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Light Fantastic 1/4 (BBC Documentary) - Let There Be Light. Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?: Amazon.co.uk: Clinton Ober, Stephen Sinatra, Martin Zucker. David Deutsch. David Elieser Deutsch, FRS (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford.

David Deutsch

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Thesis[edit] The principal argument of Nonzero is to demonstrate that natural selection results in increasing complexity within the world and greater rewards for cooperation.

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

Since, as Wright puts it, the realization of such prospects is dependent upon increased levels of globalization, communication, cooperation, and trust, what is thought of as human intelligence is really just a long step in an evolutionary process of organisms (as well as their networks and individual parts) getting better at processing information.[1] Through this lens, and an overview of human and global history, Wright typifies the argument against the views of noted paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. Ilya Prigogine. Sirius. Sirius appears bright because of both its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to Earth.

Sirius

At a distance of 2.6 parsecs (8.6 ly), as determined by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite,[5][19][20] the Sirius system is one of Earth's near neighbors; for Northern-hemisphere observers between 30 degrees and 73 degrees of latitude (including almost all of Europe and North America), it is the closest star (after the Sun) that can be seen with the naked eye. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it will slightly increase in brightness over the next 60,000 years.

After that time its distance will begin to recede, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's sky for the next 210,000 years.[21] Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun and has an absolute visual magnitude of 1.42. It is 25 times more luminous than the Sun[7] but has a significantly lower luminosity than other bright stars such as Canopus or Rigel. Observational history[edit] Kinematics[edit]

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood: Amazon.co.uk: James Gleick. Eric Chaisson. Eric J.

Eric Chaisson

Chaisson is an American astrophysicist and science educator best known for his research, teaching, and writing on the interdisciplinary science of cosmic evolution. (Closely related subjects include epic of evolution, big history, and astrobiology). He is also noted for his original research on the interstellar clouds and emission nebulae of the Milky Way Galaxy, and for his leadership in improving science education nationally and internationally. He conducts research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and teaches natural science at Harvard University. Global Warming's Terrifying New Math. If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States.

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe. Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record. " The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history.

Not that our leaders seemed to notice. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform The World Penguin Press Science: Amazon.co.uk: David Deutsch. Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell. PatrickJMT. Home. Liz Else, CultureLab editor Nothing is off limits for CultureLab.

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We've loved neuroaesthetics, the art of synthetic biology, strangeness in suburbia, Turing musicals - in fact, just about everything in that fabulous place where books, arts and science intersect. That won't change as we move closer into the New Scientist fold. The CultureLab blog will no longer be updated, but you can continue to find new reviews plus the low-down on exhibitions, festivals and other big events on the new CultureLab section. This is all part of streamlining our books and art coverage so we can bring you the most in-depth, thoughtful and up-to-the-minute coverage.

Bob Holmes, consultant Early intervention could counteract the effect of an abusive childhood (Image: Oscar B. In The Anatomy of Violence, Adrian Raine makes a strong case - often based on his own research - that distinct biological traits shape criminal behaviour Richard Webb, deputy features editor (Images: Richard Davenport) “Will you go to prison?” Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 1951) is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. Ramachandran is also Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition affiliated with the UC San Diego Department of Psychology.[1] Ramachandran is noted for his use of experimental methods that make relatively little use of complex technologies such as neuroimaging. Despite the apparent simplicity of his approach, he has generated many new ideas about the brain.[2] Ramachandran is the author of several books that have garnered widespread public interest. These include Phantoms In the Brain (1999) and The Tell-Tale Brain (2010). Early life and education[edit] Scientific career[edit] Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains - tech - 03 August 2011. We need to talk about how the digital world might be changing our brains, says the neuroscientist and former director of the UK's Royal Institution You think that digital technology is having an impact on our brains.

Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains - tech - 03 August 2011

How do you respond to those who say there's no evidence for this? When people say there is no evidence, you can turn that back and say, what kind of evidence would you imagine there would be? Are we going to have to wait for 20 years and see that people are different from previous generations? Sometimes you can't just go into a lab and get the evidence overnight. So what evidence is there?

There is an increase in people with autistic spectrum disorders. Anything else? What makes social networks and computer games any different from previous technologies and the fears they aroused? Digital technologies were vindicated, in terms of our wellbeing, by the Nominet Trust report last month. I haven't met one parent or teacher who doesn't think we should be talking about this. Www.eagleman.com. Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain: Amazon.co.uk: David Eagleman.

Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity. Sum: Tales from the Afterlives: Amazon.co.uk: David Eagleman. The science of everything.

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