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| Introduction | |
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| Bad Astronomy Begins at Home | |
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| The Yolk's on You: Egg Balancing and the Equinox | |
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| Flushed with Embarrassment: The Coriolis Effect and Your Bathroom | |
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| Idiom's Delight: Bad Astronomy in Everyday Language | |
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| From the Earth to the Moon | |
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| Blue Skies Smiling at Me: Why the Sky Is Blue | |
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| A Dash of Seasons: Why Summer Turns to Fall | |
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| Phase the Nation: The Moon's Changing Face | |
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| The Gravity of the Situation: The Moon and the Tides | |
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| The Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie: The Big Moon Illusion | |
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| Skies at Night Are Big and Bright | |
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| Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Why Stars Appear to Twinkle | |
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| Star Light, Star White: Stars of Many Colors | |
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| Well, Well: The Difficulty of Daylight Star Sighting | |
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| The Brightest Star: Polaris--Just Another Face in the Crowd | |
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| Shadows in the Sky: Eclipses and Sun-Watching | |
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| The Disaster that Wasn't: The Great Planetary Alignment of 2000 | |
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| Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites, Oh My!: The Impact of Meteors and Asteroids | |
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| When the Universe Throws You a Curve: Misunderstanding the Beginning of It All | |
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| Artificial Intelligence | |
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| Appalled at Apollo: Uncovering the Moon-Landing Hoax | |
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| Worlds in Derision: Velikovsky vs. Modern Science | |
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| In the Beginning: Creationism and Astronomy | |
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| Misidentified Flying Objects: UFOs and Illusions of the Mind and Eye | |
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| Mars Is in the Seventh House, But Venus Has Left the Building: Why Astrology Doesn't Work | |
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| Beam Me Up | |
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| Hubble Trouble: Hubble Space Telescope Misconceptions | |
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| Star Hustlers: Star Naming for Dummies | |
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| Bad Astronomy Goes Hollywood: The Top-Ten Examples of Bad Astronomy in Major Motion Pictures | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |