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http://encyclozine.com/Science/Branches/ There are several ways of broadly categorizing the sciences, e.g. Pure science is systematic study of natural or physical phenomena by observation and experiment , critical testing and review, and ordering by general principles.... More »
http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/Science/ff/branchessci.htm Note: Not all branches are included. Aerodynamics: the study of the motion of gas on objects and the forces created Anatomy: the study of the structure and organization of living things Anthropology: the study... More »
Thanks for the welcome. I appreciate that you have this as an educational tool to share. Although I won't be as active as many when I find something interesting that is relevant to each room's... More »
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-078 May 06, 2009PASADENA, Calif. -- The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a... More »
To me, there are only five divisions of natural science: Physics , Chemistry , Biology , Astronomy , and Geology . The subdivisions within those branches and the connections between them illustrate the futility of essentialism.... More »
A Day for Earth, but a Whole Week for Dark Skies Written by Anne Minard April 18th, 2009Artificial light pollution around the world as viewed from space. This data was compiled from October 1994 to... More »
I am enthralled by this page. I really like all of your moon shots. Does the moon have to do with astrology too or just astronomy? I feel like we are seeing pictures of what... More »
Artist's conception of the binary supermassive black hole system. Credit P. Marenfeld, NOAO Paired black holes are theorized to be common, but have escaped detection — until now. Astronomers Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer, from the National... More »
The Quandratid meteor showers happened Saturday January 3, 2009. This is the 7 meteor showers you can expect in 2009 . 2009 International Year of Astronomy
2009 is the International Year of Astronomy as set by the United Nations. I have started celebrating this by blogging about it and will continue all year out and beyond. http://princesamwise.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/2009_international_year_of_astronomy And I have a... More »
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We are God. I see God in quantum physics and astronomy. I see God in ancient texts and modern psychology, in philosophy and science, in mysticism and astrology and the Tarot. I feel God... More »
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Reagan records & Space Command Antigravity Fleet Michael Salla, Ph.D. Go to Michael's Home Page On April 13, [2009] the National Archive Records Administration made available almost 250,000 pages of documents from President Reagan’s administration. It will... More »
Julian
Introduction: Masks of God Spirituality has to do with the core of our lives, with how our minds and hearts experience meaning, create values and open themselves to expansive states of consciousness. Throughout human history... More »
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Future See also: Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth The future of the planet is closely tied to that of the Sun. As a result of the steady accumulation of helium ash at the... More »
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Fellow Gaia members, I received this statement attached to an email from my Philosophy of Music professor. To say the least, it made me rethink my place in this world as a musician, especially during... More »
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After all the star-studded Oscar's night, I bring you this huge news in astronomy. We all know that the billions of galaxies are chaotic and there's always something happening. But this is the first time... More »
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Waitin' for the Galileoscope (how historic!). I've never seen " The 7 Sisters" (Pleiades) with the naked eye. I'm looking forward to seeing it the way Galileo saw it. Last year, NASA celebrated its 50 th... More »
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When we ask government if UFOs are real, the government: What UFOs? We're supposed to think UFOs are a military secret-classified. I have a question. Are we supposed to think that something or someone from... More »
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Don't miss this one! OMG just like the song said! Please join with me as we usher in this New Day, The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ We measure our global sense of... More »
Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, . . . that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Devotion! daughter of astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad.
About time, and changing his clock on October 28, 1962, he wrote: "Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all. All we can do with the astronomical absolutes of time is note them, divide them as we please, and live by them in our daily routines. Beyond that, our own emotions, our hopes and fears, our worry and our relief, shape not only our days but our hours with only casual regard for absolute or arbitrary time. The busy day can be brief, the suspenseful hour endless. Who can prove, by any clock ever devised, that time on occasion does not stand still? The interval between heartbeats can be a terrifying eternity, and the pause between two spoken words can shape the dimensions of all our tomorrows. Time is all around us, the time of the hills, the time of the tides, the lifetime of a man or a tree or an insect. We participate in time, try to shape it to our own necessities; but when we change the clocks we aren't changing time at all. We are playing with figures on a dial that denotes but cannot alter the flow of forever."
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
The Copernican vision of an earth in motion was not without its rudimentary precedents, as Copernicus himself recounts: "For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres. I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world. For this reason I undertook the task of rereading the works of all the philosophers which I could obtain to learn whether anyone had ever proposed other motions of the universe's spheres than those expounded by the teachers of astronomy in the schools. And in fact I found in Cicero that Hicetas supposed the earth to move. Later I also discovered in Plutarch that certain others were of this opinion. . . . Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
Come and explore the various branches of science, how they are connected, and how all of them can... More »
Visionaries is a place of art, design, creativity, techTalks, inspiration--- and that's just for starters! This is... More »
Hi, I'm John, I'm new here. I'm just glad I found Zaads 'coz I think... More »
Science is great. It's the largest source of truth that admits it doesn't know the whole truth.... More »
Hi, I'm John, I'm new here. I'm just glad I found Zaads 'coz I... More »
Hi, I'm John, I'm new here. I'm just glad I found Zaads 'coz I think... More »
This discussion is my first and I hope it will spark a little flame in you. Most... More »
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