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from chaos to infinity and everything in between, Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers!

BRAIN SHOTS: The byte-sized guide to all the things you didn't know you didn't know...

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This ready reference presents fascinating facts about 100 amazing inventions, a panoramic overview of the history of science, and a collection of engaging reads.

Inventions are the stuff of dreams, quickly gaining widespread use, becoming central to culture, and ultimately changing our lives.

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This third entry in the Jumpstarts series focuses on Science topics for upper elementary and middle school students. This pathfinder approach aides students in the research process, helping them define important terms, offer beginning questions to help narrow their topic, furnish source ideas and some fun activities to explore each topic.

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An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences.

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A fascinating exploration of scientific advances

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Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get out of bed in the morning And why you always wake up bursting for a pee Why that small blackhead has erupted into a hideous red spot overnight And why stepping into a hot shower gives you goose bumps This title deals with these questions.

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A Different Universe is a truly mind-bending book that shows us why everything we think about fundamental physical laws needs to change.

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Includes stories that reveal how DNA determines the characteristics of the adult organism.

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We've lit big fires and gentle flames over the ages to open our minds, to warn of danger, to brighten our way through the darkness and to allow us to read at night. This work is concerned with the world and the simple beauty of science. It also features cameos from Albert Einstein, Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens, and Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Argues that civilization-threatening crises can be solved only by adopting ethical systems more compatible with science.

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Roll over Galileo. You, too, Bacon, Newton, and Descartes. When it comes to taking credit for creating modern science, you fellows have held the limelight far too long.

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This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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From the use of metals by prehistoric man to the alchemical experiments of medieval and renaissance man to the complex chemical skills of contemporary man, Asimov traces the development of this building block of our technological world.

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"First published..., 2014."--Title page verso.

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From one of the great iconoclasts of modern biology, Lynn Margulis, a groundbreaking new theory of the origins of species

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A call for a new form of democracy in which hybrid forums composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.

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Genetically speaking, the only difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y.