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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: 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 Fifth Miracle

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ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?In his latest far-reaching book, The Fifth Miracle, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life.Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled Earth. It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms. If life once existed on Mars, might it have originated there and traveled to Earth inside meteorites blasted into space by cosmic impacts?Davies builds on the latest scientific discoveries and theories to address the larger question: What, exactly, is life? Is it the inevitable by-product of physical laws, as many scientists maintain, or an almost miraculous accident? Are we alone in the universe, or will life emerge on all Earth-like planets? And if there is life elsewhere in the universe, is it preordained to evolve toward greater complexity and intelligence?On the answers to these deep questions hinges the ultimate purpose of mankind -- who we are and what our place might be in the unfolding drama of the cosmos.

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!

La mémoire au futur

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La mémoire, qui semble par essence tournée vers le passé, est en fait intrinsèquement et délibérément orientée vers le futur. Même si une telle conception avait été entrevue de longue date, la mémoire du futur n’est devenue une thématique de recherche à part entière que depuis une douzaine d’années, mais elle est aujourd'hui motrice. Quelles sont les grandes fonctions de cette mémoire du futur qui contribue grandement à nos prises de décision ? Comment s’articule-t-elle avec la mémoire du passé ? Quelles sont les pathologies qui la mettent à mal ? Que peut-on attendre des recherches en cours ? Aujourd’hui cette mémoire du futur, indispensable pour orienter notre devenir sur le plan individuel comme sur le plan collectif, est aux prises avec les nouveaux moyens d’information et de communication, l’intelligence artificielle et la robotique. Et elle est menacée par les mémoires externes, de plus en plus puissantes et invasives. Comment préserver nos « mémoires internes », en particulier celles des jeunes générations, pour continuer à élaborer et construire notre devenir?

Long for This World

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“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.”—Timothy FerrisJonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America—examines “the strange science of immortality” in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from “one of our finest science journalists” (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner’s Long for This World addresses the ageless question, “Is there a secret to eternal youth?” And has it, at long last, been found?

Polyethylene-Based Biocomposites and Bionanocomposites

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Biodegradable polymers have experienced a growing interest in recent years for applications in packaging, agriculture, automotive, medicine, and other areas. One of the drivers for this development is the great quantity of synthetic plastic discarded improperly in the environment. Therefore, R&D in industry and in academic research centers, search for materials that are reprocessable and biodegradable.This unique book comprises 12 chapters written by subject specialists and is a state-of-the-art look at all types of polyethylene-based biocomposites and bionanocomposites. It includes deep discussion on the preparation, characterisation and applications of composites and nanocomposites of polyethylene-based biomaterials such as cellulose, chitin, starch, soy protein, PLA, casein, hemicellulose, PHA and bacterial cellulose.

À quoi servent les dinosaures ?

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À la fin d'une conférence que donnait l'auteur sur la paléontologie, vint une question à laquelle il ne s'attendait pas : « Mais Monsieur, à quoi cela sert, ce que vous faites ? ». Rien d'agressif dans le ton de la dame qui l'interrogeait ainsi, mais une perplexité certaine : quelle utilité cela pouvait-il bien avoir de s'intéresser à des êtres morts depuis des millions d'années ? Si l'on se cantonne dans une attitude purement utilitariste, les dinosaures, il faut bien le dire, ne servent pas à grand chose, pas plus que l'immense majorité des fossiles qu'étudient les paléontologues. Et pourtant, la paléontologie a quelque chose à apporter à tous ceux qui s'intéressent peu ou prou au monde dont ils font partie. Elle a un message, et même de multiples messages, à transmettre. Il suffit d'ailleurs de remonter un peu dans l'histoire, de guère plus de deux siècles, pour constater à quel point les découvertes paléontologiques ont modifié notre conception de la place de l'homme dans l'Univers. Et ce n'est pas fini...

Sun in a Bottle

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With his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, award-winning science writer Charles Seife presents the first narrative account of the history of fusion for general readers in more than a decade. Tracing the story from its beginning into the twenty-first century, Sun in a Bottle reveals fusion's explosive role in some of the biggest scientific scandals of all time. Throughout this journey, he introduces us to the daring geniuses, villains, and victims of fusion science. With the giant international fusion project ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) now under construction, it's clear that the science of wishful thinking is as strong as ever. This book is our key to understanding why.

