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1850: Biography and Much More from Answers.com (8904 words) |
 | Congress votes in September to approve the Compromise of 1850, California enters the Union September 9 as the 31st state, and the balance of the Mexican cession is divided at the 37th parallel into the territories of New Mexico and Utah. |
| The Nashville Convention reconvenes for a second session from November 11 to 18 and rejects the Compromise of 1850, calling upon the South to secede, but this time there are fewer delegates, and they have little impact on their fellow Southerners, most of whom are content to let the matter ride. |
| The American Journal of the Medical Sciences publishes a paper by Montgomery, Alabama, surgeon James Marion Sims, 37, describing his success in repairing a vesico-vaginal fistula, an unpleasant and not uncommon tear between the bladder and the vagina that causes urine to leak into the vagina. |
| AK/NATS 1850 6.0A -- Science and Pseudoscience (806 words) |
| It also seeks to determine whether the value placed on science as a form of knowledge is justified, by examining not only ways in which scientists have drawn boundaries between "orthodox" and "unorthodox" science, but also by examining "orthodoxies" and "unorthodoxies" and "pseudo-sciences" within science itself. |
| In addition to the actual content of the course, one of the central aims of the course is to encourage students to develop their critical abilities by providing examples and models of critical reasoning (that is, non-dogmatic skepticism). |
| A further aim is to provide an understanding of the nature and role of science, both historically and in contemporary perspective, and to provide a foundation for understanding and assessing science in contemporary society. |
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