Keywords:
Science-Anecdotes.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
More Random Walks in Science is an anthology of fascinating and frequently amusing anecdotes, quotations, illustrations, articles, and reviews that reflect the more lighthearted aspects of the scientific world and the less serious excursions of the scientific mind. The book is guaranteed to delight anyone who has a professional or amateur interest in science.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781351430128
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5226974
DDC:
502/.07
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Splitting the infinitive -- Broken English -- NPL haiku -- Federalese -- Readability ratings -- A note on the game of refereeing -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tactics for the Game -- 2.1 Tactics for the Author -- 2.2 Tactics for the Referee -- 3. Conculsion -- Preparing scientific papers -- Commandments for the writer of a dissertation -- Prepartion of the Dissertion -- Selection of Opponents -- The Defence of the Dissertation -- Royalties: The Quatorze connection -- Perish, but publish! -- Clarification -- How to win arguments -- The Techniques of Argumentation -- The circular path -- The break-in or yeabut -- The crescendo -- The stutter -- The use of invective -- The syllogism -- The acceptance of a scientific idea -- On the reading of scientific papers -- Audience enemies numbers I to VI -- The use of small dogs in physics teaching -- Teaching -- Teacher evaluation -- Proclamation -- Free thinking -- A revised PhD comprehensive -- Syllabus for a detective story written by a physics professor -- Challenging experiments -- Images -- Mission statements -- The rank order on campus -- Budget -- The university hierarchy-who's on top? -- View from the bottom -- On the problem of innovation -- The Dreistein case -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton's Nobel Award (1947) -- Hypothesis -- Finagle's laws -- First Law -- Second Law -- Third Law -- Fourth Law -- The Law of the Too Solid Goof -- Advice To Experimenters -- Descent of man -- Literacy in an age of technology -- How to live with the Philistines -- The Wife -- Other Scientists -- Humanists -- Officialdom -- A Philistine asks for equal time -- In Some Respects, Pragmatic -- We Wire the Lamps -- Physicists Need Philistines -- Brain drain -- Pan's pipes -- Seventeenth-century recognition of resonance.
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Demon theory of friction -- Natural-science viva, c 1890 -- Physics instructor -- Influential textbooks : The Feynman lectures on physics -- A lecture to a lady on Thornson's reflecting galvanometer -- European atom -- Error bars -- The British high energy physics community -- All Power to Particles -- The future European harmonic pendulum -- Report of a working party appointed by The Arts Research Council -- The Future European Programme -- Finance and Manpower -- High Intensity Machine in Britain -- Summary and Conclusion -- The fluttering. spiralling flight of cyclotron evolution -- E O Lawrence, driver -- Ten commandments of electrical safety -- hv -- Tea-tirne with Rutherford -- Pauli in Heaven -- Physikalisches Lied -- Tracking the elusive quark -- Spin-orbit coupling -- Reference frames -- Space -- The Einstein and the Eddington -- Einstein's philosophy of science -- Relativity -- R W Wood-improviser -- The 40-ft Spectrograph -- Schuster's library -- Captain DeKhotinsky -- My anecdotage: Apocryphal tales -- The diabolical heating scheme of J C Maxwell -- Proof by induction -- Stauffer's law of the entropy of change -- International Court of Scientific Nomenclature Rival claims of scientists: Celsius vs McKie -- Before the Lord President of the International Court -- mμ-an spticist's lament -- The King who kept his 0 °C -- Name for unit radian frequency -- On the mathematics of committees, boards and panels -- The "legal' value of π -- Science in double dactyls -- Hymne to Hymen -- Resolution of the paradox -- A philosophical puppet play -- Saving time: a commentary -- Could the earth run backward? -- Twixt earth and sky with matter-horns -- Astronomical funding -- O, telescope! -- Planetoid for sale -- Celsius-the astronomer -- The satellite question -- Astronomical abberation -- Creation of the Universe: a modest proposal.
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Request for supplement to UCF Grant #000-00-00000-001 'Creation of the Universe' -- Background -- Progress to Date -- Supplement -- Prospective Budget -- Salaries -- Monitoring Equipment and Misc. -- Creation -- stressing the astronauts -- On the spot? -- Cocking a Snootnik at Sputnik -- Still in the galaxy -- Astronomers discover ethyl alcohol in interstellar space-News item -- A damsel in distress -- The Surpris'd Lady -- Chemical history is shaped by a maker of wine bottles -- To err is human . . . -- A chemical hoax -- On the substitution Rule and the Theory of Types -- References -- Professionalism-to the end -- The purist -- The ant -- Fellowshipmanship -- A concise manual on how to be a specialist without studying -- The Approach to General Practitioners -- Mannerization I -- The Presentation of the Diagnosis -- Fellowshipmanship and the specialist -- Mannerzation II -- General Rules -- Outline of evolution as dimly recalled from college education -- Struthiomimus -- The dinosaur -- R W Wood -- The dry-rot of our academic biology -- Name dropping -- Pollution -- Modelling the cat falling -- References -- The speed of the deer fly -- References -- Designer genes: a new look in fish genetics -- Curve fitting -- Competitive interactions between neotropical pollinators and Africanized honev bees -- Biorhythm: imitation of science -- On being blinded with science -- Being a ruthless enquiry into scientific methods, complete with 29 genuine references and a learned footnote -- References -- That thing will never work -- Errors and myopia -- Extracts from Modern Geography c1740 -- Section IV-Containing some amazing geographical paradoxes -- Continental drip -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Acknowledgments.
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