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FEMA Cerro Grande Claims:
Payments Properly Processed, but Reporting Could Be Improved
GAO-04-129, Dec 24, 2003
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The Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act (CGFAA) mandated that GAO annually audit all claim payments made to compensate the victims of the Cerro Grande Fire in northern New Mexico. For this third report on this topic, GAO determined whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is now a part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security, (1) paid fire claims in accordance with applicable guidance and (2) implemented corrective actions to address prior GAO recommendations, including determining if FEMA properly reported claim payments to the Congress.
FEMA processed and paid its claims in accordance with its policies and procedures that were established and in place at the time the claims were reviewed and processed. For the period from August 29, 2002, to June 30, 2003, FEMA approved $40 million in claims for payment, including the initial payment of most of the subrogation claims made by insurance companies. In response to GAO's May 2003 report, FEMA established processes to address GAO's recommendations related to reconciling claimed amounts approved with actual amounts paid. These processes included comparing the individual amounts approved for payment to the amounts actually paid from inception through June 30, 2003, by claim, as well as performing complete reconciliations of total amounts that were approved and paid for the same period and as of August 31, 2003. In addition, in our prior report, we noted that FEMA improperly reported unreconciled claim amounts approved for payment as amounts actually paid. In its 2003 annual report, FEMA properly identified claimed amounts as approved amounts for payment rather than actual amounts paid in a schedule that was included in its annual report to the Congress. However, FEMA no longer provided summary information on amounts claimed, amounts approved, and its remaining estimated liabilities in its report to the Congress and did not include any information on claims paid as is required by CGFAA. Without this information, the report is less useful to the Congress and other stakeholders.
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Recommendation for Executive Action
Recommendation: The Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Under Secretary of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate to include summary-level claim information in its annual report to the Congress, including amounts claimed, approved, and paid and remaining estimated program liabilities.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Response
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In FEMA's fiscal year 2004 annual report to the Congress on Cerro Grande, dated November 17, 2004, it disclosed the recommended summary-level claim information on amounts claimed, approved, and paid to date. Additionally, in January 2005, FEMA provided the amount of remaining estimated program liabilities.
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Samsung HT-E6730W
Manufacturer: Samsung Part number: HT-E6730W
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- Get the most out of your 3D entertainment with a home theater system that truly stacks up: the Samsung HT-E6730W. Start with incredible vacuum-tube audio, which blends the best of digital and analog sound in perfect harmony. Samsung's disc to digital streaming service can take DVD disc entertainment and unlock it in the cloud. The power of Smart Blu-ray ... Read more
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Great sounding system although misleading about 7.1
by Elliott_J on June 24, 2012
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Summary: Let me start off by saying I have a very keen ear. I rate many audio setups and speaker systems. All true audiophiles know that a HTIB just simply cannot ...
Summary: Let me start off by saying I have a very keen ear. I rate many audio setups and speaker systems. All true audiophiles know that a HTIB just simply cannot replicate the sound quality of a component system made up of true, high-quality manufactured speakers. That being said, you will not find a closer alternative than this new Samsung system with vacuum tubes. I have owned 4 HTIBs from different manufacturers and I have found Samsung and LG to be at the top, with Sony coming in close behind LG.
Audio - The main reason one would spend this amount of money on a system is for the audio. You want your blu-rays, video games, audio cds and mp3's to come to life and spring out of every speaker. Does this system do that? Absolutely. There is no denying the work that Samsung has put into approaching the high-end audio side of things. These speakers clearly sound better than previous Samsung systems and I feel for people who purchased last year's D model of this system. Of course, knowing Samsung, by next year a new version of this will be out and I will be feeling sorry for myself for this purchase. But that's the market. Always something coming out that's better and that is another downfall of HTIB's. Every year they improve upon the previous year's model and the old model is left in the dust. Component systems have longevity and are able to be upgraded as the owner sees fit. But as I stated earlier, you will not find a better alternative to a component system, at least not right now. Also note that the dual-unit subwoofer is bigger, louder, and way clearer than previous year samsung models. The "boom box effect" that many people complained of is not present with this sub. It produces the highs and lows accurately.
