Scrape wikipedia-science: 4123 new, 2946 updated, 7243 total (kb-cron)

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_View_of_Positivism-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: "A General View of Positivism"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_View_of_Positivism"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:16.434722+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+A General View of Positivism (French: Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme) is an 1848 book by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, first published in English in 1865. A founding text in the development of positivism and the discipline of sociology, the work provides a revised and full account of the theory Comte presented earlier in his multi-part The Course in Positive Philosophy (1830–1842). Comte outlines the epistemological view of positivism, provides an account of the manner by which sociology should be performed, and describes his law of three stages.
+
+
+== See also ==
+
+Religion of humanity
+Sociological positivism
+
+
+== References ==
+Comte, A.; Bridges, J.H. (tr.), A General View of Positivism; Trubner and Co., 1865 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00064-2)
+
+
+== External links ==
+A General View of Positivism at Standard Ebooks
+ A General View of Positivism public domain audiobook at LibriVox

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Natural_History_of_the_Senses-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+title: "A Natural History of the Senses"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Natural_History_of_the_Senses"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:01.163768+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+A Natural History of the Senses is a 1990 non-fiction book by  American author, poet, and naturalist Diane Ackerman. In this book, Ackerman examines both the science of how the different senses work, and the varied means by which different cultures have sought to stimulate the senses. The book was the inspiration for the five-part Nova miniseries Mystery of the Senses (1995) in which Ackerman appeared as the presenter.
+“What is most amazing is not how our senses span distance or cultures, but how they span time. Our senses connect us intimately to the past, connect us in ways that most of our cherished ideas never could.”
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+New York Times Book Review
+A Natural History of the Senses, Reviews

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_the_Future-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+title: "A Short History of the Future"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_the_Future"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:47.846077+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+A Short History of the Future is a book by W. Warren Wagar which was first published in 1989 and underwent two substantive revisions (1992 and 1999). It is a fictitious narrative history of the ensuing two centuries, from the vantage point of the year 2200. The first version imagined a far more prominent role for the Soviet Union, which collapsed shortly after the publication. The final revision incorporates a brief section on the year 1989 as a revolutionary year.
+
+
+== Content ==
+The first section deals with the present time leading up to Wagar's idea of the seminal event of the 21st century — a devastating nuclear conflict between Europe and the United States which is subsequently known as the "catastrophe. What emerges after the "catastrophe" is a socialist world government, which lasts for the next hundred years until the "small revolution" of the late 22nd century, the description of which closes the book.
+Central to the philosophy of the "world commonwealth government" which rises after the "catastrophe" is what Wagar calls "substantialism". Wagar once stated that what he called "substantialism" in the book was his recasting of the ideas of Jean Jaurès.
+
+
+== Theoretical perspectives ==
+Each chapter of A Short History of the Future concludes with a selection of a diary or correspondence to give the reader a sense of the daily life of the related periods. Along with the socio-political developments of the next two hundred years, Wagar also tries to imagine the consequences of solar system colonization, the extension of the life expectancy toward 175 years, and the revision of such things as the education system and professional work.
+As a historian, Wagar essentially wanted to write a book in which one could fully explore what living in a truly socialist world might be like, or an anarchic one (represented by his Small Revolution). Both are continually offered as alternatives to global capitalism without such analysis. Criticism of the book suggested that Wagar was merely replaying the history of the 20th Century along a lengthier timeline.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+An Extensive Review by Terry Boswell of the 2nd Edition // Journal of World-Systems Research
+Posted correspondence between W. Wagar and a reader answering questions raised by the book

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_Theory_of_Crystal_Lattices-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+title: "Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_Theory_of_Crystal_Lattices"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:57:50.959273+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices is a book in solid state physics, authored collaboratively by Max Born and Kun Huang. The book was originally started by Born in c. 1940, and was finished in the 1950s by Huang in consultation with Born. The text is considered a classical treatise on the subject of lattice dynamics, phonon theory, and elasticity in crystalline solids, but excluding metals and other complex solids with order/disorder phenomena. J. D. Eshelby, Melvin Lax, and A. J. C. Wilson reviewed the book in 1955, among several others.
+The book introduces the concept of Cauchy–Born rule and Born–Huang approximation.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Bibliography of Max Born
+Introduction to Solid State Physics
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Book website. Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences. Oxford University Press. 5 November 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-850369-9. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Analytical_Chemistry-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Analytical_Chemistry"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:14.521637+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:57:55.981998+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Reagents_for_Organic_Synthesis-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Reagents_for_Organic_Synthesis"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:16.841207+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:57:57.267104+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_and_Power-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_and_Power"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:17:42.618267+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:57:58.475172+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Genes-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Genes"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:17:48.507681+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:00.958379+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT!SO-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+title: "FAT!SO?"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT!SO?"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:05.805100+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+FAT!SO?: Because You Don't Have To Apologize For Your Size! is an American non-fiction book by fat activist Marilyn Wann, published in 1998 by Ten Speed Press.
+The book was followed a website of the same name created by Wann.
+
+
+== Critical reception ==
+Salon, "Reading "Fat!So?" probably won't make you love your body. But it might inspire you to hate it a little bit less.""
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+FAT!SO? at the Internet Archive

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact_and_Fancy-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+---
+title: "Fact and Fancy"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact_and_Fancy"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:02.168304+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the first in a series of books collecting his essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's second book of science essays altogether (after Only a Trillion). Doubleday & Company first published it in March 1962. It was also published in paperback by Pyramid Books as part of The Worlds of Science series.
+After he had written 200 essays for Fantasy and Science Fiction (out of 399 in the end), Asimov wrote of them "To this day I get more pleasure out of them than out of any other writing assignment I get."
+The only essay that did not appear in Fantasy and Science Fiction was "Our Lonely Planet", which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+Part I: The Earth and Away
+"Life's Bottleneck" (April 1959)
+"No More Ice Ages?" (January 1959)
+"Thin Air" (December 1959)
+"Catching Up with Newton" (December 1958)
+"Of Capture and Escape" (May 1959)
+Part II: The Solar System
+"Catskills in the Sky" (August 1960)
+"Beyond Pluto" (July 1960)
+"Steppingstones to the Stars" (October 1960)
+"The Planet of the Double Sun" (June 1959)
+Part III: The Universe
+"Heaven on Earth" (May 1961)
+"Our Lonely Planet" (November 1958)
+"The Flickering Yardstick" (March 1960)
+"The Sight of Home" (February 1960)
+"Here It Comes; There It Goes" (January 1961)
+Part IV: The Human Mind
+"Those Crazy Ideas" (January 1960)
+"My Built-in Doubter" (April 1961)
+"Battle of the Eggheads" (July 1959)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com
+Fact and Fancy at The Thunder Child

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_as_Human_Eye_Could_See-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+---
+title: "Far as Human Eye Could See"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_as_Human_Eye_Could_See"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:04.610605+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Far as Human Eye Could See: Essays on Science (published 1987) is a  collection of science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, short works which originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), these being first published between November 1984 and March 1986.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+(with date of original publication):
+
+Part One: Physical Chemistry
+"Made, Not Found" (December 1984)
+"Salt and Battery" (February 1985)
+"Current Affairs" (March 1985)
+"Forcing the Lines" (April 1985)
+"Arise, Fair Sun!" (May 1985)
+Part Two: Biochemistry
+"Poison in the Negative" (July 1985)
+"Tracing the Traces" (August 1985)
+"The Goblin Element" (September 1985)
+"A Little Leaven" (October 1985)
+"The Biochemical Knife-Blade" (November 1985)
+Part Three: Geochemistry
+"Far, Far Below" (January 1985)
+Part Four: Astronomy
+"Time is Out of Joint" (February 1986)
+"The Discovery of the Void" (December 1985)
+"Chemistry of the Void" (January 1986)
+"The Rule of Numerous Small" (June 1985)
+"Superstar:" (March 1986)
+" Far as Human Eye Could See" (November 1984)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Prints_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "Finger Prints (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Prints_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:06.991129+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Finger Prints is a book published by Francis Galton through Macmillan in 1892.  It was one of the first books to provide a scientific footing for matching fingerprints and for later acceptance in courts. He collected information from a number of people and recorded their backgrounds, financial situations, likes and dislikes, health, etc. on a large scale. By that time, it was known that the fingerprints of different people were different. He collected fingerprints of a large number of people and invented a method of their classification. Using statistical methods he showed that the possibility of fingerprints of two different people being identical is nearly zero. This result made it possible to identify a person from his fingerprints. This method of identifying criminals was accepted in the judiciary.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+The text and high resolution scans of this book

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucers_from_Outer_Space-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+title: "Flying Saucers from Outer Space"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucers_from_Outer_Space"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:08.132595+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Flying Saucers from Outer Space is a non-fiction book published in 1953 by Donald Keyhoe about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
+
+
+== Adaptation ==
+In 1956 a science-fiction film credited as "suggested by" the book was made under the title Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, also known as Invasion of the Flying Saucers.
+The working titles of the film were Attack of the Flying Saucers, Invasion of the Flying Saucers and Flying Saucers from Outer Space. In a letter contained in the film's production file at the AMPAS Library, blacklisted screenwriter Bernard Gordon stated that he wrote the screenplay for this picture using the pseudonym Raymond T. Marcus.
+
+
+== See also ==
+The Flying Saucers Are Real (1950)
+The Flying Saucer Conspiracy (1955)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== Notes ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Flying Saucers from Outer Space on line version at NICAP

