Títulos en Líderes de ciencia y tecnología

On an East African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a 40-year-old American woman, casually captured a baby female monkey, never dreaming this act would overturn both their lives. Delia’s life was isolated and often lonely in an overpoweringly masculine world. She decided to name the monkey JT Jr and study her interactions with humans; a long-frustrated desire to adopt a child led her to also lose her heart to this lovable animal.

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound. He was "a hero of American consciousness", according to Allen Ginsberg, and Tom Robbins called him a "brave neuronaut."

"Grandi menti a confronto 2 - donne che hanno cambiato la Storia" è la seconda stagione della serie audio di Audible Original dedicata alla divulgazione scientifica. In questa serie la voce di Piergiorgio Odifreddi, matematico e scrittore, spiega e confronta le idee dei grandi pensatori che hanno segnato la Storia, questa volta concentrandosi sul pensiero femminile: scienziate, matematiche, filosofe, addirittura attrici hollywoodiane; semplicemente, grandi donne che hanno lasciato un segno magnifico e indelebile nella nostra Storia.

La voce di Gabriella Greison, fisica, scrittrice e attrice teatrale, racconta la vita di Marie Curie, tracciandone gli aspetti più umani e meno conosciuti, pensando di averla di fianco nella vita di tutti giorni, e parlando con lei come se fosse presente, come se fosse una sorta di amica immaginaria. Ogni episodio segue uno stato d'animo o un lascito indelebile che ci ha lasciato la grande scienziata polacca, e da questi Greison parte con dei voli verso altri luoghi. Le contaminazioni con arte, cinema, musica, attualità e quotidianità sono la base di questo curioso podcast.

Edison era un paraculo e Tesla un sociopatico, Lavoisier ha assassinato l'alchimia e Curie ha scoperto una nuova chimica, Einstein era un disagiato che ce l'ha fatta e Galileo un provocatore, Darwin assaggiava la natura mentre Spallanzani la seviziava. Otto storie di scienza raccontate da Barbascura X a sé stesso... letteralmente! Ecco cosa succede quando si affida un podcast ad un pirata affetto da personalità multiple.

"Dacché la Terra ebbe degli uomini, il cielo ebbe degli ammiratori" - Giacomo Leopardi. Dopo il grande successo di "VS - Verso lo Spazio" e "IgNobel - l'utilità dell'inutilità scientifica" , i divulgatori Luca Perri e Adrian Fartade tornano su Audible per raccontare la storia dell'astronomia e dell'astrofisica. Un viaggio di 32 mila anni compiuto sì attraverso le scoperte, ma soprattutto tramite le vite e le vicende delle persone che hanno fatto progredire la conoscenza inseguendo la propria curiosità. Cosa ha spinto queste persone? Cosa le ha ispirate?

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Bharat 2020 and learn about A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's plan for how India can be included in the most powerful and prosperous five nations of the world in the next 20 years.

Captain Scott's ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy - an epic tale of heroic endeavor which has inspired books and films over the generations. Despite the simple outline of the story, Scott and his fellow explorers emerge as richly varied characters, brought to life by the diarist's skill as a story-teller. Scott's journal reaches its moving and dramatic crescendo when the explorers reach the Pole, only to discover that the Norwegian, Amundsen, has beaten them to it by many weeks.

Did you know that a Black man helped make the multi-billion-dollar video game industry possible? That man’s name is Jerry Lawson.

Far Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized story of the lives of Frank and Susan Borman. One was a famous astronaut - an instrumental part of the Apollo space program - but the other was just as much a warrior. This real-life love story is far from a fairy tale. Life as a military wife was beyond demanding, but Susan always rose to the occasion. When Frank joined NASA and was selected to command the first mission to orbit the moon, Susan’s well-hidden depression and alcoholism finally came to light.

What propels some individuals to reach extraordinary creative heights in the earliest years of life while others discover their passions decades later? Are prodigies imbued with innate talent? Do late bloomers reveal their talents because their skills require life experience and contemplation? Through engaging storytelling and intriguing historical and cutting-edge scientific research, best-selling author and acclaimed journalist Claudia Kalb explores these questions to uncover what makes a prodigy and what drives a late bloomer.

In this book filled with exclusive interviews with Canadian astronauts and key players in the Canadian space program, Elizabeth Howell showcases how a little space program is making it big in the universe.

There’s no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It’s also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers - or even acquaintances - when you can troll them, block them, or just click “Unfriend” and never look back? However briefly satisfying that might be, it’s also potentially eroding one of our most human traits: empathy.

Margherita Hack, "un bestione tutto senso e stupore", come l'ha scherzosamente definita un collega, ha attraversato il Novecento con lo sguardo rivolto verso un ignoto da indagare continuamente, ma "con i piedi ben saldi per terra", mettendo la propria intelligenza e sensibilità al servizio di tutti sin dai suoi primi passi da ricercatrice.

Chi sono gli scienziati che hanno rivoluzionato la storia dell'umanità? Erano davvero dei "geni"? Barbascura X non ha dubbi al riguardo: non solo non lo erano, ma a ben vedere erano anche degli idioti. Pochi sanno delle boiate dette da Democrito, delle folli pratiche alchemiche di Newton, di quante idee si sia fatto fregare quel sociopatico di Tesla o di quanti sbagli abbia commesso Einstein. Quelli che definiamo geni non sono altro che esseri umani appassionati, instancabili ricercatori di conoscenza, con alle spalle un quantitativo inimmaginabile di errori.

David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the adventuring derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a scientist, The Shipwreck Hunter opens an illuminating porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.

Equal parts coming-of-age tale, civil rights history, and reflection on the power of education, Overnight Code is the inspiring story of a Raye Montague, a groundbreaking African American female engineer who created the first computer-designed ship for the US Navy.

The cell phone changed the world. It revolutionized how people communicate, freed them to get in touch with one another at any time, in any place, without the constraints of the wired network. The cell phone led to the creation and growth of new industries. Yet the true story of its creation has not been told. This book tells that story. It centers on a battle for control of how people communicate, involving government regulators, lobbyists, police, technology breakthroughs, failures, quartz, and a horse. At the center of that story was Martin Cooper.

Edison and Tesla were arch-enemies with competing visions as to how to electrically empower America. Their hostility played out in the infamous War of the Currents. Radio, television, robots, electric cars, self-driving cars, solar heating, the internet, and the cellphone were on the mind of one or the other of these geniuses. Which one ultimately proved to have the more accurate and enduring vision for the world? Who is in the news today and why? Come and find out the answers.

Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.