Video - Personally, I feel that blu-ray is clear on any player and that the quality of your video will depend on your television set. I have tested over 20 blu ray players from many brands and while some elements may have been different such as the ability to darken or lighten the screen, or a complicated menu style, the raw blu ray presentation stayed relatively the same. So I cannot advocate purchasing this system based on improved video quality over any other blu-ray player or last year's model for example. Same goes for dvd upconversion. It seems exactly the same as last year's model, although, there are some blu-ray players that do upconvert dvd's better than others. Samsung is pretty good with that on the 4 players I tried out and they were consistent with each other.
Features - There are many apps, including a full web browser but I found it to be choppy and slow. I'll stick to my laptop for surfing the web, although it is a nice idea. The other apps are just like previous years models and have nothing new that I care to comment on. I could not recommend buying this system strictly for the web apps either since many blu ray players, tvs, and HTIBS include different variations of each one.
Worth the price? No. This is where I must warn potential buyers. First off, this is NOT a 7.1 system. Sure there are 7 speakers and a sub, but the 2 front speakers on the top of the towers are simply mirrors of the speakers under it. If you do not have the system in 3D sound mode, nothing will come out of these top 2 speakers, even if you are viewing a blu-ray with a 7.1 audio track selected. This is clearly a marketing scheme by Samsung to trick people into believing they are getting a 7.1 system. The speakers sound great though and the subwoofer does seem to get louder with the 3D sound enabled. Also, there is an equalizer so one may adjust certain settings if they are familiar with what each khz setting does. I am, and I found it to be useful and it made a difference with the material I was listening to.
Overall, I would say to purchase this system when the price goes down to at least 5 or 6 hundred dollars, but by then, next year's model will probably be out and will improve on this year's somehow. Still, for those curious about the vacuum tube amp addition that Samsung made a huge deal out of, I would say that it does significantly improve audio so it is not just a big hype. But this is not a true discrete 7.1 system and that is a disappointment.
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Hope this helps, good luck!3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
The Best Of The Single Package Audio-Video Systems
by dcisive on August 9, 2013
Pros: Very sleek design, Plenty of power, Nice and compact, Near audiophile sound when tweaked, Flawless Video and Audio performance, Integrates seamlessly with any ARC supplied TV, Menus are intelligently laid out
Cons: If one expects to get the best sound out of this system it takes some careful exploration of ALL of the audio setup features. You must properly set up the output levels of each speaker, than consider use of the DSP/3D sound adjustments.
Summary: All in all this is one of the very best solutions to the one package does all. It is delightfully devoid of complexity and yet offers a ton of adjustments ...
Summary: All in all this is one of the very best solutions to the one package does all. It is delightfully devoid of complexity and yet offers a ton of adjustments and tweaks to get all manner of performance where you want it. The system looks very sleek and attractive with other black components such as the stands and tv's out there. Being an audiophile for many years I can concur the tube preamp DOES add to the sweet distortion free nature of this sound system. If I were to have changed anything I would have loved to have had a wireless active sub self powered to about 200 Watts and a variable crossover dial from say 60-120hz. Also have the sub go down to at least 35hz. Otherwise this system is as close to ideal as one can expect short of piecing components one by one together.
Video Dropouts, Hate It!
by Diver4242 on March 15, 2013
Pros: Sounds great, when working properly. Love the tubes!
Cons: For a long time, I couldn't figure out why the screen kept going blank for a few seconds intermittently when watching TV/DVD. I thought it was the cable box. Process of elimination points to this receiver. Still unresolved with Samsung support.
Summary: It really upsets me to not be able to use this system. I tried using thee hdmi1 and hdmi2 ports, changing various settings recommended by support, many options. Everyone in ...
Summary: It really upsets me to not be able to use this system. I tried using thee hdmi1 and hdmi2 ports, changing various settings recommended by support, many options. Everyone in the house is frustrated that at just the worst time in a movie on dvd, tv, etc the screen will blank out for a few seconds, then keep doing it again and again. Very upset at spending so much on this system and having to deal with that. Bad decision to buy it.
