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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... importance to our personal and cultural lives . As an example of the former , note the striking feature in the photograph from Mars in figure 1.7 , taken in July 1976 by the Viking Orbiter 1 from a distance of 1,162 miles , as it was ...
... important faces in our sphere : those of our parents . We also see at work Bacon's idols of the cave in the peculiarities of reli- gious icons that often make their appearances in the most unusual of places , such as the famous " nun ...
... important question . We have seen that science is a great Baloney Detection Kit . But can it identify nonbaloney ? Can it find real patterns ? Of course . Smoking causes lung cancer no question about it . HIV causes AIDS - almost no one ...
... importance ( not just fame or infamy ) . Ever since then I thought about this as I studied the great ( and not so great ) people of the past , and when the millennium came and endless commen- taries were published to venerate ( or scorn ) ...
... importance of the prereading setup to prime the subject into being sympathetic to the cold reading . He suggests and I took him up on these suggestions - adopting a soft voice , a calm demeanor , and sympathetic and nonconfrontational ...
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Index | 285 |
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Back Cover | 300 |