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_the_Science_of_Knowledge-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+title: "Foundations of the Science of Knowledge"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_the_Science_of_Knowledge"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:09.285559+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (German: Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre) is a 1794/1795 book by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Based on lectures he had delivered as a professor of philosophy at the University of Jena Fichte created his own system of transcendental philosophy in this book.
+
+
+== Ideas ==
+Science of Knowledge first established Fichte's independent philosophy. The contents of the book, divided into eleven sections, were crucial in the way the thinker grounded philosophy as – for the first time – a part of epistemology. In this book Fichte also claimed that an "experiencer" must be tacitly aware that he is experiencing in order to lead to "noticing". This articulated his view that an individual's experience is essentially the experiencing of the act of experiencing so that his so-called "Absolutely Unconditioned Principle" of all experience is that "the I posits itself".
+
+
+== Reception ==
+In 1798 the German romantic Friedrich Schlegel identified the Wissenschaftslehre together with the French Revolution and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, as "the most important trend-setting events (Tendenzen) of the age."
+Michael Inwood believes that the work is close in spirit to the works of Edmund Husserl, including Ideas (1913) and Cartesian Meditations (1931).
+The Wissenschaftslehre has been described by Roger Scruton as being both "immensely difficult" and "rough-hewn and uncouth".
+
+
+== See also ==
+Foundationalism
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+=== Notes ===
+
+
+=== Bibliography ===

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Earth_to_Heaven-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "From Earth to Heaven"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Earth_to_Heaven"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:10.489038+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+From Earth to Heaven is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the fifth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1966.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"Harmony in Heaven" (F&SF, February 1965)
+"Oh, East is West and West is East—" (March 1965)
+"The Certainty of Uncertainty" (April 1965)
+"To Tell a Chemist" (May 1965)
+"Future? Tense!" (June 1965)
+"Exclamation Point!" (July 1965)
+"Behind the Teacher's Back" (August 1965)
+"Death in the Laboratory" (September 1965)
+"The Land of Mu" (October 1965)
+"Squ-u-u-ush!" (November 1965)
+"Water, Water, Everywhere—" (December 1965)
+"The Proton-Reckoner" (January 1966)
+"Up and Down the Earth" (February 1966)
+"The Rocks of Damocles" (March 1966)
+"The Nobelmen of Science" (April 1966)
+"Time and Tide" (May 1966)
+"The Isles of Earth" (June 1966)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Biochemistry-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+title: "Fundamentals of Biochemistry"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Biochemistry"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:11.648724+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level is a biochemistry textbook written by Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet and Charlotte W. Pratt. Published by John Wiley & Sons, it is a common undergraduate biochemistry textbook. 
+As of 2024, the book has been published in 6 editions. 
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Catastrophic_Risks_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+title: "Global Catastrophic Risks (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Catastrophic_Risks_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:17.614821+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Global Catastrophic Risks is a 2008 non-fiction book edited by philosopher Nick Bostrom and astronomer Milan M. Ćirković. The book is a collection of essays from 26 academics written about various global catastrophic and existential risks. A paperback version was published in 2011.
+
+
+== Content ==
+The risks covered by the book include both anthropogenic (man made) risks and non-anthropogenic risks.
+
+Anthropogenic: artificial general intelligence, biological warfare, nuclear warfare, nanotechnology, anthropogenic climate change, global warming, stable global totalitarianism
+Non-anthropogenic: asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts
+The book also addresses overarching issues such as policy responses and methods for predicting and managing catastrophes.
+
+
+== See also ==
+The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (book)
+Our Final Hour (book)
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Neighborhood_Watch-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+title: "Global Neighborhood Watch"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Neighborhood_Watch"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:18.808348+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+"Global Neighborhood Watch" is an article by Neal Stephenson that appeared in Wired Magazine in 1998.  In it he proposes a specific plan for using information technology to fight crime. According to Stephenson, he is no longer pursuing the idea.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Wired article
+1995 interview with Neal Stephenson regarding "Global Neighborhood Watch"
+Alternative source for the text of the article

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mambo_Chicken_and_the_Transhuman_Condition-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mambo_Chicken_and_the_Transhuman_Condition"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:18:05.025450+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:21.207518+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Matter-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+title: "Hacking Matter"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Matter"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:22.382111+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Hacking Matter is a 2003 book by Wil McCarthy. It deals with "programmable matter" (like colloidal films, bulk crystals, and quantum dots) that, he predicts, will someday be able mimic the properties of any natural atom, and ultimately also non-natural atoms. McCarthy predicts that programmable matter will someday change human life profoundly, and that its users will have the ability to program matter itself - to change it, from a computer, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. In his science fiction, he calls this technology "Wellstone".
+The book includes interviews with researchers who are developing the technology, describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties, and speculates on its future development.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Book home page, includes free PDF version.
+Ultimate Alchemy. This article in Wired 9.10 was expanded into this book.
+"Beyond the Periodic Table: Artificial Atoms and Programmable Matter", Analog Science Fiction, Jan 2002

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Electrochemistry-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Electrochemistry"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:19.218262+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:23.597944+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Porphyrin_Science-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Porphyrin_Science"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:20.372305+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:24.811567+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houben-Weyl_Methods_of_Organic_Chemistry-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houben-Weyl_Methods_of_Organic_Chemistry"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:21.579483+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:26.052107+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Die_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+---
+title: "How Not to Die (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Die_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:27.252991+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease is a book by Michael Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone, published in 2015 that argues for the health benefits of a whole food plant-based diet. The book was a New York Times Best Seller. 
+In it, Greger defines a plant-based diet as, "an eating pattern that minimizes the intake of meat, eggs, dairy, and processed junk and maximizes consumption of whole plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils), whole grains, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, and herbs and spices.”
+
+
+== Structure ==
+Part 1 of the book consists of 15 chapters. Each chapter is focused on one of the 15 leading causes of death in the United States, and how a whole foods plant-based diet reduces the risk of dying from each cause.
+Part 2 of the book focuses on the "daily dozen," a list of specific plant based ingredients that Greger suggests improve health and longevity. The daily dozen recommends the following daily portions:
+
+3 servings of beans
+1 serving of berries
+3 servings of other fruits
+1 serving of cruciferous vegetables
+2 servings of greens
+2 servings of other vegetables
+1 serving of flaxseeds
+1 serving of nuts
+1 serving of spices, particularly turmeric and pepper
+3 servings of whole grains
+5 beverages
+1 exercise
+
+
+== See also ==
+Dean Ornish
+Neal D. Barnard
+Joel Fuhrman
+Caldwell Esselstyn
+List of vegan and plant-based media
+
+
+== Notes ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Official website of Michael Greger

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_We_Decide-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+---
+title: "How We Decide"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_We_Decide"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:28.427384+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+How We Decide is a 2009 book by journalist Jonah Lehrer, that provides biological explanations of how people make decisions and offers suggestions for making better decisions. It is published as The Decisive Moment: How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind in the United Kingdom.
+On March 1, 2013, following revelations that Lehrer had been caught in numerous falsifications in his books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the book was taken "off sale" after an internal review.
+
+
+== Summary ==
+Sections/chapters of the book are titled as follows:
+
+Introduction
+The Quarterback in the Pocket
+The Predictions of Dopamine
+Fooled by a Feeling
+The Uses of Reason
+Choking on Thought
+The Moral Mind
+The Brain Is an Argument
+The Poker Hand
+Coda
+
+
+== See also ==
+Similarly themed books include:
+
+Proust Was a Neuroscientist
+Imagine: How Creativity Works
+Made to Stick
+Microtrends
+Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
+Thinking, Fast and Slow
+Thinking Strategically
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Powells books references commercial reviews
+Los Angeles Times review
+Time Magazine review
+“And Now Jonah Lehrer’s Second Book Is Being Pulled From Stores”
+“Publisher Pulls Jonah Lehrer’s ‘How We Decide’ From Stores”

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_on_the_Nature_of_Science-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+title: "Ideas on the Nature of Science"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_on_the_Nature_of_Science"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:29.597689+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Ideas on the Nature of Science is a book by Canadian author and radio producer David Cayley. It is a compilation of his conversations that took place during the CBC Radio series "How to Think About Science" for the program Ideas.
+
+
+== External links ==
+How to Think About Science

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_in_All_Directions-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+title: "Infinite in All Directions"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_in_All_Directions"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:34.393838+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Infinite In All Directions (1988) is a book on a wide range of subjects, including history, philosophy, research, technology, the origin of life and eschatology, by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures delivered in Aberdeen in 1985. Infinite in All Directions can roughly be summarized as a treatise on the universe and humanity's role and its responsibilities.
+
+The lectures were given in two series, and this book is accordingly divided into two parts. Part 1 is about life as a scientific phenomenon, about our efforts to understand the nature of life and its place in the universe. Part 2 is about ethics and politics, about the local problems introduced by our species into the existence of life on this planet.
+Freeman Dyson is Professor of Physics at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. That is a title, not a recommendation. What recommends him is his ability to communicate, not merely the interest of science and its application to human activities of every kind, but the sheer delight he takes in the universe. He loves diversity. Frequently throughout the book a passage will reveal his pleasure at being alive and seeing and thinking. He has much of Richard Feynman’s enthusiasm for the strangeness of people and things.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+Romm, Joseph J. (October 1989). "Infinite in some directions". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 45 (8): 35–6. doi:10.1080/00963402.1989.11459737. Retrieved 14 January 2011.

