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Headline News, Science Views II.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Headline News Science Views II""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""EDITOR'S NOTE""; ""1 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ""; ""SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE""; ""CONFRONTING CREEPING COMPLEXITY""; ""THE REALITY BEYOND SCIENCE""; ""COLUMBUS DAY AND THE FRONTIER OF EXPLORATION""; ""2 EDUCATION ""; ""CHILDREN AND CALCULATORS""; ""ONE YEAR DOWN, NINE TO GO""; ""MINORITY STUDENTS AND MATHEMATICS""; ""A FAILING GRADE FOR SCHOOL TESTS""; ""GETTING SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN SCIENCE EDUCATION""; ""BARBIE, MATH AND SCIENCE""; ""THE CONTRAST BETWEEN COMPUTERS AND CLASSROOMS""
- ""Fooling ourselves about improving ourselves""""the overselling of the university""; ""3 the environment ""; ""the threat of climate change""; ""designing a cure for greenhouse warming""; ""aquatic ecosystems on the critical list""; ""science and the national parks""; ""assessing the threat of toxic waste sites""; ""protecting our nervous system from toxic chemicals""; ""indoor radon: hype versus help""; ""deciding who gets western water""; ""4 health care ""; ""a health agenda for children""; ""childhood vaccines: the parent's responsibility""
- ""The neglected mental health problems of adolescents""""people's health, public health""; ""the states and health care innovation""; ""our disabled view of disability""; ""the deadly threat of emerging infections""; ""taking women's health problems seriously""; ""pregnant women, newborns and aids""; ""5 diet and nutrition ""; ""weight control: what really works""; ""serving up nutrition instead of guilt""; ""the foods in our future""; ""improving the safety of seafood""; ""fighting trim, fighting smart""; ""6 technology and transportation ""; ""getting serious about computer security""
- ""Preventing oil spills here at home""""looking beyond potholes""; ""getting smart about 'intelligent' vehicles and highways""; ""a high-tech cure for traffic jams?""; ""crossing the bridge to more beautiful journeys""; ""launching into a new era in space""; ""7 the economy ""; ""mobilizing for a u.s. technology strategy""; ""the globalization of technology""; ""how to keep factory jobs from moving overseas""; ""designing for prosperity""; ""short-term thinking in a long-term world""; ""a new partnership in american science and technology""; ""work and family""; ""8 international affairs ""
- ""Beyond the brazil summit: conserving biodiversity""""faltering science in the rain forest""; ""the perilous state of science in the former soviet union""; ""guatemala: attacks on scientists and research""; ""the next refugee crisis and the u.s. response""; ""the science of middle east peace""; ""the unwelcome return of malaria""; ""creating a better atmosphere after the earth summit""; ""ravages of nature, disasters of mankind""; ""9 looking to the future ""; ""individuality and the brain""; ""mapping the human brain""; ""gene therapy: no longer just a concept""