Galileo in Pittsburgh
By: Clark Glymour.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674051034
Subjects: Science -- Study and teaching -- United States; Science -- Methodology; Education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: What this book is about; title: Education; title: Socialism in one (Indian) nation; title: David Koresh Middle School : observations on education in America; title: The computer in the classroom; title: Cosmic censorship; title: The environment; title: The greatest chemical engineer there ever was : a cautionary tale; title: Galileo in Pittsburgh; title: Bert's Buick : a conversation on climate change; title: Sacrifice of the lawn; title: Science; title: John Henry at Nasa; title: Total information awareness; title: In and out of Freud's shadow; title: What we have here is a failure to communicate; title: Where software goes to die.