TY - BOOK AU - Arbesman,Samuel TI - The half-life of facts: why everything we know has an expiration date SN - 9781591844723 (hardback) AV - Q 175.32 2012AR U1 - 501 23 KW - Evolution KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - Probabilities KW - SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful"-- UR - http://apps.who.int/iris/ ER -