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Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6962 words) |
 | The series features his fictional science of Psychohistory in which the future course of the history of large populations can be predicted. |
 | At the same time, he greatly increased his non-fiction production, writing mostly on science topics; the launch of Sputnik in 1957 engendered public concern over a "science gap", which Asimov's publishers were eager to fill with as much material as he could write. |
 | These columns, periodically collected into books by his principal publisher, Doubleday, helped make Asimov's reputation as a "Great Explainer" of science and were referred to by him as his only pop-science writing in which he never had to assume complete ignorance of the subjects at hand on the part of his readers. |
| SUNLINK WOTM - Science Experiments (604 words) |
 | This is a given in the life of a library media center each year: teachers will assign science fair projects and students will come looking for ideas and assistance. |
 | Probe : a handbook for teachers of elementary science; [compiled from games, activities, and experiments which were submitted by 55 cooperating teachers], 1962. |
 | Science experiments for elementary schools : a manual for conducting classroom demonstrations, 1971. |