Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait Audiobook

Written by Philip Plait
Read by Kevin Scullin

Plait, a science writer who works in the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University, is appalled that millions of Americans don’t believe the moon landing really took place and do believe that Galileo went blind from looking at the sun, or that they can make an egg stand on end only on the vernal equinox. To set the record straight, he debunks these and many other astronomy-related urban legends in this knowledgeable, lighthearted volume. The early chapter “Idiom’s Delight” sets the stage by clearing up the scientific inaccuracies in everyday expressions as in the phrase “light years ahead,” for example, which is used to indicate timeliness or prescience when light years are actually a unit of distance. In later chapters, Plait explains meteors, eclipses, UFOs, and the big bang theory, revealing much about the basic principles of astronomy while clearing up fallacies. With avuncular humor, he points out the ways advertising and media reinforce bad science and pleads for more accuracy in Hollywood story lines and special effects. This book is the first in Wiley’s Bad Science series on scientific misconceptions (future titles will focus on biology, weather and the earth). (Mar.)Forecast: If every entry in the series is as entertaining as Plait’s, good science may have a fighting chance with the American public. Expect respectable sales, for the paperback format is nicely suited for armchair debunkers.

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01. Introduction.mp3 11.86 MBs
02. The Yolk’s on You.mp3 17.88 MBs
03. Flushed with Embarrassment.mp3 10.4 MBs
04. Idiom’s Delight.mp3 12.18 MBs
05. Blue Skies Smiling at Me.mp3 15.68 MBs
06. A Dash of Seasons.mp3 12.4 MBs
07. Phase the Nation.mp3 9.76 MBs
08. The Gravity of the Situation.mp3 19.42 MBs
09. The Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie.mp3 14.04 MBs
10. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.mp3 12.86 MBs
11. Star Light, Star White.mp3 9.26 MBs
12. Well, Well.mp3 12.63 MBs
13. The Brightest Star.mp3 7.55 MBs
14. Shadows in the Sky.mp3 14.98 MBs
15. The Disaster that Wasn’t.mp3 14.53 MBs
16. Meteors, Meteoroids and Meteorites, Oh My!.mp3 15.81 MBs
17. When the Universe Throws You a Curve.mp3 16.31 MBs
18. Appalled at Apollo.mp3 32.04 MBs
19. Worlds in Derision.mp3 22.83 MBs
20. In the Beginning.mp3 24.41 MBs
21. Misidentified Flying Objects.mp3 16.34 MBs
22. Mars Is in the Seventh House, But Venus Has Left the Building.mp3 15.09 MBs
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24. Star Hustlers.mp3 12.64 MBs
25. Bad Astronomy Goes Hollywood.mp3 24.15 MBs
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