Additionally, I would recommend all to check "*Connections*" and "*Day the
Universe Changed*" documentaries by James Burke.

2008/5/26 Apptech <apptech@paradise.net.nz>:

> 35 lecture series on Science, Civilization and Society
>
>        http://www.incois.gov.in/Tutor/science+society/contents.html
>
> Excellent educational resource for children of all ages.
>
> Excellent prsentation format with main text in a left hand
> pane, while clicking on highlighted text brings up extra
> material in a right hand pane.
>
> Index allows topic of each lecture to be seen by hovering
> over icon. More gimmick than useful but helps keep the page
> compact.
>
> Interestingly, even though this is from Flinders univeristy
> in Oz they have, presumably purposefully, chosen to spell
> civilization incorrectly. No doubt they are tilting at an
> internmational audience with a US bias.
>
>
>        Russell
>
> ___________
>
> A very few sample lecture titles
>
> 2    Civilizations of the world: Mesopotamia, Indus, Egypt,
> Caral; Europe, Africa, Islamic empires
> 24    The coming of age of chemistry.
> 32    The digital computer. New technology changes science
> and society.
> 35    Science, civilization and society in the 21st century.
>
>
>
>
> ___________
>
> Index
>
> W
>
>      W
>        Wall of China 15
>        Wallace 25
>        war casualties 29
>        Warens, Baronesse de 22
>        Washington, George 26
>        water clock
>        15 in China
>        water mill 13 27
>        Watt 21 24 27
>        wave mechanics 28
>        Wealth of Nations 22
>        Wegener 31
>        week 7 length of -
>        Weimar republic 29
>        Weinberg 34
>        wheel
>        absence of,
>          18 in Meso-America
>          18 in South America
>        8 invention of spoked -
>        8 potter's -
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     wheelbarrow 15
>        white dwarf 33
>        William of Orange 20
>        wind mill 13 27
>        WMO 35
>        women
>        1 liberation of -
>        16 22 and Islam
>        women's suffrage 27 35
>        world debt 27
>        world population 9
>        25 theory of growth
>        World War I 29
>        World War II 29 32
>        working class 21 28
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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