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Teaching About Evolution And The Nature Of Science National Academy of Sciences pot

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Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing

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... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The ﬁrstthing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to-gether, if this theory was right, ... off by 7 percent.”Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a predictionfor me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the next ... parties,people often tell me that they have decided they want to bewriters, and they’ll get started as soon as they have moretime, or when they have their study ﬁxed up, or when theyget a new...

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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17

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... awful—until the nextday, when I would arrive at the of ce and see that, actually, the work was not so bad. So I’d patch and polish (alwaysfun, the exercise of craft), then start a new segment on that momentum. ... surprisingly often, that would be all the helpyou needed.Sometimes people decide that they cannot do something:understand physics, let us say. Then, when they have to do it,they can only sit there ... enjoying.After schooling like that, it’s no wonder that many of us tenseup when we sit down to write. But fortunately, the How of writing is not the heart of the matter, and we all once knew...

Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

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... the 9 percent. It was like a predictionfor me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the next morning that, as a matter of ... now.Scientiﬁc evidence is the result of experiment or carefulobservation, based on rules devised to make sure that, ifother people do the same work, they will get the same re-sults. In other words, evidence ... “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 1980s not...

History and Nature of Science

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... Thales of Miletus proposed in 625 B.C. that the Earth is a disc that floats on water, humans havediscovered the true nature of their planet, have observedother galaxies, and have landed on the ... hoping that theirexperiments or inventions will work; that they will solvea problem; that their theories are correct—experimentsare designed to eliminate, as much as possible, the effects of the ... propose hypotheses that can be tested by observing other facts. A hypothesis that can’t be verified by collecting scientific facts is not con-sidered part of the domain of science. TheoriesJust...

Tài liệu Unit 5: The nature of things ppt

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... waterproof //wc:tCpru:f/ (a): waterproof clothes keep you dry because they do not let rain pass through them: không thm nc a waterproof jacket: áo ves-tông không thm nc IN THE KNOW: The ... Choose the letter (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence. 1. The girl _________ mother I am talking to has left the room. A. who B. whom C. whose D. that 2. That s the wig _________she ... _________ in the headphones. 4. First, Soriah fed the cat. Then, she called her mother. Soriah _________ her mother after she _________ the cat. 5. First, Marie did her homework. Then, she...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf

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... the page, gathered it togetherwith one or two others and, still not looking up, passedthem to me. It was a short essay for the Johns Hopkins Maga-zine, which she edited, but this was one of ... one of the little piecesshe wrote herself.What, she wanted to know, did I think of it?Oh, it was ﬁne, I too quickly said after reading it, thenpaused. I was a freelance writer, of the perpetually ... did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes,ForewordFor my father,who would have been so...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf

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... education, or interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowingmuch science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to ... intelligentquestions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of adense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad-emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned.I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctionsyou’ll ﬁnd in these pages...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx

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... Matter of Attitude5terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity andits fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of whatlets the reader trust them—a process that begins ... always have the reader in mind, not only as they writebut also in the ﬁnding out that comes before. They dotheir research with integrity, digging deep, and they writewith the same care. They connect ... that s the way animals learn, including human ones. The harder the ﬁring ,the stronger the pathway. That is why memo-ries from combat or other trauma can remain so vivid andtrip so easily.The...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc

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... of Being that inturn gives rise to appropriate Doing.You can spot the best mentors, like the best parents and the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out theredoing the work. They ... parties,people often tell me that they have decided they want to bewriters, and they’ll get started as soon as they have moretime, or when they have their study ﬁxed up, or when theyget a new ... scratchynotes on the back of a business card don’t do the job.I once sent someone to write a proﬁle of humorist P. J.O’Rourke, a Hopkins alumnus who was at that time editor of the National Lampoon. The...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx

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... 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 brings ... 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 of the ocean to the everyday ... gettingenthused.First of all, get out of your own way. Remember that youIdeasintoWords30 The challenge is twofold: not only to see the important item,buried as it is among other research “news” that will...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt

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... 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 ... needs. For example: 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 ... birth of stars. The se-cret is to start with the Gestalt the big ideas that structure adiscipline, so that you have a mental framework on which tohang the details.Neophyte writers often stumble...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx

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... kiss and skootch them over. They will wait.Once in the room, there’s no rush to start. Allow a fewmoments for the two of you to get used to being in the same room, the process that I call “dog-snifﬁng.” ... too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientiﬁcteam, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the juniorResearchand the Interview53large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... agencies. As agroup, they care only about the opinions of a few illustriouspersons of whom you and I may never have heard. They maybegrudge time that gets them a lot of publicity, yet not...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx

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... inter-views, the machine took enough attention that my rapportwith the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content. The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the ... and you’ll get a lotby osmosis. Science, the journal of the American Association for the Ad-vancement of Science, is also weekly, and its front section of science news is without peer. Because ... your mouth shut. Let the wheels whir. The next thing out of her mouth is likely tobe a nugget of gold.Remember, too, that a person who is thinking may haveno idea that the silence has stretched...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 10 doc

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... it.And “Most of our circulation is on the rural routes,” saidWalt. “They’re farmers. So anything that matters to agricul-ture, that s news.”Then there were the vineyards at the nearby Finger ... intrigued by the “baroquemasterpiece of biological engineering” that the camel is,until Murphy thumped me over the head at the close.“We could do a lot of good for other countries where theyreally ... ones? If the mother isnursing the baby, does that make a difference? Not all the readers would have thought to ask those questions, but theywill all care about the answers.Then consider the pregnant...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 11 pptx

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... albatross ap-pears out of the east, where high dark coasts open on the ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas of the Drake Passage. The group reaches the island. The author tells ... back together at the other endwithin that fraction of a second, the human eye would befooled into thinking that it was seeing a complete picture. The hard part was ﬁguring out how to do the scanning ... penguins shine against the stones. Nearer, the sun catches the gold ear patches behind the eye of swimming members of this splendid species, as well as the yellow head tufts of the much smaller macaroni...