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_Syntheses-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_Syntheses"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:24.204524+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:36.777842+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Thought-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "Intelligent Thought"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Thought"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:38.052715+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement is a 2006 book edited by John Brockman and published by Vintage Books.  The book is a series of essays which discuss the idea that natural selection and evolution helps explain the world better than intelligent design.  The contributors are  Daniel Dennett, Scott Atran, Steven Pinker, Nicholas Humphrey, Tim White, Neil Shubin, Marc Hauser, Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Leonard Susskind, Frank Sulloway,  Lee Smolin, Stuart A. Kauffman, Seth Lloyd, Lisa Randall,  and Scott Sampson.
+
+
+== Notes ==
+
+
+== See also ==
+List of scientific societies rejecting intelligent design

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Mathematical_Philosophy-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Mathematical_Philosophy"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:39.245893+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy is a book (1919 first edition) by philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author seeks to create an accessible introduction to various topics within the foundations of mathematics. According to the preface, the book is intended for those with only limited knowledge of mathematics and no prior experience with the mathematical logic it deals with. Accordingly, it is often used in introductory philosophy of mathematics courses at institutions of higher education.
+
+
+== Background ==
+Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy was written while Russell was serving time in Brixton Prison due to his anti-war activities.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+The book deals with a wide variety of topics within the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic including the logical basis and definition of natural numbers, real and complex numbers, limits and continuity, and classes.
+
+
+== Editions ==
+Russell, Bertrand (1919), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, George Allen & Unwin. (Reprinted: Routledge, 1993.)
+Russell, Bertrand (1920), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, London: George Allen & Unwin / NY: Macmillan, Second Edition, reprintings 1920, 1924, 1930.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Principia Mathematica
+The Principles of Mathematics
+Logicism
+
+
+== Footnotes ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+
+ Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy at Project Gutenberg

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaye_and_Laby-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+title: "Kaye and Laby"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaye_and_Laby"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:41.612068+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions is a scientific reference work. First compiled and published in 1911 by the physicists G. W. C. Kaye and T. H. Laby, it is more commonly known as Kaye and Laby. It is a standard textbook for scientists and engineers.
+The final print edition was the 16th in 1995, after which the entire content was made available online in association with the National Physical Laboratory.
+The online version was removed on 21 May 2019, the day after the revision of the SI. An archived version is still available online, but is no longer maintained, and does not have the updated values of physical constants.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Kaye and Laby online
+About Kaye and Laby
+History of Kaye and Laby

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk's_Fire_Investigation-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+title: "Kirk's Fire Investigation"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk's_Fire_Investigation"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:42.825782+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Kirk's Fire Investigation by David J. Icove and Gerald A. Haynes has long been regarded as the primary textbook in the field of fire investigation.   It is currently in its 8th edition (published in 2017, ISBN 978-0134237923).
+The book is now in close accordance to the 2017 Edition of NFPA 921, Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigation; the 2014 Edition of NFPA 1033, Standard for Professional Guidelines for Fire Investigators; and the model curriculum of the Fire Emergency Service Higher Education (FESHE).
+The title refers to Paul Leland Kirk (1902–1970), the author of the original text Fire Investigation that was the basis for Kirk's Fire Investigation. "Kirk's Fire Investigation," a seminal guide that continues to serve as an essential resource for fire investigators around the globe, reflecting the ongoing relevance of Kirk's foundational insights and methodologies in the field.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_There_Be_Light_(Smith_book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+title: "Let There Be Light (Smith book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_There_Be_Light_(Smith_book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:46.506275+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah, a New Conversation Between Science and Religion is a book by Howard Smith, an astrophysicist. The book, published in 2006, was written for the layperson. It discusses using simple language basic concepts in modern cosmology and Kabbalah (a form of Jewish mysticism), the creation of the universe from nothing via the Big Bang, general relativity, dark matter, cosmic acceleration, quantum mechanics, and free will, among other topics. The book attempts to clearly explains these subjects, and uses them to try to illustrate how religion and science together can enrich one's spiritual and intellectual life.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+Cohen G. Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah-A New Conversation between Science and Religion. Booklist. 2006;103(5):7. Accessed June 7, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=23260093&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
+Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah--A New Conversation between Science and Religion. Publishers Weekly. 2006;253(36):51. Accessed June 7, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=22352168&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
+
+
+== Bibliography ==
+Howard Smith (2006). Let there be light: modern cosmology and Kabbalah : a new conversation between science and religion. New World Library. ISBN 978-1-57731-548-3.
+
+
+== External links ==
+Book website

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_and_Energy-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_and_Energy"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:18:40.249117+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:47.746339+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_the_Twenty-First_Century-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+title: "Life in the Twenty-First Century"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_the_Twenty-First_Century"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:48.970778+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Life in the Twenty-First Century is a Penguin Special book, published in Great Britain in 1960. It features predictions by 29 Soviet scientists concerning technology and science.  It was edited by M Vassilev and S Gouschev.  The English translation was performed by R J Watson and H E Crowcroft.
+The original British hardback was published by Souvenir Press in London in the same year as the Penguin edition.
+
+
+== References ==
+http://www.worldcat.org/title/life-in-the-twenty-first-century-the-fantastic-world-of-the-immediat-future-as-predicted-by-29-of-russias-leading-scientists/oclc/490906094

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locationes_mansorum_desertorum-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+title: "Locationes mansorum desertorum"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locationes_mansorum_desertorum"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:50.108981+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Locationes mansorum desertorum is a manuscript of Nicolaus Copernicus, written between 1516–1521. It is from ledgers handwritten by Copernicus when he was an economic administrator in Warmia.
+
+
+== Bibliography ==
+Mikołaj Kopernik, S. Grzybowski, wydanie II, Książka i wiedza, Warszawa 1973.
+Mikołaj Kopernik i jego epoka, J. Adamczewski, Interpress, Warszawa 1972.
+Kopernik, astronomia, astronautyka. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny. pod red. Włodzimierza Zonna, Warszawa, PWN, 1973.
+The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543), Pierre Gassendi, Oliver Thill
+
+
+== External links ==
+The Life of Copernicus 1473-1543

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Contact_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+title: "Making Contact (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Contact_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:51.322025+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Making Contact: A Serious Handbook for Locating and Communicating With Extraterrestrials is a book published in 1997.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+Making Contact discusses all aspects of close encounters with extraterrestrials. Editor Bill Fawcett said their existence is "unquestionable". The book includes explanations of signs and symptoms of an alien abduction, such as burns, tinnitus, a metallic taste in the mouth, and double vision. Particular locations, such as Area 51 and Mexico City, are described as giving the best chance of an encounter.
+
+
+== Reception ==
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Index-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Index"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:29:21.838561+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:53.694685+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_at_the_End_of_Its_Tether-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "Mind at the End of Its Tether"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_at_the_End_of_Its_Tether"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:54.891855+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) is H. G. Wells' last book — only 34 pages long — which he wrote at the age of 78. In it, Wells considers the idea of humanity being soon replaced by some other, more advanced, species of being. He bases this thought on his long interest in the paleontological record. At the time of writing Wells had not yet heard of the atomic bomb (but had predicted a form of it in his 1914 book The World Set Free).
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Mind at the End of Its Tether is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Yearbook-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+title: "Minerals Yearbook"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Yearbook"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:56.090283+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Minerals Yearbook is an annual publication from the United States Geological Survey. It reviews the mineral and material industries of the United States and other countries. The Minerals Yearbook contains statistical production data as well as information on economic and technical trends. First published in 1933, it was preceded by The Mineral Resources of the United States.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+Current issues are published in three volumes:
+
+Volume I – Metals and Minerals  contains chapters on around 90 commercially important mined commodities
+Volume II - Area Reports: Domestic reviews mineral industry of US on a per-State basis
+Volume III - Area Reports: International reviews world mineral industry on a per-country basis
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Digital version of issues from 1994 to present
+Digitized issues 1933–1993 hosted at the University of Wisconsin Libraries

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_Biotechnology-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+title: "Molecular Biotechnology"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_Biotechnology"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:58.483538+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Molecular Biotechnology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It publishes original research papers and review articles on the application of molecular biology to biotechnology. It was established in 1994 with John M. Walker as founding editor-in-chief. Prof Aydin Berenjian is the current editor-in-chief of the journal.
+
+
+== Abstracting and indexing ==
+The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
+
+Science Citation Index Expanded
+PubMed/MEDLINE
+Scopus
+Inspec
+Embase
+Chemical Abstracts Service
+CAB International
+Academic OneFile
+AGRICOLA
+Biological Abstracts
+BIOSIS Previews
+EI-Compendex
+Elsevier BIOBASE
+Food Science and Technology Abstracts
+Global Health
+PASCAL
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Official website

