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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to...
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve a variety of cases involving a noisy garbage can, endangered frogs, a stuck truck, and a mysterious love letter. Includes a section of scientific experiments and activities.
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Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Mother Goose's fairy tales are NOT based in science, and her great-niece Professor Goose thinks it's time to reveal the truth! Join this feathered expert as she fact-checks and pecks her way through Goldilocks and the Three Bears, exposing the flaws and explaining the science."--
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Publisher
Deepak Chopra Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"In Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas that are not only limiting, but also dangerous for the future of humanity" -- Front jacket flap.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle...
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Ada Lace adventures volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Third grader and inventor extraordinaire Ada Lace likes nothing more than to tinker with mechanics like her robot, George. Her latest project is to fix up a ham radio, something that she could use to contact people on this planet...and beyond. The only problem is that she just can't get it to work properly. During a sleepover, Ada's best friend Nina hears something strange coming from the radio in the middle of the night. A distant voice says, "Release...
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ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy volume 48
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Author Raymond F. Smith combines a practitioner's personal view of what is required to do good diplomatic political analysis with his understanding of the social conflict and change that informed his work for the State Department. -- From publisher's description.
30) Collecting data
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Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"With fun and engaging activities, Collecting Data outlines the steps to properly gathering and organizing data, which include observation, assessing the reliability of sources, and critically assessing data in order to draw reliable conclusions. Readers begin their journey toward data literacy by developing their sense of curiosity, and then conducting investigations, just like solving a mystery"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham's razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadden traces centuries of discoveries, taking us from a geocentric cosmos to quantum mechanics and DNA, arguing that simplicity has revealed profound answers to the greatest mysteries. This is no coincidence. From the laws that keep a ball in motion to those that govern evolution,...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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"This book provides an inoculation against the misinformation epidemic by cultivating scientific habits of mind. From dissolving our fear of numbers and demystifying graphs, to elucidating the key concepts of probability and the use of precise language and logic, Helfand supplies an essential set of apps for the pre-frontal cortex while making science both accessible and entertaining."--Publisher marketing.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they can't possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science is wrong, that the evidence is incomplete or inconclusive, and that unidentified hazards lurk everywhere to harm us.
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Publisher
HarperOne an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A former co-host of "MythBusters" demonstrates how to use the scientific method--the logical process she employed while testing urban legends: question, hypothesize, experiment, analyze and conclude--for solving everyday problems.
Have questions about your sexuality? Alcohol? Depression? Byron, a former co-host of "MythBusters," demonstrates how to use the scientific method for solving everyday problems. Question. Hypothesize. Experiment. Analyze....
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Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Is science more rational or objective than any other intellectual endeavor? Are scientific theories accurate depictions of reality or just useful devices for manipulating the environment? These core questions are the focus of this unique approach to the philosophy of science. Unlike standard textbooks, this book does not attempt a comprehensive review of the entire field, but makes a selection of the most vibrant debates and issues. The author tackles...
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Written for academicians within the operations management community as well as for behavioral researchers, this book offers a comprehensive resource for the study of how individuals make decisions in an operational context with contributions from experts in the field. --
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean something else: a way of thinking. The Scientific Method tells the story of how this approach took hold in laboratories,...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long, two thousand years...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that...
40) Losing the Nobel Prize: a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology's biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize. What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, thought they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement, and Nobel whispers began to spread. But had these cosmologists truly...
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