• Course Outline and General Information (7 Sep 2017)
• Presentation and Essay Schedule (2 Oct 2017)

CLASS READINGS

• "How to be Antiscientific," Never Pure, Steven Shapin
• "Chapter 2: The Route to Normal Science," The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
• "Chapter 6: Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries," The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
• "Zwicky's Discoveries and the Man," Assorted Readings
• "Vera Rubin and Flat Rotation Curves," Assorted Readings
• "Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter," Assorted Readings
• "Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Dark Matter," Assorted Readings
• "Possibilities for Dark Matter," Assorted Readings
• "Attempts to detect Dark Matter directly," Assorted Readings
• "Possible Dark Matter Sightings," Assorted Readings
• "Nobel Lecture: Measuring the acceleration of the cosmic expansion using supernovae," S. Perlmutter, Rev. Mod. Phys. 84 , 1127 (2012).
• "Theories about Dark Energy", Assorted Readings
• "Final Thoughts About Dark Energy", Assorted Readings (28 Mar 2018)

ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAMPLES

• Essays and Presentations 5 Oct 2017
• Example Essay #1 (2 Oct 2017)
• Example Essay #2 (2 Oct 2017)

• Science Writing Essentials (14 Sep 17)
• Discovery of Gravity Waves (5 Oct 17)
• Gravitational Lensing (15 Nov 17)
• Direct Detection (24 Jan 18)

And here are all the quizzes we had endured:

• Quiz #1
• Quiz #2
• Quiz #3
• Quiz #4
• Quiz #5
• Quiz #6
• Quiz #7
• Quiz #8
• Quiz #9
• Quiz #10

• Large Hadron Rap," by Kate McAlpine (7 Sep 2017)
• Students can find information about college writing centres at this link.
• This is the home page for "Writing at the University of Toronto".
• There is Writing Plus workshop series that provides additional assistance in writing.

REFERENCES

• Thomas Kuhn, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (Springer, New York, 1970), 2nd Edition.
• Steven Shapin, "Never Pure" (Johns Hopkins University Press, Maryland, 2010). Edition.
• Virginia Trimble, "Existence and Nature of Dark Matter in the Universe", Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 25, 452-72 (1987).
• P. J. E. Peeble and B. Ratra, "The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy," Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 559 (2003).

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