Bouchard, R. Philip
Summary: R. Philip Bouchard takes a closer look at 13 pervasive scientific untruths tackling a range of topics from gravity and radiation to global warming, pandemics and humorously shares the real science behind them. You'll learn why trees do not store carbon dioxide, why getting your genome sequenced tells you much less than you think it does, and why a day is not actually 24 hours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BOUPosamentier, Alfred S.
Summary: "Requiring no more than high-school-level math competency, this playful excursion through the nuances of math will give you a better grasp of this fundamental, all-important science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 POSBrooke-Hitching, Edward
Summary: The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018