by Boris Minev, Yury Kronn (speaker), & Mouad Edderkaoui

Other less well-known philosophers of science adopted a different approach to scientific change and progress: in France, Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) addressed the issue from an epistemological viewpoint, involving concepts instead of theories and paradigms. Bachelard notably invoked scientific progress as coincidental with scientific change—which is not necessarily the case in Kuhn’s work, owing to so-called [...]

349 respondents claimed to be current members, and 79 self reported themselves as former members, for a total of 428 usable responses. These response data are analyzed to determine the degrees of acceptance/rejection of the various anomalies and the predictors of opinion. These predictors supply the basis for understanding how individuals shift their interests towards [...]

Moderator: Charlie Tolbert

We have all experienced severe weather, and can recall similar situations in the past. These are called climate cycles. A good example is the historical tornado outbreak killing nearly 1,000 people in the mid 1950s and again in 2011. There is also the historical Mississippi River Flood of 2011 and four other historical floods during [...]

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I propose that the problem with Bigfoot/Sasquatch phenomena is lack of orthogonality within one discipline. The blurred boundaries between the social psychology of hoaxing, and the archetypal and biological areas of inquiry leave scholars feeling vulnerable or confused. As such, academics often refuse to peruse the existing anecdotal data and furthermore make irresponsible public statements [...]

If obeying the laws of diffusion, the odorant cannot reach the dendritic membrane in time. Therefore, in an attempt to speed up the process, electrostatic attraction is brought forward as a new mechanism. After analysis of charges on the dendritic membrane (positive) as well as the charges on pheromone binding proteins (highly positive), electrostatic repulsion [...]

A stress forecasting of a large earthquake for a window of time October 22–26, 2011, was issued to the National Institute for Earth Physics (INFP), on October 21 at 10:00 AM. A large earthquake magnitude 7.2 was recorded in Van, Eastern Turkey, on October 23. Another stress forecasting was issued on January 10, 2012, at [...]

Comparisons were made of activity during 4-second intervals of time with the presence of emotions (e.g., anger, surprise, embarrassment) versus 4-second intervals of no activity in the room containing the plant, revealing a highly significant difference. A comparison of the emotional intervals against all other human interaction intervals was also highly significant. Controls employed indicate [...]

Moderator: Thomas M. Dykstra

One such potent toxic substance is thimerosal, an agent long used as a topical disinfectant (Merthiolate) and as an anti-microbial preservative in vaccines. Thimerosal in vaccines has been a focus of heated discussions and lawsuits because of its implication as a possible cause of autism in vaccinated children.