... “un-sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), becausetheir idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible notto scare the public.I well remember from the early 19 80s not one ... most part, the best scientists agree on the currentbest theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an-swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends. ... certain scientistswhom the others all respect, because they bring a certainbreadth, a largeness of vision, yet also think precisely. Theyask good questions. They know the latest. They never eatlunch...
... checked 24 times a second) is subtracted from the value of startingTime: getTimer() - startingTime Remember that the value of startingTime is set to the current time at the point when the ... Step 10 : 12 . 13 . if (secondsElapsed >= totalTimeToAlarm) { 14 . 15 . activateAlarm(); 16 . 17 . } 18 . This conditional statement, which is executed 24 times a second like all the other ... Math.round((getTimer() - startingTime) / 10 00); 11 . It's critical that our script track the amount oftime that has elapsed since the user clicked the Start button and activated the timer....
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... journey of FougeÁres.47Charters,R6. The endof Angevin Brittany, 11 86 12 03 15 9 6 THE ENDOF ANGEVIN BRITTANY, 11 86 12 03 The death of Duke Geoffrey brought yet another transformation to the Angevin ... 13 5. 11 4Charters, pp. 11 1, A18. 11 5Rot. Litt. Pat., pp. 5, 7. The endof Angevin Brittany, 11 86 12 03 17 3 and Dinan. 1 This may have been justiđed under the terms of the peace settlement, which ... octave ofthe Assumption ofthe Virgin Mary, 11 80 (sic)'. Friday in the octave ofthe Assumption ofthe Virgin Mary in 11 96 fell on 16 August.59Again, the Chroniques de VitreÂ(p. 31) gives...
... CY335B/Dembski 0 5 21 82949 6 March 10 , 2004 1: 21 Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time 19 9 The many-universes theory neatly solves the problem ofthe origin of the arrow of time. The wave ... (forthcoming). 12 . M. Eliade, The Myth ofthe Eternal Return, trans. W. R. Trask (New York: Pantheon, 19 54). 13 . A. S. Eddington, TheEndofthe World from the Standpoint of MathematicalPhysics,” Nature 12 7 ... JzL05 218 29496c10.xml CY335B/Dembski 0 5 21 82949 6 March 10 , 2004 1: 21 192Paul Davies The association ofthe Second Law of Thermodynamics with atheism andcosmic pointlessness has been an enduring...
... refuteitself endlessly. Levinas’s response to this return ofthe refuted istwofold. On the one hand, it attests to the saying ofthe said, to the fact that the self-contradictory nature ofthe thesis (the ... other’ (us 15 9). Levinas, reluctant to endorseany discourse of ends or the end, will speakunapologetically of the endof theodicy. ‘For an ethical sensibility the justification of the neighbour’s ... hisconsistent oppositition to the theodicy ofthe friends. ‘Job refusestheodicy right to theend and, in the last chapters ofthe text, ispreferred to those who, hurryingto the safety of heaven, would...
... measured inyears, then the units of à are per cent per year and the units of σ are per cent per square root of a year. The dimension of àis [time] 1 and that of is [time] 1/ 2. The riskless bond ... i in the portfolio V,andLi =1 wi= 1. According to equation (2 .16 ), the expected return of portfolio V isàV=Li =1 wiài(2 .18 )and the variance per unit timeofthe return on the portfolio ... beta, the ratio ofthe covariance σiM of stocki with the market to the variance ofthe market σ2M.By substituting the value of iin equation (2.29)into (2.27) one finds that the value of the...
... Hancock.p. cm.ISBN 0-8 018 -7329-0 — ISBN 0-8 018 -7330-4 1. Technical writing. I. Title.T 11 .H255 2003808′.0665—dc 21 2002 011 065A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. ... Press2 715 North Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland 212 18-4363www.press.jhu.eduLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataHancock, Elise.Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science ... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waitedwhile she finished.Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it togetherwith one or two others and, still not looking up, passedthem...
... interest in it.Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowingmuch science. Some ofthe best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-ence, be ... But rather of a rich sensibility of respect. For lan-guage. For ideas. For people. For the surprising and the deli-ciously weird in us all. And most of all, respect for the world, the endlessly ... intelligentquestions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of adense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings ofthe National Acad-emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
... terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity andits fruits are a large partof what the reader senses, of whatlets the reader trust them—a process that begins with the first sentence.When ... . . See you at the bar?” Ten minutes later,while the grousers were presumably at the bar, I walked by the room of exchange copies—and there was John Bethell,combing through other people’s magazines ... interesting about how the worldworks, and then another something, and another, and an-other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid totalk to people and pass along the great stuff...
... alumnus who was at that time editor of the National Lampoon. The writer came back with the revelationthat, yes, everybody at the Lampoon was really funny. The wisecracks flew—and whenever the joke ... parties,people often tell me that they have decided they want to bewriters, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when theyget a new ... ideas from the New York Times or any other magisterial source. In fact,you’re better off without. If your idea has been in the Times, forget it. The world already knows.Paul Hawken (of Smith...
... on.Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the otherdirection: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under-stand the phenomenon then ... you get the picture.Spot what appeals to the visual sense. Today’s technology lets uslook at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars,from the bottom ofthe ocean to the everyday ... that, on the day after Sep-tember 11 , 20 01, his taste in music changed. “I always had the car radio on a rock station,” he said. Then the day after the Twin Towers fell, he got into the car and...
... it. The beauty of case studies is that they carry the readeralong on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation as needed. At the same time, they anchor is-sues in the ... the Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company, the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu-dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of Medical Parapher-nalia . ... is the topic of this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing acommitment to science and the public understandingthereof—upon...
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