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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Do bulls get angry when they see the color red? Do plants grow by snacking on soil? Are bats blind? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about plants and animals, and see how scientific thought changed over time"--The publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Weird Science checks out the wildest science experiments in the world--stories too strange to be made up! The book is written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience with a lower level of complexity for struggling readers. Clear visuals and colorful photographs help with comprehension. Fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest are conveyed in considerate text for older readers, allowing for...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures--no one has the secret, and there is no place to look up the definitive answers to our questions (not even Google). Luckily, THE SKEPTICS' GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE is your map through this maze of modern life. Here Dr. Steven Novella--along with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Description
Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Provides an examination of the solar system and the scientific theories that have changed throughout history as new discoveries have disproved old theories, including Earth being the center of the universe and Pluto being referred to as a planet.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Exposes 12 of the most enduring myths about technology. Full-color spreads give readers essential information about each myth, including why it exists, the key players who proved it wrong, and what the truth really is."--
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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 concepts of probability and the use of precise language and logic, Helfand supplies an essential set of apps for the pre-frontal cortex while making science both accessible and entertaining."--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind, cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman shows that the root of our misconceptions lies in the theories about the world we develop...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 800L
Language
English
Description
"Examines what is known about the human body today, and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Egyptians to the recent past, believed to be true."--
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as cancer biology, nutrition, genetics, immigration, education,...
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