Nature Nerds of Austin - Items of Interest - Weekly Update

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The purpose of this weekly update is to provide a collection point for whitepapers, book notices, videos, and other media that is interesting, groundbreaking, or has other relevance to the exploration of nature, also known as objective reality, and therefore impact on our future. An ancillary goal is to get you to participate in citizen science.

Feel free to respond to entries with your thoughts and supporting references. References should be primary, secondary, or survey papers, journals, or newly published books. Textbooks are acceptable, but are behind the current state of the art and should be used only with regard to clarifying the basic principles or currently accepted theory. In general, other sorts of documentation or media don't qualify as relevant.

References:

Nullius in verba -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba

Citizen Science -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science
Citizen Science -- https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice -- https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/
Citizen Science -- https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/citizen-science-article/

Richard Feynman -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
"Ode to a Flower" -- https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/01/01/ode-to-a-flower-richard-feynman/
Trees Come 'From Out Of The Air,' Said Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. Really? -- https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/25/161753383/trees-come-from-out-of-the-air-says-nobel-laureate-richard-feynman-really
The Character of Physical Laws (Part 1/7) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk
The Feynman Lectures on Physics -- https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

Outline of Logic -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_logic
List of mathematical logic topics -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_logic_topics
List of Fallacies -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
Paraconsistent Logic -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic

Scientific (or Rational) Skepticism -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_skepticism
Pantheism -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism -- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/ -- https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=001101905209118093242%3Arsrjvdp2op4&q=+Pantheism

Scientific Method -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method -- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/ -- https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=001101905209118093242%3Arsrjvdp2op4&q=+Scientific+Method

Socratic Method -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
Socratic Questioning -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning

E.O. Wilson -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O.Wilson
Consilience -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience
Consilience (book) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience(book)

Karl Popper -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper -- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/
Verisimilitude -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude

The next three links are events that Nature Nerds of Austin presents a couple of times a year and are intended for somebody who has little to no experience with how to find information about a topic and how to focus their efforts for best return. The links are to past events.

How to (seriously) read a scientific paper - Hybrid -- https://4142298.xyz/nature-nerds-of-austin/events/299286968/?eventOrigin=group_calendar

Drinking from the Firehose! - Finding Current Sci-Tech News -- https://4142298.xyz/nature-nerds-of-austin/events/295744322/?eventOrigin=group_calendar

Investigating the Edge - Current Open Problems -- https://4142298.xyz/nature-nerds-of-austin/events/295763604/?eventOrigin=group_calendar

This next link is from an unrelated site that has a great (IMHO) description of the processes for beginners or a refresher for the experienced.

Rondam Ramblings (Blog) - A Clean-Sheet Introduction to the Scientific Method (Multi-part) -- https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/03/a-clean-sheet-introduction-to.html