Relation. Love is Real, it is not Imaginary. Love has an Absolute Value. I wish you were sine squared theta and I was cosine squared theta so together we could be one.

Information Networks

Information Networks World Wide Web Network of a corporate website Vertices: web pages Directed edges: hyperlinks World Wide Web Developed by scientists at the CERN high-energy physics lab in Geneva World