ABSTRACT

More Random Walks in Science is an anthology of fascinating and frequently amusing anecdotes, quotations, illustrations, articles, and reviews that reflect the more lighthearted aspects of the scientific world and the less serious excursions of the scientific mind. The book is guaranteed to delight anyone who has a professional or amateur interest in science.

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Splitting the infinitive

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Broken English

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NPL haiku

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Federalese

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Readability ratings

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God grant . . . (poem)

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Preparing scientific papers

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Huxley quotation

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Moore's report on Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein (quotation)

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A philosophical joke

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Shaw quotation

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Perish, but publish!

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Clarification

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How to win arguments

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The acceptance of a scientific idea

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Advice to lecturers

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Teaching

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Teacher evaluation

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Refraction cartoon

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Proclamation

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Free thinking

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A revised PhD comprehensive

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Challenging experiments

chapter |2 pages

Images

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Mission statements

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The rank order on campus

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Budget

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The university hierarchy—who's on top?

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View from the bottom

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On the problem of innovation

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In the days of old . . . (poem)

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An undergrad from Trinity . . . (poern)

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The Dreistein case

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Artsimovich quotation

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Punch quotation

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Hypothesis

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Bruno quotation

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Finagle's laws

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Twain quotation

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Murphy's Law (photograph)

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Descent of man

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Schödinger quotation

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Sullivari quotation

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Doyle quotation

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Brain drain

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Robert Boyle's tombstone

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Quips

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Pan's pipes

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Voltaire quotation

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Demon theory of friction

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Natural-sciencc viva, c 1890

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Physics instructor

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Moiré cartoon

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European atom

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Error bars

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Blackett quotation

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Fermi quotation

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All power to particles

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E O Lawrence, driver

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Ten commandments of electrical safety

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hv

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Darrow quotation

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Tea-time with Rutherford

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Pauli in Heaven

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Working for Pauli (quotation)

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Physikalisches Lied

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Tracking the elusive quark

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Bohr quotation

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Spin–orbit coupling

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Reference frames

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Space and time anecdote about Frank

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Space

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The Einstein and the Eddington

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Relativity

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Michelson quotation

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R W Wood—improviser

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Schuster's library

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Hubbard quotation

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Hetherington and Willard

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Eddington quotation

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Captain DeKhotinsky

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The Doppler effect

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My anecdotage: Apocryphal tales

chapter |4 pages

Proof by induction

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Stauffer's law of the entropy of change

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Twain quotation

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mµ—an opticist's lament

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The King who kept his 0 °C

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Name for unit radian frequency

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The 'legal' value of π

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Holmes quotation

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Functions (quotation)

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Science in double dactyls

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Hymne to Hymen

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Saving time: a commentary

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Could the earth run backward?

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Astronaut cartoon

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Astronomical funding

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Higgledy piggledy . . . (poem)

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O, telescope!

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Planetoid for sale

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Celsius—the astronomer

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The satellite question

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Astronomical abberation

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Creation

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Stressing the astronauts

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On the spot?

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Cocking a Snootnik at Sputnik

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A damsel in distress

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To err is human . . .

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A chemical hoax

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Early molecular biology (illustration)

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The name of vitamin C

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Professionalism to—the end

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The purist

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The ant

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J B S Haldane quotation

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The dinosaur

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R W Wood

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The Pansy and the Chim-pansy

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Name dropping

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Pollution

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Modelling the cat falling

chapter |2 pages

The speed of the deer fly

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Horse breeding

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The reason life . . . (quotation)

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That thing will never work

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Errors and myopia

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Weather carton

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Continental drip

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Sir Isaac Newton