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The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
New insights from the science of science
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Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
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Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives.
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He takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries.