One fatal flaw IMHO: No headphone jack!
by DiverDaveT on December 13, 2012
Pros: Good sound for the money
Cons: No headphone jack
Summary: Hard to believe, but there is no headphone jack on this otherwise fine system. This was confirmed to me by Samsung customer service as well as Brands Mart. At the ...
Summary: Hard to believe, but there is no headphone jack on this otherwise fine system. This was confirmed to me by Samsung customer service as well as Brands Mart. At the latter location in South Florida the employee told me all new Samsung products of this type had this flaw, and he deals with weekly complaints as a result. Due to soudn considerations where I leave, I now have to disassemble this whole system and try to sell it used before getting another system that has this important (to me at least( function. Why on earth would Samsung do such an idiotic thing?
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- Manufacturer: Samsung
- Part number: HT-E6730W
- Description: Get the most out of your 3D entertainment with a home theater system that truly stacks up: the Samsung HT-E6730W. Start with incredible vacuum-tube audio, which blends the best of digital and analog sound in perfect harmony. Samsung's disc to digital streaming service can take DVD disc entertainment and unlock it in the cloud. The power of Smart Blu-ray brings you much more than just movies and shows. And it all comes through 7.1 channels - the ideal sonic pairing for the biggest cinematic 3D thrills.
- Product Type Home theater system with iPhone / iPod cradle
- Product type Home theater system
- Dimensions (WxDxH) & Weight Main unit : 16.9 in x 13.9 in x 2.6 in / 8.6 lbs,
Speaker system : 3.7 in x 2.8 in x 47.6 in / 8.2 lbs,
Speaker system : 3.5 in x 2.7 in x 5.6 in / 1.3 lbs,
Speaker system : Center channel speaker : 14.7 in x 2.7 in x 2.9 in / 2 lbs,
Speaker system : Subwoofer : 7.9 in x 13.8 in x 15.4 in / 12.6 lbs - Color Midnight black
- Components Blu-ray player / receiver,
Speaker system - Surround System Class 7.1 channel
- Amplifier Output Details 165 Watt - 3 Ohm - 4 channel(s) ( Front ),
170 Watt - 3 Ohm - 1 channel(s) ( Center ),
165 Watt - 3 Ohm - 2 channel(s) ( Surround ),
170 Watt - 3 Ohm - 1 channel(s) ( Subwoofer ) - Sound Output Mode Surround Sound
- Built-in Decoders Dolby Digital,
Dolby Digital Plus,
Dolby Pro Logic II,
Dolby TrueHD,
DTS-HD - Surround Sound Effects Vertical Surround Sound,
3D Sound Plus - Input Sensitivity 500 mV
- Response Bandwidth 20 - 40000 Hz
- Signal-To-Noise Ratio 70 dB
- Output Power (Total) 1330 Watt
- Additional Features Audio Return Channel (ARC),
3D Sound Plus,
Crystal Amp Plus,
Smart Volume,
Vacuum tube technology Networking & Digital Media
- Connectivity Built-in Wi-Fi
- Internet streaming services Smart Hub,
Facebook - DLNA Yes
Speaker System
- Speaker(s) Center channel speaker,
2 x Wireless rear speakers - External - 140 - 20000 Hz - Wired,
2 x Front speakers - External - 140 - 20000 Hz,
1 x Passive subwoofer - External - 140 - 20000 Hz - Wired,
1 - External - 40 - 160 Hz - Wired,
2 - External - 140 - 20000 Hz - Wireless DVD / Blu-ray
- DVD/Blu-ray type Blu-ray player
- 3D Yes
- BD Profiles Profile 2.0 (BD-Live)
- Media Format DVD,
DVD-RW - Supported Digital Audio Standards AC-3,
WMA - Supported Digital Video Standards XviD,
WMV - Output Resolution 1080p
- Additional Features 2D & 3D playback,
JPEG photo playback Equalizer
- Equalizer Yes
Inputs & Outputs
- Connections 2xHDMI input-Rear,
1xHDMI output-Rear,
1xAudio line-in-Rear,
1xComposite video output-Rear,
1xSPDIF input-Rear - Optical Digital Input Yes
Signal Processing
- DVD/Bul-ray upscaling Yes
- Type of remote control Universal remote control - Infrared
- Included accessories [Jul 2, 2008 from CDS: Miscellaneous] Universal remote control
- Power Device Power supply - Internal
- Power Consumption Operational 127.7 Watt
Dimensions & Weight (Shipping)
- Width 36.3 in
- Depth 17.6 in
- Height 15.5 in
- Weight 60.6 lbs
Manufacturer info
- Manufacturer profile
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- Manufacturer:Samsung
- Address:
105 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660 - Phone: 1-800-726-7864
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Blue Microphones Yeti Pro USB Microphone
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11 Questions from the Community
does it work with live chat on skype
does this product work with making youtube videos or doing a google hangout, what about imovie and final cut pro
- Asked by Joel T from Cobourg
- Apr 1, 2013
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What is better for studio recording the Blue Mic Yeti Pro or the Blue Mic Yeti THX?
