Articles with keyword "Science"
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Confronting Science
The monk and his pea plants were just the beginning of the anguish over societal values.
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Darwin
The young naturalist rides with gauchos, battles a tidal wave, and develops a theory of evolution.
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The Amazing Adding Subtracting Composing Creating Do-Everything Machine
An English countess creates the basis for computer software.
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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Night Physik
From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
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Searching for Truth: From Genesis to Genotype
Jefferson Lecturer Leon Kass describes his journey from medical school to the heart of the humanities.
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Darwin the Young Adventurer
The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.
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Great Expectations
In the classroom and in daily life, the bioethicist believes in the best of human nature.




