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Manifiesto por una ciencia slow

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Ha llegado el momento de ralentizar el frenético ritmo de producción científica. En 2011, la Universidad Católica de Lovaina despidió brutalmente a la investigadora Barbara Van Dyck por haber participado en una acción de «descontaminación» de un campo de patatas genéticamente modificadas. El despido tuvo repercusiones mediáticas y académicas notables, dando visibilidad a las reivindicaciones de la llamada «slow science». Isabelle Stengers parte del «caso Van Dyck» para articular su alegato por una ciencia «slow». Desde el «slow food» hasta el «slow living», los movimientos «slow» denuncian el costo de «ganar tiempo» y abogan por un modelo alternativo de «desaceleración». En el ámbito académico, ésta choca con los intereses de las actuales relaciones de las universidades con sus socios industriales, que no sólo tienen prisa por conseguir resultados, sino que, además, tal y como denuncia Stengers en el caso de las patatas transgénicas, hacen sucumbir a las primeras a los fines promocionales de sus patrocinadores. Un manifiesto breve y contundente que se sitúa en el pleno de un debate más necesario que nunca: la desaceleración de las ciencias y de sus implicaciones. ¡Es hora de que los científicos tomen su tiempo!

Fluid Mechanics

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★★★★★LEARNING STARTS WITH VIEWING THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY. ★★★★★ Knowledge flow- A mobile learning platform provides Apps and Books. Knowledge flow provides learning book of Fluid Mechanics. This book is for all engineering students and professionals across the world. Fluid Mechanics deals with forces and flow within fluids and this fluid mechanics book describes very basic concepts of fluid in an easiest way. Contents: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Properties of Fluids, Bernoulli's Theorem, Newton’s Law of Viscosity, Pascal's Law of Fluid Pressure, Fluid coupling, Pumps, Compressors, Hydraulic Turbine, Hydraulic Power Plant. To find more education books, visit here http://knowledgeflow.in/books.

The Story of Astronomy

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“Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.” Arthur C. Clarke, The Challenge of the Spaceship Astronomy traces one of humanity’s oldest obsessions. This accessible, fascinating account of discoveries from the times of Palaeolithic star-gazers to current space missions shows how we have come to know so much about the universe. At the same time, unfolding knowledge has opened new horizons to explore. Our understanding of the boundless cosmos has only just begun. Topics include: • Cosmology, from ancient times to the Big Bang • Our place in the solar system • Astrolabes, telescopes, and radio astronomy • Mapping the stars • Space missions and probes • Comets, asteroids, supernovae, and black holes • The unknown, from empty space to dark energy

Mais où est donc le temple du Soleil ?

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Saviez-vous que, dans l’album On a marché sur la Lune, les indications de position, de vitesse et de durée correspondent à un plan de vol lunaire plausible ? Pour comprendre la science qui se cache dans les planches d’Hergé et mieux apprécier son art, menez l’enquête avec les auteurs. Découvrez les subtilités du « coup de l’éclipse », débusquez l’araignée sur la lunette astronomique du professeur Calys ou calculez l’impact d’un fumeur de pipe dans une fusée… Une merveilleuse balade dans l’univers d’Hergé et dans l’Univers tout court.

Superconvergence

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From a leading futurist and OneShared.World founder, a "brilliant" book that explores how artificial intelligence and other revolutionary technologies are transforming our lives–and our future (Sanjay Gupta MD, bestselling author, neurosurgeon, and Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent (CNN) New technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save our planet. But if we're not careful, they can also do immeasurable harm. Luckily, in Jamie Metzl, we have a leading expert who integrates science, technology, history, politics, and international affairs to envision a future that most specialists, almost by definition, cannot see. In this bold and inspiring exploration of transformative human knowledge, Metzl gives us the definitive account of the technological precipice on which we stand and the map to where we go from here.

Ma mémoire et les autres

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De quoi parle-t-on lorsque l’on évoque la mémoire ? Longtemps, pour les scientifiques ou les philosophes, il s’agissait de la mémoire individuelle. À l’inverse, les historiens et les sociologues appréhendaient la mémoire collective. Aujourd’hui, ce clivage est dépassé : l’homme est (re)devenu un être social, complexe. Il n’est plus possible d’étudier la mémoire sans prendre en compte son évolution, ses pathologies, à petite et à grande échelle. Dans notre monde hyperconnecté, où des "événements-monde" bouleversent les devenirs individuels, une réflexion pluridisciplinaire s’impose. Les neurosciences et la médecine croisent ici la philosophie, la science informatique et l’histoire, pour mettre en lumière toute la complexité de nos mémoires – individuelle, collective et partagée.

