Revista de divulgación científica y tecnológica de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
PETER B. MANDEVILLE CIENCIA UANL / AÑO 18, No. 72, MARZO-ABRIL 2015 An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. John W. Tukey Un ejemplo de medicina: Las epidemias de la influenza de temporada constituyen un importante problema de salud pública que causa decenas de millones de enfermedades […]
Leer másPETER B. MANDEVILLE* CIENCIA UANL / AÑO 17, No. 69, SEPTIEMBRE-OCTUBRE 2014 In 1995, in Chicago, Bezos [Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com] manned an Amazon booth at the annual conclave of the publishing industry …. Roger Doeren … was stopped short by Amazon’s sign: “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore.” … Doeren considered this, then asked, “What’s your business model?” Bezos said that Amazon intended to […]
Leer másPETER B. MANDEVILLE* CIENCIA UANL / AÑO 17, No. 67, MAYO-JUNIO 2014 Artículo en PDF Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that […]
Leer másPETER B. MANDEVILLE* CIENCIA UANL / AÑO 17, No. 65, ENERO-FEBRERO 2014 You need to prepare your students for the future, not the past. Spencer Graves1 La reproducibilidad ha sido una parte clave de la investigación científica y se ha denominado la «demarcación entre ciencia y nociencia». Christopher Gandrud2 Los resultados de una investigación son reproducibles si hay suficiente […]
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Peter B. Mandeville* [W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. Isaac Asimov(1) CIENCIA UANL / AÑO […]
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