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12th grade center ebooks
What Makes You So Special: The Puzzle of Human Uniqueness
When we sat down to plan our first issue of Nautilus, we asked ourselves a simple question. What is the biggest statement that science has made about humans and our place in the universe in the past few hundred years? The answer suggested itself immediately: it seems we’ve been told that we just aren’t very important.
This was a bit of a surprise. We’re fans of science, you see. And some of our best friends are people. Where was this narrative of mediocrity coming from, and, more importantly, w
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Uncertainty: A new look at an indeterminate world
f we asked you to name the towering achievements of 20th century science, you might point to relativity, genetics, the polio vaccine, and space travel. And of course you’d be right.
But science also made a different kind of breakthrough in the last century: it began to map out, in a precise way, what we could not know.
Think about that. The sophistication of our observations, and our thinking, had grown to the point that they could expose the limits of knowledge itself. We began to glimpse the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Scary Stories for English Class EPUB ebook
Looking for short stories to get your class in the Halloween spirit?Want to introduce your ESL students to some great American urban legends?Looking for quick and easy reads for the horror lover in your class?This collection of 16 classic creepy stories or urban legends are just the thing! Don't worry, they're classroom-safe with minimal gore or blood and maximum suspense and twist. A few are even funny or a bit touching. Introduce your class to:The Hook - two friends drive off ripping the hook
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8th - 12th
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The Story of Nautilus: Science, Math and Myth
Behold the humble nautilus. Just about a foot in diameter, it is a slow bottom-dweller with short tentacles that moves through the water with an unsteady wobble. It’s also 500 million years old and, in its day, was the best and brightest, using its newly evolved depth control to lay waste to acre after acre of scuttling crustacean prey.
We became interested in it here at Nautilus because, well, we stole its name. But also because (for a mollusk) it represents a remarkable intersection of scien
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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