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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... essays in Science Friction , he warns how the fundamentally human pursuit of meaning can lead us astray into a fog of empty illusions and vacuous idols . He implores us to stare honestly at our beliefs and he shows how , through ...
... essay ( June 2003 ) on the so - called Bible Code , in which the claim is made that the first five books of the Bible the Pentateuch - in its original Hebrew contain hidden patterns that spell out events in world history , even future ...
... essays that I have written over the past decade - most ( but not all ) published in various journals and magazines ( but none appearing in my other books ) —about how science operates under pressure , during controversies , under siege ...
... essay began as a tribute to my friend and col- league -- the venerable Martin Gardner , one of the fountainheads of the modern skeptical movement - but , as I try to do in nearly all of my writ- ings , I also impart larger lessons for ...
... essay in the book , writ- ten initially while in graduate school in the late 1980s , and redacted over the years as I thought more and more about who and what mattered most in history . The germination of this project , in fact , dates ...
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Back Cover | 300 |