Joy of Science
(60 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 1100
Taught by Robert M. Hazen
George Mason University
Ph.D., Harvard University
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as something every educated person should know. One such idea, according to Snow, was the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with the diffusion of heat and has many profound consequences.
He might well have added Newton's laws, the periodic table of elements, the double-helix structure of DNA, and scores of other masterpieces of scientific discovery.
Now, Professor Robert M. Hazen introduces these and other great ideas in 60 lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all of the physical and biological sciences—physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more.
Hypertension Primer is a comprehensive, readable source of
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The book contains more than 150 short chapters by distinguished experts
that cover every aspect of hypertension and its pathogenesis,
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three well-organized sections--basic science, population science, and
clinical management--and each chapter is cross-referenced to other
relevant chapters. Each chapter is easily digestible and begins with a
bulleted list of key points.
A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of
the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious
contributions written by and about scientists. The book records
changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of
science with society.
Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll,
Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and James Clark Maxwell.
This
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From Writing to Computers takes as its central theme the issue of a unifying intellectual principle to connect books and computers. Julian Warner uses an approach based on semiotics, but also draws on linguistics, information science, cognitive science, philosophy and automata studies. Covering a range of topics--from the relations between speech and writing, to transitions from orality to literacy and claims for a transition to an information society--the author aims throughout to render complex ideas intelligible without loss of rigor. This text addresses ordinary readers who, as social beings and members of political communities, are affected by significant developments in methods for storing, manipulating and communicating information. It is also intended for students of the disciplines on which the draws: semiotics, information studies, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and psychology.
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