https://sah.hcommons.org/members/rochelleforrester/activity/ Activity feed for Rochelle Forrester. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3e2019e9c48bb94af9ea38fa366d6d67 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901701/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:48:25 -0400 Limited edition digital books would be good investments for both exchange traded funds and individual investors. Limited edition digital books are a new means of publishing done by creating semi fungible tokens on the blockchain. The tokens consist of both an image and text and when the text is read in order, it tells a story like any other book.…[Read more]

]]> 0 225750655558fa92d774df8caa809996 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772662/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:26:17 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment has a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7021676367ead1250d2f43ebbe735e54 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772622/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:59:28 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment has a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ed7955ec32f687f1ff444a38ff976bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761378/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 04:07:59 -0500 0 293812d9f56d6be7862ed7d3f7888be4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725728/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:04:46 -0500 This paper reviews some of the literature on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The publications involved tend to follow similar patterns of first identifying the mysteries, puzzles or paradoxes of the quantum world, and then discussing the existing interpretations of these matters, before the authors produce their own interpretations, or side…[Read more]

]]> 0 551bf2924cda64ce84e77a7cb8dc15e8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703378/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:14:49 -0400 This paper addresses the question of whether the fetus is human and its effect on the abortion debate. It investigates the concept of “human” and asks whether the concept of human has an essence or is best understood by the idea of family resemblance. It asks whether DNA is the essence of humanity and concludes that it is not and that humanity is…[Read more]

]]> 0 48894e256d9804ba8e02158124c3b5bb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682508/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:25:21 -0400 Organic chemistry in the nineteenth century developed with a specific order of discovery, which was the inevitable path by which our knowledge of organic chemistry had to develop. New methods of analysis of organic materials led to new experimental results, which led to new theories about the nature of organic chemistry. Some of those theories…[Read more]

]]> 0 1dd32ef17326159cbb3296227620de6c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682372/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:21:43 -0400 Organic chemistry in the nineteenth century developed with a specific order of discovery, which was the inevitable path by which our knowledge of organic chemistry had to develop. New methods of analysis of organic materials led to new experimental results, which led to new theories about the nature of organic chemistry. Some of those theories…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bdbb925e5c2c56bf607ec8ec6169a5e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677578/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:27:22 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. When human knowledge of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 86c33f277e76edb97133e8d3f8b369f6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677524/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:56:38 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. When human knowledge of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ea851d9d71d971d31987241b221b06e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677217/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 16:25:34 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the human environment. The invention of glass and microscopes and telescopes, substantially increased human knowledge of the human environment. Microscopes and telescopes would not have been possible without the prior discovery of…[Read more]

]]> 0 817b37c56c2fffcab95069f9527da14a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677215/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 16:25:31 -0500 The invention of photography was only possible due to the camera obscura effect which produces an upside down image of a scene on the back wall of a box when light is reflected through a tiny hole in the box. The camera obscura effect has been known since classical times. The invention of photography required that the image be fixed and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d21a0a14ac8eb52ae322f4bec0878da https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677191/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 10:44:19 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the human environment. The invention of glass and microscopes and telescopes, substantially increased human knowledge of the human environment. Microscopes and telescopes would not have been possible without the prior discovery of…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fd163340930ae096702fdcc0180bc8e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677185/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 05:57:25 -0500 The invention of photography was only possible due to the camera obscura effect which produces an upside down image of a scene on the back wall of a box when light is reflected through a tiny hole in the box. The camera obscura effect has been known since classical times. The invention of photography required that the image be fixed and…[Read more]

]]> 0 036df37903c6688e8d8f93043328899a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677164/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 16:29:25 -0500 The invention of motion pictures was only possible due to the prior discovery of the phenomenon of persistence of vision, the prior invention of photography and the ability to produce photographs with very brief exposure times. These discoveries were necessary before motion pictures could be invented, and given how human beings like to be…[Read more]

]]> 0 532b72b8234fa886e815b9fc64c6d712 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677107/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 06:06:46 -0500 The invention of motion pictures was only possible due to the prior discovery of the phenomenon of persistence of vision, the prior invention of photography and the ability to produce photographs with very brief exposure times. These discoveries were necessary before motion pictures could be invented, and given how human beings like to be…[Read more]

