Comments on: Book review – The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge/2019/03/01/book-review-the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:35:59 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Yararsız Bilginin Yararlılığı/2019/03/01/book-review-the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-76461Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:35:23 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3276#comment-76461[…] […]

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]]>By: Book review – Superlative: The Biology of Extremes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/01/book-review-the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-11901Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:54:55 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3276#comment-11901[…] But seeing scientific knowledge only through the lens of immediate (monetary) applications is a shallow perspective. In that sense, Superlative does a, well, superlative job of pointing out the value of seemingly […]

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]]>By: Book review – Superlative: The Biology of Extremes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/01/book-review-the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-7331Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:04:39 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3276#comment-7331[…] Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to be the Basis for Modern Life and my review of The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, seeing scientific knowledge only through the lens of immediate (monetary) applications is a […]

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