Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday Life
Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday Life by Andrew Morris
English | Oct. 24, 2016 | ISBN: 1911307037 | 222 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | Oct. 24, 2016 | ISBN: 1911307037 | 222 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book is not about a particular area of science – genetics, gravity or chemical reactions, for example. It is about ideas that interest ordinary people, drawn from any area of science. The ideas come in response to questions people ask about the world around them. These questions rarely lead neatly into the traditional pattern of school subjects – physics, chemistry and biology – so the scientific material is presented in a quite different way. As there is no formal syllabus, a query about depression, for example, may lead into aspects of biochemistry and neuroscience as well as psychology and pharmacology. A structured scientific discipline helps you to learn a subject systematically by moving in carefully planned steps through an argument, but many people find the topics remote from everyday experience. This book takes the opposite tack: it focuses on issues of relevance to everyday life, sacrificing the orderly build- up of knowledge within one subject.