Browsing Harvard Division of Continuing Education by Keyword "Science history"
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Dissecting an Ecological Disaster
International maritime trade is responsible for the establishment of approximately 50 nonindigenous aquatic species in the Laurentian Great Lakes since the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959. In some cases these new arrivals ... -
Perspectives on the Origins and Effects of Racial Ideology: Key Arguments in Contemporary Scholarship
(2021-08-20)This work is a comparative analysis of three diverse approaches on science, economics and politics and their respective interrelationship to race concluding that science itself might be both the product of and the cause ... -
Where No Genome Has Gone Before: Star Trek and Genetic Medicine at the Advent of Gene Therapy
(2021-05-14)The development and adoption of gene therapy as a new therapeutic modality represents a fundamentally new approach to treating diseases by directly modifying human genetic material. No longer the speculations of visionary ... -
With a Heart of Oak: John Quincy Adams, Scientific Farmer and Landscape Gardener
This thesis explores the work of John Quincy Adams as a scientific farmer and gardener. The details of his study of botany and his accomplishments in horticulture and landscape gardening have been overlooked. I studied ...