1. Introduction
The Practice of Science
2. Early Cosmology
3. The Scientific Method
4. Paradigm Shifts
Technology and Lifestyle
5. Industrialization
6. The Postmodern
7. Electronic and Digital Age
8. Biotechnology
9. Nanotechnology
10. Consumer Culture
11. Paper or Plastic Packaging?
Environment and Sustainable Development
12. Environmental Issues, Part 1
13. Environmental Issues, Part 2
14. Systems Ecology
15. Sustainability
16. Population, Resources, Pollution
17. Climate Change
Beginning and Becoming
18. The Lives of a Cell
19. The Gene-Protein Link
20. What is Life?
21. Abiogenesis
22. The Standard Model
23. Elemental Foundry
24. In the Beginning...
25. World Without End?
Additional Readings:
- "The Nature of Newton’s Insight" by Jacob Bronowski
- "The Explanation of Laws" by Norman Campbell
- "The Path of Science" (from "The Logic of Scientific Discovery") by Karl Popper
- Lyotard’s "The Postmodern Condition" by Madan Sarup
- "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" by Richard Feynman
- From "Understanding Media" by Marshall McLuhan
- "The Riddle of Suffering" by David B. Biebel, DMin
- From "Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues" by Peter J. Jarvis
- "The Sustainable Use of Resources" (from "Sustainable Development: An Introductory Guide") by David Reid
- "Life on earth" (from "The Creation of Life: From Chemical to Animal") by Andrew Scott
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