زاغ علمی: مجموعه ای از تناقض ها، توضیحات، لیست ها، زندگی ها و چیزهای بی اهمیت از دنیای شگفت انگیز علم ۲۰۱۲
The Science Magpie: A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science 2012

1. Cover

2. Title Page

3. Dedication

4. CONTENTS

5. INTRODUCTION

6. ‘HYMN TO SCIENCE’

7. HOW DO THEY DO IT?

8. THE SCIENTIST

9. VALUE JUDGEMENTS

10. THE TRUE MEASURE OF THINGS (PART 1)

11. AS EASY AS Al, Be, Cs

12. THE SQUARE OF SCIENTIFIC DELIGHTS

13. VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF OCKHAM’S RAZOR

14. NAME THAT NUMBER

15. THE ‘GREATEST EQUATION EVER’

16. TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY, THAT IS THE QUESTION

17. ‘A CHEMIC UNION’

18. BINARY BASICS

19. THE ENERGY OF RICHTER

20. SCIENCE’S MOLECULE OF THE YEAR/BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR AWARD

21. GEOLOGICAL TIME PIECE

22. ‘TWIN LIMB-LIKE BASALT COLUMNS’

23. MNEMONIC FOR REMEMBERING THE GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE

24. ‘MOSQUITO DAY’

25. THE ETYMOLOGY AND SCRABBLE SCORE OF SOME COMMON SCIENTIFIC WORDS

26. TAKING ACID

27. A GOOD INDICATOR OF …

28. I HOLY SEE THE ERROR OF MY WAYS

29. RABBIT, RABBIT, RABBIT-RABBIT, RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT, RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT

30. BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!

31. SOLAR ECLIPSES GALORE

32. ‘A REMARKABLE BOOK, SURE TO MAKE A MIGHTY STIR’

33. ‘THE FOUR STAGES OF PUBLIC OPINION’

34. ‘ENDLESS FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL’

35. ARE YOU CLEVERER THAN A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD … FROM 1858?

36. BY DEGREES

37. BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

38. THREATENED SPECIES

39. THE BIG FIVE

40. THE LAST 500 MILLION YEAR EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATES

41. THE TORINO IMPACT HAZARD SCALE

42. THE $10 MILLION BOOK

43. THE POETS’ SCIENTIST

44. WHEN LEFT CAN BE RIGHT AND RIGHT CAN BE WRONG

45. THE SCIENTIFIC EQUIVALENT OF: HAVE YOU READ A WORK OF SHAKESPEARE’S?

46. YOU CAN’T WIN, YOU KNOW

47. THE MPEMBA EFFECT

48. MAXWELL’S DEMON

49. HOTTER THAN HELL

50. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE

51. ‘THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF THE CANDLE’

52. WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT’S IN YOUR GENES, SIZE ISN’T EVERYTHING

53. WOULD YOU ADAM AND EVE IT?

54. EUCLID’S ALGORITHM

55. THE PERIODIC SNAIL

56. MAKING THE STANDARD MODEL

57. THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER RAP

58. THE RELATIVE HARDNESS OF BEING

59. YOUR READING LIST FOR THIS WEEK IS …

60. WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF?

61. WHY IS THE SKY DARK AT NIGHT?

62. UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW

63. THE NEW ATLANTIS

64. A PLURALITY OF WORLDS IN EVERY EARRING

65. A LAW BY ANY OTHER NAME …

66. JUST NOT MY CUP OF TEA

67. A PRIME DETERMINER

68. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, SHOW YOUR WORKING

69. ‘THE DEGREE OF OPACITY’

70. REAL MOLECULES WITH SILLY NAMES

71. THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

72. BRITAIN’S FIRST PROFESSIONAL FEMALE SCIENTIST

73. THE BIRTH OF THE QUANTUM

74. THE DEFINITION OF A PLANET

75. THE INTERSTELLAR PIONEER

76. THE TRUE MEASURE OF THINGS (PART 2)

77. NATURE AND NURTURE

78. ONE CLEAR, UNCHANGED, AND UNIVERSAL LIGHT

79. ANOTHER HUE UNTO THE RAINBOW

80. ON A NEW KIND OF RAY

81. CENTENARY ICONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

82. MEASURING THE SPEED OF LIGHT USING CHOCOLATE, A MICROWAVE AND A RULER

83. ‘SPACE SHIFTED ABOUT LIKE A SWAN THAT CAN’T SETTLE’

84. RELATIVELY SPEAKING

85. ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKS

86. THE BOOK THAT CAUSED A PARADIGM SHIFT

87. PRACTICAL POLITICS

88. TYPES OF IONISING RADIATION

89. THE DOSE MAKES THE POISON

90. TO DECAY WITH PRECISION

91. GOING NUCLEAR IN A SPORTS HALL

92. AN UNHOLY TRINITY

93. IN COLD BLOOD

94. MORE THAN THE GERM OF AN IDEA

95. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ATOM

96. WOULD THE REAL SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT PLEASE STAND UP

97. TO A MEASURABLE INFINITY AND BEYOND

98. TRUTH TO THEIR FICTIONS

99. THE LIFE OF π

100. A SLICE OF INDIANA π

101. MEET TOM TELESCOPE AND FRIENDS

102. THE SINS OF NEWTON

103. MENDEL’S LAW OF SEGREGATION

104. THE MONKEY TRIAL

105. THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS

106. FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE … WE HAVE LIFT-OFF

107. BLOWING HOT AND COLD

108. ‘THERE IS MORE TO SEEING THAN MEETS THE EYEBALL’

109. CONCEDING TO THE LAWS OF METRE

110. FIRST, DO NO HARM

111. THE SIZE AND GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION

112. TOP OF THE POP-SCI CHART

113. A PARTY OF FAMOUS PHYSICISTS

114. AN UNACKNOWLEDGED DEBT

115. ELEMENTS OF COLOUR

116. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’VE WON A …

117. THE TEN GREATEST EVER EQUATIONS … ACCORDING TO NICARAGUA

118. IS HELL EXOTHERMIC OR ENDOTHERMIC?

119. GREAT SCIENTISTS BY NATION

120. ‘SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS BLOOM’

121. IT HAS BEEN LONG KNOWN THAT …

122. WHAT IF EARTH CAN CLOTHE AND FEED AMPLEST MILLIONS AT THEIR NEED

123. APPENDIX: BACK TO SCHOOL

124. DOUBLE SCIENCE

125. CHEMISTRY IS FULL OF BAD JOKES BECAUSE ALL THE BEST ARGON

126. CELL-U-LIKE

127. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

128. BY A FORCE OF NATURE

129. PERMISSIONS

130. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

131. BIBLIOGRAPHY

132. About the Author

133. Copyright