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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Information, Misinformation, and Our Planet’s Future
- 1. A Walk in the Park
- 2. What Is Science?
- 3. A Sense of Scale
- Interlude 1: Numbers
- 4. Discoveries on the Back of an Envelope
- 5. Insights in Lines and Dots
- Interlude 2: Logic and Language
- 6. Expecting the Improbable
- 7. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
- 8. Correlation, Causation … Confusion and Clarity
- 9. Definitional Features of Science
- 10. Applying Scientific Habits of Mind to Earth’s Future
- 11. What Isn’t Science
- 12. The Triumph of Misinformation; The Perils of Ignorance
- 13. The Unfinished Cathedral
- Appendix: Practicing Scientific Habits of Mind
- Notes
- Index
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