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Fall 2011 Week
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Assignment 13
Holy Guano! Batman!
Photograph by Tomas Munita for NYT
Workers
collect guano on Isla Gua–ape off Peru, which conserves the resource to
prevent
depletion. Guano's status as an organic fertilizer has increased demand.
Updated: 12/7/11 8:19 AM
REFRESH
ME
Final Project Resources and Description- The final project is fully described here, including format and timetable.
For Tuesday
1-Read the following sections in Bown: Here is a PDF that contains the
following sections: Bown-Chs7-end [12.1 MB]
-Read all of Chapter
7.
-From Chapter 8,
read the following snippets...
pp. 171-178,
which sets up the Nobel Prizes and discusses Nobel's inner conflicts.
pp. 182-183
2- Read this article from the New York
Times: Romero-NYT-GuanoPeru-428KB.pdf
4pp
For Wednesday
1-Read the following sections in Bown: [These are in
the same PDF as above.]
- Look over Chapter
9. Just get an idea about the
naval battles that were waged over South American nitrates.
- Read all of
Chapter 10 on Fritz Haber.
For Thursday
There will be a very short homework assignment for this last day..... I'll tell you about it on Wed. It will basically be a very short presentation on your projects. Each group should be represented by one spokesperson. Be ready to describe the project and the roles of each member of the group if you are working in a group. You should only need to speak for about 2 or 3 minutes.
Read
these 3 short pieces:
- Andrew
Ure: The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835
- Friederich Engels:
Industrial Manchester, 1844
- ChildLabor_And_FactoryGirl-968KB.pdf
Interesting
Sciencey News
–If you run across an
interesting story, let me know–
Artist's
rendering of Kepler-22b
Kepler-22b – Earth
II?
December 7, 1941
This is an interesting essay
about Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the attack.
I am reminded of both Nobel and
Haber.
Toll-A_Reluctant_Enemy-Pearl_Harbor.html
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil
deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy
2010-Jan-29
Stephen Colbert and Neil
deGrasse Tyson speaking about science, technology, ethics, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg&feature=youtu.be
Skip ahead to about 6:00 for the
actual beginning of the discussion.
This is quite interesting stuff. Colbert's jokes are at times,
crazy-sophisticated.
The Atom-Adam-Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil riff is pretty on-the-ball.