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Science Secrets
Was Darwin really inspired by Galápagos finches? Did Einstein's wife secretly contribute to his theories? Did Franklin fly a kite in a thunderstorm? Did a falling apple lead Newton to universal gravity? Did Galileo drop objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Did Einstein really believe in God?Science Secretsanswers these questions and many others. It is a unique study of how myths evolve in the history of science. Some tales are partly true, others are mostly false, yet all illuminate the tension between the need to fairly describe the past and the natural desire to fill in the blanks.Energetically narrated, Science Secrets pits famous myths against extensive research from primary sources in order to accurately portray important episodes in the sciences. Alberto A. Martínez analyzes how such myths grow and rescues neglected facts that are more captivating than famous fictions. Moreover, he shows why opinions that were once secret and seemingly impossible are now scientifically compelling. The book includes new findings related to the Copernican revolution, alchemy, Pythagoras, young Einstein, and other events and figures in the history of science.
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How loud can you burp? : more extremely important questions (and answers!)
How loud can your average middle-grader burp? Parents, librarians, and innocent bystanders are about to find out. This follow-up to the equally alluring Why is Snot Green? tackles more of life's burning questions, many submitted by real-life ten-year-olds. Could we use animal poop to make electricity? What's the world's deadliest disease? Why is your mother turning green? Part silly, part serious, and a big part scatological, How Loud Can You Burp? is destined for greatness and grossness.
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Why Cats Land on Their Feet
Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a
spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's
rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a
compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using
their own physical intuition. And the surprising answers to
virtually all of these astonishing paradoxes can be arrived at with
no formal knowledge of physics.
Mark Levi introduces each physical problem, sometimes gives a
hint or two, and then fully explains the solution. Here readers can
test their critical-thinking skills against a whole assortment of
puzzles and paradoxes involving floating and diving, sailing and
gliding, gymnastics, bike riding, outer space, throwing a ball from
a moving car, centrifugal force, gyroscopic motion, and, of course,
falling cats.
Want to figure out how to open a wine bottle with a book? Or how
to compute the square root of a number using a tennis shoe and a
watch? Why Cats Land on Their Feet shows you how, and all
that's required is a familiarity with basic high-school
mathematics. This lively collection also features an appendix that
explains all physical concepts used in the book, from Newton's laws
to the fundamental theorem of calculus.
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Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives.Fact: You could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube.Fact: The electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction.
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In Defense of Science
Today, only a few people outside of the scientific community are conversant with the tradition of science and its many breakthroughs.The rest are scientifically illiterate.So say Frank R.Spellman and Joni Price-Bayer, authors of In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters.
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Entropy and the magic flute
Harold Morowitz has long been regarded highly both as an eminent scientist and as an accomplished science writer. The essays in The Wine of Life, his first collection, were hailed by C.P. Snow as “some of the wisest, wittiest and best informed that I have read,” and Carl Sagan called them “a delight to read.” In later volumes such as Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life and The Thermodynamics of Pizza, he has established a reputation for a wide-ranging intellect, an ability to see unexpected connections and draw striking parallels, and a talent for communicating scientific ideas with optimism and wit. Kirkus Reviews praised Mayonnaise as “wonderfully diverting and very wise.” Nature wrote of Thermodynamics, “his chocolate-coated nuggets of science will continue to entertain and do surreptitious good.” With Entropy and the Magic Flute, Morowitz once again offers an appealing mix of brief reflections on everything from litmus paper to the hippopotamus to the sociology of Palo Alto coffee shops. Many of these pieces are appreciations of scientists that Morowitz holds in high regard. In the title piece, for instance, Morowitz tells of his pilgrimage to the grave of Ludwig Boltzmann, buried in the same cemetery—Vienna’s Central Cemetery—as Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. He also writes of J. Willard Gibbs (“thought by many to be the greatest scientist yet produced by the United States”), Jean Perrin (author of Les Atomes, a now-forgotten classic that convinced virtually everyone in science of the validity of the atomic hypothesis), Einstein, Newton (on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his Principia, a date that passed virtually unnoticed except by Morowitz), Murray Gell-Mann, and Aristotle. Of Aristotle, Morowitz observes that “most people whose information comes from academic philosophy fail to appreciate that—among his many fields of expertise—first and foremost, Aristotle was a biologist.” Indeed, fully a third of Aristotle’s writings are on the life sciences, almost all of which has been left out of standard editions of his work. Many other pieces focus on health issues—such as America’s obsession with cheese toppings, the addiction to smoking of otherwise intelligent people, questionable obstetric practices—and several touch upon ethics, whistle-blowing, and scientific research. There is also a fascinating piece on the American Type Culture Collection, a zoo or warehouse for microbes that houses some 11,800 strains of bacteria, and over 3,000 specimens of protozoa, algae, plasmids, and oncogenes. Here then are over forty light, graceful essays in which one of our wisest experimental biologists comments on issues of science, technology, society, philosophy, and the arts.
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