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• Introduction
• The who, what, why, when, where, and how of everything
• Who are we?
• When did everything begin?
• What is everything made of?
• What is life?
• How did we get here?
• Why does human biological diversity confuse us?
• How do brains work?
• Where are we?
• How will everything end?

Science tells us a good deal about who we are, where we come from, the nature of the universe, how our brains work, and much, much more. Unfortunately, most people are largely unaware of this treasure trove of information. As a result, we are more prone to do things like aim nuclear weapons at each other, inflate the meaning of cultural differences, lay waste to the land, poison and deplete the oceans, fill the sky with carbon, and generally make poor judgments that cause needless trouble. This book seeks to remedy this situation by providing scientific answers to the most basic yet important questions about existence. Following the standard six-question list used by journalists researching a news story, critical-thinking advocate Guy P. Harrison turns to science to answer the who, what, why, when, where and how of life on Earth. How old is our planet? Where did it come from and where is it located in the universe? What is everything made of? When did life begin? Who are we as a species and what connections do we share with other life forms? Why is human culture continuously plagued by war, disease, and crime? Harrison not only offers science's best current answers to these crucial questions but shows how all of this information fits together. Going well beyond the simplistic factoids readily available on any smartphone, he reveals the wider implications and deeper meanings inherent in the scientific worldview. Both entertaining and informative, this exciting tour of the cosmos and human nature will leave readers with an accurate, up-to-date view of realities small and large, near and far.

Did you ever wonder why science is so boring? Maybe scientists are hoping you won't find out quite how dumb they are...In The Art of Science, Gareth Morgan takes you on a romp through the ivory towers of Academe.With his no-nonsense style, he reveals just what goes on inside the fantastical world of 'scientification', and highlights how everyone could benefit greatly if they were to apply some of the insights and innovations described here for the first time. Is there any truth in the concepts of black holes or relativity? What about the hole in the ozone layer? Why can't you kill a virus? Why can't pregnant women get ulcers? Can continents really slide around the globe? How do aeroplanes fly? These are some of the questions this book asks; questions that scientists wish we wouldn't! Morgan then goes on to propose some solutions to the problems science should have been addressing: How can we get pollution-free energy from the air? How could we build a disease-free environment? How did the people of Peckham get their teenagers to behave? Studies have shown that, when it comes to solving mazes, professors are no smarter than the laboratory rats they work with. Pit yourself against the world's greatest thinkers and make up your own mind! The Art of Science will almost certainly be the most interesting book you have ever read, exposing much of the nonsense propounded by 20th century science. It requires no special knowledge of science to enjoy it, and with its entertaining and informal style, it will appeal to any open-minded individual.
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• Génétiques
• Chromosomes, gènes, ADN
• Les protéines
• L'usine cellulaire
• Analogie entre la théorie de l'information et la biologie moléculaire
• La complexité de l'ADN et de son rôle
• Les ARN interférents
• Le fonctionnement de la cellule et la biocybernétique
• L'épigénétique
• La démarche de l'ingénierie biologique
• Plantes génétiquement modifiées (PGM)
• Biologie synthétique
• Des manipulations génétiques à la xénobiologie
• La bio-informatique
• L'importance de l'ARN
• Questions d'éthique
• Bibliographie
• L'écologie, science en devenir
• Les facteurs externes des biotopes et des niches écologiques
• Des biotopes aux populations
• Les lois quantitatives de l'écologie des populations
• Compétition intraspécifique
• Compétition interspécifique
• Les relations proies/prédateurs
• Le parasitisme
• La symbiose
• La coévolution
• Les études sur les îles : territoires et migrations
• Commentaires
• Biodiversité : mode ou réalité ?
• Résilience écologique
• Conclusions
• Bibliographie
• La classification périodique des éléments chimiques
• Rappels sur la nature de la matière et de la chimie
• Bref aperçu de l'histoire de la chimie
• La découverte des métaux et de la métallurgie
• L'alchimie
• L'accumulation des observations et la lente émergence des concepts modernes
• L'émergence de la logique chimique
• La classification périodique des éléments
• Le tableau de Mendeleïev : un guide pour la géochimie
• Annexe
• Bibliographie
• La Terre est-elle épuisée ?
• La Terre, structure et fonctionnement
• La croûte terrestre, interface dynamique
• Les sédiments et les roches sédimentaires
• Le charbon
• Pétrole et gaz naturel
• Le pic de Hubbert et l'imminente pénurie de pétrole
• Le pétrole et le gaz non conventionnel
• Les gisements minéraux
• Les relations teneurs/tonnages
• Les métaux rares
• Conclusion
• Mathématiques et culture générale
• Les nombres
• Le processus de comptage est-il inné ? est-il logarithmique ?
• Remplacer la multiplication par l'addition : l'invention des logarithmes
• Les divers types de nombres
• Géométrie
• Algèbre
• Algèbre géométrie.

