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Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

「こちら神山宇宙科学研究所」は、京都産業大学 神山宇宙科学研究所の河北秀世 所長と脇浜紀子 教授が、宇宙に関する多彩なトピックをわかりやすくお届けするポッドキャスト番組です。宇宙について話し出したら止まらない河北所長が、宇宙ビジネスから最新の研究、ちょっとした宇宙雑学まで、幅広い宇宙の話題を楽しく解説します。宇宙に興味のあるすべての方に向けて、神山から宇宙への架け橋となる情報を発信していきます。

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In Upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the 21st century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and—more crucially—to treat them.

Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.

Join us to hear about current research, programs and clinical practice improving the health of pregnant women, children and adolescents in low and middle income countries around the world. Presented by the University of Sydney Global Maternal and Child Health Network.

あらゆる分野のゲストを招き、サイエンスっぽいディープでマニアな話を届けるポッドキャスト。 研究に夢中な大学院生やトコトン趣味を突き詰めている方まで、好きな事を好きなだけ語る人の話が聴けます。 第3回 Japan Podcast Awards 推薦作品 【プロフィール】 研究者レン from サイエントーク：おしゃべりな野良研究者。企業研究職として働く化学博士。化学を習得すれば何でも作れるのでは？と考えて研究者の道へ。 サイエンスをエンタメ...

A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory.

Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.

ニューヨーク・タイムズベストセラー！テクノロジーの加速度的な進歩による人間社会の変化を予測して、ことごとく的中させてきたカーツワイルの最新話題作が、ついに日本上陸。彼が予測するAIが人間の知性を超える2029年はあと5年後に迫っている。

Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society - and even our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

生き物たちは、驚くほど人間に似ている。ネズミは冷たい雨に濡れた仲間を助けるためにわざわざ出かけるし、アリは女王のためには自爆だっていとわない。カケスは雛を育てるために集団で保育園を運営しているし、ゾウは亡くなった家族のために葬儀を行う。

本書は、ノーベル生理学・医学賞を受賞した生物学者ポール・ナースが、「生命とは何か？」について、語りかけるようなやさしい文体で答える一冊。

Do you know that you are full of powers? Yes, you have secret powers. Secret powers to create the life you want, to achieve lasting happiness and success, to enjoy physical and mental health, to have wonderful relationships, to turn your dreams into reality, and to transform your world. Why? With the most famous equation of all time, E=mc^2, genius Albert Einstein proved that everything is energy. Yes, you are energy, therefore you have power. Your words have power, your thoughts have power, your attitude and emotions have power.

In this installment of the Ask the Experts series, Chemistry, our professors, scientists, and researchers tackle reader questions about the substances that compose all matter, their properties, and how they interact and change. Queries range from elementary questions, such as why some elements change color over a flame, to how chemistry works in everyday life, to how certain substances affect the body and more.

What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.

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沖縄科学技術大学院大学 (OIST)の日本語チャンネル、OISTポッドキャストへようこそ！ グローバルな研究者が集まり、世界レベルの研究・教育・イノベーションを進めているOIST。 OISTポッドキャストでは、最先端のサイエンス、テクノロジー、博士課程教育、そしてイノベーションといった、OISTが力を入れている取り組みを日本語でわかりやすくお届けします。 OISTの最新情報はこちらをチェック：https://www.oist.jp/ja LINEのお友達登録で、OISTの...

Children's author and science communicator Lucy Hawking, daughter of Professor Stephen Hawking, invites listeners to the launch of a new space age. Fuelled by commercial finance and looking for new horizons, this is a revolutionary change from the old era in which superpowers competed for supremacy in space. Lucy is accompanied by Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE, which kickstarted the privatised space, and Kellie Gerardi, a spaceflight industry professional and trainee astronaut, as well as visionaries at the forefront of this new age of space travel.