Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time
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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time
Chelsea Green Pub., 2007
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"A Sciencewriters book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-345) and index
Contents of Works
- Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh
- Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky
- Nearly human / Jane Goodall
- A question of degree / Jordi Sabater Pi
- Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson
- Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston
- Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert
- Psychopaths / Robert Hare
- No one is boss / Daniel Dennett
- The hidden self / Oliver Sacks
- Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Llińás
- Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux
- Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler
- Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz
- Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory
- Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey
- Music and talk / Diana Deutsch
- The secret code / Sydney Brenner
- Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine
- The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway
- Immortality from your mother / Douglas Walker
- Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood
- Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock
- Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson
- Evolution and purpose / Stephen Jay Gould
- The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins
- Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan
- Life as growth / William Day
- Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero
- Different from amoebae / John Bonner
- Walk through a cloud of electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky
- Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer
- Too huge for the atom, too tiny for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow
- New dimensions / Lisa Randall
- Manipulation by dwarves / Nicoĺás García
- Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies
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Nearly forty of the worldis most esteemed scientists discuss the big questions that drive their illustrious careers. Coeditor Eduardo Punset n one of Spainis most loved personages for his popularization of the sciences n interviews an impressive collection of characters, drawing out their seldom-seen personalities. In Mind, Life and Universe, they describe in their own words the most important and fascinating aspects of their research. Frank and often irreverent, these interviews will keep even the most casual reader of science books rapt for hours.
Can brain science explain feelings of happiness and despair? Is it true that chimpanzees are just like us when it comes to sexual innuendo? Is there any hard evidence that life exists anywhere other than on the Earth? Through Punsetis skillful
questioning, readers meet one scientist who spends her waking hours assuring the freedom of African primates, another passionate about his idea that his wife's choice of husband was determined when she was a foetus, and another who
explains the evidence for more than the standard four dimensions of length, width, height, and time.
In captivating conversations with such science luminaries as Richard Dawkins, Sheldon Glashow, Jane Goodall, James E. Lovelock, Lisa Randall, Robert Sapolski, Oliver Sacks, and E. O.Wilson, the editors reveal a unique, hidden world of intellectual interest, verve, and humour. Science enthusiasts and general readers alike will devour Mind, Life and Universe.
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