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The Early History of Nanotechnology (m14504)
Subject: Science and Technology, Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 98.34%
Revised: 2007-05-06
Revisions: New
The Environmental Impact of the Manufacturing of Seminconductors (m14503)
Keywords: chemical, environmental health, manufacturing, semiconductors
Summary: This module gives a brief general overview of semi-conductor manufacturing and some of the components and processes used to produce them that can potentially cause harm to humans or the environment.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 97.98%
Revised: 2009-06-02
Revisions: 3
Stanley Milgram's Small World Experiment (m10833)
Summary: (Blank Abstract)
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Language: English
Popularity: 93.24%
Revised: 2005-06-09
Revisions: 3
A Primer in Modern Intellectual Property Law (m11795)
Keywords: copyright, courts, economics, innovation, Patent, precedent, progress, trademark
Summary: This is a very broad primer in intellectual property law from the perspective of its original justification, and the basic legal and institutional distinctions that accompany it in the modern period (roughly 1700-2000).
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 92.41%
Revised: 2004-04-23
Revisions: 3
"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism" by A.E. Housman (m11803)
Keywords: classical scholarship, Housman, A.E., interpretation, philology, textual criticism
Summary: This article was first published by A.E. Housman (the same poet famed for "A Shropshire Lad") in 1921 at a meeting of the Classical Society in Cambridge England. It elaborates on some definitions of textual criticism and offers both advice and chastening criticism of some common practices.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 91.27%
Revised: 2004-04-23
Revisions: 2
Tips for Reading (m11788)
Keywords: anthropology, classics, cultural analysis, reading practices, Tips
Summary: This module contains suggestions for how to read a variety of texts generally, with special emphasis on issues of authorship, ownership and the historical and legal context.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 85.46%
Revised: 2004-04-23
Revisions: 2
Text as Property/Property as Text (col10217)
Institution: Rice University
Summary: Ownership, authorship, plagiarism, intellectual property, parody, critique, re-use, credit, reputation, allusion, imitation, patronage, payment, piracy, creativity, originality, borrowing, lending, stealing, quoting, citing, lifting, re-writing, translating, acting, performing, impersonating, collaborating, re-creating, editing, sampling, sharing. If you can distinguish between all these activities, legally, morally, culturally and historically, then ... your class.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 84.05%
Revised: 2004-02-10
Revisions: 7
An Introduction to the Class (Text as Property/Property as Text) (m11790)
Keywords: aesthetics, anthropology, classics, comparison, cultural analysis, economic value, intellectual property law, law, literature
Summary: An introduction to the Rice University course "Text as Property/Property as Text" which seeks to compare ancient and modern conceptions of authorship, ownership and alternative traditions of writing, stewardship, allusion, and distribution.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 79.77%
Revised: 2004-04-23
Revisions: 2
Marcel Mauss The Gift (m10847)
Summary: (Blank Abstract)
Subject: Test/Draft
Language: English
Popularity: 78.77%
Revised: 2005-06-09
Revisions: 2
Patent or Perish (m14509)
Keywords: intellectual property, invention, nanotechnology, patents
Summary: A brief overview of patent law and its controversies and uses in nanotechnology
Subject: Science and Technology, Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 76.14%
Revised: 2007-05-07
Revisions: New
Plagiary and Moralism (m11819)
Keywords: dishonesty, dishonourable exculpations, double-dealing, evasive banter, moral alertness, slippery history, the disingenuous discourse through which plagiarism steals., wrongful purloining
Summary: Is plagiarism a historical category? Is its definition in question? How might it be related to copyright, intellectual property or legality? And what exactly is the difference between morally right and legally right?
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 66.96%
Revised: 2004-04-23
Revisions: 2
Nanotechnology: Content and Context (col10418)
Institution: Rice University
Keywords: chemistry, democracy and science, engineering, history of science, introduction to nanotechnology, physics, science policy, science studies, society and technology, sociology of scientific knowledge
Summary: This is an NSF-funded (Grant No. EEC-0407237) Rice University course called "Nanotechnology: Context and Content." The goal is to teach students some basic nanoscience/nanotechnology by putting it in a social and cultural context. Students are expected to learn both some basic science and technology and at the same ... the class.
Language: English
Popularity: 66.46%
Revised: 2007-05-09
Revisions: New
Government-Funded Science: Vannevar Bush and the National Science Foundation (m14356)
Keywords: Basic Science, cold war science, history of science, National Science Foundation, National Science Policy, Vannevar Bush
Summary: A brief history of the National Science Foundation and Vannevar Bush's vision of "Science, The Endless Frontier."
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 64.65%
Revised: 2007-02-20
Revisions: New
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