Im Universum der Zeit

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Wie wirklich ist Zeit?Zeit ist etwas völlig Selbstverständliches für uns, wir erleben, wie sie vergeht, wenn wir auf die Uhr schauen, Kindern beim Älterwerden zusehen oder Wettrennen beobachten. Und doch haben Physiker von Newton über Einstein bis zu den heutigen Quantenphysikern eine andere Auffassung der Zeit. Für sie ist sie nicht real, sondern eine Illusion. Für sie wird das Universum von Gesetzen beherrscht, die außerhalb der Zeit stehen, zeitlos sind, von Newtons Gravitationsgesetz bis zur Formel e=mc². Lee Smolin hingegen sieht Zeit als die einzige fundamentale Größe des Universums. Alles andere, auch die vermeintlich unabänderlichen Gesetze, unterliegen seiner Auffassung nach der Veränderung in der Zeit. Newtons Gesetze werden vielleicht nicht immer so grundlegend bleiben, wie wir sie heute verstehen. Mit dieser revolutionären Auffassung stellt er die Zeit in den Mittelpunkt unseres Denkens über die Welt und erklärt, welche Auswirkungen das auf uns, auf die Welt, auf das Universum hat.

Cercare mondi

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Abitiamo un sottile guscio sferico, di pochi chilometri di spessore, intorno alla superficie della Terra. Anche se esploriamo gli abissi più profondi dell'oceano o scaliamo le vette dell'Himalaya, il nostro regno ha dimensioni ridicole. Per questo, se riflettiamo su quelle dell'universo, ci resta una sensazione di lieve sgomento. Non solo. Il nostro piccolo mondo è anche popolato di chimere, fantasmi e terribili inganni: pensiamo che quello che percepiamo sia reale, invece tutto cambia appena ci allontaniamo dall'angolo tranquillo in cui si svolge la nostra esistenza. Quando cerchiamo di capire i fenomeni che si osservano nel meraviglioso tappeto di galassie che ricopre la volta stellata, o quelli che caratterizzano la materia nei suoi componenti elementari, dobbiamo rinunciare alle certezze che governano la nostra vita e intraprendere un viaggio vertiginoso che lascia senza fiato. Guido Tonelli, fisico al Cern di Ginevra e uno dei padri della scoperta del bosone di Higgs, ci fa compiere questo viaggio irripetibile, al cospetto di fenomeni straordinari. Fino a raggiungere il non-luogo del non-tempo da cui tutto ha avuto origine e dove possiamo dar voce a quell'istinto che si annida dentro di noi quando continuiamo a chiederci da dove viene la meraviglia che ci circonda. Il mito e la scienza hanno in fondo la stessa funzione, dal momento che "ogni società si costituisce attorno a una cosmologia. E nessuna civiltà, grande o piccola che sia, può reggersi senza il grande racconto delle origini".

The Writings of Leonardo da Vinci

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The writings of Leonardo da Vinci with an active table of contents. Does not contain illustrations.

Gastrofísica

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¿Por qué comemos un 35% más cuando comemos con otra persona, y un 75% más cuando somos tres? ¿Por qué el 27% de bebidas a base de zumo de tomate se consumen en los aviones? ¿Qué planes tienen los grandes chefs y las empresas alimenticias para transformar nuestras experiencias gastronómicas? Y lo más importante, ¿qué podemos aprender de estas revoluciones para preparar platos memorables en casa?Estos son sólo algunos de los ingredientes de Gastrofísica, un libro en el que el brillante profesor de Oxford, Charles Spence, nos muestra cómo nuestros sentidos se relacionan de formas extraordinarias, y la importancia de todos los elementos «más allá del plato» en la comida: el peso de los cubiertos, el color del plato, la música de ambiente, y mucho más. Bien sea comiendo solo o en una fiesta, en un avión o delante del televisor, el autor nos ayuda a entender qué estamos saboreando y a influenciar en la experiencia de los demás.

