09 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Faraday Predicts the Electric Nature of the Atom
Summarizing his investigations in electrolysis.
Folksonomies: atom,atomic,prescience,quantum
18 MAR 2012 by ideonexus Call for Nitrogen Fixation
Crookes predicts the failure of farming to support a growing population and calls on chemists to work on improving production.
Folksonomies: chemistry,environmentalism,prescience,agriculture
01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Science is Phrophetic
It predicts the future.
Folksonomies: prophecy,prescience
31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Predictions of the Future are "Laughably Conservative"
Not always true, but a nice sentiment.
Folksonomies: prescience,prediction
02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Byron's Don Juan and Controversy
The poem pokes fun at Adam in the Garden of Eden, and predicts a hopeful future through science.
Folksonomies: science fiction,bible,prescience
14 SEP 2011 by ideonexus William Edward Ayrton Predicts the Cell Phone
And an important culture shift of always being in touch with our friends as we have with social networking.
Folksonomies: engineering,prophecy,prescience,predictions
06 SEP 2011 by ideonexus 1889 Prediction That Has Almost Come True
Andrews predicts our seeing hydrogen as a liquid; although, I do not know if we have seen it as a solid yet.
Folksonomies: prescience,predictions
30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus A Solid Prediction About Science from the Early 1900s
Henry Brooks Adams predicts that human civilization will run away with science and it will consume everything in our society and contain the threat of our destruction.
Folksonomies: science,society,civilization,prescience,predictions
29 AUG 2011 by ideonexus Common Sense Doesn't Work With Science
Russell Lincoln Ackoff quote about how common sense makes no predictions and relies on hindsight for validity, while it rarely predicts what science will discover.
Folksonomies: science,prescience,common sense,predictions
01 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Two Examples of Leaping to Conclusions without the Facts
People, even scientists, thought the train would come apart and asphyxiate its passengers at speeds of 35 MPH, and the rocket was disregarded by the military until the Germans adopted it.
Folksonomies: facts,prescience,error