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  2. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    In the Class 7 textbook topic titled “Our Pasts-2”, pages 48 and 49 have been excluded. These pages mentioned “Mughal Emperors: Major campaigns and events.” The deletions also affected Biology and Chemistry textbooks as the theory of evolution and the periodic table were also purged from class 10 NCERT textbooks. [35] [36]

  3. Category:Fiction about physics - Wikipedia

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    Films about physics (4 C, 7 P) P. ... Pages in category "Fiction about physics" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.

  4. Selina Davenport - Wikipedia

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    Selina Davenport (27 June 1779 – 14 July 1859) was an English novelist, briefly married to the miscellanist and biographer Richard Alfred Davenport. Her eleven published novels have been recently described as "effective if stereotyped".

  5. Particle accelerators in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    This book was very popular, a New York Times, bestseller, which introduced the public to an overview of the science of Particle physics. [1] It provides a brief history of particle physics, starting with the Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Democritus, and continuing through Isaac Newton, Roger J. Boscovich, Michael Faraday, and Ernest Rutherford.

  6. Selina Rosen - Wikipedia

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    Selina Rosen (born February 2, 1960) is a U.S. science fiction publisher, editor, and author. In 1995 she founded her own publishing house , Yard Dog Press, specializing in the adventure, fantasy , and science fiction genres.

  7. Quantum fiction - Wikipedia

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    Quantum fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics. It is characterized by the use of an element in quantum mechanics as a storytelling device .

  8. Lab lit - Wikipedia

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    The term "lab lit" was coined by Jennifer Rohn in an essay in 2005, [2] along with the launch of the Lablit website. [7] The term began to appear in the cultural pages of science magazines during the first decade of the 21st century [8] [9] [10] and has been championed by such scientist novelists such as Carl Djerassi, Ann Lingard [11] and ...

  9. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...