Bioengineering for Surgery

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Bioengineering is the application of engineering principles to address challenges in the fields of biology and medicine encompassing the principles of engineering design to the full spectrum of living systems. In surgery, recent advances in minimal invasive surgery and robotics are the culmination of the work that both engineers and surgeons have achieved in the medical field through an exciting and challenging interface. This interface rests on the medical curiosity and engineering solutions that lead eventually to collaboration and development of new ideas and technologies. Most recently, innovation by surgeons has become a fundamental contribution to medical research in the surgical field, and it is through effective communication between surgeons and biomedical engineers and promoting collaborative initiatives that translational research is possible. Bioengineering for Surgery explores this interface between surgeons and engineers and how it leads to innovation processes, providing clinical results, fundraising and prestige for the academic institution. This book is designed to teach students how engineers can fit in with their intended environment and what type of materials and design considerations must be taken into account in regards to medical ideas. - Introduces engineers to basic medical knowledge - Provides surgeons and medical professionals with basic engineering principles that are necessary to meet the surgeons' needs

Costruire l'Intelligenza

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Cosa significa essere intelligenti? E umani? Cosa vogliamo davvero dalla vita e dall'intelligenza che abbiamo, o da quella che potremmo creare?In queste pagine Cade Metz tenta di rispondere a queste domande ripercorrendo l'evoluzione dell'intelligenza artificiale: ritenuta una tecnologia troppo futuristica, è stata per lungo tempo un progetto di ricerca di piccoli gruppi marginali di scienziati, fino a quando due studiosi - un maturo professore di informatica e un giovane neuroscienziato che pensava di essere il più grande scacchista del mondo - non hanno cambiato le cose. Attraverso percorsi molto diversi, hanno contribuito a catapultare l'intelligenza artificiale nelle nostre vite quotidiane. Riuscendo anche a creare un business milionario.Costruire l'intelligenza racconta la storia di questa rivoluzione tecnologica e della lotta che ha innescato tra aziende come Facebook, Google, Microsoft o OpenAI. È la storia di una competizione internazionale sempre più aspra. Ed è una storia che mostra il meglio della genialità umana e allo stesso tempo il suo lato oscuro: ogni passo avanti, infatti, è stato accompagnato da nuovi pregiudizi, bias inattesi e dall'annullamento della privacy.Grazie a centinaia di interviste con le menti più brillanti della Silicon Valley, l'autore ci mostra come, senza che quasi ce ne accorgessimo, negli ultimi cinquant'anni una nuova intelligenza artificiale ha iniziato a dominare l'economia, la società, i gesti di ogni giorno. Costruire l'intelligenza dispiega un mondo popolato di personaggi eccentrici, geniali, ricchissimi, conducendo il lettore a porsi gli interrogativi decisivi: dove ci porterà l'intelligenza artificiale? Davvero si stanno creando sistemi con un'intelligenza pienamente umana? E soprattutto: fino a dove ci spingeremo?

Nonstationary Systems: Theory and Applications

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This book offers an overview of current and recent methods for the analysis of the nonstationary processes, focusing on cyclostationary systems that are ubiquitous in various application fields. Based on the 13th Workshop on Nonstationary Systems and Their Applications, held on February 3-5, 2020, in Grodek nad Dunajcem, Poland, the book merges theoretical contributions describing new statistical and intelligent methods for analyzing nonstationary processes, and applied works showing how the proposed methods can be implemented in practice and do perform in real-world case studies. A significant part of the book is dedicated to nonstationary systems applications, with a special emphasis on those in condition monitoring.

LARP: Geschlechter(rollen)

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Fragen rund um Geschlecht, Gender und Sex stehen im Fokus des zehnten Sammelbands zur Live-Rollenspiel-Konferenz MittelPunkt. Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen europäischen Ländern stellen kritische Bestandsaufnahmen und Analysen des gegenwärtigen Status quo der Diskussion um Gender, geben Erfahrungsberichte sowie theoretische Grundlagen zu Geschlechtsdarstellung, Sexismus und Feminismus im Larp. Zusammengestellt und aufbereitet anlässlich der Live-Rollenspiel-Konferenz MittelPunkt 2018.

LARP: Silberhochzeit

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Seit mehr als 25 Jahren wird Live-Rollenspiel in Deutschland betrieben, aber für viele markiert der Draccon 1992 den Beginn der offiziellen Larp-Zeitrechnung – damit können wir spätestens jetzt das 25. Jubiläum feiern! Larp entwickelt sich weiter, Neues wird aufgenommen, Bewährtes wird ausgebaut, und es lässt auch außerhalb der eigentlichen Veranstaltungen die Menschen nicht los. In sechs ausgewählten Beiträgen stellt die diesjährige Aufsatzsammlung Gedanken über den gegenwärtigen Stand des Live-Rollenspiels vor, zeigt neue Denkweisen und Ideen, wie sich Larp in den nächsten 25 Jahren noch weiter entwickeln könnte. Zusammengestellt und aufbereitet anlässlich der Live-Rollenspiel-Konferenz MittelPunkt 2017.

