Bouchard, R. Philip
Summary: R. Philip Bouchard takes a closer look at 13 pervasive scientific untruths tackling a range of topics from gravity and radiation to global warming, pandemics and humorously shares the real science behind them. You'll learn why trees do not store carbon dioxide, why getting your genome sequenced tells you much less than you think it does, and why a day is not actually 24 hours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BOUBrooke-Hitching, Edward
Summary: The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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Summary: "Requiring no more than high-school-level math competency, this playful excursion through the nuances of math will give you a better grasp of this fundamental, all-important science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Kudlinski, Kathleen V.
Summary: Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.9 KUDLivio, Mario
Summary: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LIVLivio, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LIVNovella, Steven
Summary: Based on the podcast known for battling sloppy reasoning, bad arguments, and superstitions with logical thinking, the "Skeptical Rogues" help readers try to make sense of an increasingly crazy world using critical thinking skills, science, and philosophy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 NOVRitchie, Stuart (Stuart J.)
Summary: "Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2020