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Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space [PDF]
Astrobiology is the field of science devoted to searching for life elsewhere in the Universe. It is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating results from multiple fields of science, and in this respect has strong synergies with 'big history'. I argue that big history and astrobiology are both acting to widen human perspectives in intellectually and ...
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A Short Intellectual History of Problem‐Based Learning
When the question of the origin of problem‐based learning (PBL) arises in the literature, the consensus tends to be that the method was born at McMaster University in 1969, and that the ideas underpinning this program were in some way linked to the ...
Virginie F. C. Servant‐Miklos+2 more
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Mechanical Timepieces & Intellectual Property Protection [PDF]
This article is meant to give you a basic understanding of mechanical timepieces—not just what they are, but how they are different from one another and why that difference is significant.
Douglas, Nicholas
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Rethinking Arab Intellectual History: Epistemology, Historicism, Secularism
Arab intellectual history has been experiencing a resurgence of late, positioned as it is between the ascendancy of global intellectual history and the continued resilience of area studies.
Omnia El Shakry
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This issue of the journal Asian Studies will examine the cultural, social and intellectual legacies of the various Asian regions. Its geographical scope extends from China to Iran and from Afghanistan to Fujian. It examines different aspects of history,
Jana S. Rošker
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Guido Castelnuovo and his heritage: geometry, combinatorics, teaching [PDF]
We approach Guido Castelnuovo's intellectual world by focusing on a trilogy of papers published in 1889 and by drawing a few remarks about Castelnuovo's scientific interests and attitudes.
arxiv
Purpose. The purpose of this study is to analyze the perception of the common pan-Romance state in the intellectual history of Romance philology.
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
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The paper focuses on the topical problems of teaching history and the standards of historical education in higher school and ponders over the role of historical component in training specialist of different spheres. These problems are treated through the
Andrey L. Andreev
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French erudités and the construction of Merovingian history
This article addresses the ways in which scholars of history who worked in France in the 16th century attempted to describe and consider early medieval history and how in the course of this process they made slight adaptations to the image of the early ...
Dmitri Starostin, Elena Kuleshova
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What happens to the ability to retrace networks when individual agents cannot be named and current archaeology is limited? In these circumstances, such networks cannot be traced, but, as this case study will show, they can be reconstructed and their ...
Adam Simmons
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