Read The Half-Life of Facts Online
Authors: Samuel Arbesman
cumulative knowledge and, 56–57
economics of, 53
end of, 54–55
information transformation and, 43–44, 46
limits of, 203–4
logistic curves and, 44–46, 50, 203–4
and magnetic properties of iron, 50
Moore’s Law and, 41–43, 46, 48, 51, 56
population growth and, 57–61
science and, 48–49
telephone, 104
telephone game, 87
Tessner, Peter, 187
texts, old, 87–91, 114–16
theory-induced blindness, 177
TheoryMine, 19, 113
thermal conductivity of the elements, 33–35
thermodynamics, 49
Think Twice
(Mauboussin), 84
Tjio, Joe Hin, 1–2
Today,
41
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, 104
travel and communication, 61–64
trees, 142
Twitter, 103
UpToDate, 198
uranium, 2–3
Uranus, 154, 155
verbs, 189
Viagra, 112
voice onset time, 190
Voyager, 155
Wagner, Walter, 159
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 105
Wallace, George, 66
war, 165
War of 1812, 70
Watts, Duncan, 188
Waugh, Andrew Scott, 140–41
weather, 124
Web, 40–41
What Technology Wants
(Kelly), 46
“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” (Ioannides), 158–59
Wiesenfeld, Kurt, 137–38
Wikipedia, 84
Wiles, Andrew, 132
Wilkins, John, 143–44
Winfrey, Oprah, 190
Worldometers, 195–96
Wray, Bradley, 175
Wren, Christopher, 143–44
Wright, Thomas, 121–22
xkcd,
84
Yensen, Trygve Dewey, 50
Yule, Udny, 103
Zaslavsky, Alan, 69
Zeno’s Paradoxes, 29–30
Ziman, John, 164
Zimmer, Carl, 161–62
Zuckerman, Harriet, 18