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The canon a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science

Draws on interviews with the world's top scientists to offer a guide to scientific literacy, exploring the fundamental principles of the major scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy.

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  • "Draws on interviews with the world's top scientists to offer a guide to scientific literacy, exploring the fundamental principles of the major scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy."@en
  • "Science's latest discovery: In the hands of the right person, it can be made intriguing, relevant, and understandable. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Natalie Angier takes a joyride through the major scientific disciplines--physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. She offers insights into everything from the great issues of our time (stem cells, bird flu, global warming) to everyday questions such as what's actually happening when our coffee gets cold and what makes glue stick Her approach is smart, funny, and sure to inspire a new appreciation of science."@en
  • "An overview designed for those who shy away from or are baffled by science, which introduces scientific thinking, probability, and measurement and explores physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and evolutionary and cell biology, using metaphors to illustrate concepts."@en
  • "[In this book, the author] takes us on a "guided twirligig through the scientific canon." She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists, and her own work as a reporter for the New York Times, to create an entertaining guide to scientific literacy - a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. [This book is] for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time - from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. It's also one of those rare books that reignites our childhood delight in figuring out how things work: we learn what's actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and that we really are all made of stardust."
  • "A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should know about the classic ideas of physics and evolutionary biology as well as the classic works of Beethoven and Picasso. How was the Earth formed? How big is an atom? What is a quantum leap? Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's leading scientists, Angier takes us on an informative tour of this neglected canon."@en
  • "Most of the profound questions we will explore in our lives--evolution, global warming, stem cells--have to do with science. So do a lot of everyday things, like our ice cream melting and our coffee getting cold and our vacuum cleaner running (or not). What does our liver do when we eat a caramel? How does the horse demonstrate evolution at work? Are we really made of stardust? (Yes, we are.) In The Canon, Lewis Thomas meets Lewis Carroll in a book destined to become a modern classic--because it quenches our curiosity, sparks our interest in the world around us, reignites our childhood delight in discovering how things work, and instantly makes us smarter."@en

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