Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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    Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

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    Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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