- Asked by Alexander S from Grand Prairie
- Mar 22, 2011
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Best AnswerThe Yeti Pro can record up to 192 kHz/24-bit, while the Yeti tops out at 48 kHz/24-bit. The Pro model has the capability for a stereo analog XLR connection, in addition to the digital USB that both have. Otherwise, they're very similar.
- Answered by Kenneth D from Ottawa
- Mar 26, 2011
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According to Blue Microphones THX is not certifying any microphones in alte 2011 2012 time frame and phasing out the THX logo usage on microphones. Blue Microphones states that Yeti Por has same or better specs than Yeti with THX logo just that THX no longer offers THX logo licensing etc for microphones. You will find similar info if yoiu do a Google search for Yeti Por microphone. I have one and am just getting started using it for podcast and screencasting. I plan to test it with iPad to see if it works.
- Answered by John C from Carnation
- Jan 17, 2012
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Which one should I choose? Yeti Pro or Yeti? Does their difference worth 100 bucks?
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- Apr 28, 2012
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Does the Blue Mic Yeti Pro and Bulue yeti work with windows 7 ??? Give me the link how ? Thanks.
I want to order Blue Mic Yeti Pro
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- Mar 28, 2012
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how well does this work with soundtrack Pro?
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- Jan 5, 2012
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Is it good like the ones that music artist uses?
If anyone who had already bought this kindly please answer my question because if it is good like the music artist uses I would be happy to buy it.
- Asked by Lianne Nicole N from Perth
- Oct 17, 2011
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does the yeti pro work with the ipad or ipad2 without a extra usb power source?
- Asked by Beau B from Anchorage
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Best AnswerThere are videos all over You Tube and the Net that show people using an Apple camera USB adaptor and the Yeti without any issue. I plan to try it myself.
I notice another people has posted an "absolutely not" reply. I'm not sure why that is. Has he tried to connect and failed? Also if he did, was it an Apple USB adaptor or another brand? I know when the update came for the iPad, some third-party USB connectors failed to operate. Not so with the Apple branded product.
Maybe people should not assume things don't work until they try them. The hundreds of videos I've found on the iPad and Yeti make it clear that you can connect and record with very good quality.- Answered by Joseph Z from Blaine
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"Masters Of American Photography" Opening at Etherton Gallery June 11
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Etherton Gallery presents its summer exhibition, Masters of American Photography (June 11, 2011 – August 27, 2011). The show opens with a reception Saturday, June 11, 2011, 7-10pm.
The exhibition, which celebrates Etherton Gallery's 30th Anniversary, features a selection of photographs recently acquired from important private collections by the great practitioners of American photography: including Ansel Adams, Richard Misrach, Ruth Bernhard and Frank A. Rinehart, and works culled from the gallery's extensive holdings.
The exhibition articulates the breadth of Etherton Gallery's distinctly classical American aesthetic with a few twists and turns, developed over the last 30 years. Highlights of the show include rare vintage prints from the Night Desert series (c. 1975-77) by Richard Misrach; El Capitan, Sunrise, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California (1968) by Ansel Adams; Ruth Bernhard's sensuous nude, In the Box, Horizontal (1962); Joel Peter Witkin's s beautiful portrait, La Giovanissima (2007); a vintage print of Helmut Newton's In My Apartment, Paris (1978); and a rare image of Chief Joseph – Nez Perces (1879) by Frank A. Rinehart.
