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Historians who know nothing else about American religion often know one thing for sure: in July of 1925 fundamentalists got their noses rubbed in the dirt at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee. That building, of course, housed the famous Monkey Trial, the place where rural traditionalism met and finally bowed to the forces of urban secularism. This image, perpetuated by numerous journalists, by the popular play and movie Inherit the Wind, and even by respected textbooks, contains some truth and considerable mistruth. The task is to get it all sorted out.

Beyond Discovery™: The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted

Last November the Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities hosted a symposium entitled "Religion and Public Life: Seventy Years after the Scopes Trial." Ten visiting speakers presented papers on the various implications of the 1925 trial, in which John Scopes was convicted for teaching evolutionary theory in a Dayton, Tennessee, high school classroom. The conference sessions were widely attended and prompted lively debates throughout campus. The Center also sponsored a high school teachers workshop in conjunction with the conference. Interdisciplinary teams of teachers from the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and the conference speakers took part in the workshop. The symposium attracted much interest from the national media; articles appeared in the New York Times and the Atlanta Constitution, among many others.

Organized by University Librarian Dr. William Stanley Hoole in 1945, the library was named in his honor in October 1977. The library moved from the fourth floor of the Gorgas Library to its current location in 1993.

In a discussion with students after a recent visit to the National Gallery, a comparison between Holbein's The Ambassadors and da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Leonardo's 'Cartoon') drew out some interesting points about the nature of science.

Christiaan Huygens was one of the most famous and most able mathematicians of his time. He contributed to each field of mathematics. In each field he also contributed to its practical counterpart. He was a skilled and inventive instrument maker. He stands out among his contemporaries, because he combined theoretical and practical interests. In mechanics, for example, he developed the pendulum clock as well as a theory of motion;in optics, he improved the telescope and at the same time derived a theory of its working.

Discovered in early nineteen hundreds, radio promissed to be the most influential technology of the twentieth century. Because of the amazing speed, reliability, as well as the relatively low cost of communication, it became widely used by governments and private enterprises all over the world. This paper examines development of radio broadcasting in the United States and the newborn then Soviet Union.

The history of the transistor begins with the dramatic scientific discoveries of the 1800's--scientists like Maxwell, Hertz, Faraday, and Edison made it possible to harness electricity for human uses. Inventors like Braun, Marconi, Fleming, and DeForest applied this knowledge in the development of useful electrical devices like radio.
Their work set the stage for the Bell Labs scientists whose challenge was to use this knowledge to make practical and useful electronic devices for communications. Teams of Bell Labs scientists, such as Shockley, Brattain, Bardeen, and many others met the challenge--and invented the information age. They stood on the shoulders of the great inventors of the 19th century to produce the greatest invention of the our time: the transistor.

Christian Huygens was born at the Hague on April 14, 1629, and died in the same town on July 8, 1695. He generally wrote his name as Hugens, but I follow the usual custom in spelling it as above: it is also sometimes written as Huyghens. His life was uneventful, and there is little more to record in it than a statement of his various memoirs and researches.

This international bibliography which is part of Axel W. Bauer's Virtual Office for History, Theory, and Ethics in Medicine contains 1,397 monographs and articles on the history of pathology, which have been published between 1801 and 2003. The collection was last updated on May 9, 2003. Additions and corrections to the list (especially concerning your own books or papers) should be announced to the editor