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How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our planet.

Scientific research is on the cusp of being able to grow babies outside human bodies, from machines, for the very first time. Claire Horn takes us on a truly radical and urgent deep dive into the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age. Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world?

Si en sus anteriores libros Pedro Baños ofrecía un lúcido análisis de las relaciones de poder, esta nueva obra no solo describe con detalle las excepcionales circunstancias que se están dando en el presente y las que padeceremos en el futuro inmediato en nuestro mundo hiperconectado, sino que va mucho más allá y propone soluciones que sirvan a todas las personas, en cualquier país, convirtiéndose en un manual práctico imprescindible.

Las fórmulas del siglo pasado ya no son válidas. Hemos entrado de lleno en la era digital, una verdadera revolución industrial...

Observing the observed is not as simple as the physics and geometry of billiard balls on a table. The synchronicity of causality is not so coincidental as random effects spanning an unknown amount of time. How much impact the observer has on determining the outcome of the observed is a journey for the quantum engineer.

En este contundente libro Carlos Peña presenta un conjunto de perfiles que ahondan en las vidas y obras de los principales pensadores de la modernidad. Con claridad y distinción, el destacado ensayista chileno se pasea por las ideas de Maquiavelo, Kant, Freud, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Arendt, Kristeva, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Zizek y una decena de filósofos, sociólogos, políticos y psicoanalistas.

At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs.

Nell'era della superficilità dell'informazione, in cui imperversano le fake news e al ragionamento critico si antepongono presunzione e ignoranza, la scienza sembra essere sotto attacco. Ma non è che un paradosso, perché mai come oggi la ricerca scientifica è stata così forte e affidabile. Edoardo Boncinelli e Antonio Ereditato, due scienziati italiani in prima linea nei rispettivi campi di indagine – la genetica e la fisica delle particelle –, ci raccontano che la scienza è bellezza, creatività, gioia della ricerca e della scoperta.

Old Wine and New New Wine can kick-start your imagination into a profound, new, and true view of the intersection of science, philosophy, and supernatural religion. At the end of the day—if you reach it—you will grasp the essential relation between our qualitative experience and science, see science in a new light, trade in your materialism for materiality, and have an uncanny knowledge of what happens at death.

Come custodire il più prezioso dei sentimenti in un tempo che sembra fagocitare le emozioni, le scelte, i desideri per crearne sempre di nuovi? Come ricavare, nella fretta dei giorni, lo spazio per il giardino emotivo dove l’amore nasce e cresce, per prendercene cura e per dedicarvi le nostre risorse migliori? Uomini e donne vivono l’amore in modo profondamente diverso gli uni dalle altre e questo dà luogo a infiniti equivoci e incomprensioni. In un lavoro durato tre anni Francesco Alberoni e Cristina Cattaneo hanno indagato questi punti controversi.

Establishment scientists are trying to tell us that there is no reality beyond the physical. This has not been proved scientifically, so they use unscientific methods, such as ridicule and power politics, to force it on the academic community, blocking our knowledge of whole dimensions of reality, mental and spiritual. Dirty Science exposes this corruption in our accredited academic institutions and calls upon the intelligent public to put pressure on them to clean up the mess.

Può sembrare per lo più ovvio che saper afferrare un oggetto dipenda dal vederlo e non viceversa. Tuttavia, oggi le scienze cognitive e la filosofia della percezione suggeriscono che le cose non stanno così. Alla luce delle scoperte più avanzate nel campo della filosofia della percezione e delle scienze cognitive, gli autori illustrano la relazione tra occhio, cervello e comportamento, mostrando come visione e azione non siano due facoltà distinte ma due parti costitutive di un unico mondo visuo-motorio, due aspetti inscindibili del nostro modo di costruire la realtà.

We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the solution seems obvious: stop eating meat. But, for many people, that stark solution is neither appealing nor practical. In Meat Me Halfway, author and founder of the reducetarian movement Brian Kateman puts forth a realistic and balanced goal: mindfully reduce your meat consumption.

Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to “health and safety”—are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. Can true, fact-based discovery be redeemed? In Science in an Age of Unreason, legendary professor of psychology and biology, John Staddon, unveils the identity crisis afflicting today’s scientific community, and provides an actionable path to recovery.

Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. He describes the neural mechanisms that keep bodies balanced and explains why their failures can result in nausea, falls, or vertigo. Thagard connects bodily balance with leading ideas in neuroscience, including the nature of consciousness.

From cultural appropriation and sustainability to diversity, inclusion, and venture capitalism, Psychedelic Justice: Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture examines the history of psychedelics, celebrates its present moment, and contemplates how advocates and policymakers can shape the future integration of psychedelics into general society.

In einer vernetzten Welt müssen wir vernetzt denken und komplexe Phänomene wie Pandemien, Klimakrise und die Destabilisierung von Ökosystemen als Ganzes in den Blick nehmen. Der Komplexitätswissenschaftler Dirk Brockmann schaut auf die Krisen unserer Zeit, sucht nach Mustern, Gesetzmäßigkeiten und Ähnlichkeiten zwischen ihnen und komplexen Prozessen der Natur.

In this rambling essay, Bertrand Russell reflects on the future of the world while the memory of the First World War was still strong in the public imagination. Russell notes the concomitant development of technology and the rise of political autocracies and explores whether man can be considered fit to handle the vast new powers at his disposal.

In 2018, the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the preexisting moral consensus, which had held for over 50 years before: While gene editing an adult person was morally acceptable, modifying babies, and thus subsequent generations, crossed a significant moral line. John H. Evans here provides a meta-level guide to how these debates move forward and their significance to society.

Power lifts the mood. It motivates us to take charge and liberates us to be our authentic selves. It means wealth, ability, choice, fame, influence, dominance, authority, rank, and prestige. Powerlessness depresses the mood. It stifles the self by making it subservient to other people’s wills. It is at the core of many social ills - from poverty to anxiety, workplace problems to marital discord. The lack of power can damage our health - both mental and physical - and even shorten our lives.

This audiobook is an alarm. The loudest one I could find. I was chosen to write this audiobook to alert the world of our imminent danger. I wrote this audiobook in four days. During that time I learned things I never knew or even thought about in my entire life. The knowledge I acquired from my cosmic sources shocked me. But, the information contained herein is what they wanted me to relate. I've done my best to present the information in a comprehensive yet digestible form, even though many of you will find this very hard to swallow.