What happens when ideas presented as science lead us astray? History is full of brilliant ideas that led to disaster. This book presents accounts of how science has been misused disastrously, and how we can learn to use its power for...
SCIENCE / History
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Author:Berger, EricSummary:SpaceX has grown rapidly in the past decade, but this would not have been possible without SpaceX's first four flight tests. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current employees, including Elon Musk, Eric...
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Author:Walsh, BryanSummary:What is going to cause our doom? How can we save ourselves from it? Bryan Walsh explores a multitude of apocalyptic situations and explains how we can decide our fate.
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Author:Stewart, IanSummary:Life is full of uncertainty, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact, and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong. Thankfully...
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Author:Richtel, MattSummary:A cancer patient risen from the grave, an HIV patient considered a medical marvel, two "invisible" women suffering the frustration and pain of autoimmunity. Matt Richtel uses the stories of these four people to tell the...
