| Description |
260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Skeptical Inquirer Columns. 1. Probability Paradoxes. 2. Big Bang Is Alive and Well. 3. Marianne Williamson and A Course in Miracles. 4. Margaret Mead's Great Samoan Hoax. 5. E-Prime: Getting Rid of Isness. 6. RMT: Repressed Memory Therapy. 7. Weird Water, or H[subscript 2]Oh! 8. Pealeism and the Paranormal. 9. The Cult of the Golden Ratio. 10. Eyeless Vision and God. 11. The Tragedies of False Memories. 12. Literary Science Blunders. 13. Science vs. Beauty? 14. Doug Henning and the Giggling Guru. 15. Klingon and Other Artificial Languages. 16. Fuzzy Logic -- Book Reviews. 17. From Here to Infinity. 18. How Science Works and Fails. 19. The Faith of Three Scientists. 20. Speculations of Freeman Dyson. 21. Sheldon Glashow on Science and Superstrings. 22. Heinz Pagels on Minds and Computers. 23. Symmetry from A to Zee. 24. Mathematical Breakthroughs. 25. Technology's Awesome March. 26. To Pluto and Beyond. 27. Astronomers and God. 28. Reading the Mind of Nobody |
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29. Is Western Culture Vanishing? 30. Pencils. 31. Allan Sandage's Cosmology. 32. The Mystery of Consciousness. 33. Is There a God? 34. The World of Stephen Jay Gould. 35. Incredible Ramanujan. 36. How to Make a PPO. 37. Archeological Crankery. 38. Joseph Campbell, "Racist" 39. Information Theory and the Universe. 40. Mathematical Beauty and Certainty. 41. More Speculations of Freeman Dyson. 42. Richard Feynman, Magician. 43. Is the Second Coming Coming? 44. Do Humans Spontaneously Combust? 45. Will Science Discover Everything? 46. Tunnels of the Mind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Journalism.
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Newspaper reading.
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| LC no. |
96031113 |
| ISBN |
1573920967 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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