Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... Consider the analogy of a swimming pool with a cleaning brush on a long pole , half in and half out of the water -- the pole appears impossibly bent ; but we recognize the illusion and do not confuse the straight pole for a bent one ...
... Consider the confirmation bias , in which we look for and find confirmatory evidence for what we already believe and ignore disconfirmatory evidence . For my monthly column in Scientific American I wrote an essay ( June 2003 ) on the so ...
... consider these : When working on the relaunch of Superman , for DC Comics , I had the Man of Steel fly to the rescue when disaster beset the NASA space shuttle . The Challenger tragedy happened almost immedi- ately thereafter , with ...
... consider myself a feminist , by which I mean that I believe that women should have political , economic , and social rights equal to those of men . As such , I am alert to discriminatory practices against women , which some feminists ...
... consider the power of the mind in sports , what we know and do not know about its role in athletic performance , and what this tells us about the interaction between mind and body . Since I was an active participant in the race , hell ...
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Back Cover | 300 |