This assignment should be written as a paper (i.e. in paragraph form) and should be at least 750 words (excluding references). You do not need to repeat the instructions in the assignment. You will watch three of the TED Talks from the list below. While watching the talks you selected, select specific ideas from the talk that characterize science. Synthesize the ideas that you identified in the talks with what you have learned in class to develop an explanation of the nature of science. Your explanation must be supported by at least three different characteristics of science. Additionally, you will compare and contrast each characteristic from your explanation of the nature of science to the characteristics of the nature of a discipline that interests you, and speculate on the types of questions people in these fields can work together to answer.
The information needed is below:
What is the nature of science: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/nos.html (Links to an external site.)
TED Talks (You Pick Three):
Robin Ince: Science versus wonder (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Dan Ariely: Beware of conflicts of interest (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
James Randi: Homeopathy, quackery, and fraud (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Molly Crockett: Beware neuro bunk (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Lee Smolin: Science and democracy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Richard Dawkins: On our queer universe (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Ben Goldlacre: Battling bad science (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Michael Specter: The danger of science denial (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Jonathan Dori: On what we think we know (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Michael Nielsen: Open science now! (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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O. Wilson: Advice to a young scientist (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
For each characteristic:
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