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Chains_to_the_Moon-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+title: "Nine Chains to the Moon"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Chains_to_the_Moon"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:03.532229+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Nine Chains to the Moon is a book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1938. The title refers to the observation that, when the book was written, the world population of humans (Fuller calls them "earthians"), if stood one atop another, could form chains that would reach back and forth between Earth and the Moon nine times.
+The book presents Fuller's overview of technological history. It proposes the author's vision of future prosperity driven by ephemeralization, Fuller's term for the process of doing more with less. Fuller believed that this would lead to ever-increasing standards of living and ever-growing population despite finite resources. Fuller uses Henry Ford's assembly line as an example of how ephemeralization can lead to better products at lower cost with no upper bound on productivity.
+
+
+== Editions ==
+Fuller, R. Buckminster (1938). Nine Chains to the Moon: An Adventure Story of Thought (First ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott.
+Fuller, R. Buckminster (1963). Nine Chains to the Moon. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. OCLC 217740.
+Fuller, R. Buckminster (1971). Nine Chains to the Moon. New York: Anchor.
+Fuller, R. Buckminster (1973). Nine Chains to the Moon. London: Cape. ISBN 0-224-00800-5.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Organic_Chemistry-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+---
+title: "Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Organic_Chemistry"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:04.740313+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, commonly referred to by chemists as the Blue Book, is a collection of recommendations on organic chemical nomenclature published at irregular intervals by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). A full edition was published in 1979, an abridged and updated version of which was published in 1993 as A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds. Both of these are now out-of-print in their paper versions, but are available free of charge in electronic versions. After the release of a draft version for public comment in 2004 and the publication of several revised sections in the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry, a fully revised edition was published in print in 2013 and its online version is also available. 
+
+
+== See also ==
+IUPAC Color Books
+Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (the Red Book)
+Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry (the Green Book)
+Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the Gold Book)
+Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature (the Orange Book)
+Compendium of Polymer Terminology and Nomenclature (the Purple Book)
+Compendium of Terminology and Nomenclature of Properties Clinical Laboratory Sciences (the Silver Book)
+Biochemical Nomenclature (the White Book).
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Searchable Internet version of the 1979 and 1993 recommendations
+2004 draft recommendations (the proposed new version of the Blue Book)
+IUPAC Nomenclature Books Series (commonly known as the "Colour Books")
+Bibliography of translations
+Official corrigendum to the 1993 recommendations

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonscience-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+title: "Nonscience"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonscience"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:05.923380+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Nonscience is a 1971 book which claims to have the longest and most complex title in publishing history.
+Its full title is Nonscience and the Pseudotransmogrificationalific Egocentrified Reorientational Proclivities Inherently Intracorporated In Expertistical Cerebrointellectualised Redeploymentation with Special Reference to Quasi-Notional Fashionistic Normativity, The Indoctrinationalistic Methodological Modalities and Scalar Socio-Economic Promulgationary Improvementalisationalism Predelineated Positotaxically Toward Individualistified Mass-Acceptance Gratificationalistic Securipermanentalisationary Professionism, or How To Rule The World, London: Wolfe Publishing (ISBN 0-7234-0449-6). The book was updated and reissued in 2020 as Nonscience Returns by the Curtis Press.
+Its author Brian J. Ford pokes fun at those who conceal their lack of real expertise by using long and complicated words, whilst making the serious point that many people are fooled by these so-called experts. Some consider the book prescient, thinking that modern society, where decisions are taken by unseen experts, is much as Ford predicted.
+
+
+== Spanish edition ==
+In the Spanish edition the title was rendered as Como se falsifica la Ciencia; la Nonciencia y las proclividades Reorientacionales egocentrificadas pseudotransmigrificacionalificas inheremente intracorporadas a la Redesplegamentacion Expertistica Cerebrointelecualizada, con especial referencia a la Normatividad Modaistica Cuasi-nocional, las Modilidades Metodologicas adoctrinamientisticas y el Perfeccionamientalismo Escelar Socioeconomico Promulgacionario predelineado Postitotaxativaments Hacia el Profesionalismo Seguripermanentalinicario Gratificionalistico Individualistificado el la Aceptacion de las Masas, o Como Regir el Mundo [translation by Oscar Muslera], Libertad y Cambio, Buenos Aires: Granica Editor.
+
+
+== Reviews ==
+In Britain, the book was reviewed in the following publications:
+
+The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 22, 1971
+Atticus Column, Sunday Times, October 24, 1971
+Irish Press, October 30, 1971
+Time Out magazine, November 12, 1971.
+New Statesman, November 12, 1971.
+Nature: 234, December 3, 1971
+The Times Educational Supplement, December 3, 1971
+Times Literary Supplement, January 21, 1972
+Mensa Journal, January 22, 1972
+The book was also featured on the BBC television show Tomorrow's World.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+The author's website page on this book

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Matters_Great_and_Small-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "Of Matters Great and Small"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Matters_Great_and_Small"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:08.264840+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Of Matters Great and Small is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the eleventh of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, although it also includes one essay from Science Digest. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1975.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"Constant as the Northern Star" (F&SF, August 1973)
+"Signs of the Times" (September 1973)
+"The Mispronounced Metal" (October 1973)
+"The Figure of the Fastest" (November 1973)
+"The Figure of the Farthest" (December 1973)
+"The Eclipse and I" (January 1974)
+"Dance of the Luminaries" (February 1974)
+"The Uneternal Atoms" (March 1974)
+"A Particular Matter" (April 1974)
+"At Closest Range" (May 1974)
+"The Double-Ended Candle" (June 1974)
+"The Inevitability of Life" (Science Digest, June 1974)
+"As Easy as Two Plus Three" (F&SF, July 1974)
+"Updating the Asteroids" (August 1974)
+"Look Long upon a Monkey" (September 1974)
+"O Keen-eyed Peerer into the Future!" (October 1974)
+"Skewered!" (November 1974)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Time_and_Space_and_Other_Things-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+title: "Of Time and Space and Other Things"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Time_and_Space_and_Other_Things"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:09.427068+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Of Time and Space and Other Things is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac Asimov.  It was the fourth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1965.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+C for Celeritas (F&SF, November 1959)
+Just Mooning Around (May 1963)
+Welcome, Stranger! (November 1963)
+Roll Call (December 1963)
+Round and Round and... (January 1964)
+The Slowly Moving Finger (February 1964)
+Forget It! (March 1964)
+A Piece of the Action (April 1964)
+Ghost Lines in the Sky (May 1964)
+The Heavenly Zoo (June 1964)
+Nothing Counts (July 1964)
+The Days of Our Years (August 1964)
+The Haste-Makers (September 1964)
+First and Rearmost (October 1964)
+The Black of Night (November 1964)
+A Galaxy at a Time (December 1964)
+Begin at the Beginning (January 1965)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Review at asimovreviews.net
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_New_Organic_Base_in_the_Coca_Leaves-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+title: "On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_New_Organic_Base_in_the_Coca_Leaves"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:10.618342+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves is an 1860 dissertation written by Albert Niemann. Its title in German is Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern. The piece describes, in detail, how Niemann isolated cocaine, a crystalline alkaloid.  It also earned Niemann his Ph.D., and is now in the British Library.  He wrote of the alkaloid's "colourless transparent prisms" and said that, "Its solutions have an alkaline reaction, a bitter taste, promote the flow of saliva and leave a peculiar numbness, followed by a sense of cold when applied to the tongue." Niemann named the alkaloid "cocaine" — as with other alkaloids its name carried the "-ine" suffix.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Piece_of_Chalk-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Piece_of_Chalk"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:42:49.295780+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:11.840724+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Connexion_of_the_Physical_Sciences-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+title: "On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Connexion_of_the_Physical_Sciences"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:13.016523+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, by Mary Somerville, is one of the best-selling science books of the 19th century. The book went through many editions and was translated into several European languages. It is considered one of the first popular science books, containing few diagrams and very little mathematics. It describes astronomy, physics, chemistry, geography, meteorology and electromagnetism as they were scientifically understood at the time.  In an anonymous review of the book in the March 1834 issue of The Quarterly Review, later attributed to William Whewell, the term "scientist" appeared in print as a proposed collective name for investigators of the material world.
+
+
+== Review and the term "scientist" ==
+In the review, the reviewer wrote:
+
+A curious illustration of this result may be observed in the want of any name by which we can designate the students of the knowledge of the material world collectively. We are informed that this difficulty was felt very oppressively by the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at their meetings at York, Oxford, and Cambridge, in the last three summers. There was no general term by which these gentlemen could describe themselves with reference to their pursuits. Philosophers was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term, and was very properly forbidden them by Mr. Coleridge, both in his capacity of philologer and metaphysician; savans was rather assuming, besides being French instead of English; some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this termination when we have such words as sciolist, economist, and atheist—but this was not generally palatable; others attempted to translate the term by which the members of similar associations in Germany have described themselves, but it was not found easy to discover an English equivalent for natur-forscher. The process of examination which it implies might suggest such undignified compounds as nature-poker, or nature-peeper, for these naturae curiosi; but these were indignantly rejected.
+Ross identified the "ingenious gentleman" as Whewell himself.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Letters to a German Princess
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+On the connection of the physical sciences at the Internet Archive
+
+ On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences at Project Gutenberg

