The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. Samuel Arbesman

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date


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The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date Samuel Arbesman
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In it he explains that this churn of knowledge is like radioactive decay: you cannot predict which individual fact is going to succumb to it, but you can know how long it takes for half the facts in a discipline to become obsolete. A useful book for STS scholars (first Chapter): Author- Samuel Arbesman. Call Number: Q175.32.E85 A74 2012. Did you think a “fact” was something proven to be true? New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. American attitudes : what Americans think about the issues that shape their lives. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date $13.06. The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. In primary school you learned that Samuel Arbesman, a mathematician at Harvard, calls this “The Half-life of Facts”, the title of his new book. Much of what we believe to be factual has an expiration date. The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. The half-life of facts: why everything we know has an expiration date - Arbesman, Samuel. By Samuel Arbesman Current, October 2012.

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