We are all stardust : scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives and what they still want to know /
Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries and lives. How does Jane Goodall's relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place wou...
| Основен автор: | Klein, Stefan, 1965- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English German |
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New York :
The Experiment,
[2015]
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Съдържание:
- On the courage to spend a lifetime searching
- We are all stardust : on the beginning and end of the world /
- cosmologist Martin Rees
- The genes of the good : on egoism and selflessness /
- evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins
- In the hall of illusions : on consciousness /
- neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran
- The recalcitrant zebra : on chance and necessity in history /
- physiologist and geographer Jared Diamond
- Chimps are individuals like us : on our relationship to animals /
- primatologist Jane Goodall
- The unity of the world : on science and religion /
- physicist Steven Weinberg
- Can we become immortal? : on aging /
- molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn
- Is luxury immoral? : on ethics /
- philosopher Peter Singer
- Our well-being depends on our friends and their friends : on human relationships /
- physician and social scientist Nicholas Christakis
- The software of life : on the human genome /
- biochemist Craig Venter
- The poetry of molecules : on beauty /
- chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann
- Do you remember? : on memory /
- neurobiologist Hannah Monyer
- The others in our heads : on empathy /
- neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese
- The laws of devotion : on altruism /
- animal behavior researcher Raghavendra Gadagkar
- The hunger for fairness : on morality /
- economist Ernst Fehr
- The strongest feeling of all : on pain /
- neuropharmacologist Walter Zieglgänsberger
- The female side of evolution : on motherhood /
- anthropologist Sarah Hrdy
- Babies can be smarter than us : on childhood /
- developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik
- Love is the offspring of knowledge : on the beginning of modern scientific research /
- artist Leonardo Da Vinci.