GEN 410 - Baccalaureate Capstone I

Online Resources

"Lifetime Achievement: E.O. Wilson," Time/CNN's Wilson profile by Michael J. Novacek
"Wilson, Edward Osborne," from The Columbia Encyclopedia 6e
"Consilience," from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary
Wilson interviews:
- "All for One, One for All" by Toby Lester for Atlantic Unbound, March 18, 1998
- "Divisive Ideas on 'Unification'" by Terence Monmaney for The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1998
- "Uniting Knowledge" by David Gergen for PBS' Newshour, June 30, 1998
- "Unity of Knowledge" by Robert Siegel for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, March 11, 1998
Consilience reviews:
- Richard D. Chessick's review from the The Academy Forum, Fall/Winter 1999
- Jerry Fodor's review from the London Review of Books, October 29, 1998
- Dale Jamieson's review from Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 1998
- H. Allen Orr's review from the Boston Review, October/November 1998
Theseus and the Minotaur:
- Theoi Project page: Minotauros (includes several kylixes and other works)
- Theoi Project page: Plutarch, Life of Theseus
Arts and Sciences Departments at Harvard University
Sensorium.com's site on Pablo Amaringo and the Usko Ayar Amazonian School
paintings by Pablo Amaringo

Neil Postman Online (by Christopher Blosser)
NPR Talk of the Nation streaming audio: "American Education Standards" (January 9, 1996)
Technopoly reviews:
Postman's death:
- New York University press release: "Neil Postman, University Professor of Media Ecology, dies at 72" (October 10, 2003)
- NPR Morning Edition streaming audio: "Media Critic Neil Postman Dies" (October 9, 2003)
- The New York Times Obituary: "Neil Postman, 72, Mass Media Critic, Dies" (October 9, 2003)
- Remembering Neil Postman
"Look Who's Talking" by Howard Rheingold for Wired, January 1999

Lincoln at Gettysburg reviews:
- William McFeely's review (from the New York Times)
The Library of Congress American Memory Project: Civil War Photographs
- Gettysburg photos
Gettysburg Address as read by Johnny Cash
(Note Cash's retelling of the legend that Lincoln wrote the Address on the back of an envelope while traveling to Gettysburg.)
"Eyewitness at Gettysburg", an NPR Lost and Found Sound recording c. 1938 of William V. Rathvon, who watched Lincoln's delivery of the Address at the age of nine
Soldiers National Cemetery, Gettysburg
Rural Cemetery Movement:
- "Rural cemetery" (Wikipedia article)
- Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris (English version)
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston
- Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo
- Buffalo Cemeteries (quikmap)
Plain Style sources:
- Michael Harvey's Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: The Plain Style
- The Plain Language Action and Information Network
- "Plain Style," from the American Passages glossary