Aha! Moment - A Scientist''s Take on Creativity

Informationen zum Autor Now retired, David Jones continues to publish challenging articles, mostly for Chemistry World . He has worked in academia, industry, and television. A constant stimulus for his creativity was his weekly Daedalus column, probably the longest-running joke in science. Daedalus was the court jester in the Palace of Science; he appeared in New Scientist , Nature , and the Guardian newspaper. Each week Daedalus took some well-known bit of science and pushed it to a clever and often preposterous extreme—which sometimes came true. Daedalus frequently leaks into The Aha! Moment . Klappentext As Jones shows, it can often pay to take an absurd idea seriously. Zusammenfassung As Jones shows! it can often pay to take an absurd idea seriously.

Product details

• Authors: David Jones, David E. H. Jones
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9781421403311
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0331-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; popular science, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics