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We graciously thank The Brinson Foundation for their generous sponsorship of the C2ST Science Communication Internship in 2021-2024. As a result, an incredibly talented group of diverse STEM undergraduate and graduate scholars at area colleges and universities researched and developed over 100 blogs.* Enjoy-If you like, please share!
*As of 10.25.24
By Sanford (Sandy) Morganstein
There are reasons why we are living in a period witnessing the decline of 17th and 18thCentury Enlightenment values. Reasons why tens of thousands found it necessary to “march for science” and support fact-based reasoning and critical thinking (C2ST – The Enlightening March for Science).
Chicago Council on Science and Technology, as part of its Science + Cinema Initiative, and WTTW Chicago Present
Urban Nature: Behind the Scenes
Antarctica is the coldest, highest and driest of all seven continents. It is one and a half times the areal size of the continental United States, with the vast majority of its landmass covered in thick ice sheets.
Continue reading “Extreme Science: The U.S. Antarctic Program”
By Sanford (Sandy) Morganstein
Where would we be without The Enlightenment? The Enlightenment generally refers to Western civilization’s continuing exit from the “Dark Ages.” It follows on The Renaissance (“rebirth” in French). It is the reinforcement of Science.
I say reinforcement rather than “birth of Science” purposefully…to avoid cultural chauvinism. Elements of the scientific method appear in Aristotle and ancient Indian materialism.
Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Science present Extreme Science: The U.S. Antarctic Program
Antarctica is the coldest, highest and driest of all seven continents. It is one and a half times the areal size of the continental United States, with the vast majority of its landmass covered in thick ice sheets.
Continue reading “Extreme Science: The U.S. Antarctic Program”
The arts provide a key avenue of insight into ancient human behavior and symbolic evolution. In this lecture we will review some of the evidence and analysis of how our ancestors of the later Ice Age used the material and visual world to create meanings, to develop and solidify social relationships, and to become “effective world settlers.” The scope of what we call “Paleolithic art” will be a focus because it is such a well-preserved collection of material and so many new and exciting ways of studying it have developed over the past years. Continue reading “Making Things Meaningful in the Ice Age”
