Publisher's Synopsis
Some people have photographic memories. They can look at something and have every detail of it permanently imprinted in the visual centers of their brains.
Others achieve near-photographic memory retention through hard work and repetition; they look at information many times and use it in different contexts, and then they are able to reproduce it with no delay whenever required.Still others have no reliable memory powers, but they can sometimes remember something out of the blue, that nobody really expected them to know. Regardless of which category you fall in, you will find this book very useful if you have any interest in any area of science at all. It has often been said that scientists live in their own little world. If this is true, that world definitely comes with its own lingo and its own rules and terminology. It is important to keep oneself abreast of the latest innovations, and one way of doing this is to keep refreshing one's glossary of frequently used scientific terms. This book will help you take the initial steps on this journey, and point you in the direction of further study and enlightenment. Science and Technology are the equivalents of magic in modern society. We are surrounded by marvels of human ingenuity, and we do not know how the vast majority of them work. However, we are happy to reap the benefits, and to love comfortable lives. To master a discipline, we need to speak its language. The language of science consists largely of scientific terminology or jargon, and of symbols for those terms. This book will help you brush up on thousands of such useful words. Science and tech have changed our lives over the past 5 centuries. We now live longer, work less, have more time for art and philosophy, and have technological playthings that would make our ancestors feel that we were living in science fiction utopia. This book is a tribute to tech and scientists, and is the ultimate test for the depth of your knowledge in this field. The terms in this book are taken from many different areas of science: technology, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, mathematics, computers, and more! If you are able to score higher than eighty percent on this test, you are definitely gifted. Terms and words in science are very important; they form the cornerstone of our understanding of the concepts that underpin our existence. This book will give your science-oriented brain a thorough (and very interesting) romp through the areas of science and technology - both conventional and modern - as you are challenged to guess hundreds and hundreds of words and technical terms from different areas of the sciences. I have tried to select important terms from every field, and to be representative and diverse, with common everyday layperson terms mixed with super technical words that may not be common parlance in most fields, so that you are both entertained and educated. You can enjoy this book if you work in an area of science, if you are a science student at any level, or even if you have an interest in popular science, without any formal education in the field. It is accessible to a wide range of audiences. Some of the terms covered in this book are units of measurement. Some are names of chemical elements and compounds. Some are medical disorder titles. Some are computer terms that are familiar to all of us. Some are obscure technological terms. All of them are interesting in their own right! Some terms can even mean different things in different branches of science. For example, the word FUSION has a completely different meaning in the area of nuclear physics than it does in the realm of cell biology. By the time you are done with this book, you would have given your brain the time of its life; you can also challenge your friends to a fun mental duel.
