Galileo in Pittsburgh

by Glymour, Clark N.

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Title Statements

Full title :Galileo in Pittsburgh / Clark Glymour.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 150 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674051034, 0674051033
oclc:ocn430344426
LC Classification:QA13
Dewey Decimal:500

Preface -- What this book is about -- Education -- Socialism in one (Indian) nation -- David Koresh Middle School : observations on education in America -- The computer in the classroom -- Cosmic censorship -- The environment -- The greatest chemical engineer there ever was : a cautionary tale -- Galileo in Pittsburgh -- Bert's Buick : a conversation on climate change -- Sacrifice of the lawn -- Science -- John Henry at NASA -- Total information awareness -- In and out of Freud's shadow -- What we have here is a failure to communicate -- Where software goes to die.

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Education Education -- United States Gesellschaft Naturwissenschaften Science -- Methodology Science -- Study and teaching Science -- Study and teaching -- United… Sciences -- Méthodologie United States USA