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Numbers. Numerical literacy. Babylon, babble, and billion ; Prefixes ; What is the point?
The power of logarithms. Order of magnitude ; Hot air balloons and Renard numbers ; Finding fraud in figures
What is typical? The height of an adult ; Social competence and personal encounters ; Hit by returning rocket
Estimates. Is anybody out there? ; Sand, sibyl, Olympic medals, and homeopathy ; Cover the Earth with paper
Measures. What is it on a scale? The Richter scale ; Nuclear incidents and accidents ; Natural threats
Comparing apples and oranges. Human well-being and poverty ; Track and field ; At scout camp
Units. Going metric : inch by inch ; Horsepower and manpower ; The loss of a spacecraft
On the road. Left-hand traffic ; The value of a life ; Gasoline here and there
Accuracy and significance. Could you be more precise, please? What is Austria's population? ; A slim waist ; Man on the moon
Significant? Flunking ; A change in opinion ; Error bars
Limit values. Will your iPod make you deaf? ; Lethal dose ; The weakest link
Fair games? Winning by a small margin ; Accurate timing ; Are all sports venues equivalent?
Extrapolations. The dangerous exponential. The rule of 72 ; A problematic reward ; Suddenly nothing was left
The ubiquitous straight line. Dubious extrapolations ; Moore's Law ; Low radiation level and cancer
Scaling. Big and small fish ; Gulliver ; Roasting a turkey
Looking ahead. The law of diminishing returns ; The sign of the second derivative ; Lynx and hare
Models. What are the chances? Proofreading ; Losing a leg ; Sunday traffic
Seeking the optimum. Tax rates and the autobahn ; Running to the rescue ; Selecting the best golf club
Focus on the essential. How small can a mouse be? ; The age of the Earth ; A loud party
A law or a model? Ohm's Law is not a law ; A mad pursuit ; Is Coulomb's Law exact?
The real world. Plausible, but not correct. The unridable bicycle ; Church windows and lead roofs ; The bathtub vortex
You see what you want to see. Waves are rolling in ; Galileo Galilei's trial ; Submarines and mink
Suddenly something happens. Fishing nets, coffee percolators, and the web ; Goethe and the height of trees ; Supercooled rain and critical mass
Engineering versus science. Slapstick ; Not a schoolbook problem ; Hoisting a sack
Tricks of the trade. A crash course in science thinking. Dinghy, anchor, and pool ; Up and down the escalator ; The floating apple
Is the formula accurate enough? Obesity ; Wind chill temperature ; The size of a ship
Characteristic quantities. How deep is deep? ; The coldest day of the year ; Galileo Galilei, basketball, and table tennis
Impress them! What is your BMI? ; The Aeolian harp ; One trick and two areas
Seven principles in scientific literacy.
The power of logarithms. Order of magnitude ; Hot air balloons and Renard numbers ; Finding fraud in figures
What is typical? The height of an adult ; Social competence and personal encounters ; Hit by returning rocket
Estimates. Is anybody out there? ; Sand, sibyl, Olympic medals, and homeopathy ; Cover the Earth with paper
Measures. What is it on a scale? The Richter scale ; Nuclear incidents and accidents ; Natural threats
Comparing apples and oranges. Human well-being and poverty ; Track and field ; At scout camp
Units. Going metric : inch by inch ; Horsepower and manpower ; The loss of a spacecraft
On the road. Left-hand traffic ; The value of a life ; Gasoline here and there
Accuracy and significance. Could you be more precise, please? What is Austria's population? ; A slim waist ; Man on the moon
Significant? Flunking ; A change in opinion ; Error bars
Limit values. Will your iPod make you deaf? ; Lethal dose ; The weakest link
Fair games? Winning by a small margin ; Accurate timing ; Are all sports venues equivalent?
Extrapolations. The dangerous exponential. The rule of 72 ; A problematic reward ; Suddenly nothing was left
The ubiquitous straight line. Dubious extrapolations ; Moore's Law ; Low radiation level and cancer
Scaling. Big and small fish ; Gulliver ; Roasting a turkey
Looking ahead. The law of diminishing returns ; The sign of the second derivative ; Lynx and hare
Models. What are the chances? Proofreading ; Losing a leg ; Sunday traffic
Seeking the optimum. Tax rates and the autobahn ; Running to the rescue ; Selecting the best golf club
Focus on the essential. How small can a mouse be? ; The age of the Earth ; A loud party
A law or a model? Ohm's Law is not a law ; A mad pursuit ; Is Coulomb's Law exact?
The real world. Plausible, but not correct. The unridable bicycle ; Church windows and lead roofs ; The bathtub vortex
You see what you want to see. Waves are rolling in ; Galileo Galilei's trial ; Submarines and mink
Suddenly something happens. Fishing nets, coffee percolators, and the web ; Goethe and the height of trees ; Supercooled rain and critical mass
Engineering versus science. Slapstick ; Not a schoolbook problem ; Hoisting a sack
Tricks of the trade. A crash course in science thinking. Dinghy, anchor, and pool ; Up and down the escalator ; The floating apple
Is the formula accurate enough? Obesity ; Wind chill temperature ; The size of a ship
Characteristic quantities. How deep is deep? ; The coldest day of the year ; Galileo Galilei, basketball, and table tennis
Impress them! What is your BMI? ; The Aeolian harp ; One trick and two areas
Seven principles in scientific literacy.