Title: The dangers of intelligence and other science essays /
Authors: Asimov, Isaac,
Date: 1986
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Physical description: xii, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: "Observations on everything that's happening from inside the atom to outside the universe"--Jacket subtitle.
Contents: The twenty-six letters -- Dial versus digital -- The dangers of intelligence -- Little things -- The green enemy -- The dying forests -- The 8,000-year calendar -- The third sense -- No accounting -- Dreams -- Perchance to dream -- Starting point -- Standing up -- The DNA "Fingerprint" -- Our evolving body -- The ultimate complexity -- Heat where it belongs -- Growing thirstier -- Back to basics -- Metals for the picking -- Stick to it! -- Higher towers -- Never lost again -- Never get lost -- Shrinking the microchip -- Spell that word! -- The electronic mail -- Beyond paper -- Silence! -- Improving the odds -- Disassembling the assembly line -- Talking to machines -- The new profession -- The robot as enemy? -- Intelligences together -- Lightweight! -- Gold! -- The superheavies -- The looking-glass world -- Four times four times four The drying puddle -- Backward! turn backward! -- Hey, Aalaska, here we come! -- The changing day -- On the rise -- The one-two punch -- The missing crater -- Nemesis -- The deadly dust -- Touring earth -- Getting the lead out -- Splitting water -- Gossamer wings -- All the mass -- Hotter than hot -- The weakest waves -- A mirror in pieces -- Sharpening the focus -- Sailing the void -- Moon splashes -- Skimming the comet -- The largest satellite -- The invisible gas -- Number ten -- The double star -- Planets in birht -- In between -- The next explosion -- Where the people are -- Invisible asteroids -- Ticking 642 times a second -- Mystery of the missing mass.
Subject headings (LCSH): Essays.; Science--Popular works.