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The Best Australian Science Writing 2017.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of New South Wales Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Grave Barrier Reef; Alchemists of catastrophe: Extracting value from disasters; Trace fossils: The silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium; Fish have feelings too; The machine generation; Inspired by nature; An unusual pattern; Impossible alloys; Alien intelligence: The extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods; Tasmanian fires: How climate change has ravaged ancient World Heritage forests; Counting birds to save the Murrayâ#x80;#x93;Darling; An island ark; Medicine with a bite.
- What happened to climate science in the CSIRO?Impotence and optimism: The life of a cancer scientist; Ruffled feathers in battle to save night parrot; The big data telescope; Settling science: Why the scientific method confuses us; Testosterone rex; Gender equity can amplify sex differences; Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers?; Ancient Aboriginal star maps shaped Australiaâ#x80;#x99;s highways; Antibiotic resistance; The furious debate over a disease that doesnâ#x80;#x99;t officially exist; Is it right to kill millions of animals if it protects others?; The mystery of the missing antimatter.
- Do aliens have inalienable rights?How to talk to humans in a million years; Shark alert; Lonesome leviathans; The myth and reality of monster sharks that once ruled the seas; The pyramid at the end of the world; Contributors; Acknowledgments.