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Skies,_Closed_Minds-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+title: "Open Skies, Closed Minds"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Skies,_Closed_Minds"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:14.188811+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Open Skies, Closed Minds, a book on ufology, expresses the views of Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator with the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).
+The book provides an overview of the UFO phenomenon, with the emphasis on Pope's three-year tour of duty as the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk officer. It examines a number of well-known UFO cases, including the Roswell crash and the Rendlesham Forest Incident, as well as a number of less well-known cases from the MOD's UFO case-files. Pope also discusses the politics surrounding the way in which those within government and the military view UFO phenomena.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Horse_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+title: "Operation Trojan Horse (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Horse_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:15.337827+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Operation Trojan Horse (or UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse) is a book published in 1970 by John Keel. The book was reprinted in 1996 with minor additions. It presents the results of Keel's research on UFOs and similar phenomena.
+
+
+== Overview ==
+Keel, who died in 2009, was a ufologist. According to The Daily Telegraph, "In his much-acclaimed second book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, Keel suggested that many aspects of modern UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often paralleled ancient folklore and religious visions, and directly linked UFOs with elemental phenomena."
+The book presents Keel's theory that UFOs are a phenomenon produced by "ultraterrestrials", beings who are able to manipulate matter and our senses, and who in the past manifested themselves as fairies, demons, and so on.
+Keel explains the title of the book saying, "Our skies have been filled with 'Trojan horses' throughout history, and like the original Trojan horse, they seem to conceal hostile intent."
+
+
+== See also ==
+The Book of the Damned, 1919, a similar book by Charles Fort
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Malady-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+title: "Our Malady"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Malady"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:17.728534+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary is a 2020 book by Timothy Snyder. In it, Snyder explores the problems faced by the medical care in the United States.
+
+
+== Background ==
+In December 2019, Timothy Snyder fell seriously ill with abdominal pain and was admitted to a hospital in Munich. The diagnosis of appendicitis was missed. Two weeks later, he had an appendectomy  in Connecticut and was discharged after 24 hours.
+Following another medical misdiagnosis in Florida he developed sepsis and was treated 26 days later in New Haven with a liver abscess. While recuperating from this illness through the coronavirus pandemic he wrote the book about the problems of the for-profit health care system in the USA, and the coronavirus response so far.
+
+
+== Overview ==
+The Prologue "Solitude and Solidarity" is followed by an Introduction "Our Malady". 
+Lesson 1 is entitled "Healthcare is a human right. Here, Snyder explains the history of health care as a human right after the fall of the Third Reich where it arose in Postwar Europe, but was not codified in the United States. 
+In Lesson 2 : "Renewal begins with children" he compares childbirth in Austria and the US and posits that "commercialized health care impedes the freedom of families". Lesson 3: "The truth shall set us free" is about how the value of truth is connected to facts and creation of knowledge and how science should drive public policy. Lesson 4: "Doctors should be in charge" makes the case that physicians should to take "greater leadership in national politics".  
+The Conclusion is entitled: "Our recovery" and argues that the healthcare system should work for people rather than for profit. The last chapter is an Epilogue "Rage and Empathy".
+
+
+== Reception ==
+A detailed and favorable review in The British Journal of General Practice explained the title byline in the "paradox of liberty" consisting of a tension between individual liberty and social solidarity.
+The Journal Health Affairs called it an "impassioned meditation on the state of US health care" and reviewed each chapter in detail. It critically observed that he relied on simplification at times, for example in his interpretation of why the US fared worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
+The Washington Post called it a "loud and lucid" rant from a patient done wrong, but that the  book lacked his authority in health care.
+The Jewish Journal reviewed it more favorably, even calling it a "companion volume" to his prior bestseller On Tyranny.
+Three reviewers point out the rage expressed in the book.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Control_(Kelly_book)-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Control_(Kelly_book)"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:56:49.865688+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:18.977757+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Everywhere-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+---
+title: "Out of the Everywhere"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Everywhere"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:20.185532+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Out of the Everywhere is a 1990 collection of seventeen scientific essays written by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov and originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The book's title comes from the opening lines of George Macdonald's poem "Baby": 
+
+"Where did you come from, baby dear?"
+"Out of the everywhere into here."
+
+
+== Contents ==
+Part I: Astronomy
+"The Very Error of the Moon" (October 1987)
+"Asking the Right Question" (November 1987)
+"Out of the Everywhere" (November 1988)
+"Into the Here" (December 1988)
+Part II: Humanity
+"The Road to Humanity" (December 1987)
+"Standing Tall" (January 1988)
+"The Longest River" (July 1988)
+"Is Anyone Listening" (June 1988)
+Part III: Radiation
+"The Unrecognized Danger" (February 1988)
+"The Radiation That Wasn't" (March 1988)
+Part IV: Magnetism
+"Iron, Cold Iron" (April 1988)
+"From Pole to Pole" (May 1988)
+Part V: Fuel
+"The Fire of Life" (August 1988)
+"The Slave of the Lamp" (September 1988)
+"The Horse Under the Hood" (October 1988)
+Part VI: Time
+"The Unforgiving Minute" (January 1989)
+Part VII: Something Extra
+"A Sacred Poet" (September 1987)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneers_of_Science-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneers_of_Science"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:19:12.433016+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:21.442651+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Ref-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+title: "Pocket Ref"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Ref"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:25.024560+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Pocket Ref is a general-purpose pocket-sized reference book composed of various tips, tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions, compiled by Thomas J. Glover. It is published by Sequoia Publishing, and is currently in its fourth edition at 864 pages in length, released in late 2010.
+It contains references, tables, and instructional guides on such varied subjects as automotive repair; carpentry and construction; chemistry and physics; computers; physical, chemical, and mathematical constants; electronics; money and measurement conversions; advanced first aid; glue, solvents, paints, and finishes; hardware; mine, mill, and aggregate; plumbing; zip codes; rope, cable, and knots; steel and metals; surveying and mapping; and various other topics.
+The Pocket Ref has been featured on the television series MythBusters. In the "Shop 'til You Drop" episode, Adam Savage noted that "nearly everyone" had asked him about the little black book.
+The book can sometimes be found imprinted with the name of a store or other third party on its front cover.
+Although the Pocket Ref is printed on very thin paper, its page count is still limited by the publisher's desire for it to fit in an average shirt pocket, so a more comprehensive work, at 1280 pages, DeskRef, has been published.
+Other books by Glover include Pocket PC Ref, Deskref, Handyman In-Your-Pocket, Pocket Do It Yourself Source, Measure for Measure and Tech Ref.
+Comparable books include AutoRef by Glover's sometimes-coauthor Richard A. Young, and Pocket Partner "a comprehensive collection of vital information for law enforcement personnel" by Dennis Evers.
+
+
+== Reception ==
+Nick Stockton, writing for Wired, included it in their list of favourites.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Pocket Ref - Sequoia Publishing

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powershift_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: "Powershift (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powershift_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:26.215120+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century is the third book in a trilogy written by the futurist Alvin Toffler, following Future Shock (1970) and The Third Wave (1980). The hardcover first edition was published October 1, 1990.
+
+
+== The Trinity of Power ==
+The combination of knowledge, wealth and force is described by Toffler as providing individuals or other entities power. Knowledge is the most powerful form of power, considering we are now living in a Knowledge-based civilization. Wealth is another form of power, and is flexible in nature, since it can be used as punishment (like a stick) or reward (as a carrot).  Finally force, in lay terms violence, is noted as another element of power.  It isn't as flexible as the other elements of power, since you can't exactly "take back" shooting someone or punching them in the face.  However, the psychological capability that you have force available, like a cowboy or police man with a gun in his holster is often all it takes to ensure compliance.
+
+
+== Transformation of Elements of Power ==
+Toffler emphasizes that any of the elements of power can be transformed from one to another such that the individual has the Trinity no matter where they started from.  For example, force, like a gun/knife (or silent threat of a gun/knife) can be used to obtain Knowledge (information) or Wealth (money).  Wealth can be used to obtain Force, like hiring a hit man or buying poison.  Wealth can be used to obtain knowledge, like bribing or buying a book.  But ultimately, knowledge is emphasized as the most effective (efficient) way to start off.  Through knowledge, like the knowledge in this article or other sources on the internet, methods can be found to obtain Force (ex. connections to the "under world") and Wealth (ex. stock tips).  A Wealth of Knowledge is now available on the internet and at the disposal of the user through the finger tips.   In particular, information related to cybernetics, the modern word for things like casting voodoo spells is freely found on YouTube and other sources.  Cybernetics also relates to other fields like numerology and symbology which are powerful tools for obtaining Force and Wealth.  Considering Toffler refers to our civilization and economy based upon symbology, or a "symbolic economy", then this is indeed powerful for any individual.
+
+
+== The Power of Knowledge ==
+Toffler emphasizes that of the trinity of power, the use of wealth and force is available to the elite, however, knowledge is something available to even the non-elite.  What's interesting about Knowledge is that it can be generated infinitely as we all try to reach an understanding of "The Truth" if there is one. In Toffler's words, "Knowledge is the most democratic source of Power".
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar,_Quasar,_Burning_Bright-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar,_Quasar,_Burning_Bright"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:27.412545+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the thirteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These essays were first published between May 1976 and September 1977. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1978. Its title is derived from the first line of William Blake's 1794 poem "The Tyger".
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"It's a Wonderful Town!" (May 1976)
+"Surprise! Surprise!" (June 1976)
+"Making It!" (July 1976)
+"Moving Ahead" (August 1976)
+"To the Top" (September 1976)
+"Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright" (October 1976)
+"The Comet That Wasn't" (November 1976)
+"The Sea-Green Planet" (December 1976)
+"Discovery by Blink" (January 1977)
+"Asimov's Corollary" (February 1977)
+"The Magic Isle" (March 1977)
+"The Dark Companion" (April 1977)
+"Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves" (May 1977)
+"The Final Collapse" (June 1977)
+"Of Ice and Men" (July 1977)
+"Oblique the Centric Globe" (August 1977)
+"The Opposite Poles" (September 1977)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_for_the_Geeks-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "Rapture for the Geeks"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_for_the_Geeks"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:28.572155+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2009) is a non-fiction book by American Law Professor Richard Dooling. The book provides an alarming window into a hypothetical future technological singularity, where machine intelligence outstrips human intelligence. The book also provides a historical review of man's relationship with machines, including dangers caused by other technologies such as nuclear weaponry.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Technological singularity
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking_Innateness-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+title: "Rethinking Innateness"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking_Innateness"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:31.005297+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Rethinking Innateness: A connectionist perspective on development is a book regarding gene/environment interaction by Jeffrey Elman, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Elizabeth Bates, Mark Johnson, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett published in 1996. It has been cited about 4,000 times in scientific articles, and has been nominated as one of the "One hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th Century".
+
+
+== Summary ==
+Rethinking Innateness applied insights from neurobiology and neural network modelling to brain development. 
+It questioned whether some of the "hard nativist" positions, such as those adopted by Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke, are biologically plausible. For example, the authors challenged a claim by Pinker that children are born with innate domain-specific knowledge of the principles of grammar, by questioning how the knowledge that Pinker suggests might actually be encoded in the genes.
+Elman et al. argue that information concerning something as specific as grammatical rules (which they classify as propositional information) could only be encoded as pre-specified "weights" between neurons in the cortex. But they argue that evidence from a number of sources, such as brain plasticity (the ability of a brain to change its response properties during development) shows that information cannot be hard-wired in this way.
+Instead, they argue that genes might influence brain development by determining a system's "architectural constraints". By establishing the physical structure of a system, they argue that genes would, in effect, be determining the learning algorithms the system employs to respond to the environment. They argue that the specific propositional information in the system would be determined as a result of the system responding to environmental stimulation.
+
+
+== Influences ==
+The ideas in Rethinking Innateness have been influential and developed in a number of ways. For example Mark Johnson has gone on to develop his Interactive Specialization hypothesis, in part building on ideas from Rethinking Innateness. Jeffrey Elman has also gone on to become one of the most widely recognized figures in computational neuroscience, recently being awarded the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Innateness hypothesis
+Connectionism
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Römpp's_Chemistry_Lexicon-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Römpp's_Chemistry_Lexicon"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:29:33.532065+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:34.687863+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Römpp_Encyclopedia_Natural_Products-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Römpp_Encyclopedia_Natural_Products"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:29:32.374695+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:33.442922+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Natural_Philosophy-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Natural_Philosophy"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:29:47.694044+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:35.936590+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_Numbers,_and_I-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "Science, Numbers, and I"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_Numbers,_and_I"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:43.125259+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Science, Numbers, and I is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the sixth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1968.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"Balancing the Books" (F&SF, July 1966)
+"BB or Not BB, That is the Question" (August 1966)
+"I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" (September 1966)
+"Portrait of the Writer as a Boy" (October 1966)
+"Old Man River" (November 1966)
+"The Symbol-Minded Chemist" (December 1966)
+"Right Beneath Your Feet" (January 1967)
+"Impossible, That's All" (February 1967)
+"Crowded!" (March 1967)
+"A Matter of Scale" (April 1967)
+"Times of Our Lives" (May 1967)
+"Non-Time Travel" (June 1967)
+"Twelve Point Three Six Nine" (July 1967)
+"Kaleidoscope in the Sky" (August 1967)
+"The Great Borning" (September 1967)
+"Music to My Ears" (October 1967)
+"Knock Plastic!" (November 1967)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_and_Futurology-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+---
+title: "Science Fiction and Futurology"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_and_Futurology"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:40.754941+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Science Fiction and Futurology (Polish: Fantastyka i futurologia) is a monograph of Stanisław Lem about science fiction and futurology, first printed by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1970.
+The official Lem website describes the book as a triple feature: an attempt to create a theory of the genre, a self-interpretation of Lem's own works, and a review of the world's science fiction, "a yet another Lem's General Theory of Everything - everything related to science fiction and its role in human knowledge acquisition".
+In the book, Lem reviews and classifies works of over 400 science fiction writers.
+The book was acutely critical of Western science fiction. As Lem wrote, "SF became a vulgar mythology of a technological civilization.... This monograph is an expression of my personal utopia, my longing for better SF, the one that should be." In the 1972 edition the criticism was somewhat softened, in particular, in the judgement of the works of  Philip K. Dick. Lem confessed that his opinion about Philip K. Dick was based on limited knowledge of his works, not the best ones.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+(Omitting forewords and afterwords)
+
+
+=== Volume 1. Structures ===
+I. The language of a literary work
+II. The world of a literary work (chapter changed since the second edition of 1972)
+III. Structures of literary creation
+IV. From structuralism to traditional criticism
+V. Sociology of science fiction
+
+
+=== Volume 2. Problem Fields of Science Fiction ===
+I. Catastrophe
+II. Robots and people
+III. Outer space and science fiction
+IV. Metaphysics of science fiction  and futurology of faith
+V. Erotics and sex
+VI. Man and superman
+VII. Remanent
+Lem writes that before starting with the two last huge subjects of the book, he would like to briefly dwell upon a large number of topics not covered in the book. Some of them, such as horror in science fiction and space opera,  are only mentioned in passing. The section analyzes some motives of "biological" science fiction, the ones, in Lem's opinion, having gnoseological value, only briefly reviewing the subject of fictional mutants of various types, ranging from post-apocalyptic to experiments of mad scientists.
+VIII. Experiment in science fiction. From Bradbury to "New Wave"
+IX. Utopia and futurology
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== Further reading ==
+"Igraszki i powinności fantastyki naukowej", an afterword by Jerzy Jarzębski about the book

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Friction_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "Science Friction (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Friction_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:41.940309+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown is a 2004 book by Michael Shermer, a historian of science and founder of The Skeptics Society. It contains thirteen essays about "personal barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the unknown. What do we know, and what do we not know?" These include an essay relating the author's experience of a day spent learning cold reading techniques well enough to be accepted as a psychic. As well as covering skepticism and pseudoscience, Shermer discusses other topics touching on the subject of encouraging scientific thought, such as sport psychology and the writings of Stephen Jay Gould. Shermer attributes the founding of the skeptical movement to Martin Gardner's 1950 article "The Hermit Scientist" in the Antioch Review. 
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Science Friction from MichaelShermer.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Theology-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+title: "Science and Theology"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Theology"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:39.577950+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Science and Theology: An Introduction is a 1998 book written by the English physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Perspectives_on_Divine_Action-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+title: "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Perspectives_on_Divine_Action"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:44.303945+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action is a five volume set that represents more than a decade of scientific-theological conferences sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
+
+
+== Volumes ==
+Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
+Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
+Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
+Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
+Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, Robert John Russell (Corporate Author), Philip Clayton (Corporate Author), Kirk Wegter-McNelly (Ed), John Polkinghorne (Ed)
+
+
+== See also ==
+Divine Action and Modern Science
+Natural theology
+Theophysics
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drunkard's_Walk-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+title: "The Drunkard's Walk"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drunkard's_Walk"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:57:49.753379+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is a 2008 popular science book by American physicist and author Leonard Mlodinow, which became a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times notable book.
+
+
+== Overview ==
+The Drunkard's Walk discusses the role of randomness in everyday events, and the cognitive biases that lead people to misinterpret random events and stochastic processes. The title refers to a certain type of random walk, a mathematical process in which one or more variables change value under a series of random steps. Mlodinow discusses the contributions of mathematical heavyweights Jacob Bernoulli, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Blaise Pascal, and introduces basic statistical concepts such as regression toward the mean and the law of large numbers, while discussing the role of probability in examples from wine ratings and school grades to political polls.
+
+
+== Reception ==
+In 2008 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) awarded Mlodinow the Robert P. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for the book.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earth_After_Us-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earth_After_Us"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:38:41.785918+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:57:52.207975+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Humanity-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+title: "The Future of Humanity"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Humanity"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:14.080921+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth is a popular science book by the futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. The book was initially published on February 20, 2018, by Doubleday. The book was on The New York Times Best Seller list for four weeks.
+
+
+== Background ==
+Kaku discusses the future and survival of the human species and discusses topics such as terraforming Mars and interstellar travel. Given that it may take centuries to reach the closest suns and exoplanets, Kaku also explores alternative paths to ensure the survival of humanity, including the possibility of genetic engineering and transferring human consciousness into non-biological machines.
+
+
+== Reception ==
+Kirkus Reviews described Kaku's views as "[a]lways optimistic" and that "Kaku delivers a fascinating and scattershot series of scenarios in which humans overcome current obstacles without violating natural laws to travel the universe."
+The New York Times praised Kaku for being "adept at drawing from the lexicon of popular science fiction" and noted that "the strength of Kaku's writing is knowing which science fiction ideas are worth following".
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Michio Kaku's official website
+Booksite (part of Michio Kaku's website)

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_the_Mind-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+title: "The Future of the Mind"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_the_Mind"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:15.267014+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind is a popular science book by the futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. 
+The book was initially published on February 25, 2014 by Doubleday.
+In 2015 the book was translated into Hebrew.
+
+
+== Overview ==
+The book discusses various possibilities of advanced technology that can alter the brain and mind. Looking into things such as telepathy, telekinesis, consciousness, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism, the book covers a wide range of topics. In it, Kaku proposes a "spacetime theory of consciousness". Similarly to Ray Kurzweil, he believes the advances in silicon computing will serve our needs as opposed to producing a generation of robot overlords.
+
+
+== Reception ==
+On March 16, 2014, The Future of the Mind made number one on The New York Times Bestseller list.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Michio Kaku's official website
+Booksite

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Equation-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+title: "The God Equation"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Equation"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:19.953476+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything is a popular science book by the futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. The book was initially published on April 6, 2021, by Doubleday.
+The book debuted at number six on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending April 10, 2021.
+
+
+== Overview ==
+Kaku explores the history of unification theories of physics starting with Newton's law of universal gravitation which unified our experience of gravity on Earth and the motions of the celestial bodies to Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics and the Standard Model. He dubs the final Grand Unified Theory and quantum gravity The God Equation with an 11-dimensional string theory as the only self-consistent theory that seems to fit the bill.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Guide_to_the_Elements-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Guide_to_the_Elements"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:35:22.863445+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:30.804453+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inevitable_(book)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+title: "The Inevitable (book)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inevitable_(book)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:33.218383+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Inevitable is a 2016 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly that forecasts the twelve technological forces that will shape the next thirty years.
+
+
+== Summary ==
+According to Kelly, much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable. The future will bring with it even more screens, tracking, and lack of privacy. In the book he outlines twelve trends that will forever change the ways in which we work, learn and communicate: The chapters are organized by these forces.
+
+Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions
+Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using cheap powerful AI that we get from the cloud
+Flowing: Depending on unstoppable streams in real time for everything
+Screening: Turning all surfaces into screens
+Accessing: Shifting society from one where we own assets to one where instead we will have access to services at all times
+Sharing: Collaboration at mass scale. Kelly writes, "On my imaginary Sharing Meter Index we are still at 2 out of 10."
+Filtering: Harnessing intense personalization in order to anticipate our desires
+Remixing: Unbundling existing products into their most primitive parts and then recombining in all possible ways
+Interacting: Immersing ourselves inside our computers to maximize their engagement
+Tracking: Employing total surveillance for the benefit of citizens and consumers
+Questioning: Promoting good questions is far more valuable than good answers
+Beginning: Constructing a planetary system connecting all humans and machines into a global matrix
+
+
+== Critical response ==
+Kirkus Reviews notes that "Kelly’s arguments ring true, and his enthusiasm [about the future] is contagious". Publishers Weekly also highlights that this book reflect Kelly's "optimistic and arguably idealistic view" and that he "chooses to elide discussions of the specific downsides that likely will accompany the changes he describes. Kelly's stated goal is 'to uncover the roots of digital change so that we can embrace them.' The book effectively identifies these roots, but in omitting critical discussion of them, it leaves the reader inadequately equipped to thoughtfully embrace or engage with them."
+
+
+== See also ==
+Out of Control
+What Technology Wants
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Gorilla-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: "The Invisible Gorilla"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Gorilla"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:40.443677+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Invisible Gorilla is a non-fiction book published in 2010, co-authored by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. The title of this book refers to an earlier research project by Chabris and Simons revealing that people who are focused on something can easily overlook something else. To demonstrate this effect, they created a video of students passing a basketball between themselves. Viewers asked to count the number of times the players with the white shirts pass the ball often fail to notice a person in a gorilla suit who appears in the center of the image (see Invisible Gorilla Test), an experiment described as "one of the most famous psychological demos ever". Simons and Chabris were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for the Invisible Gorilla experiment.
+
+
+== See also ==
+Attention
+Attentional control
+Change blindness
+Inattentional blindness
+Invisible ships
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+The video on Daniel Simons' YouTube channel on YouTube

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Large,_the_Small_and_the_Human_Mind-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "The Large, the Small and the Human Mind"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Large,_the_Small_and_the_Human_Mind"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:44.079005+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind is a popular science book by British theoretical physicist Roger Penrose.  The book was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.
+
+
+== Overview ==
+The book includes criticism of his work on physics and consciousness by Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Stephen Hawking. The book was preceded by The Emperor's New Mind, published in 1989, and Shadows of the Mind, published in 1994.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_the_Electron-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+---
+title: "The Left Hand of the Electron"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_the_Electron"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:45.291140+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Left Hand of the Electron is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays  by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, first published by Doubleday & Company in 1972. It was the ninth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The title comes from the topic of the first section which deals with chirality of electroweak interactions and chirality of organic compounds and the possible connection between the two.  Other essays in this book concern the effect of electron-spin direction on molecular structure e.g. the "Inverse Sugar" (similar to Inverted sugar syrup) in honey with philosophical reflections on the minority of left handedness in general.
+
+
+== Chapters ==
+A — The Problem of Left and Right
+1 — Odds and Evens
+2 — The Left Hand of the Electron
+3 — Seeing Double
+4 — The 3-D Molecule
+5 — The Asymmetry of Life
+B — The Problem of Oceans
+6 — The Thalassogens
+7 — Hot Water
+8 — Cold Water
+C — The Problem of Numbers and Lines
+9 — Prime Quality
+10 — Euclid's Fifth
+11 — The Plane Truth
+D — The Problem of the Platypus
+12 — Holes in the Head
+E — The Problem of History
+13 — The Eureka Phenomenon
+14 — Pompey and Circumstance
+15 — Bill and I
+F — The Problem of Population
+16 — Stop!
+17 — ...But How?
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com
+Asimov, Isaac (1972). The Left Hand of the Electron (PDF). New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-440-94717-0. Retrieved 2013-09-24.

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_the_21st_Century-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: "The Meaning of the 21st Century"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_the_21st_Century"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:52.477028+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future is a 2006 nonfiction book by British technology consultant James Martin.
+
+
+== Synopsis ==
+It assesses technological challenges, dangers and opportunities facing the human race. The book lists and proposes solutions for 17 interlocked upcoming "megaproblems". Topics include nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, climate change and terrorism. Martin asserts that many global problems have been worsened by past technologies, but could be addressed by new ones. For example, he advocates for "electronic brain appendages" to help think  through to a solution to problems such as global warming.
+
+
+== Film ==
+Martin released a film based on the book, narrated by one of his Bermudan neighbors, Hollywood actor Michael Douglas. 
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Full film

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirage_of_a_Space_Between_Nature_and_Nurture-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: "The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirage_of_a_Space_Between_Nature_and_Nurture"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:57.292317+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture is a book by Evelyn Fox Keller, an American historian of science, about the nature–nurture debate. It was first published in June 2010 by Duke University Press. The book is unusually short, as it is a mere 107 pages long. Furthermore, just 84 of these pages represent the actual text of the book, as opposed to its notes, index, or bibliography.
+
+
+== Reviews ==
+David Moore reviewed The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture favorably in the journal Science & Education. He concluded, "For its careful analysis of the causes of the confusion that continues to keep the nature/nurture debate alive long after it has become clear that the questions motivating the debate have been ill-formed, Fox Keller’s book can be highly recommended for classroom teachers or teacher educators." Nadine Weidman of Harvard University praised the book as "concise and clearly written", concluding that it "...should be required reading for all those scientists, popularizers, and reporters whose claims for genetic causation of traits commit the very errors that [Keller's] analysis so skillfully elucidates." Similarly, John P. Jackson, Jr. of the University of Colorado Boulder commended the book for shedding light on linguistic misunderstandings that pervade many discussions on human genetics. David Depew concluded his review of Keller's book by referring to it as "a very helpful book" for emphasizing that DNA is only one of many developmental resources involved in the production of phenotypes. Other scholars who reviewed Mirage favorably include Michael Ruse, Lorraine Daston, and Richard Lewontin. Philosopher Neven Sesardic wrote a less favorable review of Mirage, describing the book as "frustrating". He concluded that "...scientists...will probably find [the book] unhelpful, or even off-putting, that most of the issues they might be interested in are addressed here too quickly, offhandedly, in the unnecessarily abstract or vague terms, and without connecting them with the relevant empirical research."
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysteryes_of_Nature_and_Art-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+title: "The Mysteryes of Nature and Art"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysteryes_of_Nature_and_Art"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:58:59.991151+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Mysteries of Nature and Art is a book by John Bate written in 1634. The book acts as a practical guide for amateur scientific experiments, and is divided into four sections: Water Workes; Fyer Workes; Drawing, Colouring, Painting and Engraving; and Divers Experiments. It inspired Isaac Newton during his younger years, in particular the section on fire Drakes, kites with firecrackers tied to their tails. It contains one of the earliest depictions of fireworks and their preparation to be detailed in the English language, in a similar manner to the preceding De la pirotechnia.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+"John Bate The Mysteryes of Nature and Art" Book of the Month  Special Collections Department, Library of the University of Glasgow, November 2003
+Public Domain Review article about The Mysteryes of Nature and Art
+The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises, from the Collections at the Library of Congress.