Other highlights include works by Harry Callahan, Linda Connor, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Mark Klett, Danny Lyon, Timothy O'Sullivan, Frederick Sommer, Garry Winogrand, and numerous others.
Etherton Gallery is located in SoCo (the recently designated cultural district South of Congress) at 135 South 6th Avenue in downtown Tucson, AZ 85701, above Janos Downtown Kitchen+Cocktails. Regular hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm and by appointment. For more information, contact the gallery at (520) 624-7370 or email@example.com


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Constance Sidles will share some essays from her newest collection as she talks about birding the Montlake Fill in Seattle at Thursday's meeting of the Black Hills Audubon Society.
Sidles is a master birder and board member of Seattle Audubon. She received her degree in Egyptology from the University of Chicago and has written or edited 18 books and more than 700 articles.
In her newest collection of essays, she writes about the relationship of human nature to wild nature. She will introduce attendees to the birds she finds every day at the fill, including a loud kingfisher, the fierce red-tailed hawk and a most elusive Virginia rail.
Social hour begins at 7 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 701 Franklin St. SE, Olympia.
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When Alex unexpectedly passed away after only thirty-one years of life, his last words to his dearest friend were, "You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you." A touching sentiment indeed, but all the more impressive because Alex was an African Grey Parrot. Over the course of thirty years of work between psychologist Irene Pepperberg and Alex, purchased from a Chicago pet store at one year of age, the parrot amassed a vocabulary of some 150 words. According to one report, he was able to recognize fifty different objects, could count quantities up to six, and could distinguish among seven colours and five shapes. He also understood the ideas of "bigger" and "smaller", and "same" and "different".
Alex isn't the only non-human to display such talents. Kanzi is a 31-year-old male bonobo who lives in a small social group with others of his species at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. Bonobos, together with chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. After years of working with primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi can now understand several thousand words, and can communicate using a kind of keyboard that contains around 400 visual symbols called lexigrams.
Then there's Rico, a border collie who knows the labels of around 200 different items, and can retrieve them on command. Compared to Alex and Kanzi, this might not seem particularly impressive or interesting. However, Rico can learn the label of an item that he's never seen before after only hearing the word once. If there are 20 items in front of him, 19 of which he already knows the labels for, and he is instructed to retrieve an item using a word he had never heard before, Rico can infer that the unfamiliar item matches with the unfamiliar word. Weeks later, he still remembers the pairing. This process of word-learning, called fast-mapping, is identical to the process through which young children learn new words.
Not to be outdone by the feathered or furry, there's the female Atlantic bottlenose dolphins Akeakamai and Phoenix who lived at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. A famous paper by marine biologist Louis Herman and colleagues in 1984 described Akeakamai and Phoenix's abilities to understand sentences in visual or acoustic artificial languages.
The researchers gave the dolphins instructions constructed entirely of familiar words, but in various combinations that would only be understood by knowing the grammar of the sentences, not just the vocabulary. For example, "Phoenix Akeakamai Over" was an instruction for Phoenix to swim to Akeakamai and jump over her, while "Akeakamai Surfboard Fetch Speaker" instructed Akeakamai to get the surfboard and bring it to the speaker. In each case the dolphin had to interpret the verb "over" or "fetch" according to the noun: did "fetch" apply to the surfboard or to the speaker, for instance?
Language barrier
Primates, birds, cetaceans, dogs and other species have proven able, through extensive training, to understand human words and simple sentences. And as Ed Yong explained, in some exceptional cases, such as Kanzi and Alex, they've even been able to engage in two-way communication with humans.
However, language is more than a process through which meaning is attached to words or short sentences. Language might be described as the ability to take a finite set of elements (such as words), and using a set of rules (grammar and syntax) to create infinite combinations, each of which is comprehensible. Given this definition, it is perhaps not surprising then that cognitive psychologists sometimes speak of a "grammar of action".
