"Big History" tries to view the past on the largest possible scales. This paper argues that the wide-angle vision of "Big History" suggests some interesting perspectives on the nature of modern science. First, it suggests that modern science is more than a bag of technological tricks. Within...
Tothenorthofthecitycenter,thestonestreets andhistoricuniversitybuildingsofOldAberdeen aresteeped(浸透)inhistory,whiletotheeast— bytheharbor — thefishingquarterispacked withtinycottagesandcolorfulgardens. Attheharbor Thisisacitywhereyoucanwalkfromthe citycentertotheharborin minutes — andyou haveahighchance...
Berlin, Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science, including probability and statistics, wonders and the o...
This is a big, expensive book packed with facts and touted by many authorities in encomiums on its dust jacket. It is not an interesting book and it gives rather a wrong impression of science. Perhaps the difficulty is that this is a book without an obvious audience. It is clearly not ...
2023-24: Libby O’Neil (Yale University), ‘Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-1957’; Alfred Freeborn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), ‘Testing Psychiatri...
By 5000 BC the foundations of the modern world had been laid and nothing that came after - classical Greece, the Industrial Revolution, the atomic age, the Internet - has ever matched the significance of those events. Both works re-unite human history with natural history, expand the time sc...
Driven by the necessity to confirm the Dark Matter Hypothesis, one of the largest endeavours of modern science over the last 4 decades has been the direct search for dark matter particles. In spite of the efforts of thousands of scientists over the world, not a single particle of dark ...
The founder of modern science in England. The first English essayist. The most gifted of the ―university wits‖. 【答案】D【解析】弗朗西斯·培根(1561-1626),英国文艺复兴时期最重要的散文家、哲学家。他不但在文学、哲学上多有建树,在自然科学领域里,也取得了重大成就。他是英国唯物主义和现代科学的...
The ancient history of Big Data The earliest examples we have of humans storing and analyzing data are the tally sticks, which date back to 18,000 BCE! The Ishango Bone was discovered in 1960 in what is now known as Uganda and is thought to be one of the earliest pieces of evidence ...
American History Documentaries Power Who is more powerful: the police or the people? Moreover, who should be? This documentary tackles the thorny history of policing in the US, tracing it back from the era of slave patrols to modern-day miscarriages of justice, raising pointed questions about ...