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This new edition of the highly regarded Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists focuses on the achievements of 2400 scientists, explaining the nature and importance of those achievements. The book covers traditional science, including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and earth science, along with mathematics, engineering, technology, and computer science. It also includes key figures from anthropology, psychology, and the philosophy of science.
New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience.
As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourg of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory) and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another.
