Lecture Presentations

Week 1:

Course Overview: Scientific Ways of Knowing (PowerPoint 6MB Jul3 12)

Week 2:

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Scientific Ways of Knowing

• Lecture: Scientific Ways of Knowing (PowerPoint 12.8MB Jul3 12)

Ptolemy & Copernicus

• Lecture: Ptolemy & Copernicus (PowerPoint 4.9MB Jul3 12)

Week 3:

Galileo & Natural Observation
Galileo & Experimentation

Week 4:

Equinox & Eratosthenes

• Lecture: Equinox & Eratosthenes (PowerPoint 2.7MB Jul3 12)

Logical Fallacies, Galileo & Experimentation

• Lecture: Logical Fallacies, Galileo & Experimentation (PowerPoint 12.3MB Jul3 12)

Week 5:

Graphs and Graphing

• Lecture: Uncertainty (PowerPoint 1.5MB Jul3 12)

Statistics (Emperical)

• Lectures:
• Addressing Scientific Uncertainty and Statistics (PowerPoint 2MB Jul3 12)
• Statistics PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 815kB Oct24 11)

Week 6:

Newton & Theoretical Approaches

• Lecture: Paterson & Induction vs Deduction (PowerPoint 4.4MB Jul3 12)

Probabilities (Theoretical)

Week 7:

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Tectonic plates

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Plate Tectonics

• Lecture: Plate Tectonics (PowerPoint 13.2MB Jul6 12)

Plate Tectonics

• Lecture: Evolution of Science (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 381kB Jul5 12)

Week 8:

Plate Tectonics

• Lecture: Plate Tectonics 2 (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 2.4MB Jul6 12)

Midterm Exam

Week 9:

Evolution

• Lecture: Evolution (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 12.8MB Jul12 12)

Plate Tectonics

Week 10:

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Darwin's finches or Galapagos finches. Darwin, 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d edition.

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Evolution and Darwin's Idea

• Lecture: Evolution and Darwin\'s Idea (PowerPoint 6.6MB Jul12 12)

Darwin's Finches

• Lecture: Darwin\'s Finches (PowerPoint 2.3MB Jul12 12)

Week 11:

Sex, Sexual Selection, and Natural Selection
Human Evolution

Week 12:

Climate Change

• Lecture: Climate Change - Day 1 (PowerPoint 7.2MB Jul12 12)

Climate Change

• Lecture: Climate Change - Day 2 (PowerPoint 10.3MB Jul12 12)
• Historical development (Until ~1980)
• Keeling curve
• Geological archive activity
• CFCs, Ozone, & Treaties
• Development of Numerical Models

Week 13:

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Climate Change

• Lecture: Climate Change - Day 3 (PowerPoint 6.9MB Jul12 12)
• Movie: Inconvenient Truth
• Inconvenient Truth Questions Handout (Microsoft Word 32kB Oct21 11)

Week 14:

Climate Change

• Lecture: Climate Change - Day 5 (PowerPoint 2MB Jul12 12)
• IPCC

Climate Change

• Lecture: Climate Change - Day 6 (PowerPoint 2.7MB Jul12 12)

Week 15:

Climate Change

• In-class exercises:
• Science/Society interactions on climate change
• IPCC group discussion

Climate Change

• Science/Society interactions on climate change
• Copenhagen media