It Seemed Like a Good Idea......

LinR course: fall 2010

1. Introduction
2. How Science should work
3. Science and Journalism
4. Lightning
5. The Ptolemaic System
6. Velikovsky
7. Perpetual Motion
8. Cold Fusion and other ideas
9. Creationism and Intelligent Design
10. Evolution and Intelligence

• Bills of Mortality
• ALternatively, causes of death in 1700, which provides some explanation about some of the illnesses. (Thank you Graham) 
•   The 1775 Bills of Mortality  
• Claire ApSimon's Ball lightning story
• An interesting twist on the Nemesis idea (Thank you Heather)
• One more perpetual motion idea (thank you Mary!)
• Patty's Pub Directions
• Further reading
  • Richard Dawkins "The Blind Watchmaker"
  • Richard Dawkins "Climbing Mount Improbable"
  • Steven Jay Gould "The Mismeasure of Man"
  • Steven Jay Gould "The Panda's Thumb"
  • Steven Jay Gould "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History"
  • A whole lot of other books by both Gould and Dawkins
  • John Grant "Discarded Science"
  • Velikovsky "Ages in Chaos"
  • Velikovsky "Worlds in Collision"
  • "Scientists Confront Velikovsky"
  • Frank Close "Too Hot to Handle" (an examination of the cold fusion story)