the nature of science implies that

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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, ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... awful—until the next day, when I 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. ... surprisingly often, that would be all the help you needed. Sometimes people decide that they cannot do something: understand physics, let us say. Then, when they have to do it, they can only sit there ... enjoying. After schooling like that, it’s no wonder that many 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... 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 morning that, as a matter of ... now. Scientific evidence is the result of experiment or careful observation, based on rules devised to make sure that, if other people do the same work, they will get the same re- sults. In other words, evidence ... “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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... Thales of Miletus proposed in 625 B . C . that the Earth is a disc that floats on water, humans have discovered the true nature of their planet, have observed other galaxies, and have landed on the ... hoping that their experiments or inventions will work; that they will solve a problem; that their theories are correct—experiments are designed to eliminate, as much as possible, the effects of the ... propose hypotheses that can be tested by observing other facts. A hypothesis that can’t be verified by collecting scientific facts is not con- sidered part of the domain of science. Theories Just...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... waterproof / / wc:tCpru:f / (a): waterproof clothes keep you dry because they do not let rain pass through them: không thm nc a waterproof jacket: áo ves-tông không thm nc IN THE KNOW: The ... Choose the letter (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence. 1. The girl _________ mother I am talking to has left the room. A. who B. whom C. whose D. that 2. That s the wig _________she ... _________ in the headphones. 4. First, Soriah fed the cat. Then, she called her mother. Soriah _________ her mother after she _________ the cat. 5. First, Marie did her homework. Then, she...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 10:16

... the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them to me. It was a short essay for the Johns Hopkins Maga- zine, which she edited, but this was one of ... one of the little pieces she wrote herself.What, she wanted to know, did I think of it? Oh, it was fine, I too quickly said after reading it, then paused. I was a freelance writer, of the perpetually ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... education, or 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 ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... Matter of 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 ... 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 ... that s the way animals learn, including human ones. The harder the firing ,the stronger the pathway. That is why memo- ries from combat or other trauma can remain so vivid and trip so easily. The...

Ngày tải lên: 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 ... scratchy notes on the back of a business card don’t do the job. I once sent someone to write a profile of humorist P. J. O’Rourke, a Hopkins alumnus who was at that time editor of the National Lampoon. The...

Ngày tải lên: 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 ... getting enthused. First of all, get out of your own way. Remember that you Ideas into Words 30 The challenge is twofold: not only to see the important item, buried as it is among other research “news” that will...

Ngày tải lên: 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 ... needs. For example: 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 ... birth of stars. The se- cret is to start with the Gestalt the big ideas that structure a discipline, so that you have a mental framework on which to hang the details. Neophyte writers often stumble...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... kiss and skootch them over. They will wait. Once in the room, there’s no rush to start. Allow a few moments for the two of you to get used to being in the same room, the process that I call “dog-sniffing.” ... too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientific team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior Research and the Interview 53 large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... agencies. As a group, they care only about the opinions of a few illustrious persons of whom you and I may never have heard. They may begrudge time that gets them a lot of publicity, yet not...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... inter- views, the machine took enough attention that my rapport with the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content. The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the ... and you’ll get a lot by osmosis. Science, the journal of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, is also weekly, and its front section of science news is without peer. Because ... your mouth shut. Let the wheels whir. The next thing out of her mouth is likely to be a nugget of gold. Remember, too, that a person who is thinking may have no idea that the silence has stretched...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... it. And “Most of our circulation is on the rural routes,” said Walt. “They’re farmers. So anything that matters to agricul- ture, that s news.” Then there were the vineyards at the nearby Finger ... intrigued by the “baroque masterpiece of biological engineering” that the camel is, until Murphy thumped me over the head at the close. “We could do a lot of good for other countries where they really ... ones? If the mother is nursing the baby, does that make a difference? Not all the readers would have thought to ask those questions, but they will all care about the answers. Then consider the pregnant...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... albatross ap- pears out of the east, where high dark coasts open on the ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas of the Drake Passage. The group reaches the island. The author tells ... back together at the other end within that fraction of a second, the human eye would be fooled into thinking that it was seeing a complete picture. The hard part was figuring out how to do the scanning ... penguins shine against the stones. Nearer, the sun catches the gold ear patches behind the eye of swimming members of this splendid species, as well as the yellow head tufts of the much smaller macaroni...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20