]]> 0 abe2619af573c99543691967e8a495fc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676868/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:37:39 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment includes the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5db96e73048b6c361133f8ee573d186d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676799/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 04:52:00 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment includes the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcae81e98013eb5aa20b51c6e9cca250 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676555/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:30:28 -0500 This paper was written in order to study the development of stone tool technology throughout the Paleolithic. It finds the technology developed, with the simplest discoveries being made first and more complex discoveries being made later. The chemical structure and the properties of the raw materials determined that stone tools could be useful to…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f209988191c8d33e21698464546bdd3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676517/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 05:19:18 -0500 This paper was written in order to study the development of stone tool technology throughout the Paleolithic. It finds the technology developed, with the simplest discoveries being made first and more complex discoveries being made later. The chemical structure and the properties of the raw materials determined that stone tools could be useful to…[Read more]

]]> 0 4334b14dd334b0e1b019f3c6ccd6ad7a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676365/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:26:22 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including plants and animals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the plants and animals in their environment enables human needs to be met in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b79c8e43ac8f97afc0407d1eaf10f657 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676298/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 08:54:12 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including plants and animals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the plants and animals in their environment enables human needs to be met in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae0a98a0461990b6a9d6694eb2a88ffa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674440/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:25:21 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The materials in the human…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebc350c876849bfc5665fc9e16b129f6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674386/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:47:22 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The materials in the human…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6082c15bc4bf015cbdba30e7adb6efb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674094/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:25:29 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 404b7b3a0bde651c1d7bc6634aaa7161 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674071/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 07:17:22 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5d114b239fd9e1a1c3de7ef7e22213e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673884/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:25:21 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate, as they…[Read more]

]]> 0 b489b5f61623bcf04dfaba49ae4662e0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673855/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:51:43 -0500 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate, as they…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ac432e714420167c9e56980b4971403 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669053/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:26:04 -0400 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including fire and metals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of fire and metals enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Fire and…[Read more]

]]> 0 598f6ea61e6d1d994ff6e2bf4d811bfb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669014/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:26:40 -0400 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including fire and metals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of fire and metals enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Fire and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5731d265e5a3d1ea9cd4f1b9d81db9aa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667252/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:25:28 -0400 This paper was written to investigate the order of discoveries made in chemistry leading up to the discovery of the periodic table. New experimental techniques, such as the pneumatic trough, voltaic pile, spectroscopy, and potassium analysis led to the discovery of many new elements and their properties which enabled the discovery of the periodic…[Read more]

]]> 0 496e16a5b65ebf63fbe8c0ff4f52bffd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667194/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 22:15:35 -0400 This paper was written to investigate the order of discoveries made in chemistry leading up to the discovery of the periodic table. New experimental techniques, such as the pneumatic trough, voltaic pile, spectroscopy, and potassium analysis led to the discovery of many new elements and their properties which enabled the discovery of the periodic…[Read more]

]]> 0 80326dde3f7c2b37bf05b986883e51c0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667039/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:25:33 -0400 The change from the traditional Western and Chinese view of the elements involving materials such as water, air, earth, wood, metal and fire, to the chemical elements making up the periodic table, to atoms, to particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and then to quarks was inevitable. The order of discovery of these ideas of the ultimate…[Read more]

]]> 0 87e68a6fbeb61c9574e01339bc63b54e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666991/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 23:46:52 -0400 The change from the traditional Western and Chinese view of the elements involving materials such as water, air, earth, wood, metal and fire, to the chemical elements making up the periodic table, to atoms, to particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and then to quarks was inevitable. The order of discovery of these ideas of the ultimate…[Read more]

]]> 0 a39f135160e07a71376e73ad84e7007a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666834/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:26:54 -0400 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. The human environment has a particular structure so that human knowledge of the environment is acquired in a particular order. The structure of the universe and the nature of the human sensory apparatus ensured that…[Read more]

]]> 0 cde16ecd133cdee2fe2062fa19146d73 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666761/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:28:20 -0400 The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. The human environment has a particular structure so that human knowledge of the environment is acquired in a particular order. The structure of the universe and the nature of the human sensory apparatus ensured that…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd4d0e4a411d25d9189cdb70d3f0df0b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666467/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:26:58 -0400 It is proposed that the ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be meet in a more efficient manner. Human needs…[Read more]

