Tues || 9.11: In-class meeting
□ "Who is to Decide When Doctors Disagree?" Scientific hoaxing in the 19th century
□ The Chess-Playing Mechanical Brain
□ 21st-century Mermaids

□ Pass Out Instructions for Essay #1 on The Hollow Earth [due Friday 9.21 by 11:59 p.m. in the canvas dropbox, with a 24-hour grace period]

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week 4 reading
□ Standish, The Hollow Earth, Chapter 8, pp. 259-289
□ Brooke Jarvis, "The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger," New Yorker (July 2018)

□ "The Victorians and Science Fiction" at the Virtual Victorian blog
□ The Public Domain Review, "A 19th-century vision of the Year 2000"
□ Le Voyage dans la lune (George Melies, 1902) / [13 minutes] / Background (short) and Background with more detail (wikipedia)

Le Voyage dans la lune
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Online lab session assignment || bring worksheet to class on Tues 9.19

□ Online assignment #4: Children's Science TV
□ Choose either Bill Nye, the Science Guy, "Chemical Reactions" (1994; 23 minutes) or Watch Mr. Wizard! "Six Kinds of Electricity" (1951; 28 minutes) [worksheet]