The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who

Author : Simon Guerrier
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448142970
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who written by Simon Guerrier and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Who stories are many things: thrilling adventures, historical dramas, tales of love and war and jelly babies. They’re also science fiction – but how much of the science is actually real, and how much is really fiction? The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is a mind-bending blend of story and science that will help you see Doctor Who in a whole new light, weaving together a series of all-new adventures, featuring every incarnation of the Doctor. With commentary that explores the possibilities of time travel, life on other planets, artificial intelligence, parallel universes and more, Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula show how Doctor Who uses science to inform its unique style of storytelling – and just how close it has often come to predicting future scientific discoveries. This book is your chance to be the Doctor's companion and explore what's out there. It will make you laugh, and think, and see the world around you differently. Because anything could be out there. And going out there is the only way to learn what it is.

Author : Marcus K. Harmes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642001
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who and Science written by Marcus K. Harmes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has always been part of Doctor Who. The first episode featured scenes in a science laboratory and a science teacher, and the 2020 season's finale highlighted a scientist's key role in Time Lord history. Hundreds of scientific characters, settings, inventions, and ethical dilemmas populated the years in between. Behind the scenes, Doctor Who's original remit was to teach children about science, and in the 1960s it even had a scientific advisor. This is the first book to explore this scientific landscape from a broad spectrum of research fields: from astronomy, genetics, linguistics, computing, history, sociology and science communication through gender, media and literature studies. Contributors ask: What sort of scientist is the Doctor? How might the TARDIS translation circuit and regeneration work? Did the Doctor change sex or gender when regenerating into Jodie Whittaker? How do Doctor Who's depictions of the Moon and other planets compare to the real universe? Why was the program obsessed with energy in the 1960s and 1970s, Victorian scientists and sciences then and now, or with dinosaurs at any time? Do characters like Missy and the Rani make good scientist role models? How do Doctor Who technical manuals and public lectures shape public ideas about science?

Author : Daniel H. Pink
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735210640
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller Instant Washington Post Bestseller "Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street Journal Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home. Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

Author : Brian Deer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438011
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctor Who Fooled the World written by Brian Deer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.

Author : Eleanor Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908956
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook written by Eleanor Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles. All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an evil scientist's dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this criminal mastermind?

Author : James Longuski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387682228
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist written by James Longuski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking so it can be used by anyone. It’s short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, personal stories and insights, and occasionally some space history. The author reveals that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space and that rocket scientists are people, too. It is intended for "armchair" scientists, and for those interested in popular psychology, space history, and science fiction films.

Author : John Baines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882692019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Science written by John Baines and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gareth Roberts
Publisher : London Bridge
ISBN 13 : 9780426203773
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highest Science written by Gareth Roberts and published by London Bridge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Dolman
Publisher : London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Nansen written by Frederick Dolman and published by London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 1897 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: