The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century pdf

... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to- gether, if this theory was right, ... certain scientists whom the others all respect, because they bring a certain breadth, a largeness of vision, yet also think precisely. They ask good questions. They know th...

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... trigger their adrenaline. So they often thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad- ing but wilt in a life that leaves them ... and fer- tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro- climate of the particular garden. Is there som...

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... certain scientists whom the others all respect, because they bring a certain breadth, a largeness of vision, yet also think precisely. They ask good questions. They know the latest. They never eat lunch ... “un- sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), because their idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible not to scare the public. I well remember from...

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... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes, Foreword For my father, who would...

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... interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci- ence, be ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned. I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injuncti...

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... Attitude 5 terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process that begins with the first sentence. When ... . . See you at the bar?” Ten minutes later, while the grousers were presumably at the bar, I walked by the room of exchange copies—and there was John Bet...

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... fact, follow the rules they will give you if you ask why they do what they do. Rather, experts are persons to whom every case is a special case because they’ve seen so many that they simply know. ... of Being that in turn gives rise to appropriate Doing. You can spot the best mentors, like the best parents and the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out there doing the...

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... on. Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under- stand the phenomenon then ... you get the picture. Spot what appeals to the visual sense. Today’s technology lets us look at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars, from the...

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... it. The beauty of case studies is that they carry the reader along on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation as needed. At the same time, they anchor is- sues in the ... the Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company, the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu- dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of...

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