How Drifting Continents Jumped from Fringe to Core

Name: How Drifting Continents Jumped from Fringe to Core
Uploaded: 2011-02-22T09:00:00Z
Duration: P3645S
Description: Jim Blair, PhD., Professor Emeritus, Milton College. Dr. Jim Blair discusses the structure of scientific revolutions; how new ideas become adopted by the scientific community. Find out how the idea of drifting continents was transformed from a fringe concept, to become the central core of modern geology.

Special | 1h 45s | Video has closed captioning.

Jim Blair, PhD., Professor Emeritus, Milton College. Dr. Jim Blair discusses the structure of scientific revolutions; how new ideas become adopted by the scientific community. Find out how the idea of drifting continents was transformed from a fringe concept, to become the central core of modern geology.

Aired: 11/23/10

Rating: TV-G