text
argument/message
method and
medium
evidence
academic
disciplines
inductive/deducti
ve reasoning
association with
other course texts
how Nissani's
ideas apply
Biopiracy
This Article is about
the crisis of personal
human rights due to
the new discoveries
In medicine and
peoples thoughts
through time .
starting with
Columbus when the
pope decided who
owned what. Also
about seeds and how
they’ve changed and
how we changed
them.
The method
Shiva uses is
through history of
human rights to
showing all the
new things that
have been invented
for the good of
man such as
Hybridization,
Genetics’
discovery’s, patent
laws and personal
ownership of
peoples DNA.
Historical images
(names, date of
whom and when)
Medical
More deductive
reasoning than
inductive
reasoning.
Biopiracy & Big
Bang
Interdisciplinary
knowledge
Papa Bull (2)
Religion
Same topic
“science”
Interdisciplinary
research
John Locke(3)
Genetic studies
Theories/tests of
the natural world
Interdisciplinary
education
Jack
Kloppenburg’s
description (50)
Science Studies
Example,
“hybridization”
Interdisciplinary
theory
assessed by
Roger Johnston,
Twee Nguyen,
and Oni/Ken
Chuigyn
She uses Law,
Medicine, Biology,
Hybridization, as
her medium she
also throws in
phchology into the
mix.
History
Human rights
Both talks about
God and the
creation of the
world and who
commands it.
Biopiracy &
"Medical
Lessons..."
Same topic
‘science”
Exploiting nature
for
interests/benefits
Biopiracy & "On
Thinking..."
Explain how the
human mind works
& this can be
connected to why
people think it’s
okay to colonize
and take things that
don’t belong to
them.
"Medical Lessons
From History"
We have antibiotics
and vaccines.
assessed by
Fowsiya Nur,
Jonathan
Hoffman, and
Joseph Lotin
We cannot afford
today's version of
science and
technology.
We may someday
learn fow the brain
works.
Compare and
constrast of
biology revolution.
Research on
tuberle bacillus
to cure tuberculosis
Occurance in
medicine.
desease could be
turned by treatment
with medicine.
Looking back
frome the distance.
How far biology
has come from the
past.
Learn to prevent
rhematic fever.
technology
history
biology/medicial
research
pharmocology
economics
physics
antibiotics/pinicilin
e/streptomyecine
He decuces that
there is still long
way to go for
meducal science
despite all the
acheivements.
education
We still don't know
how the brain
works.
Shiva
"Physics in
medicine"
Mann,
Espilation of the
past history in
medicine/bio
Brief History by
Hawking
Fruit salad
metaphor/smoothie
; many were
integrated.
The disciplines
were well
integrated.
Big Bang
assessed by
Lenny Kyle
Paul Ciulla
AyeAye San
The message here is
to explain how a
supposedly simple
yet incredible big
bang theory (and
other scientific
achievements) came
into existence
through centuries of
big and little
discoveries by gifted
scientific and
imaginative thinkers
who built upon a
foundation
knowledge. Simon
Singh insinuates that
myths came first and
were necessary in
order to stimulate
the intellect of the
scientific
community to
bravely challenge
not only the
scientific thought of
their generation but
mythological and
religious powers of
their time.
It is organized, in
parts,
chronologically but
he does jump
around a little. He
compares scientific
evidence and
experiments to
contrasting myths.
Black and white
diagrams help to
simplify the
scientific methods
that were used at
that time. I think it
is introduced well
by the precursors
“Coherent
descriptions for the
creation and
evolution of the
universe….fabulou
s imagination,
acute observation
and ruthless logic”
(1) and the quote
by Karl Popper
“Science must
begin with myths,
and with the
criticism of myths”
(qtd. in Singh 1)
Galileo Galilei statement
“I do not feel obliged to
believe that the same
God who has endowed
us with sense, reason
and intellect has
intended us to forgo their
use”(qtd. in Singh 1)
supports the Argument.
Singh states “All in all,
the roots of the big bang
model and the desire for
a scientific theory of the
universe can be traced
right back to the decline
of the ancient
[and not so ancient]
mythological view of the
world” (4).
Singh acknowledges
bravery of early
philosophers, “The word
‘myth’ is derived from
the Greek word mythos,
which can mean ‘story’,
but also means ‘word’ in
the sense of ‘the final
word’. Indeed, anybody
who dared to question
these explanations would
have laid themselves
open to accusations of
heresy” (Singh 6).
Building on the
foundation of knowledge
is recognized by Singh
with “ It was now
possible for Eratosthenes
to deduce the size of the
Moon and the Sun, and
their distances from the
Earth. Much of the
Groundwork had already
been laid by earlier
natural philosophers”
(13).
Egyptians were
successful technologists
without having science
knowledge and on the
other hand, Eratosthenes
was scientists and they
were not technologists.
Therefore, Science and
technology has different
kinds of goal but there
was no clue chemical
and biochemical
mechanisms works.
(Singh, 19)
Math, Technology,
Physics,
Astronomy,
Geography,
Science,
Mythology,
Religion.
