The articles "The Half-life of facts" by Samuel Arbesman, "The Food Pyramid and Why It Changed" by William Neuman, and the informational essay " The explosion What We Know about Life Forms" by Alan Cochev are proving this conclusion. Throughout the essay the reader will know how ...
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When I say that a fact has a half-life, I am trying to illustrate how knowledge changes by making an analogy to radioactivity. With radioactivity, if you give me a single atom of uranium, I can tell you it will eventually decay. When it does, it will break down into specific bits an...
Half-life, in radioactivity, the interval of time required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radioactive sample to decay, or, equivalently, the time interval required for the number of disintegrations per second of a radioactive material to decrease
(The nucleus of the cell is the portion containing the chromosomes.) The stem cells begin their process by multiplying in the process of cell duplication known asmitosis. Half of the new cells from this initial crop go on to become the future sperm cells, and the other half remain as ...
Some glaciers are melting so fast, however, that this half-century of history is gone. 29. Earth used to be purple (Image credit: Feng Yu | Shutterstock) It used to be purple … well, life on early Earth may have been just as purple as it is green today, suspects Shil DasSarma, ...
skip to main content sketchbook about the half-life of facts the kauffman foundation, where i work, recently created a short video about my book the half-life of facts, highlighting some of its ideas in a fun animation, with my narration: think of this as a short trailer for the book!
Many medical schools tell their students that half of what they've been taught will be wrong within five years—the teachers just don't know which half. Arbesman, a Harvard University–affiliated practitioner of scientometrics—which looks at how we know what we know—sets out to make readers...