"Ni ouvrage technique, ni manuel d'enseignement, Toujours plus de science pour tout le monde est un livre de culture générale à destination de l'"honnête homme" du XXIe siècle. Dans ce troisième volet de sa série à succès, Claude Allègre s'intéresse aux domaines de la biologie, de l'écologie (théorie des systèmes), de la chimie, des ressources naturelles et des mathématiques. La science ne doit pas intimider ni rebuter; bien au contraire, elle concerne chacun des aspects de notre vie et recèle une foule d'histoires passionnantes. Agrémenté de nombreuses figures, le texte privilégie l'approche culturelle des grandes découvertes. Le cheminement de la pensée scientifique nous est restitué à travers l'évocation de la personnalité des découvreurs et de l'humeur du temps qui les a vus naître. Sans prétendre écrire une histoire des sciences, Claude Allègre parvient ainsi à rendre intelligibles à tous des résultats scientifiques complexes, avec un objectif : faire partager son amour de la science."--P. [4] of cover.

• Física
• Astronomía
• Química
• Biología y evolución
• Ecología
• Divulgación de la ciencia.

Collection of articles originally published 2003-2005 in Laberinto, the supplement to the journal Milenio.

• Física y matemáticas
• Astronomía
• Química
• Biología y evolución
• Divulgación de la ciencia.

Collection of articles originally published 2006-2009 in Laberinto, the supplement to the journal Milenio.