Philosophy,
Environmental
Science
Deductive thinking
from the
development of
science and
technologies by
encountering
mythology
influences
Big bang model
and the desire of
scientific theory
were foundation
from the way of
ancient people
seeing the world
where were came
from the ancient
legends and
mythological
perspective.
600BC Chinese
creation mythcreator emerges
and the creation
process also
created one man
who came from
egg to the world.
This myth
encourage to
believe the
people‘s perception
who blindly faith
in supernatural
being and
explaining the
whole universe.
The mythological
faith in every
culture was
adopted in its
society so some
culture need to
encounter The
philosopher,
cosmologist were
study the universe
but the words
cosmology came
from ancient Greek
( Singh 1-6)
“Medical lessons from
History “is like Big
Bang (the mythology
history was traced back
and the process of
technologies and science
development)
“Visual thinking” by
Arnheim (seeing
perception is not mental
process of thinking.)
“Holmberg’s Mistake”
by Mann (Science way
to approach to the
history)
Page 4 Paragraph 1, Big
Bang: the Big Bang
model of the universe
was developed over the
last hundred years, and
this was only possible
because twentiethcentury breakthroughs
were built upon a
foundation of astronomy
constructed in previous
centuries
“1491: New Revelations
of the Americas Before
Columbus” by Mann
New technology was
used in examining old
theories and information
Page 4 Paragraph 1, Big
Bang: The Big Bang
model of the universe
was developed over the
last hundred years, and
this was only possible
because twentiethcentury breakthroughs
were built upon a
foundation of astronomy
constructed in previous
centuries
“Medical Lessons from
History” by Thomas
Uses history to
propagate the new Big
Bang theory
Two or more
subject discipline
combine like
interdisciplinary
study for example
– Geosciences,
environmental
earth science,
which studies field
need to combined
subjects like
Physics, Math, and
Biology that is,
apply in the
interdisciplinary
continuum.
Nissani would call
this a smoothie
because the
combined
disciplines lead to
a new theory, the
Big Bang theory
Page 2, Paragraph
6, Fruit Salads and
Smoothies: “ That
is, by combining
Apollonus’s work
on conic sections
with Tycho
Brahe’s data on
Mars, Kepler was
able to come up
with the first law
of planetary
motion (Koestler,
1959)
Page 3, Paragraph
1, Fruit Salads and
Smoothies: “…that
incorporation or
integration of
disciplinary
perspectives into a
larger, more
holistic perspective
is the chief
distinguishing
characteristic of
interdisciplinary
studies.”
"On Thinking
About Thinking"
assessed by
Sam Abu-Nasser,
Meredith
Watlington
® Thinking could be
result of the
environment sensed
by the person and
sent to be
interpreted by the
mind.
(M) Putting
Thoughts together
and how they are
formed.
- “Thinking”
putting thoughts
together.
- The idea that one
can work from the
outside in to form
thoughts and
expressions.
- He is using
multiple disciplines
to explain metacognition and
cognition.
- Chronological
- Familiar
subjects–>Music &
Dance
-points out facts on
how thoughts work
(pg 151),
-chronological
method,
-uses things we are
familiar with
(dance, music pg
154) to explain his
ideas.
-he uses similes
and analogies.
- Not enough
support/facts
presented for an
audience without
previous
knowledge in
neurology and
other brain science
disciplines.
There is no real
evidence presented
just statements and
definitions.
-Psychology,
Neurology, Human
Biology, Music
- physics ( new
orbits around the
new dense mass
and nothing can
escape the
attraction)
- astronomy
(black hole)
- dance
- music
- ( I don’t
know if this is a
discipline…..boati
ng(docking and
locking)
(note from Meesh:
Yes, it is a
discipline, but not
an academic
discipline.)
- Deductive
Reasoning
- General –>
Specific
He dives right in
and is talking on a
micro level….(pg
151 “human head
is filled alive with
molecules of
thoughts called
notions.”)
-“Dancing with the
Professors”
- Author not
afraid to put out
neck for a point he
wants to make In
an argument with
many intense
disciplines
intermixed.
- The Intelligence
of Visual
Perception because
both readings talk
about thinking and
cognition.
-Smoothie
- Few but related
disciplines(number
)
- disciplines are
blended well
together.
- built upon newly
found scientific
facts
- highly
integrated
- A fruit salad
consisting of
guavas, kiwis, and
blueberries.
Brief History of
Time
classnotes
recorded by ?
Sam Abu-Nasser
-Topic: space time
-Time is not
absolute
® Time specific to
observer
(M) We discovered
time overtime
beginning with
Einstein
-Space/Time is
curved
- Chronological
- History? -->
Compare&Contrast
- Diagrams/Figures
- Black/White
- Previous
Research
- Names
Researchers
- Physical
experiment (23)
- Thought
experiment (21)
- E=mc^2 (24)
- Physics,
Mathematics,
[Algebra/Geometry
], Astronomy,
Philosophy,
Cartography,
Geography.
- Singh? (same
topic)
-Mann? (history to
explain new
thinking)
- Thomas? [b/c use
audience to trace
thinking process.
- Could be viewed
as smoothie or
salad.
- Depends on
audience and their
previous
knowledge.
- Pg. 4, 2nd
Paragraph...Interdis
ciplinary mixtures.