]]> 0 c78ebf016808398ea403a672e3930c4a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666398/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:36:42 -0400 It is proposed that the ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be meet in a more efficient manner. Human needs…[Read more]

]]> 0 f86f1e762d03ef334b3fcb438171b4e4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666162/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 06:24:14 -0400 This paper was written to study the order of medical advances throughout history. It investigates changing human beliefs concerning the causes of diseases, how modern surgery developed and improved methods of diagnosis and the use of medical statistics. Human beliefs about the causes of disease followed a logical progression from supernatural…[Read more]

]]> 0 6635bd901aad58bf394456873fe9245c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666053/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:31:28 -0400 This paper investigates the nature of reality. It will do so by looking at the philosophical debate between realism and idealism and at scientific investigations in quantum physics. The concept of perceptual relativity will be examined and this will involve looking at sense perception in other animals and various examples of perceptual relativity…[Read more]

]]> 0 bacb8ae805a7d191bb9132d252c26809 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665604/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:37:51 -0400 This paper investigates the nature of reality. It will do so by looking at the philosophical debate between realism and idealism and at scientific investigations in quantum physics. The concept of perceptual relativity will be examined and this will involve looking at sense perception in other animals and various examples of perceptual relativity…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b424554fe5ae8eaf528c550a3c0f75b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665488/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:25:27 -0400 This paper was written in order to examine the order of discovery of significant developments in the history of electricity. The history of electricity reveals a series of discoveries with the simplest discoveries being made first and more complex discoveries being made later. Some discoveries could not be made without certain prior discoveries…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca907c803ad7d54c1bced6aad115e08d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665441/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 02:03:34 -0400 This paper was written in order to examine the order of discovery of significant developments in the history of electricity. The history of electricity reveals a series of discoveries with the simplest discoveries being made first and more complex discoveries being made later. Some discoveries could not be made without certain prior discoveries…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5a8099ebf7628defeceec083cc859d2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664882/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:25:23 -0400 Guttman scale analysis is a very useful tool to understand the evolution of societies. It shows the accumulation of cultural traits throughout history in various societies and that those cultural traits were usually accumulated in the same order. The results of studies, by Robert Carneiro and others, shows the accumulation of cultural traits is…[Read more]

]]> 0 89f3a45f481acd7ddaf5722e0adca76a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664881/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:25:21 -0400 This paper was written to question the widespread belief among anthropologists that prehistoric hunter gatherers knew about agriculture long before agriculture began to be practised. The paper suggests gradually accumulating human knowledge led to the development of agriculture rather than population pressure, favourable mutations or convenient…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dc83efa5170d70d76fa456434dd7076 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664821/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:40:18 -0400 Guttman scale analysis is a very useful tool to understand the evolution of societies. It shows the accumulation of cultural traits throughout history in various societies and that those cultural traits were usually accumulated in the same order. The results of studies, by Robert Carneiro and others, shows the accumulation of cultural traits is…[Read more]

]]> 0 26cef06e026e8813679b0bf29067661c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664803/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:09:30 -0400 This paper was written to question the widespread belief among anthropologists that prehistoric hunter gatherers knew about agriculture long before agriculture began to be practised. The paper suggests gradually accumulating human knowledge led to the development of agriculture rather than population pressure, favourable mutations or convenient…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e3364ef9aa98c1b8c60c1233125f023 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664800/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 20:43:50 -0400 This paper was written in order to examine the conditions needed, and the order of the discoveries made, for the invention of the steam engine. There were a number of conditions necessary for the invention of the steam engine. A vital one was the presence of a need, initially that of how to get water out of mines and later how to drive the new…[Read more]

]]> 0 56ec17bba41c76f26f2eacabfcd2ada2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664597/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Leslie White, Allen Johnson and Timothy Earle, and Stephen Sanderson, all produced some of the more interesting theories of history, social change and cultural evolution but their theories have a common deficiency. None of them provide an ultimate explanation for social, cultural and historical change. This failure was…[Read more]

]]> 0 daed4583b5e99a8eba5f60cb65656125 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664541/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:54:13 -0400 Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Leslie White, Allen Johnson and Timothy Earle, and Stephen Sanderson, all produced some of the more interesting theories of history, social change and cultural evolution but their theories have a common deficiency. None of them provide an ultimate explanation for social, cultural and historical change. This failure was…[Read more]

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