Welcome to Citizendium: Difference between revisions

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
imported>Aleta Curry
(...several edits to main page in a row....)
imported>Aleta Curry
(That's approx 7 1/2 hours into the Write-a-thon....)
Line 27: Line 27:
|}
|}
|- style="width:50%; border: solid 1px #ffffff; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 2px; background:"|
|- style="width:50%; border: solid 1px #ffffff; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 2px; background:"|
| style="width:50%; border: solid 3px #CCCC66; colspan = 4; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 6px;" colspan=2 |!--
| style="width:50%; border: solid 3px #CCCC66; colspan = 4; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 6px;" colspan=2 |<!--
=== Reminder! The Write-a-Thon approaches!  ===
=== Reminder! The Write-a-Thon approaches!  ===
[[Image:Writeathon.png|left]] On Wednesday, February 6th we're inviting all Citizens to come to the wiki, start a new article, and edit somebody else's new article.  It's a '''[[CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon|Write-a-Thon]]'''!  It's a wiki-whoopie, a cyber-social, a collaborative kegger!
[[Image:Writeathon.png|left]] On Wednesday, February 6th we're inviting all Citizens to come to the wiki, start a new article, and edit somebody else's new article.  It's a '''[[CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon|Write-a-Thon]]'''!  It's a wiki-whoopie, a cyber-social, a collaborative kegger!

Revision as of 15:29, 5 February 2008

Logo400grbeta small.png
Natural Sciences       Social Sciences       Humanities
Arts       Applied Arts and
Sciences
      
Recreation

Welcome!

We are an encyclopedia project, and more.

We are a different sort of Web 2.0 wiki:

  • We aim at credibility and quality, not just quantity.
  • Both the general public and credentialed experts are encouraged to get involved.
  • We use our real names, not pseudonyms.
  • We're both collegial and congenial.

We have added [[:Category:CZ Live|over Template:Articles number articles]] (and many subpages), and over five million words.

Announcement: Eduzendium encourages university instructors to assign CZ topics to students!

Group Status: check it out; Citizens, add yourselves!

Contribute to Citizendium!

Learn about us

Initiatives

Support us

Some of our finest [ about ]

Approved.png

Draft of the Week [ about ]

1901 photograph of a stentor (announcer) at the Budapest Telefon Hirmondó.
Telephone newspaper is a general term for the telephone-based news and entertainment services which were introduced beginning in the 1890s, and primarily located in large European cities. These systems were the first example of electronic broadcasting, and offered a wide variety of programming, however, only a relative few were ever established. Although these systems predated the invention of radio, they were supplanted by radio broadcasting stations beginning in the 1920s, primarily because radio signals were able to cover much wider areas with higher quality audio.

[more...]

New Draft of the Week [ about ]

Cosmology[1] is a branch of astronomy and of metaphysics committed to the study of the universe as a whole, of the contents, structure, and evolution of the universe from the beginning of time to the future.

As a branch of two very old endeavours of humanity, the study of the sky and the origins of the world, it embraces numerous related inquiries concerned with the world we live in and, to the extent it could be imagined and observed, the universe. As a branch of metaphysics it attained some prominence when Christian von Wolffe published Discursus Praeliminaris de Philosophia in Genere (1728). Von Wolff placed cosmology in his classification scheme of the main areas of philosophy, distinguishing cosmology from ontology, theology and psychology, essentially making it a distinctive field of philosophy unto itself. As a philosphy, its nature has been disputed over time since von Wolff but it can be said that generally, it is thought to encompass humanity's experience in, and the nature of, the physical world. As a science, it encompasses the work of observational astronomy and theoretical physics as scholars in both fields attempt to describe and explain the physical universe. Cosmology, as a science, attempts to construct models of the physical universe from observational data which are then tested. Cosmology, as metaphysics, involves a priori investigations of a rational cosmology and the conceptual and categorical analyses of the speculative philosopher.[2] [more...]

  1. compare with cosmogony the study of or a theory of the creation and evolution of the universe. Sometimes creation myths are termed cosmogonies. Greek cosmos:order, the universe, the world + gonos: creation, birth. [1] Webster, M. Grand Valley State University, Allendale Michigan
  2. Munitz, Milton K. (1967) Cosmology. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Paul Edwards (Ed.) Vol 2 New York: Macmillan