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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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, getting us off the hook for not knowing or caring how the world works. How did science become so divorced from our everyday experience? Is scientific understanding so far out of reach for the non-scientists among us? |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780465044917 0465044913 |