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Brought to you by Penguin. So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on? Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look to science for advice. Science Fictions reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our understanding...

Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.

In 1990, Peter Larson, with his team of commercial fossil hunters from the Black Hills Institute, discovered the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen in history. He dubbed it "Sue" after the field paleontologist who first saw it sticking out of a sandstone cliff on the ranch of Maurice Williams, a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member in South Dakota's badlands. Because the skelton was 90% complete, its study promised to yield up priceless information on the life and habits of the T Rex.

More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.

No less a figure than Bertrand Russell remarked that Aristotle’s Physics was ‘extremely influential and dominated science until the time of Galileo’. This was despite the fact that this work is as much a collection of ‘lectures on nature’ rather than dealing with the science of physics...

The world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work to show us how. It all starts with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying the movements of these birds, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds - collections of everything from atoms to planets to other animals like ourselves.

Este libro sobre lo grande, lo pequeño y la relación entre ambos nos entrega una innovadora respuesta a las grandes preguntas sobre la existencia humana. El tamaño no es solo una propiedad más de lo que nos rodea, sino que puede cambiar nuestra forma de verlo absolutamente todo.

This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing". What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there. 

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the...

Plagued with doubt and uncertainty in sensory knowledge, Descartes is struck with the idea that everything he knows is false. He considers the possibility that he has been deceived by an 'evil demon' and is left with nothing to lean on, until he arrives at the phrase 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think, therefore I am'). Among the most quoted philosophical works in history, Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method together display the full workings of Descartes' skeptical method and the formation of his famous phrase.

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction." It is intimidating to realize...

A gleefully nasty deep dive into the biology and psychology of the paradoxically seductive emotion of disgust—from one of the most distinctive voices in science writing Life is gross. We laugh at each other’s farts, we lift the lid on those long-forgotten leftovers to check out that funky...

Ontdek de fascinerende geschiedenis van de wetenschappelijke revolutie, waarin pioniers oude wereldbeelden omverwierpen. Waar blind vertrouwen in theologische autoriteit ooit de absolute norm was, ontketenden nieuwe meetinstrumenten, wereldreizen en de drukpers een onstuitbare storm van...

人类首次跨越生物学的造物禁区，掌握直接篡改生命底层代码的基因工程与编辑技术，一场重塑未来医疗的科技狂飙已然降临。对于渴望在碎片化通勤时间里看懂前沿趋势，却苦于没有生物学基础的听众而言，这是一场极具沉...

Ontrafel het ultieme raadsel van meervoudige heelallen in deze geestverruimende reis door de hedendaagse natuurkunde. Terwijl je onderweg bent naar je werk of tijdens een rustige avond vol verwondering luistert, word je meegezogen naar de absolute rand van ons ruimte-tijdcontinuüm. Waar stopt...

抛开晦涩复杂的物理公式，我们将带你零门槛跃入广袤的早期宇宙，直击那场塑造万物起源的震撼大爆炸。哪怕你完全没有任何理科背景，只要怀揣着对星空的本能好奇，就能在这场声临其境的科普漫游中，看清万物从炽热浓...

Ontdek hoe een koppig buitenbeentje de wetten van de natuurkunde herschreef in deze meeslepende wetenschapsbiografie. Perfect voor tijdens het woon-werkverkeer of een moment van zelfontwikkeling, biedt dit fascinerende levensverhaal een intieme blik op een rebelse geest. Reis mee van een...

如果你正对枯燥乏味的日常现实感到厌倦，这场挣脱三维感官牢笼的烧脑思想实验，将彻底颠覆你对时间与空间的认知边界。没有晦涩难懂的物理公式，只有栩栩如生的生活碎片与引人入胜的原创故事。跟随充满好奇的旁白向...

Zrozum prawdziwą naturę rzeczywistości, łącząc twarde prawa fizyki z głęboką refleksją współczesnej filozofii. To spokojna i logiczna podróż, która idealnie sprawdzi się podczas drogi do pracy lub w chwilach głębokiego skupienia. Kiedy szukasz sensu w codziennym pędzie, ten...

从直观的亲子相貌特征到主宰生命的分子密码，这是一场跨越千年的科学探索与遗传学突围。无论你是渴望解答自身血脉渊源的求知者，还是热衷于在通勤途中充实大脑的科普爱好者，这段波澜壮阔的生命史诗都将为你重塑对...