The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati

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Seven hundred years ago, it was rational to be religious. Religion was the apex of a coherent worldview linking all of the knowledge of the world then available, including the science and cosmology of the time. Religion nowadays seems ridiculous because the modern paradigm of scientific materialism has destroyed the link between humanity and the divine order. To be religious in the past wasn't stupid; now it is. The religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been comprehensively refuted.This book explores the ancient Greek and medieval cosmology that supported the view that Earth was specially created by God. The "crystal spheres" of the heavens, with Earth at the centre, were beautiful, wondrous and inspiring. They fitted in perfectly with ideas of spirituality, angels and astrology.Dante's "Divine Comedy" of the early 14th century cannot be bettered in terms of its portrayal of the Created Order. No one in Dante's time seriously doubted that the universe was designed this way. The state-of-the-art artistic vision which he presented incorporated all available religious, scientific and cosmological knowledge.Only with Copernicus and then Thomas Digges did the religious worldview collapse. Yet humanity goes on believing in religions that are now demonstrably false. Even though humanity has never known more than it does now and most people have a basic education, legions of people still believe in formally refuted ideas. In Dante's time, it would have been mad for the ordinary person not to believe in a Creator. Now it would be mad to believe in one.This book is an exploration of why mainstream religion made perfect sense seven hundred years ago but not now. You can't go on believing ideas that have been categorically disproved. The book examines Dante's "Divine Comedy", John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Islamic cosmology, ancient Greek cosmology, Kabbalah and myths about Heaven and Hell.This is one of a series of books by the Pythagorean Illuminati, designed to reveal the absurdity and untenability of the Abrahamic religions in the modern scientific era.*************************************************Note that these books are anti-Old World Order samizdat and agitprop publications that have been nowhere near the gatekeeper publishing houses of the OWO. Completely uncensored, they are the vehicles of the purest free speech available in the world today. If they have a certain rough and ready anti-corporate quality, it's because huge teams of expensive, glossy capitalist "packagers" have had no involvement with the production of these books. If you want a coffee table book, go somewhere else. If you want the truth, WELCOME!Join the Revolution!

The Future We Choose

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A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from two of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement. • "One of the most inspiring books I've ever read." —Yuval HarariChristiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.

The Mirror World

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"The Mirror World" explores the captivating possibility of parallel universes and the fundamental role of mirror symmetry in shaping our understanding of the cosmos. It tackles complex topics like quantum mechanics, cosmology, and theoretical physics, presenting them in an accessible way for a broad audience. The book emphasizes how these esoteric ideas are essential for unraveling mysteries like dark matter and dark energy, along with the universe's origins.The book argues that understanding symmetry, particularly mirror symmetry or parity, is crucial for advancing our knowledge of the universe. Violations of symmetry, such as the matter-antimatter imbalance, might hint at hidden mirror worlds that restore cosmic equilibrium. Beginning with foundational physics, the book progresses to explore parallel universes, mirrored symmetry, and the Standard Model, culminating in applications to pressing cosmological questions.This book uniquely emphasizes symmetry's unifying role in physics and cosmology, providing a novel framework for understanding the universe. It connects physics with cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy, offering insights into the nature of time and the limits of human knowledge. It avoids philosophical speculation, focusing on scientific evidence and theoretical frameworks.

The Sun, A Universal Deity

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The Sun, A Universal Deity is the article, included in “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” volume and dedicated to the question of adoration of the sun among all the nations of antiquity. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity, so the author draws a parallel between the modern theologies and the simple aboriginal belief. We present you the book, filled with mysteries and secrets of world history, so it is absolutely must-read for everyone, who is interested in mythology, history, philosophy, religion and other aspects of human culture. Enjoy the reading!

With Speed and Violence

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Nature is fragile, environmentalists often tell us. But the lesson of this book is that it is not so. The truth is far more worrying. Nature is strong and packs a serious counterpunch . . . Global warming will very probably unleash unstoppable planetary forces. And they will not be gradual. The history of our planet's climate shows that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, whether from sunspots or orbital wobbles or the depredations of humans, it lurches-virtually overnight. —from the IntroductionFred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tipping points. Even President Bush's top climate modeler, Jim Hansen, warned in 2005 that "we are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption."As Pearce began working on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. With Speed and Violence tells the stories of these scientists and their work-from the implications of melting permafrost in Siberia and the huge river systems of meltwater beneath the icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica to the effects of the "ocean conveyor" and a rare molecule that runs virtually the entire cleanup system for the planet. Above all, the scientists told him what they're now learning about the speed and violence of past natural climate change-and what it portends for our future. With Speed and Violence is the most up-to-date and readable book yet about the growing evidence for global warming and the large climatic effects it may unleash.

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