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... contains some truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems ... some of which are shown in Figure 2-1a, the presenters of the proposal used referenced facts and the opinions of ex- perts to assign a cut-off value. The establishment of these criteria formed the ... became the C-portion of the syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract. Statistics are another form of logical evidence, and their power varies widely. At the...

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... contains some truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems ... Thole ◆ 10 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Implicit in the opinions held by an audience of a presentation are the biases of the audience toward the subject and speaker. An example of this ... some of which are shown in Figure 2-1a, the presenters of the proposal used referenced facts and the opinions of ex- perts to assign a cut-off value. The establishment of these criteria formed the...

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... 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students to complain to the head of the department. How- ever, Oppenheimer was already aware of the ... some truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 38 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Presentations to Inform. For presentations ... important. 4THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS A second advantage of making a presentation is that a presentation allows the speaker the opportunity to ob- serve the reactions of the audience...

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... 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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... 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 ... would arrive at the of ce and see that, actually, the work was not so bad. So I’d patch and polish (always fun, the exercise of craft) , then start a new segment on that momentum. The next day I...

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... 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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... tamper with the laws of nature to suit the needs of the story. The archetype of this requirement is Tom Godwin's " ;The Cold Equations," in which the laws of nature are the background of the ... chandeliers of Louis XIV's palace at Versailles; and they think they know what the inside of a jail looks like. But what does the reader know of the ammonia seas of Titan, the largest moon of the ... suit. His world was cut off now and circled by the dark rocks. The only sounds he knew were the creakings of the suit’s joints, the electrical hum of its motor, the faint whir of the helmet’s air blower,...

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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 ... 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 ... too quickly said after reading it, then paused. I was a freelance writer, of the perpetually strug- gling sort, had done some assignments for Elise, and sought others. Elise was just a few years...

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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 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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