Like sentences, the catalogue of human actions is infinite. We stretch, bend, and kick. We build bridges and prepare meals. We perform an endless variety of dance routines. We make paper airplanes. A complex action, like hammering a nail, can be broken down into its constituent actions – grasping, striking, reaching – just as a sentence can be broken into its units – nouns, verbs, adjectives. In 1951, cognitive psychologist Karl Lashley proposed a link between language and action. "Not only speech," he wrote, "but all skilled acts seem to involve the same problems of serial ordering, even down to the temporal coordination of muscular contractions in such a movement as reaching and grasping." Just as a stream of speech does not contain explicit pauses between words, fluid actions like nail hammering do not contain breaks between their components. Yet humans effortlessly parse speech streams and action sequences into their parts.


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January 23, 2009
Lincoln vs. Darwin (Part 2 of 4)
Recently, someone here at Smithsonian asked: Who was more important, Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin? Yesterday, senior editor T.A. Frail took up the fight for Lincoln. Today, our blog overseer, senior editor Laura Helmuth, argues for Darwin.
Please add your own arguments to the comments. Make a convincing case and I might recruit you into our little office blog war.
Laura Helmuth:
Abe Lincoln? Love him. Best president ever. The most inspiring spot in Washington, D.C. is the Lincoln Memorial–stand there in a crowd sometime and read the Second Inaugural etched into the wall and listen to all the sniffles.
There are two ways to approach this debate: either argue about whose accomplishments were more important or argue about how necessary each man was to those accomplishments. To take the last point first, it's true that the abolition movement was growing stronger and eventually would have prevailed without Lincoln. (I'm not going to wade into the debate about whether the Union would have survived without him.) Likewise, knowledge of the natural world was growing and somebody would have (and Wallace pretty much did) figured out evolution by natural selection if Darwin hadn't. (But it sure helped that Darwin gathered data meticulously and presented his case so logically. Even though his carefulness was due in part to the fact that he knew his Great Idea had the potential to upset the church, the scientific establishment, and the missus (Emma Darwin was devout).)
I prefer the first line of argument. And how to say this nicely… Lincoln may matter in our measly little lives, but Darwin matters to the entire world and all time. He explained everything that came before him and explains everything that has been learned since. Lincoln worked wonders with his one country, but Darwin allowed us to make sense of all of life on Earth (and presumably any other planet).
Mark, Sarah, and commenters–you guys go ahead and clear this up for us. I'm going to the Galapagos to find some finches.
Who Was More Important?
- Charles Darwin (54%, 110 Votes)
- Abraham Lincoln (46%, 94 Votes)
Total Voters: 203
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[...] back tomorrow for the first pro-Darwin argument. Posted By: Sarah Zielinski — From the Magazine, History of Science | Link | [...]
Darwin "started the debate" about natural selection. He said clearly that if "only one" of his theories could be scientifically questioned, then all of his theories should be questioned and tested. That is what scientists are suppose to do – question, question, question – how theories can or "if" they answer what is observed in the natural world. What has happened is that scientists and anybody else who questions the acceptance of Darwin's theories as absolute truth are shunned and criticized. Theories are theories and are suppose to be questioned just as Darwin questioned his own and learned that his theories raised many more hypothesis. He never stopped thinking critically. I am sure he never expected that other scientists would stop thinking critically about the complexities he observed in the natural world. With the advances in technology applied to the development of scientific instruments that continue to reveal stunning revelations, scientists must continue to observe and question and search and test for more information. Keep thinking critically and work diligently to understand the natural world – only the surface, regardless of the hundreds of thousands of published works, has been studied. So very much more to study…and the beat goes on and on….jk
I always wonder about the veracity of these apples-to-oranges debates. What is better? Who is greater? Who was the most influential? Is this passion to label "what is best" a universal human trait or a product of the competitive American temperment?
There really can't be a "winner" unless you compare like objects or subjects. What is more important, a black hole or a Picasso painting? A trout or a windmill? A telephone or an opal?
Lincoln versus Darwin is hardly a fair or relevant question. Shouldn't the discussion be Lincoln vs Franklin Roosevelt or Lincoln vs Winston Churchill? Darwin vs Galileo or Darwin vs Watson/Crick?
Well, enough of this. I have to get back to my comparison of raisins and snowshoe crabs.
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