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false <![CDATA[13 Things That Don't Make Sense]]> 2018682 10 Ninety-six per cent of the universe is missing. The effects of homeopathy don’t go away under rigorous scientific conditions. The laws of nature aren’t what they used to be. Thirty years on, no one has an explanation for a seemingly intelligent signal received from outer space. The US Department of Energy is re-examining cold fusion because the experimental evidence seems too solid to ignore. The placebo effect is put to work in medicine while doctors can’t agree whether it even exists. In an age when science is supposed to be king, scientists are beset by experimental results they simply can’t explain. But, if the past is anything to go by, these anomalies contain the seeds of future revolutions. While taking readers on an entertaining tour d’horizon of the strangest of scientific findings–involving everything from our lack of free will to Martian methane that offers new evidence of life on the planet–Michael Brooks argues that the things we don’t understand are the key to what we are about to discover. This mind-boggling but entirely accessible survey of the outer limits of human knowledge is based on a short article by Michael Brooks for New Scientist magazine. It became the sixth most circulated story on the internet in 2005, and provoked widespread comment and compliments (Google “13 things that do not make sense” to see). Michael Brooks has now dug deeply into those mysteries, with extraordinary results. 2023032 12 8 2008 13 Things That Don't Make Sense total:217|5:33|4:92|3:74|2:14|1:4| 217 787 456 74 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 15 false Sat Oct 18 17:09:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 17:09:13 -0700 2008
I worried about starting this book – worried much more than I ought to have worried – but worried nonetheless. I mean, things could only be bad. Here was a book that was going to tell me about thirteen things that required a ‘paradigm shift�...more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 3 2 false Mon Sep 08 11:55:14 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 13:46:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 2 false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 20:01:59 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 20:10:51 -0700 2008
The author did a good job of interweaving the 13 things so the...more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 1 false Sun Jan 18 08:23:43 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 08:24:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5346251 1433253240 9781433253249 5 3 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5346251.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense_The_Most_Baffling_Scientific_Mysteries_of_Our_Time 5 0 false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 04:59:08 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 04:38:10 -0800 2009
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This book is a good read for those of us who loved science class, but have never had the time to acknowledge (or even care about) today's top que...more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 1 1 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 30 10:38:43 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 28 09:29:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 2 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 11:11:32 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 10:42:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 0 false Tue Dec 09 16:17:15 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 11:20:07 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 16:17:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 2 1 false Wed Oct 08 10:52:19 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 10:52:19 -0700 2008 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 0 false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 16:17:26 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 16:25:17 -0800 2008
A class above the usual Bermuda Triangle/Alien Visitations associated with this kind of books, but still the emphasis on maverick scie...more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 1 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 21:32:53 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 21:35:19 -0700 2008 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 3 0 false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:56:46 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 10:00:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 14:49:15 -0800 2009 Mon Jun 01 12:29:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 1 0 false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 10:36:24 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 13:02:56 -0700 2008
The author attempts to summarize some fundamental problems facing science (mainly physics) today. He starts with the problems of missing mass and missing energy. Physicists have only recently discovered that (if current theory is corre...more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 01:54:08 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 01:54:08 -0800 2009
I think the overall theme of how scientists suffer from "group think" and "herd behavior" was as interestin...more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 4 0 false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:16:54 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:24:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2018682 0385664230 9780385664233 203 70 13 Things That Don't Make Sense 3.63 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2018682.13_Things_That_Don_t_Make_Sense 3 1 false Tue Oct 28 20:36:31 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 06:52:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2018682