Scientifica historica

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* Un recorrido por los grandes títulos científicos en el transcurso de los tiempos, que explora la historia, el desarrollo y la progresión no solo de las creencias e ideas científicas sino también del lenguaje y de los medios físicos en los que se han expresado. * Desde inscripciones esculpidas y rollos a tomos de encuadernación lujosa, se expone la evolución de la comunicación científica al mundo. Desde los antiguos griegos y los sabios islámicos a los científicos medievales europeos y las celebridades de la televisión, este libro es un viaje bibliográfico a través del tiempo que analiza el modo en que los escritos científicos pasaron de dirigirse a un público académico a centrarse en un público general. * Una muestra de cómo la palabra escrita ha sido un medio fundamental para ampliar nuestro conocimiento del universo y de nosotros mismos. "El mundo antiguo" estudia los inicios del lenguaje, incluidos los jeroglíficos egipcios y los grabados en piedra, así como los primeros documentos científicos producidos, de los matemáticos chinos a los médicos árabes. "El renacimiento impreso" abarca el período comprendido entre los siglos xiii y xviii, y analiza los efectos de la invención de la imprenta y la exploración de los mares y los cielos. "Clásicos modernos" examina el siglo xix y el desarrollo de las ciencias como profesión. "Posclásicos" analiza con minuciosidad el siglo xx y los efectos de la introducción de la relatividad, la teoría cuántica y la genética en el campo de la ciencia. Finalmente, "La nueva generación" repasa el período de 1980 a nuestros días, y muestra el modo en que la divulgación científica se ha hecho accesible al público en general. Se incluye un listado de los 150 libros publicados más relevantes dedicados a la ciencia.

Pourquoi moi ?

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Le hasard a-t-il créé l’univers ? Quel est son rôle dans l’évolution du cosmos ? Se loge-t-il au cœur des étoiles ? Peut-on prédire l'heure de notre mort ? Les grandes extinctions sont-elles inévitables ? Le climat évolue-t-il par hasard ? La magie peut-elle l’abolir ? Les machines peuvent-elles produire de l'aléatoire ? Le fruit du hasard est-il comestible ? Les enfants le perçoivent-ils mal ? L’univers est-il beau par hasard ? Quels sont les aléas du hasard ? La voltige aérienne lui laisse-t-elle une place ? Autant de questions vertigineuses auxquelles trente scientifiques tentent de répondre, chacun dans leur domaine. Les auteurs nous invitent à tenir compte du hasard pour apprendre à penser et agir librement. En commençant par l’essentiel : Pourquoi moi ? Pourquoi moi ? accompagne le congrès scientifique mondial TimeWorld 2021, consacré, pour cette édition, au hasard.

The Birds of America: Vol. 1

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This groundbreaking work consists of hand-colored, life-size prints, made from engraved plates measuring around 39 by 26 inches (99 by 66 cm). This is the first of seven volumes. Audubon identified 25 new species over his career and is known for portraying animals in their real-life habitats. In contrast to other wildlife artists of his day, Audubon painted animals as if caught in motion—particularly feeding, hunting or escaping predators. The seven-volume Birds of America includes images of six now-extinct birds: the Carolina parakeet, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, great auk, Esquimaux curlew and pinnated grouse. Nearly all later ornithological works were inspired by Audubon's artistry and high standards, and Birds of America is considered one of the greatest examples of book art. Numerous parks, towns and other places are named in his honor.

Realization and Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems

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This book celebrates Professor Thanos Antoulas's 70th birthday, marking his fundamental contributions to systems and control theory, especially model reduction and, more recently, data-driven modeling and system identification. Model reduction is a prominent research topic with wide ranging scientific and engineering applications.

The Birds of America: Vol. 4

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This groundbreaking work features hand-colored, life-sized prints of North American birds based on field drawings made by famous wildlife artist John James Audubon. The work includes images of six now-extinct birds. This is the fourth of seven volumes.

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