• We Want to Know: Looking at the Heavens-- Exploratory Voyages-- We Want to Understand: Charles Darwin-- Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur-- Michael Faraday-- Max Planck-- Enrico Fermi-- Science: Chemistry as the Fundamental Science-- How Physics Became Most Fundamental.
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This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized - at least in the Western world - as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and the Chinese, and of the unknown interiors of the American and African continents by foot and horseback. After the invention of the telescope, visual exploration of the surfaces of the Moon and Mars were made possible, and finally a visit to the Moon. The book then turns to our legacy from the ancient Greeks of wanting to understand rather than just know, and why the scientific way of understanding is valued. For concreteness, it relates the lives and accomplishments of six great scientists, four from the nineteenth century and two from the twentieth. Finally, the book explains how chemistry came to be seen as the most basic of the sciences, and then how physics became the most fundamental.
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Science. Does the word fill you with excitement, or dread, or something in between? Science -- and the art of science writing -- can, and should, be something to get excited about. The extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents, but are connected by their authors' desire to understand, explain and enrich the world. The Art of Science is not a book about great scientific theories, complicated equations or grand old men and women in their laboratories; instead, it's about the places we draw our inspiration from; about daily routines and sudden flashes of insight; about dedication, and -- sometimes -- desperation; and the small moments, questions, quests, clashes, doubts and delights that ultimately make us human. From Galileo to Lewis Carroll, from Humphry Davy to Charles Darwin, from Marie Curie to Stephen Jay Gould, from rust to snowflakes, from the first use of the word 'scientist' to the first computer, from why the sea is salty to Newtonian physics 'for the ladies', The Art of Science is a book about people, which is to say it's a book about passion, politics, and poetry. Above all, though, it's a book about the good that science, and scientific thinking, can -- and does -- do.
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• EARTH: Our Place in the Universe-- Our Origins-- The Early Earth-- The Early Environment-- The Sun-- Inside the Earth-- Plate Tectonics-- The Restless Earth-- The Earth's Surface-- The Earth Today. CLIMATE: Seasons and Tides-- The Earth's Atmosphere-- Weather-- Reading the Sky-- Weather Mapping-- Extreme Storms-- Ocean Currents-- Atmospheric Currents-- Global Warming. CHEMISTRY: Elements and Compounds-- The Periodic Table-- Carbon-- Oxygen and Combustion-- Industrial Metals-- Hydrocarbons-- Plastics-- Acids and Alkalis, Salts and Metals-- Organic Chemistry. BIOLOGY: DNA-- The Cell-- Cell Division-- Genetic Modification-- The Human Genome Project-- Bacteria and Viruses-- Life on Earth-- The Tree of Life-- The Animal Kingdom-- The Human Body-- Plant Classification-- Plant Reproduction-- Photosynthesis-- The Carbon Cycle-- Ecosystems and Food Chains. SPACE: The Solar System-- The Planets-- The Moon-- Space Exploration-- Asteroids and Meteorites-- Comets and The Oort Cloud-- Stars-- Galaxies. PHYSICS: The Mechanics of Physics-- Work, Energy, and Force. Entropy and the Arrow of Time-- Electric Currents-- The Electromagnetic Spectrum-- Beyond the Simple Atom-- Tracking the Subatomic World-- Nuclear Fission-- The Quantum Universe-- Quantum Uncertainty and You-- Relativity-- String Theory. COSMOLOGY: The Big Bang-- Dark Matter and Dark Energy-- Black Holes and Multiple Universes-- The End of Everything? Glossary. Index.
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Science is a visually stunning introduction to all the major scientific disciplines, covering chemistry, physics, geology, biology and cosmology. Each section begins with a lively introduction to the scientific branch under investigation, before moving on to a more in-depth exploration of its constituent components and themes. The end result is a magnificent introduction to all that is currently understood about the natural world. Piers Bizony begins with physics and the basic building blocks of matter, offering a lucid and usefully illustrated account of the extraordinary and often baffling world of atomic and subatomic particles. There follows a discussion of chemistry and the main phases of matter such as solids, liquids, gases, compounds, and the Elements, all illustrated in a large-format Periodic Table. This leads to geology and the ever shifting world beneath our feet, including volcanoes, fault lines, plate tectonics and rock strata. Having established a clear outline of the material world, the author then takes a look at its most extraordinary feature: life. DNA, RNA, cells, algae, plants, sponges, reptiles, mammals and man are all surveyed within these pages. The book concludes with the infinite world above our heads: planets, stars, galaxies, and the irresistible forces that govern our ceaselessly expanding universe. Replete with large scale schematics, diagrams, photographs, fact boxes and maps, Science is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in science.
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• Ordena tus creencias
• Sabe qué no sabes
• Objetos, conceptos y medidas indirectas
• Tres maneras de decir la verdad, tres maneras de mentir
• Debate, de par en par
• Descartas, luego aprendes
• Comunica
• Busca un laboratorio con vistas a una democracia
• Sermón final del doctor Purroy.

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the New York Times to create a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. Angier's gifts are on full display in The Canon, an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic. The Canon is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time -- from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. And it's for every parent who has ever panicked when a child asked how the earth was formed or what electricity is. Angier's sparkling prose and memorable metaphors bring the science to life, reigniting our own childhood delight in discovering how the world works. "Of course you should know about science, " writes Angier, "for the same reason Dr. Seuss counsels his readers to sing with a Ying or play Ring the Gack: These things are fun and fun is good." The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Along the way, we learn what is actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an example of evolution at work, and how we're all really made of stardust. It's Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas -- a book that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten.
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• Lost in the cosmos. How to build a universe ; Welcome to the solar system ; The Reverend Evans's universe
• The size of the Earth. The measure of things ; The stone-breakers ; Science red in tooth and claw ; Elemental matters
• A new age dawns. Einstein's universe ; The mighty atom ; Getting the lead out ; Muster Mark's quarks ; The earth moves
• Dangerous planet. Bang! ; The fire below ; Dangerous beauty
• Life itself. Lonely planet ; Into the troposphere ; The bounding main ; The rise of life ; Small world ; Life goes on ; Goodbye to all that ; The richness of being ; Cells ; Darwin's singular notion ; The stuff of life
• The road to us. Ice time ; The mysterious Biped ; The restless ape ; Goodbye.

