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- Classical Music (Schwob)
- Allows searches and provides generous audio clips.
- Literature - Classical (Able Media)
- Provides lessons related to ancient Greek mythology, history, and literature. Requires the use of the Adobe Reader, which is free.
- Gershwin, George (Classical Net)
- Provides a biography of the great American composer. 2-01
- Composers - Biographies of Classical Music Composers (Norrish)
- Provides brief profiles of famous composers, as well as lesser known composers. 6-02
- Rhetoric - Classical Rhetoric (Rhetoric.org)
- Provides links to classical rhetoric sources, such as Cicero. 3-05
- Fiction (Bibliomania)
- Provides 100 classical works of fiction.
- Chinese Poetry (China, The Beautiful - Pei)
- Provides classical Chinese poetry. 3-00
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Biography (Wikipedia.org)
- Provides a biography.
- Biographies of Artists (Artchive.com)
- Provides biographies by style or period of art, including Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko...), Baroque (Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini...), Contemporary and Postmodern (Basquiat, Beuys, Clemente...), Dada and Surrealism (Dali, Duchamp, Magritte...), Futurism (Boccioni, Balla...), Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Degas...), Photographers (Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman...), Post-Impressionism (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin...), Renaissance (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael...), Romanticism (Friedrich, Delacroix, Fuseli...), Spanish (Goya, Velazquez, El Greco...), Women (O'Keeffe, Cassatt, Kahlo...), American Art (Homer, Hopper, Whistler...), Art Nouveau (Klimt, Schiele, Mucha...), Bauhaus (Kandinsky, Klee...), Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Gris...), Expressionism (Munch, Beckmann, Bacon...), Hudson River School (Bierstadt, Cole, Church...), Neo-Classical (David, Ingres, Poussin...), Pop Art (Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg...), Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti, Millais, Hunt...), Rococo (Watteau, Fragonard), Sculptors (Rodin, Brancusi, Moore...), and Symbolism (Blake, Moreau, Redon...). Provides copies of the most famous work of many of the artists. 3-01
- Essay - Need for a Culture of Compromise (MideastWeb.org - Heggy)
- "A few years ago, I discovered that there is no equivalent in the Arabic language, classical or colloquial, for the English word 'compromise', which is most commonly translated into Arabic in the form of two words, literally meaning ‘halfway solution’."
"As language is not merely a tool of communication but the depositary of a society’s cultural heritage, reflecting its way of thinking and the spirit in which it deals with things and with others, as well as the cultural trends which have shaped it, I realized that we were here before a phenomenon with cultural (and, consequently, political, economic and social) implications."
Heggy argues that "compromise is the strongest product of nature, life and the march of civilizations and cultures, while a rigid refusal to consider the merits of anyone else’s opinion and to insist on obtaining all one’s demands runs counter to the logic of science, nature, humanity, culture and civilization." 11-02 - Zappa, Frank (RockHall.com)
- "Frank Zappa was rock and roll’s sharpest musical mind and most astute social critic. He was the most prolific composer of his age, and he bridged genres – rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde and even novelty music - with masterful ease. Under his own name and with the Mothers of Invention, Zappa recorded 60 albums’ worth of material in his 52 years." 9-03
- Quantum Mechanics (Wikipedia.org)
- "Quantum mechanics is a physical theory which, for very small objects such as atoms, produces results that are very different and much more accurate than those of classical mechanics. It is the underlying framework of many fields of physics and chemistry, including condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, and particle physics." 10-04
- -Statistics Program (R-Project.org)
- "R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity."
"One of R's strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full control."
"R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS."
Editor's Note: This free software provides good service for statistics and graphing needs. It can be used with Windows or MacIntosh operating systems. 10-09 - Freire, Paulo (Wikipedia.org)
- "Paulo Freire (Recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 - São Paulo, Brazil May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of education."
"Paulo Freire contributes a philosophy of education that comes not only from the more classical approaches stemming from Plato, but also from modern Marxist and anti-colonialist thinkers. In fact, in many ways his Pedagogy of the Oppressed may best be read as an extension of or reply to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, which laid strong emphasis on the need to provide native populations with an education which was simultaneously new and modern (rather than traditional) and anti-colonial (that is, that was not simply an extension of the culture of the colonizer)."
"Freire is best-known for his attack on what he called the banking concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher. Of course, this is not really a new move — Rousseau's conception of the child as an active learner was already a step away from the tabula rasa (which is basically the same as the 'banking concept'), and thinkers like John Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead were strongly critical of the transmission of mere 'facts' as the goal of education. Freire's work is one of the foundations of critical pedagogy." 11-05 - Supersymmetry (Wikipedia.org)
- "In particle physics, supersymmetry is a hypothetical symmetry that relates bosons and fermions. In supersymmetric theories, every fundamental fermion has a superpartner which is a boson and vice versa. Although supersymmetry has yet to be observed in the real world, it remains a vital part of many proposed theories of physics, including various extensions to the Standard Model as well as modern superstring theories. The mathematical structure of supersymmetry, invented in a particle-physics context, has been applied with useful results in other areas, ranging from quantum mechanics to classical statistical physics and pure mathematics." 01-06
- Combining Relativity and Quantum Theory (Physics.Weber.edu)
- "The two major physics discoveries of the first part of this century, quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of special relativity present new challenges when treated together. The energy "uncertainty" introduced in quantum theory combines with the mass-energy equivalence of special relativity to allow the creation of particle/anti-particle pairs by quantum fluctuations when the theories are merged. As a result there is no self-consistent theory which generalizes the simple, one-particle Schrödinger equation into a relativistic quantum wave equation."
"The most successful approach to this problem, developed in the early 30's, begins not with a single relativistic particle, but with a relativistic classical field theory, such as Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. This classical field theory is then "quantized" in the usual way and the resulting quantum field theory realizes a consistent combination of quantum mechanics and relativity. However, this theory is inherently a many-body theory with the quanta of the normal modes of the classical field having all the properties of physical particles." 01-06 - Quantum Gravity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- "Quantum Gravity: A physical theory describing the gravitational interactions of matter and energy in which matter and energy are described by quantum theory. In most, but not all, theories of quantum gravity, gravity is also quantized. Since the contemporary theory of gravity, general relativity, describes gravitation as the curvature of spacetime by matter and energy, a quantization of gravity implies some sort of quantization of spacetime itself. Insofar as all extant physical theories rely on a classical spacetime background, this presents profound methodological and ontological challenges for the philosopher and the physicist." 01-06
- Extinction Level Event (Wikipedia.org)
- "An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) occurs when a large number of species die out in a relatively short period of time. Based on the fossil record, the background rate of extinctions on Earth is about two to five taxonomic families of marine invertebrates and vertebrates every million years."
"The classical 'Big Five' mass extinctions identified by Raup and Sepkoski (1982) are widely agreed upon as some of the most significant: End Ordovician, Late Devonian, End Permian, End Triassic, and End Cretaceous." 03-06 - Trojan Horses Definition (Wikipedia.org)
- "In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software. The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. They may look useful or interesting (or at the very least harmless) to an unsuspecting user, but are actually harmful when executed." 04-06
- Principia Mathematica (Wikipedia.org)
- "The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin: "mathematical principles of natural philosophy", often Principia or Principia Mathematica for short) is a three-volume work by Isaac Newton published on July 5, 1687. It contains the statement of Newton's laws of motion forming the foundation of classical mechanics as well as his law of universal gravitation. He derives Kepler's laws for the motion of the planets (which were first obtained empirically)." 06-06