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A directionally-challenged woman with a dreaded fear of pain and the tendency to faint at the slightest physical malady goes on a soul search and winds up with an unconventional medical degree, an overweight chicken as a house guest, and a new road map for life. Spending years in a profession she’s wholly unsuited for gave her a unique perspective on human suffering. It also put her in the position of being able to entertain and inform listeners (and audiences) who are looking for a way to end their own suffering.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the “Father of Psychoanalysis,” and for good reason. If anything, Freud’s first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms, Freud diagnosed himself as having a repressed antagonism against his father. From there, Freud began to build on his now famous concepts of the unconscious, infantile sexuality and repression. And of course, there’s his famous theory on the structure of the mind, which has made Id and Ego a commonly used part of the English lexicon.

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.

Walter Isaacson vertelt het verhaal van DNA-expert en Nobelprijswinnaar Jennifer Doudna. In oktober 2020 ontving biochemicus Jennifer Doudna samen met haar collega Emmanuelle Charpentier de Nobelprijs voor de Scheikunde voor hun doorslaggevende bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van CRISPR-Cas. Met deze techniek kunnen wetenschappers het menselijk genoom bewerken door te knippen en plakken in DNA-sequenties.

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.

En este audiolibro, la propia Rosa Montero nos habla de la superación del dolor, de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres, del esplendor del sexo, de la buena muerte y de la bella vida, de la ciencia y de la ignorancia, de la fuerza salvadora de la literatura y de la sabiduría de quienes aprenden a disfrutar de la existencia con plenitud y con ligereza.

La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la ecología.

Nikola Tesla był niedocenionym za życia geniuszem elektrotechniki - jednym z najwybitniejszych umysłów nowożytnego świata, autorem ponad 300 patentów i twórcą przeszło 120 wynalazków, które przyczyniły się do dynamicznego rozwoju inżynierii elektrycznej i innych gałęzi nauki w XX wieku. Bez niego nieznane byłyby m.in. elektrownie wodne, prąd zmienny, prądnica, pilot do telewizora, roboty przemysłowe ani radio. Jego życie kryje również wiele tajemnic.

Leonard Mlodinow recuerda sus casi dos décadas como colaborador y amigo de Hawking, uno de los físicos más influyentes de nuestro tiempo, y nos ofrece una mirada única y profundamente personal de un hombre extraordinario. Conocemos al genio que descubre los misterios del universo y una teoría pionera sobre los agujeros negros; conocemos al colega, cuya enfermedad le permite comunicarse con solo seis palabras por minuto, pero que se esfuerza por puntuar sus conversaciones con un gran sentido del humor.

Was ist Ihr Erfolgsrezept, Maye Musk? Sie ist internationales Supermodel, weltweit gefragte Keynote-Speakerin und angesehene Ernährungs-Beraterin - und das im Alter von 72 Jahren. Maye Musk beweist: Frau ist nie zu alt für etwas Neues. Alles, was dafür nötig ist, ist ein Plan. In ihrer exklusiven Autobiografie gibt sie ehrlich und ungeschönt Einblick in die vielen Stationen ihres Lebens und ihrer Karriere: Wie die Flüge in einer kleinen Propellermaschine ohne GPS quer durch die Wildnis Südafrikas schon als Kind ihre Abenteuerlust weckten.

July 13, 1938: The renowned nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, approaching the age of 60, sits on the train that will take her to the German-Dutch border and then to the safety of exile in Sweden. After months of uncertainty and fear, as a Jew in Nazi Germany, she has abandoned everything: her friends, her career, and her beloved adopted home, the city of Berlin, where she had become a pioneer in the world of nuclear physics.

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.

Nel novembre 2018 l'astrofisico Federico Nati parte per una missione in Antartide con un team internazionale. La missione è rischiosa e ambiziosa: spedire nella stratosfera un telescopio di tre tonnellate per studiare la nascita delle stelle e le origini del cosmo. Gli scienziati combattono contro le difficoltà del lavoro sperimentale, amplificate dalla ostilità dell'ambiente polare, per portare a compimento l'esperimento su cui hanno scommesso anni di lavoro e carriera.

"Oggi il ministro, con mia sorpresa, mi ha comunicato la revoca dell'incarico di presidente ASI. È il primo spoils system di ente di ricerca. Grazie alle migliaia di persone con cui ho condiviso quattro anni fantastici di spazio italiano." Con questo messaggio, il 6 novembre 2018, Roberto Battiston annuncia il suo allontanamento dall'Agenzia spaziale italiana. Un cambio improvviso, imposto dalla politica, diventa per l'autore l'occasione di raccontare per la prima volta dall'interno il mondo dello spazio italiano.

Julian Barnes lernte Dr. Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918) kennen, als er das Porträt Mann im roten Rock von John Sargent Singer betrachtete. Es zeigt den Arztpionier, Freigeist und intellektuellen Wissenschaftler, der seiner Zeit weit voraus war. Kenntnisreich und elegant beschreibt Julian Barnes das schillernde Leben Dr. Pozzis und entwirft das Bild einer Ära, die wir heute Belle Epoque nennen und die neben Schönheit und Glamour auch ihre hässlichen Seiten hatte.

As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession, Michael Sayman was googling “how to code". Within a year, he had launched an iPhone app that was raking in thousands of dollars a month, enough to keep his family afloat - and in America. Entirely self-taught, Sayman headed from high school straight into the professional world, and by the time he was 17, he was Facebook’s youngest employe ever, building new features that wowed its founder Mark Zuckerberg and are now being used by more than half a billion people every day.

James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle. His scientific legacy was further written off as insignificant in an 1879 essay published through the Smithsonian 50 years after his death - a claim that author Steven Turner demonstrates is far from the truth.

"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg", writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species.

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.

We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. The Invention of Miracles takes a new look at an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Bell’s.