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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Brilliant Blunders Brilliant Blunders Mario Livio We all make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, Willia… OL16816305W
Pandora's lab Pandora's lab Paul A. Offit What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores some of these missteps: from opi… OL19720513W
A survival guide to the misinformation age A survival guide to the misinformation age D. J. Helfand "This book provides an inoculation against the misinformation epidemic by cultivating scientific habits of mind. From dissolving our fear of numbers and demystifying graphs, to elucidating the key co… OL20022372W