In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge.

• Preface: "It Moves ... "
• 1 Hubble and the Expanding Universe.
• 2 Einstein and the Wonder of Light.
• 3 Bohr and the Puzzles of the Quantum World.
• 4 Wegener and the Dance of the Continents.
• 5 Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Big Bore.
• 6 Fermat, Godel, and Fuzzy Math.
• 7 Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the Human Genome.
• 8 Hominids, Humans, and the Search for Origins.
• 9 Turing and the Brain as Computer, and Vice Versa.
• 10 Freud, the Unconscious, and Other Views. Acknowledgments. Photo Credits. Index.
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This work features world-altering discoveries that reveal a universe of uncertainty and constant change. Whether probing the farthest reaches of the vast universe or exploring the microscopic world of genetics and the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, "Instability Rules" is a remarkably informative and engaging look at ten milestone discoveries and their discoverers-a wide range of very human personalities whose insights have dramatically altered our most basic assumptions about human existence during the last century. The stories include Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe, Alfred Wegener and continental drift, Neils Bohr and quantum mechanics, Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, and James Watson and Francis Crick and DNA. Also covering discoveries of the twenty-first century that are already refining these and other ideas, "Instability Rules" is an exhilarating, sometimes amusing encounter with the defining scientific discoveries of our age.
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• Fidgeting Fades Fat.Mathematic Addict.Further Falling Cats.Real Wheel Animals.Murphy's Law on Earth.Murphy's Law in Space.Fake Flies and Cheating Cheetahs.Kevin Bacon Syndrome.Internet - Not Built for the Military.Explosives Tenderise Meat.Glass - Flowing Liquid Stronger than Steel - Gobbling Whirly Birds.Therapeutic Touch.Suicide Cells - Apoptosis.Sex and Water Allergies.Old Ears Bigger - Nostradamus Predicts the Past?
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Explore the science behind the important universal questions that plague our mindsQuestions like: How does fidgeting help you lose weight? Do your ears really grow bigger as you get older? Which animal is the fastest eater? Why are suicidal cells essential for life? Did a guy named Murphy actually come up with Murphy's law? Can people really be allergic to sex or water? Discover the answers to these and many more curiosities of science with Karl Kruszelnicki's unique fusion of bizarre yet amazingly true scientific facts.Karl Kruszelnicki (Sydney, Australia) is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney and he lectures throughout Australia. He's also been a scientist, a medical doctor, an engineer, a car mechanic, a television weatherman, and a roadie for Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. He enjoys telling people about the wonders of science through radio, television, the Internet (check out his Web site at: http://www abc.net.au/science/k2) and his many books.
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• 1. Introduction.
• 2. The Philosophy of Science.
• 3. Research.
• 4. The Community of Scientists.
• 5. Misconduct in Science.
• 6. Critical Thinking and Science.
• 7. Pseudoscience.
• 8. Science, Pseudoscience, and a Skeptical Attitude.
• 9. The Process of Science.
• Appendix 1: Units.
• Appendix 2: Working with Measured Values.
• Appendix 3: Writing Science.
• Appendix 4: Graphing.
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Ideal as a stand--alone supplement in any science course, The Scientific Endeavor creates a framework for students' future coursework in the sciences by discussing what science is and how it is done. Presenting all of the major topics and basic underpinnings of science in a clear, simplified manner, the book provides a generic view that isn't tied to any specific discipline. Students develop "scientific literacy" that will help them better understand and appreciate their mainstream science courses.
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