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"Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people are choosing to participate in the scientific process. Working in cooperation with scientists in pursuit of information, innovation, and discovery, these volunteers are following protocols, collecting and reviewing data, and sharing their observations. They...
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"The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machinesLeading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs, and the rest of us to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely...
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Los temas y los problemas abordados en este libro no son exclusivos de la salud, sino que les atañen a todos los individuos, dado que inciden en sus actividades cotidianas. Aunque se toma como eje el diálogo entre la ética, la medicina y la complejidad, sus temas de base son comprender qué es la vida saludable y cómo se pueden adoptar hábitos que lleven a vivir de esta manera. Los autores reflexionan sobre estos ejes, a fin de resaltar que la...
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David Goodstein is the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His books include Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil and Feynman's Lost Lecture.
An in-depth look at scientific fraud
Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's...
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El problema de la validez en la investigación en las ciencias, el humanismo o el arte moderno se ha convertido, en el último siglo, en un problema que pasa de la solidez de los argumentos o la consistencia de la obra creada, a las configuraciones sociales de las redes en las que se gesta ese conocimiento.
Cuando investigar se observa como un problema social, político y comunitario, el problema de la verdad se convierte en un asunto de valoración...
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A unique approach to the philosophy of science that focuses on the liveliest and most important controversies surrounding science. Is science more rational or objective than any other intellectual endeavor? Are scientific theories accurate depictions of reality or just useful devices for manipulating the environment? These core questions are the focus of this unique approach to the philosophy of science. Unlike standard textbooks, this book does not...
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Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of scientism and cynicism, noted philosopher Susan Haack argues that, fallible and flawed as they are, the natural sciences have been among the most successful...
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"World's 2018 Books of the Year" Jeremy J. Baumberg is professor of nanotechnology and photonics in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is the coauthor of Microcavities, and his work has been featured in such publications as Nature, New Scientist, and Wired. He lives in Cambridge, England.
A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global science
We take the advance of science as given. But how does science...
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Une réflexion autour du réalisme scientifique
Dans cet ouvrage, Franck Varenne pose la question du réalisme scientifique, essentiellement dans sa forme contemporaine, et ce jusqu'aux années 1980. Il s'est donné pour cela la contrainte de focaliser l'attention sur ce que devenaient sa formulation et les réponses diverses qu'on a pu lui apporter en réaction spécifique à l'évolution parallèle qu'ont subie les notions de théories et surtout...
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"Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey's dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.
Frey's unparalleled ability to detect emerging trends from the smallest of clues gives him an edge on other futurists. Now he's sharing that edge with you.
What are tomorrow's hottest industries?
What huge industries of today are doomed to extinction?
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Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computing. He is an essayist, speaker, and advocate of open science. He lives in Toronto.
How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discovery
Reinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than three hundred years. This change is being driven by powerful cognitive tools, enabled by the internet,...
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Un état des lieux de la modélisation et de la simulation
Il y a trente-cinq ans paraissait en France l'importante synthèse dirigée par Pierre Delattre et Michel Thellier: Élaboration et justification des modèles. Depuis cette date, que de chemins parcourus! La simulation a pris un poids considérable. Sa pratique n'est plus seulement numérique. L'approche objets, la simulation à base d'agents, la simulation sur grille, le calcul parallèle...
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Une histoire des idées
Pour élaborer une histoire des idées, nous avons à comparer des concepts énoncés par des auteurs différents, à des moments différents et dans des contextes discursifs différents. Une élaboration scientifique d'une telle histoire nous contraint à formaliser ces comparaisons, d'abord en isolant les entités à comparer, ensuite, en objectivant les caractères selon lesquels se fera cette comparaison. Si une telle...
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense.
One experiment, involving a bed, platform scales, and a dying...
16) Making Moonshots
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In Making Moonshots, investor and operator Rahul Rana asks the question: Why should we live in a world of incremental scientific and technological progress when the human race has proven in past eras that we are capable of so much more?
The world faces major problems. It is time for conventional thinkers to stand aside and give way to the crazy ones, the contrarians, the radically creative geniuses who work outside the box to create massive...
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Simultaneously living through and sharing a conversation which the world is deprived of; not having the slightest idea that such a thing exists in us, let alone out there. The ambiguity of what HD is all about is intense enough for many to be shocked by it. Can we see this intensity for what it is rather than define it and explain it away? And maybe an organic process of redefinition starts to take place as we go along ~ AK Within a couple of weeks,...
18) The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
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Chris Chambers is professor of cognitive neuroscience in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.
Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline-and how to save it
Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research in psychology is based on weak evidence, questionable...
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Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks...
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