13 COSAS QUE NO TIENEN SENTIDO EN LA CIENCIA DE HOY

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time . Michael Brooks. Doubleday, 2006. 240 páginas. Inglés.
Michael Brooks intenta tratar y abordar temas relacionados con las ciencias y el conocimiento actual, que son el foco central de diversas controversias y asuntos que hasta la actualidad no poseen una clara y consensuada explicación.


Chapters

1. 
   

   MOST OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING

   We can only account for 4 per cent of the cosmos
2. 
   

   THE PIONEER ANOMALY

   Two spacecraft are flouting the laws of physics
3. 
   

   VARYING CONSTANTS

   Destabilising our view of the universe
4. 
   

   COLD FUSION

   Nuclear energy without the drama?
5. 
   

   LIFE

   Are you more than just a bag of chemicals?
6. 
   

   METHANE FROM MARTIANS

   NASA scientists found evidence for life on Mars. Then they changed their minds
7. 
   

   THE WOW! SIGNAL

   Has ET already been in touch?
8. 
   

   A GIANT VIRUS

   It’s a freak that could rewrite the story of life
9. 
   

   DEATH

   Evolution’s problem with self-destruction
10. 
    

    SEX

    There are better ways to reproduce
11. 
    

    FREE WILL

    Your decisions are not your own
12. 
    

    THE PLACEBO EFFECT

    Who’s being deceived?
13. 
    

    HOMEOPATHY

    It’s patently absurd, so why won’t it go away?

En el 2007 Michael Brooks nos adelanto algo de su trabajo a traves de un articulo que publico en la revista cientifica NewScientis, 13 things that do not make sense. Los temas tratados en el articulo de la revista son:

1. The placebo effect
   
2. The horizon problem
   
3. Ultra-energetic cosmic rays
   
4. Belfast homeopathy results
   
5. Dark matter
   
6. Viking's methane
   
7. Tetraneutrons
   
8. The Pioneer anomaly
   
9. Dark energy
   
10. The Kuiper cliff
    
11. The Wow signal
    
12. Not-so-constant constants
    
13. Cold fusion

• Me entere de esto a través de MICROSIERVOS y su articulo 13 cosas que no encajan.