Eureka : Discovering Your Inner Scientist /
Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception, getti...
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction Discovering Your Inner Scientist; STEP ONE: LOOKING; Chapter 1: Collecting the Origin of Species; Chapter 2: Scientific Cuisine Reigns Supreme; Chapter 3: Needles in Haystacks; Chapter 4: Waldo at the Galaxy Zoo; STEP TWO: THINKING; Chapter 5: Setting the (Periodic) Table; Chapter 6: Asking the Allowed Questions: Bridge and Scientific Thinking; Chapter 7: Dinosaurs and Mysteries; STEP THREE: TESTING; Chapter 8: Quantum Crosswords; Chapter 9: Precision Baking.
- Chapter 10: Like Chess Without the Dice: Sports and Scientific ThinkingSTEP FOUR: TELLING; Chapter 11: Scientific Storytelling; Chapter 12: What's Going to Work? Teamwork! Science as Collaboration; Chapter 13: Talking Sports; Chapter 14: Damned Lies and Statistics; Conclusion: Science Is Never Over; Acknowledgments; Index.