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• Liebniz Demonstrates Integral Calculus

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 533
  Date: 1675-11-11 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
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• 50 Years Ago: The Nutcracker Man

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  NOVEMBER 1959 NERVE GROWTH -- “No longer do physicians encourage the patient with a regenerated facial nerve to try to regain control of facial expression by training; their advice today is to inhibit all expression, to practice a ‘poker face’ in order to make the two sides of the face match in appearance. ...
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• November 10, 1834 (a Monday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  HMS Beagle picked up Charles Darwin (now in much better health) at Valparaiso, Chile, and headed south to survey the Chronos Archipelago and the waters around Chiloe Island as far south as the Tres Montes Peninsula.
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• The Color of Sin--Why the Good Guys Wear White

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  When the Chrysler car company released a new model of its Dodge Coronet in 1967, the theme of its advertising campaign was the “White Hat Special.” Some of the ads featured cartoon cowboys riding around “keepin’ the prices low,” whereas others had the ubiquitous “Dodge Girl” in her signature white ...
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• November 9, 1934 (a Friday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the astronomer Carl Sagan was born in New York City. He helped define two new disciplines: planetary science and exobiology. In terms of scientific achievements, Sagan is best known for his research on the possibilities of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of ...
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• No other word but the Word...

  
  FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam — Authority: 126
  In my devotional reading in the writings of St. John of the Cross last week, I "happened" to read the following. It ties in nicely with the points I made in an earlier post about "hearing from God." I wrote what I wrote in that post ignorant of St. Johns wisdom, which is not to toot my own horn, but to remark on how ...
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• November 8, 1656

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the astronomer Edmund Halley was born on the eastern edge of London, England. Although he is chiefly remembered for the comet which bears his name, he also made a mark for himself in geology. In 1715, he lectured the Royal Society of London that the age of the Earth could be calculated [...]
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• Questions for Dyson

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 490
  I will be participating in a public Q&A; session with Freeman Dyson later this term. Any reader of this blog will know that Im an admirer of both his work in theoretical physics and his popular writing. (Related posts here .) In preparing for the event, Ive been reading and re-reading all sorts of things by and ...
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• November 7, 1840 (a Saturday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the Russian founder of comparative embryology and experimental histology Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky was born. He was the first to establish that there was a common pattern in the embryological development of all multicellular animals.Kovalevsky began by studying the lancelet, a fish-shaped sea ...
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• What will it take to force political action on climate change?

  
  Scientific American - Observations — Authority: 129
  As utilities fire up their "clean coal" machines and international negotiators haggle over the precise definition of a tree , only one entity has the courage to stand and deliver the hot air the world so desperately craves on climate change: the U.S. Senate. After a hectic couple of weeks, filled with Republican ...
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• MIND Reviews: The Human Spark

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  TELEVISION The Human Spark [More]
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• November 6, 1913 (a Thursday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the “Los Angeles County Historical and Art Museum“, the precursor to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, opened its doors.  On its fascade above these doors appears the museum’s motto, carpere et colligere, Latin for “to pluck and to gather”, an apt saying for a repository of ...
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• November 6, 1990 (a Tuesday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, Webster v. New Lenox was decided.  The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that school boards have the right to prohibit teaching creationism because such lessons would constitute religious advocacy.
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• Breast Milk is Best for Newborns, but the Bottle Is Fine, Too

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Dear EarthTalk: What are the pros and cons of feeding babies formula versus breast milk? And if I purchase formula, should I spend the extra money on the organic variety? --Suzy W., via e-mail [More]
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• Can Closing the Ozone Hole Also Help Combat Climate Change?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse culprit in human-generated global warming , most scientists agree, but CO 2 itself, and a handful of other substances, are now being promoted as good alternatives to commonly used refrigerants that threaten Earths atmosphere and climate. [More]
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• November 5, 1892 (a Saturday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, British geneticist and biometrician John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born. He was one of the three major figures to develop the mathematical theory of population genetics. (He is usually regarded as the third of these in importance, after R. A. Fisher and Sewall Wright.) Population genetics became one ...
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• Scientific instruments in the history and philosophy of (medical) science

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 423
  The creative editors or Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (see earlier mention here ) are planning a focused discussion section on scientific instruments in a forthcoming issue of the journal. With the “practical turn” in history and philosophy of science came a ...
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• The relevance and irrelevance of physics…

  
  FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam — Authority: 126
  I have selected the following quotations from The Relevance of Physics (Chicago: University Press, 1966), by Stanley L. Jaki, in order to corroborate, or at least elaborate, claims I made in another post to the effect that insofar as the most basic elements of pure geometry do not exist in physical reality, ...
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• Its funny cuz its true…

  
  FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam — Authority: 126
  [This is the third installment of my worrying a certain bone. In the first portion, I presented the claim that the Einsteinian theory of special relativity (ESR) entails certain oddities which compromise either the veracity of truth or the realism of ESR. In the second portion, I elaborated on this position and ...
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• November 4, 1855 (a Sunday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the botanist Frederick Orpen Bower was born in Ripon, England. His study of primitive land plants, especially the ferns, contributed greatly to a modern emphasis on the study of the origins and evolutionary development of these plants. A man who did not shy away from theorizing, one of his most ...
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