Títulos em Ciências

Actions have consequences - and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on Earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day. Ten years in the making, The Science of Consequences takes an interdisciplinary approach to show how something so deceptively simple can help make sense of so much.

Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was to apprentice in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives. It is a treat for CSI junkies, murder mystery and thriller fans, and anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all.

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting....

From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.

O que sabemos sobre as mulheres pré-históricas? Historiadores, antropólogos, arqueólogos, etnólogos, geneticistas tentam responder a essa questão há décadas, e a descoberta da estatueta Vênus de Renancourt, em 2019, pôs em xeque as mais diversas certezas sobre o tema. Amplamente amparado em evidências científicas, cada capítulo deste livro desconstrói ideias preconcebidas e preconceitos, desenhando um retrato inédito da mulher no período pré-histórico ― uma figura mais próxima de nós e do nosso tempo do que poderíamos imaginar.

Você certamente já ouviu falar em estrela cadente, cometa, asteroides, mas sabe o que são cada um deles? Muito se fala que foi provavelmente um meteoro que extinguiu os dinossauros. Mas o que são as tais chuvas de meteoros? É possível prevê-las? E a Lua atua nas marés? Como? Entender o céu nos ajuda a entender o dia a dia da Terra. Neste audiolivro, serão explorados eventos bonitos, curiosos e intrigantes, como as auroras boreais, os eclipses solares e os lunares, além de diversas curiosidades sobre as constelações e as estrelas. Tudo de forma simples e acessível.

Qual é o sentido da vida? Buscamos respostas na filosofia e na religião para nossas angústias, mas será que os gatos não têm algo a nos ensinar? Ao buscar soluções para nossas grandes inquietações, a humanidade criou, entre outras coisas, a filosofia. Pensadores, de Spinoza a Berdiaev, têm se debruçado sobre questões humanas perenes, mas talvez tenhamos tanto a aprender com gatos quanto com os grandes filósofos. Filosofia felina aborda várias linhas filosóficas ao longo do tempo e coloca outra perspectiva em destaque: a dos gatos.

The entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of intellectual faculties. These five breakthroughs are the organising map to this book, and they make up our itinerary for our adventure back in time. Each breakthrough also has fascinating corollaries to breakthroughs in AI.

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live—Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time.

Quantum Physics for Beginners examines the basis of all the technological innovations of today - from atomic energy to computer microelectronics, from digital clocks to lasers, semiconductor systems, photoelectric cells, and diagnostic and treatment equipment for many diseases. In short, today we can live in a "modern" way, thanks to quantum physics and its applications. This comprehensive beginners' guide to quantum mechanics explains the most important and stunning quantum experiments to show that quantum physics is real.

Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety of human history, culture, and civilization based on a series of recently uncovered key principles of brain function. This new cosmology is centered around three fundamental properties of the human brain: its insurmountable malleability to adapt and learn; its exquisite ability to allow multiple individuals to synchronize their minds around a task, goal, or belief; and its incomparable capacity for abstraction.

From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated.

The existence of free will - our ability to choose between one course of action and another, to determine our own destiny - is a foundation stone of Western society, dictating our notions of fairness and justice, punishment and reward, our very identity as individuals and humans. But as world-renowned scientist Robert Sapolsky shows, there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that free will exists, even while everything in our biology leads us to believe that it does.

Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.

Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. But it's not. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process—a way to imagine the unimaginable and solve the unsolvable. It's the same thought process that enabled Neil Armstrong to take his giant leap for mankind, that allows spacecraft to travel millions of miles through outer space and land on a precise spot, and that brings us closer to colonizing other planets.

Em um passeio pelas criações que tornaram o mundo o que ele é hoje, o compositor Anthony Brandt e o neurocientista David Eagleman explicam os elos entre a criatividade na arte, na ciência e na tecnologia e mostram as rotinas básicas do “software da inovação” em funcionamento. Descrevendo as ferramentas e as estratégias responsáveis pela irrefreável inventividade de nossa espécie, Como o cérebro cria oferece inúmeros exemplos de como todos os atos criativos resultam das mesmas operações cerebrais aplicadas a algo que já existia.

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.

This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues to profoundly influence its expression. 

Criação imperfeita propõe nada menos do que um novo "humanocentrismo" capaz de refletir nossa posição na ordem do universo.