Sunday, September 16, 2007

Fields of Science Freewrite

Great lists of the fields of science in classes on Thursday. Don't forget the homework for Tuesday, 9/18:
In your notebook, title this work "Fields of Science Freewrite". Answer the question: "Is it possible to study one field of science in isolation from the other fields? Please explain."

1 comment:

Greg said...

Simon (and everyone!),

Some folks looked at 800,000 recent research publications in many fields of science, engineering, and medicine. They sorted through connections made when authors working in one field referenced the research work of authors working in another field.

Here is a brief description of their work:

http://tinyurl.com/25n9vo

The result of their work is a graphical representation called the "Map of Science":

http://mapofscience.com/

-Greg