Lecture Presentations
Week 1:
Course Overview: Scientific Ways of Knowing (PowerPoint 6MB Jul3 12)
Week 2:
Cropped photo of The "School of Athens" by Sanzio
Provenance: Sanzio
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Scientific Ways of Knowing
Ptolemy & Copernicus
Week 3:
Galileo & Natural Observation
Galileo & Experimentation
Week 4:
Equinox & Eratosthenes
Logical Fallacies, Galileo & Experimentation
Week 5:
Graphs and Graphing
Statistics (Emperical)
Week 6:
Newton & Theoretical Approaches
Probabilities (Theoretical)
Week 7:
Tectonic plates
Provenance: United States Geological Survey
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Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
Week 8:
Plate Tectonics
Midterm Exam
Week 9:
Evolution
- Lecture: Evolution (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 12.8MB Jul12 12)
Plate Tectonics
Week 10:
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.
Provenance: John Gould
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Evolution and Darwin's Idea
Darwin's Finches
Week 11:
Sex, Sexual Selection, and Natural Selection
Human Evolution
Week 12:
Climate Change
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
Week 14:
Climate Change
Climate Change
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