Environment as Destiny, History as Science

History as Educational Materials and to Popularize the Science of Toxicology

Tourism as science and science as tourism: environment, society, self, and other in Papua New Guinea.

The experience of villagers in Maimafu, in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, calls attention to two forms of social interaction between rural people and outsiders that have been little examined in the anthropological literature. One of these is scientific research and the other is scientific tourism, a form of ecotourism that is linked no...

Viewing the History of Science as Compiled Hindsight

ion is also important in AI. Scientists sometimes make use of mathematical models at one level of abstraction, but multiple levels of abstraction, with each increasingly abstract, is not a common idea in science or the history and philosophy of science. In AI it is easy to consider dropping detail as one proceeds upward in an abstraction hierarchy. Forming the higher-level, abstract concepts wh...

Topology as an Issue for History of Philosophy of Science

Since antiquity well into the beginnings of the 20th century geometry was a central topic for philosophy. In contrast, most philosophers of science, if they took notice of topology at all, considered it as an abstruse subdiscipline of mathematics lacking philosophical inter est. Here it is argued that this neglect of topology may be conceived of as the sign of a conceptual sea-change in philoso...

Tweets as Sources in the History of Contemporary Science

What was once the ultimate in the fleeting world of ephemera, the tweet, is now being archived by the most august library in the land. The Library of Congress is archiving about 500 million tweets per day, up from 140 million per day just two years ago. As Twitter processes 58 million tweets per day, this is still only about ten times the number of tweets that continue to be tweeted every day. ...