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13 Things That Don't Make Sense The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

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ISBN-10: 0385520689

ISBN-13: 9780385520683

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Brooks

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Based on Michael Brooks’s popular article forNew Scientist—one of the most forwarded articles in the magazine’s online history—13 THINGS THAT DON’T MAKE SENSEtackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, from the placebo effect to life on Mars, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues will define science in the twenty-first century. Brooks covers such topics as: • THE MISSING UNIVERSE: Ninety percent of the universe simply does not exist—at least, not in any detectable form. Will we find a way to identify this “dark matter,” or will Isaac Newton’s laws of universal gravitation be proven incorrect? • THE WOW SIGNAL:…    
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Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/12/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Michael Brooks is the veteran of more than 20 years of year-round club, high school, summer league, and country club swim coaching. He has worked with all levels, from novice to Olympic Trial athletes. He coaches swimmers ages 8 to 18 so that he can keep the beginning, middle, and end of swimmer development in mind at all times.Since October 2006 Brooks has been head coach of the York YMCA swimming team in York, Pennsylvania. Before that, he spent two years as the head age-group coach of the Brophy East swimming team in Phoenix, Arizona, and five years as head coach of the York site of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club (Michael Phelps' home club), where he worked with renowned coaches Murray…    

Prologue
The Missing Universe: We can only account for 4 percent of the cosmos
The Pioneer Anomaly: Two spacecraft are flouting the laws of physics
Varying Constants: Destabilizing our view of the universe
Cold Fusion: Nuclear energy without the drama
Life: Are you more than just a bag of chemicals?
Viking: NASA scientists found evidence for life on Mars. Then they changed their minds
The Wow! Signal: Has ET already been in touch?
A Giant Virus: It's a freak that could rewrite the story of life
Death: Evolution's problem with self-destruction
Sex: There are better ways to reproduce
Free Will: Your decisions are not your own
The Placebo Effect: Who's being deceived?
Homeopathy: It's patently absurd, so why won't it go away?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes and Sources
Index