Note: Reading should be done before date listed!
Date |
Reading | Oral Presentation |
| Aug. 25 | AAAS presentation on funding trends, 2008 Harold Varmus op-ed on research balance | n/a |
| Aug. 27 | Kevles, Chapters III, IV, VI, and IX | n/a |
| Aug. 30 | Kevles, Chapters XI, XVIII, XIX, and XX | n/a |
| Sept. 1 | Kevles, Chapters XX, XXI | n/a |
| Sept. 3 | Discussion: the Manhattan Project | n/a |
| Sept. 8 | Kevles, Chapters XXII, XXIII. | n/a |
| Sept. 10 | Skim Vannevar Bush, "Science: the Endless Frontier" (available in many formats) | n/a |
| Sept. 13 | Kevles, Chapter XXV and Preface | n/a |
| Sept. 15 | Peruse the following web sites: DUSEL and Deep Science | Gopakumar: Article |
| Sept. 17 | Continue DUSEL reading; start DUSEL site selection articles | Stone: Article |
| Sept. 20 | Finish DUSEL site decision articles | n/a |
| Sept. 22 | Voodoo Science: First three chapters | Salh: Article |
| Sept. 24 | Voodoo Science: First three chapters | Smith: Article |
| Sept. 27 | Voodoo Science: Chapters 5, 7 Irving Langmuir's colloquium defining pathological science (pdf from Physics Today) | Watson: Article |
| Sept. 29 | Langmuir (above) | Flesher: Article |
| Oct. 1 | Voodoo Science: Chapter 7 | Riley: Article (pdf) |
| Oct. 4 | Manufacturing Uncertainty: Article and Interview | Wagner: Article |
| Oct. 6 | Voodoo Science: Chapters 8 and 9 | Hillery: Article |
| Oct. 8 | Deffeyes, Chap. 1, 4 | Reeves: Article |
| Oct. 11 | Deffeyes, Chap. 1, 4 (NOTE: Paper #1 due) | n/a |
| Oct. 13 | Stockpile Stewardship article (Physics Today); also skim website and report of Nuclear Posture Review (direct link to report) | Prekeris: Article |
| Oct. 15 | Deffeyes, Chapter 6 (5 is interesting too) | Schuster: Article and video |
| Oct. 18 | Deffeyes, Chapter 6 | Paterson: Article |
| Oct. 20 | Deffeyes, Chapter 7-8 | Johnson: Article |
| Oct. 22 | Deffeyes, concluding chapters | Sandstedt: Article |
| Oct. 25 | this. | Barenberg: Article |
| Oct. 27 | Read articles on Google research and suggest more | n/a |
| Oct. 29 | Read articles on Google research | White: Article and background information |
| Nov. 1 | Stunning Federal reversal of genetic patent policy. Background paper from last year (A. Paterson) | Finlay: Article |
| Nov. 3 | White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security Report (1997) and airline accident data | Evanko: Article |
| Nov. 5 | GAO report on WH Aviation Commission and FAA press release and another opinion article. | Ripley: Article |
| Nov. 8 | Vanderbilt, Chapters 3, 4 | Berrier: Article |
| Nov. 10 | Vanderbilt, Chapters 6, 7, 9 | DiBenedetto: Article |
| Nov. 12 | Vanderbilt, Chapters 7, 9 | Nelson: Article |
| Nov. 15 | Lead and crime: Wash Post Article, History of leaded gas (well-written, but from a source I don't know), The peer-reviewed 2007 paper (only free from a CU IP address). (NOTE: Paper #2 due) | McManis: Article |
| Nov. 17 | n/a | Debate |
| Nov. 19 | n/a | Debate |
| Nov. 29 | n/a | Debate |
| Dec. 1 | n/a | Debate |
| Dec. 3 | Hafnium controversy (guest speaker: Peter D. Zimmerman): Washington Post, Globalsecurity.org, APS News opinion piece and response letters, and original Collins article | n/a |
| Dec. 6 | n/a | Debate |
| Dec. 8 | ITER and the fusion program (guest speaker: Prof. Tobin Munsat): Nature (1) (pdf), Economist (pdf), and Nature (2) (pdf). | n/a |
| Dec. 10 | Same as Dec. 8 | n/a |