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These are some of my writings available on-line. For a more complete list, please see my CV. Many of these are also organized by topics on my "research interests" and "current projects" pages.

[Need to update - many of the links are now out of date since CSE and SII pages were reorganized]

T. Duncan, “Do Worldviews Really Matter?” Presentation in the Special Session, Teaching Astronomy to Impact Worldviews, at the 204th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Denver, CO, June 2004. (http://www.cse.pdx.edu/todd.duncan/AAS/Duncan.pdf).

T. Duncan and J. Semura, “The Deep Physics Behind the Second Law: Information and Energy As Independent Forms of Bookkeeping.” Entropy (http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/), March 2004.

T. Duncan, “Quantum Physics and Reality.” Science Integration Institute Key Concepts of Physics Series, September, 2003. (http://www.scienceintegration.org/lecture1.htm).

T. Duncan, “Space, Time, and Relativity.” Science Integration Institute Key Concepts of Physics Series, May, 2003. (http://www.scienceintegration.org/lecture1.htm).

E. Johnson, F. Caldwell, and T. Duncan, “Teaching in Context: Making Lessons Come Alive.” Presentation at the Education Now and in the Future conference, Portland, Oregon, Feb. 11, 2003. (http://www.scienceintegration.org/enf2003.htm).

K. Coble and T. Duncan, “Why Should People Learn Cosmology?” Poster presentation at the 201st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA, January 7, 2003. (
http://www.scienceintegration.org/aas_jan2003.pdf).

T. Duncan, “The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time.” Science Integration Institute Key Concepts of Physics Series, Sept. 6, 2002. (
http://www.scienceintegration.org/lecture1.htm).

T. Duncan, “Cosmology and Our Everyday Worldviews.” Invited talk at the Cosmology Education Forum of COSMO-02, Chicago, IL, September 18, 2002. (
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~coble/cosmo02_ed.html).

T. Duncan, “Why Do We Believe in the Second Law?” Invited talk in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quantum Limits to the Second Law, San Diego, CA, July 29-31, edited by D. P. Sheehan, American Institute of Physics, 2002. (
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0208291)

T. Duncan, “Energy and Everyday Experience.” Science Integration Institute Key Concepts of Physics Series, June 15, 2002. (
http://www.scienceintegration.org/Concepts/essay1.html).

T. Duncan, An Ordinary World: The Role of Science in Your Search for Personal Meaning, Science Integration Institute, Hillsboro, OR, 2001. (
http://www.scienceintegration.org/books.htm).

T. Duncan, "The Perceived Conflict between Science and Meaning." APS Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society, April 2001. (
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/2001/april/index.cfm).

T. Duncan, "Teaching College Science with a Connection to Personal Meaning." The Epic of Evolution Quarterly, Spring 2000. (
http://thegreatstory.org/Epic-Evol-Journal.html).

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