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Fifty_Years-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+title: "The Next Fifty Years"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Fifty_Years"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:02.327763+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century is a 2002 collection of essays by twenty-five well-known scientists, edited by Edge Foundation founder John Brockman, who wrote the introduction.
+The essays contain speculation by the authors about the scientific and technological advances that are likely to occur in their various fields in the first half of the 21st century.
+The collection is divided into two parts; the twelve essays in Part One are devoted to more theoretical speculation, whereas the thirteen essays in Part Two discuss the possible practical applications of scientific and technological advance.
+The contributing scientists are:
+
+Lee Smolin, The Future of the Nature of the Universe
+Martin Rees, Cosmological Challenges: Are We Alone, and Where?
+Ian Stewart, The Mathematics of 2050
+Brian Goodwin, In the Shadow of Culture
+Marc D. Hauser, Swappable Minds
+Alison Gopnik, What Children Will Teach Scientists
+Paul Bloom, Toward a Theory of Moral Development
+Geoffrey Miller, The Science of Subtlety
+Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Future of Happiness
+Robert M. Sapolsky, Will We Still Be Sad Fifty Years from Now?
+Steven Strogatz, Fermi's "Little Discovery" and the Future of Chaos and Complexity Theory
+Stuart Kauffman, What Is Life?
+Richard Dawkins, Son of Moore's Law
+Paul Davies, Was There a Second Genesis?
+John H. Holland, What Is to Come and How to Predict It?
+Rodney Brooks, The Merger of Flesh and Machines
+Peter Atkins, The Future of Matter
+Roger C. Schank, Are We Going to Get Smarter?
+Jaron Lanier, The Complexity Ceiling
+David Gelernter, Tapping Into the Beam
+Joseph E. LeDoux, Mind, Brain, and Self
+Judith Rich Harris, What Makes Us the Way We Are: The View from 2050
+Samuel Barondes, Drugs, DNA, and the Analyst's Couch
+Nancy Etcoff, Brain Scans, Wearables, and Brief Encounters
+Paul W. Ewald, Mastering Disease
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oceans_(textbook)-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+---
+title: "The Oceans (textbook)"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oceans_(textbook)"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:07.076126+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology is an oceanographic textbook by Harald Sverdrup, Martin Johnson, and Richard Fleming. Originally written in 1942, it is commonly referred to as the first oceanographic textbook and fundamental in the history of the science.
+Chapters of the text outline and synthesize the sub-domains of oceanography: Biological, chemical, physical, and geological oceanography.
+
+
+== Table of contents ==
+Preface
+I. Introduction
+II. The Earth and the Ocean Basins
+III. Physical Properties of Sea Water
+IV: General Distribution of Temperature, Salinity, and Density
+V. Theory of Distribution of Variables in the Sea
+VI. Chemistry of Sea Water
+VII. Organisms and the Composition of Sea Water
+VIII. The Sea as a Biological Environment
+IX. Populations of the Sea
+X. Observations and Collections at Sea
+XI. General Character of Ocean Currents
+XII. Statics and Kinematics
+XIII. Dynamics of Ocean Currents
+XIV. Waves and Tides
+XV. The Water Masses and Currents of the Oceans
+XVI. Phytoplankton in Relation to Physical-Chemical Properties of the Environment
+XVII. Animals in Relation to Physical-Chemical Properties of the Environment
+XVIII. Interrelations of Marine Organisms
+XIX. Organic Production in the Sea
+XX. Marine Sedimentation
+Appendix
+Index
+
+
+== Reception ==
+The text was considered of such military importance during World War II that its distribution outside of the United States was forbidden until the war had ended.
+In 1945, George Deacon wrote that, the authors had "answered the demand for an up-to-date manual of oceanography."
+
+
+== External links ==
+Full text at UC Press E-Books Collection
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Virtue-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+title: "The Origins of Virtue"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Virtue"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:16.520238+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Origins of Virtue is a 1996 popular science book by Matt Ridley, which has been recognised as a classic in its field.  In the book, Ridley explores the issues surrounding the development of human morality. The book, written from a sociobiological viewpoint, explores how genetics can be used to explain certain traits of human behaviour, in particular morality and altruism.
+Starting from the premise that society can, on a simplistic level, be represented as a variant of the prisoner's dilemma, Ridley examines how it has been possible for a society to arise in which people choose to cooperate with others, rather than "defect" and act purely in their own self-interest.
+Ridley examines the history of different attempts to explain the fact that humans in society do not defect, looking at various computer generated models that have been used to explain how such behaviour could arise. In particular, he looks at systems based on the idea of Tit-for-tat, a program developed by Canadian professor Anatol Rapoport, where members of the group only cooperate with those who also cooperate, and exclude those who do not. This results in the optimum solution to the dilemma being to cooperate, allowing altruistic behaviour to develop. He applies this to humans and suggests that genes that generated altruistic, tit-for-tat behaviour would be likely to be passed on and therefore give rise to the kind of behaviour we see in human society.
+Ridley then examines the development of tribal mentality,  group prejudice, the benefits of trade, and ineffective government regulation.
+From this, Ridley argues that society operates best in groups of around 150 individuals, which he suggests is the level at which humans are capable of being sure about which members to cooperate with and which to exclude. Although he avoids drawing any specific political points, Ridley ends his book by arguing for a smaller state operating on a more local level.
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+New York Times May 11, 1997 (Review)
+Jack Hirshleifer (1997) UCLA Working Paper 771 (Review)
+L. Markoczy & J. Goldberg (1997) The virtue of human universals and cooperation: A review essay of Matt Ridley's The Origins of Virtue
+
+
+== See also ==
+Animal Faith
+Evolutionary ethics
+Evolution of morality

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_That_Wasn't-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+title: "The Planet That Wasn't"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_That_Wasn't"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:22.612762+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Planet That Wasn't is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the twelfth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These essays were first published between December 1974 and April 1976. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1976.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"Star In The East" (F&SF, December 1974)
+"Thinking About Thinking" (January 1975)
+"The Rocketing Dutchmen" (February 1975)
+"The Bridge of the Gods" (March 1975)
+"The Judo Argument" (April 1975)
+"The Planet That Wasn't" (May 1975)
+"The Olympian Snows" (June 1975)
+"Titanic Surprise" (July 1975)
+"The Wicked Witch is Dead" (August 1975)
+"The Wrong Turning" (September 1975)
+"The Third Liquid" (October 1975)
+"Best Foot Backward" (November 1975)
+"The Smell of Electricity" (December 1975)
+"Silent Victory" (January 1976)
+"Change of Air" (February 1976)
+"The Nightfall Effect" (March 1976)
+"All Gall" (April 1976)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com
+The Planet That Wasn't at Goodreads.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:19:13.597382+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:23.845585+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---
 

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rational_Optimist-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+title: "The Rational Optimist"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rational_Optimist"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:29.810940+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Rational Optimist is a 2010 popular science book by Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. The book primarily focuses on the benefits of the innate human tendency to trade goods and services. Ridley argues that this trait, together with the specialization linked to it, is the source of modern human civilization, and that, as people increasingly specialize in their skill sets, we will have increased trade and more prosperity.
+
+
+== Reception ==
+Bill Gates praised the book for its key ideas on the importance of trade and the excessive pessimism prevalent in our society. Gates challenged the book's stance against international aid, raised questions about the author's expertise in discussing climate change, and suggested that it downplays the potential for global catastrophic risks. Ricardo Salinas Pliego praised the book as a defence of free trade and globalisation. Michael Shermer gave the book positive reviews in Nature and Scientific American before going on to present similar ideas in conference talks, and writing The Moral Arc partly in response. David Papineau praised the book for refuting "doomsayers who insist that everything is going from bad to worse".
+George Monbiot criticised the book in his Guardian column. Critics of the book say it fails to address wealth inequality, and other criticisms of globalization.
+
+
+== See also ==
+The Moral Arc
+The Better Angels of Our Nature
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Official site
+"The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | Talks at Google". YouTube. July 21, 2010. (talk presented on June 23, 2010)

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Infinity-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+title: "The Road to Infinity"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Infinity"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:32.204243+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Road to Infinity is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the fourteenth of a series of books collecting Asimov's science essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It also included a list of all of Asimov's essays in that magazine up to 1979. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1979.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"The Subtlest Difference" (F&SF, October 1977)
+"The Sons of Mars Revisited" (November 1977)
+"Dark and Bright" (December 1977)
+"The Real Finds Waiting" (January 1978)
+"The Lost Art" (February 1978)
+"Anyone For Tens?" (March 1978)
+"The Floating Crystal Palace" (April 1978)
+"By Land and By Sea" (May 1978)
+"We Were the First that Ever Burst" (June 1978)
+"Second to the Skua" (July 1978)
+"Rings and Things" (August 1978)
+"Countdown" (September 1978)
+"Toward Zero" (October 1978)
+"Fifty Million Big Brothers" (November 1978)
+"Where is Everybody?" (December 1978)
+"Proxima" (January 1979)
+"The Road to Infinity" (February 1979)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovonline.com
+The Road to Infinity at Asimovreviews.com
+The Road to Infinity at Goodreads.com

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scientist_as_Rebel-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+title: "The Scientist as Rebel"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scientist_as_Rebel"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:45.441407+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Scientist as Rebel is a 2006 book by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. A few of the twenty-nine chapters in the book deal with the interactions of religion and science.
+The book is a collection of essays, prefaces, and book reviews concerning miscellaneous topics. Its title is taken from the title of an essay which originated as a November 1992 talk at a Cambridge, UK meeting of scientists and philosophers. Dyson dedicated his talk to the memory of Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme, who died in May 1992.
+
+The book's four sections—"Contemporary Issues in Science," "War and Peace," "History of Science and Scientists," "Personal and Philosophical"—contain information about the author's life, and the general tone is optimistic. He believes that biological engineering will inevitably be enlisted to enhance species or even create new ones (microbes that clean up pollution, for example) and that humans will colonize space.
+
+
+== References ==

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_the_Universe-0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+title: "The Secret of the Universe"
+chunk: 1/1
+source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_the_Universe"
+category: "reference"
+tags: "science, encyclopedia"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:46.628920+00:00"
+instance: "kb-cron"
+---
+
+The Secret of the Universe (1991) is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It is the twenty-second and final of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF). Asimov died in 1992.
+The 22 books collect 373 of Asimov's 399 essays for the magazine.
+
+
+== Contents ==
+"The Cosmic Lens" (February 1989)
+"The Secret of the Universe" (March 1989)
+"The Moon's Twin" (April 1989)
+"The Changing Distance" (May 1989)
+"A Change of Air" (June 1989)
+"The Importance of Pitch" (July 1989)
+"Long Ago and Far Away" (August 1989)
+"The True Rulers" (September 1989)
+"The Nearest Star" (October 1989)
+"Massing the Sun" (November 1989)
+"What Are Little Stars Made Of?" (December 1989)
+"Hot, Cold, and Con Fusion" (January 1990)
+"Business as Usual" (February 1990)
+"Smashing the Sky" (March 1990)
+"Worlds in Order" (April 1990)
+"Just Say 'No'?" (May 1990)
+"The Salt-Producers" (June 1990)
+
+
+== References ==
+
+
+== External links ==
+Asimovreviews.net

data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simple_Plant_Isoquinolines-0.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ chunk: 1/1
 source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simple_Plant_Isoquinolines"
 category: "reference"
 tags: "science, encyclopedia"
-date_saved: "2026-05-05T06:19:37.355099+00:00"
+date_saved: "2026-05-05T08:59:49.040246+00:00"
 instance: "kb-cron"
 ---