Can a student do experiments on his own? Would he know the right way to conduct a process using the scientific method? What is a hypothesis? These and other questions are addressed in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Do-it-yourself Science, as Bill Nye teaches students independent thinking. His series always includes experiments that can be done at home, using easily found items. In this show, he encourages students to raise questions, make educated guesses, and test their hypotheses.
Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. In A Tale of Two Cultures, Gary Goertz and James Mahoney demonstrate that these two paradigms constitute different cultures, each internally coherent yet marked by contrasting norms, practices, and toolkits. They identify and discuss major differences between these two traditions that touch nearly every aspect of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.
New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. New Scientist has maintained a website since 1996, publishing daily news. As well as covering current events and news from the scientific community, the magazine often features speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical.
Voters and Vendors was created with hopes that it will give learners a better understanding of the direct link between political science, economics, and their lives.
How It Works, the magazine that explains everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world we live in. Loaded with fully illustrated guides and expert knowledge, and with sections dedicated to science, technology, transportation, space, history and the environment, no subject is too big or small for How It Works to explain
