mastering the facts of life
Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing
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05/10/2012, 09:47
... 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, ... is available from the British Library.
would go no further—“30 percent; we cannot say more
than 30 percent”—till they were sure I had the message.
Then they would shut the of ce door. “But let ... going to be all of them, or al-
most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi-
demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien-
tist, the larger the scruple and the more he...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
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17/10/2013, 19:15
... 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 some subject or writing ... of us tense
up when we sit down to write. But fortunately, the How of
writing is not the heart of the matter, and we all once knew it.
Since you are reading this book, you were probably one of
those...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
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20/10/2013, 10:15
... off by 7 percent.”
Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a prediction
for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-
tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the
next ... “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 the early 1980s not ... part, the best scientists agree on the current
best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an-
swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the
fewest loose ends. There’s...
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Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life
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01/11/2013, 07:20
... in the physical sciences similar
to that of the theory of evolution in the life sciences. What is intriguing
is that the predictions of one seem to contradict the predictions of the
other. The ... and the Origin of Life
Walter L. Bradley
1.
introduction
Darwin’s theory of evolution and the development of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics by Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs are two of
the ... de-
scribed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. For them, the origin of
life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological
information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store...
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Tài liệu The Game of Life and How to Play It pdf
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24/12/2013, 09:17
... from the
consciousness. It is man’s only enemy - fear of lack, fear of
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Game 3
Chapter 2 The Law of Prosperity 12
Chapter 3 The Power of the Word 19
Chapter 4 The ... and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious
mind. They must be one. When the subconscious is flooded with
the perfect ideas of the superconscious, God and man are one.
“I and the Father ... and as she cast it upon
the Superconscious with its belief of plenty, an avalanche of
supply was the result.
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The Law of Prosperity
I won’t receive it till the first of the month, and I must...
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Tài liệu Creating the value of life - By Fumihiko Iida ppt
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24/12/2013, 13:15
... of Old Norse, the language of the Vikings and the precursor of modern Icelandic,
and these words were actually used by the Vikings. The other twelve words were all
related to seafaring, and of ... ”reincarnation” and the afterlife” are components of ”theories
of the meaning of life essential to basic humanity.
By so doing, I broke out of the traditional boundary of ”management science” ... PROOF OF PAST LIFE MEMORIES
Are these past life memories genuine memories of a lifetime that occurred in the past?
Or are they merely hallucinations or dreams concocted by the brain of the subject?
To...
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Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Whirligig Of Life doc
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24/12/2013, 18:15
... O’HENRY
The Whirligig Of Life
JUSTICE -OF -THE- PEACE Benaja Widdup sat in the door of his office
smoking his elder-stem pipe. Halfway to the zenith the Cumberland range
rose blue-gray in the afternoon ... when they had just learned the lesson of life?
"But the co't air prepared," went on the Justice, "fur to remove the
disabilities set up by the decree of divo'ce. The ... back up to the cabin," she said, along 'ith the bull-
cart. There's bread in the tin box settin' on the shelf. I put the bacon in the
"Otherwise," said the Justice,...
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The meaning of life: A very short introduction
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11/01/2014, 18:45
... after his own
fashion, fi nding the meaning of life in the person of Adolf Hitler.
The meaning of life may only be revealed to us at the end of time,
in the form of a Messiah who seems to be taking ... Meaning of Life
technicians of language. It is true that the idea of the philosopher
as a guide to the meaning of life is a popular misconception.
Even so, one might expect them to do rather more ... range of responses
to it; and this bewildering diversity of solutions then serves to
diminish the credibility of any one of them. Feeling it important to
raise the meaning -of- life question, then,...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 have been so ... blank
©2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press
Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel
All rights reserved. Published 2003
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
987654321
The Johns...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 injunctions
you’ll find in these pages ... intelligent
questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a
dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... interesting about how the world
works, and then another something, and another, and an-
other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid to
talk to people and pass along the great stuff ... 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 ... always have the reader in mind, not only as they write
but also in the finding out that comes before. They do
their research with integrity, digging deep, and they write
with the same care. They connect...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 work. They ... parties,
people often tell me that they have decided they want to be
writers, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more
time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when they
get a new ... professional
network as well, but the network is the least of the gift, be-
cause a so-called “network” is really more like a tribe. If you
are the right breed of cat for your mentor’s tribe, the net-
work quickly...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 brings ... 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 bottom of the ocean to the everyday ... as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing their
full size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to know
what you think till someone asks the right question or offers
one...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 Medical Parapher-
nalia . ... is the topic of
this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude:
The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a
commitment to science and the public understanding
thereof—upon...
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Tài liệu THE WATER OF LIFE-GRIMM''''S FAIRY TALE docx
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26/01/2014, 05:20
... grieved at their father’s
sickness; and as they were walking together very mournfully in the garden
of the palace, a little old man met them and asked what was the matter. They
told him that their ... last the second son said, ‘Father, I will go in search of the Water of Life. ’
For he thought to himself, ‘My brother is surely dead, and the kingdom will
fall to me if I find the water.’ The ... younger days. Then they went to their
brother, and laughed at him, and said, ‘Well, brother, you found the Water of
Life, did you? You have had the trouble and we shall have the reward. Pray,...
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- the nature of life
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- a struggle in the race of life
- the chemistry of life
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