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More Random Walks in Science 2017

1. Cover

2. Half Title

3. Title Page

4. Copyright Page

5. Dedication

6. Table of Contents

7. Preface

8. Splitting the infinitive Charles R Langmuir

9. Broken English H B G Casimir

10. NPL haiku

11. Federalese G R Hicks

12. Readability ratings

13. A note on the game of refereeing J M Chambers and Agnes M Herzberg

14. Preparing scientific papers N S Haile

15. Commandments for the writer of a dissertation

16. Royalties: the Quatorze connection Marque Bagshaw

17. Perish, but publish! William J McGlothlin

18. Clarification

19. How to win arguments V D Landon

20. The acceptance of a scientific idea J B S Haldane

21. On the reading of scientific papers Eugene F Dubois

22. The use of small dogs in physics teaching A W S Tarrant

23. Teaching Picasso

24. Teacher evaluation John Gauss

25. Free thinking Alexander Calandra

26. A revised PhD comprehensive

27. Syllabus for a detective story written by a physics professor H R Crane

28. Challenging experiments John H Reynolds

29. Images W S Franklin and B McNuit

30. Mission statements Richard Chait

31. The rank order on campus Pearl G Aldrich

32. Budget

33. The University hierarchy—who’s on top?

34. View from the bottom C E K Mees

35. On the problem of innovation Amrom H Katz

36. The Dreistein case J Lincoln Paine

37. Sir Edward Victor Appleton’s Nobel Award (1947) Ronald Clark

38. Hypothesis A S Parkes

39. Finagle’s laws

40. Descent of man D L Austin and J D Bu’Lock

41. Literacy in an age of technology George Steiner

42. How to live with the Philistines Henry E Duckworth

43. A Philistine asks for equal time Sister Johnell Dillon

44. Brain Drain Joan Butt

45. Pan’s pipes Robert Louis Stevenson

46. Seventeenth-century recognition of resonance Andrew Marvell

47. Demon theory of friction Eric M Rogers

48. Natural-science viva, C1890

49. Physics instructor John N Shive

50. Influential textbooks: The Feynman lectures on physics Ivar Giaver

51. A lecture to a lady on Thomson’s reflecting galvanometer James Clerk Maxwell

52. European atom

53. Error bars Jerry D Wilson

54. The British high energy physics community John Ziman

55. The future European harmonic pendulum

56. The fluttering, spiralling flight of cyclotron evolution David L Judd

57. E O Lawrence, driver

58. Ten commandments of electrical safety

59. hv G Stead

60. Tea-time with Rutherford A S Russell

61. Pauli in Heaven

62. Tracking the elusive quark Lewis Grossberger

63. Spin-orbit coupling Maria Goeppert Mayer

64. Reference frames John N Howard

65. Space Felix Bloch

66. The Einstein and the Eddington W H Williams x

67. Einstein’s philosophy of science Philipp Frank

68. Relativity Robert Williams Wood

69. R W Wood—improviser

70. Schuster’s library Robert L Weber

71. Captain DeKhotinsky Paul E Klopsteg

72. My anecdotage Ronald D Edge

73. The diabolical heating scheme of J C Maxwell John Lowell

74. Proof by induction Edgar W Kutzscher

75. Stauffer’s law of the entropy of change Don Stauffer

76. International Court of Scientific Nomenclature, rival claims of scientists: Celsius vs McKie A S McKie

77. mμ—an opticist’s lament M J Merrick

78. The King who kept his 0°C Edward Crow ley

79. Name for unit radian frequency M Strasberg

80. On the mathematics of committees, boards and panels Bruce S Old

81. The ‘Legal’ value of Jt M H Greenblatt

82. Science in double dactyls Alan Holden, Jay M Pasachoff and A P French

83. Hymne to Hymen Blanche Descartes xi

84. Resolution of the paradox Abner Shimony

85. Saving time: a commentary Norman Sperling

86. Could the earth run backward? J B Priestley

87. Twixt earth and sky with matter-horns Richard H Lyon

88. Astronaut cartoon

89. O, telescope! Johannes Kepler

90. Planetoid for sale H H Turner

91. Celsius—the astronomer

92. The satellite question

93. Astronomical abberation Clarence Day

94. Creation of the Universe Jay M Pasachoff

95. Creation

96. Stressing the astronauts Tom Wolfe

97. On the spot?

98. Cocking a Snootnik at Sputnik David S Evans

99. Still in the galaxy Jeanne Hopkins

100. A damsel in distress John Scoffern

101. Chemical history is shaped by a maker of wine bottles

102. To err is human . . .

103. A chemical hoax

104. Professionalism—to the end

105. The purist Ogden Nash

106. The ant Ogden Nash

107. Fellowshipmanship Ian Rose

108. Outline of evolution as dimly recalled from college education Stephen Leacock

109. Struthiomimus J Maynard Smith

110. The dinosaur Will Cuppy

111. R W Wood Paul E Klopsteg

112. The dry-rot of our academic biology William Morton Wheeler

113. Name dropping Robert L Weber

114. Pollution Kenneth E Boulding

115. Modelling the cat falling Henry Petroski

116. The speed of the deer fly Robert L Weber

117. Designer genes: a new look in fish genetics Joel E Cohen

118. Curve fitting David W Roubik and Robert M Hazen

119. Biorhythm: imitation of science W S Lyon, F F Dyer and D C Gary

120. On being blinded with science D E H Jones

121. That thing will never work Don Groves

122. Errors and myopia

123. Extracts from Modern Geography £1740

124. Continental drip Ormonde de Kay Jr

125. Sir Isaac Newton quotation

126. Acknowledgments