Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Djur och natur Livsstil, hobby och fritid Matematik och naturvetenskap Mykologi, svampar (ej medicinsk) Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
”Varför kan man odla champinjoner men inte kantareller?” Under en svamputflykt får Jesper Nyström en till synes enkel fråga från sin dotter. Han är biolog och vetenskapsjournalist men vet inte svaret. Det blir starten på en resa som tar oss både ner i urberget och ut i världsrymden. Ny forskning visar att svampen är en…
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Are you evil?
In Making Evil, Julia Shaw uses a mix of science, popular culture and real-life examples to investigate the darker side of human nature. How similar is your brain to a psychopath’s? How many people have murder fantasies? Can AI be evil? Do your sexual proclivities make you a bad person? Who becomes…
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Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you – your DNA, your skin, your memories – have come to…
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Från 2010 till 2015 har jag lagt fram en delvis annorlunda syn på filosofi och inte minst fysik som ämnen som fortsätter att belysa varandra trots att de nuförtiden utvecklas rätt separat. Är filosofin egentligen smygvetenskap? Är fysiken egentligen smygfilosofi?
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Vector calculus is the fundamental language of mathematical physics. It pro vides a way to describe physical quantities in three-dimensional space and the way in which these quantities vary. Many topics in the physical sciences can be analysed mathematically using the techniques of vector calculus.
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An introduction to complex analysis for students with some knowledge of complex numbers from high school. It contains sixteen chapters, the first eleven of which are aimed at an upper division undergraduate audience. The remaining five chapters are designed to complete the coverage of all background necessary for…
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An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents…
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Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe is highly acclaimed for bringing the excitement of scientific discovery to the one-term astronomy course. Vivid writing and images, conceptual and mathematical support, and a focus on common mistakes and misunderstandings have made the book a longtime classroom bestseller. …
With its acclaimed author team, cutting-edge content, emphasis on medical relevance, and coverage based on key experiments, Molecular Cell Biology has justly earned an impeccable reputation as an exciting and authoritative textbook. Avoiding an encyclopedic approach, the book grounds its coverage in the experiments…
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The gold standard in analytical chemistry, Dan Harris’ Quantitative Chemical Analysis provides a sound physical understanding of the principles of analytical chemistry and their applications in the disciplines. Dan Harris presents the subject in a rigorous, readable and interesting manner, lucid enough for…
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In a world of rapid and unpredictable change, the problem with strategic planning is that if you follow your plan through to the end, you will get exactly what you used to want. What you need is a framework for planning and implementing a strategy that is agile enough to adapt to a dynamic environment but focused…
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Can we resurrect dinosaurs? Is a Martian holiday good for your health? Can we build a time machine? (And more importantly, can it look like the DeLorean?) Answering these questions and more, Rick Edwards and Dr. Michael Brooks delve into the real science behind the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. From Planet of the…
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On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever.
Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of…
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In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene – the thinnest substance in the world – by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite.
Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of…
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We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what’s going on in an animal’s head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before. We hear the stories of a grateful…
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En la Enciclopedia de cristales, gemas y metales mágicos, usted encontrará la información más completa disponible sobre las cualidades mágicas de más de cien gemas, piedras y cristales. En esta obra, catalogada como uno de los clásicos de Cunningham, aprenderá cómo identificar las características particulares de los…
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They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth.
In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as…
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Darwin’s ’On the Origin of Species’ is a book that changed the way we think about the development of life on earth. The text used for this edition was the last to be published during Darwin’s lifetime and is considered to be the definitive version.
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Our world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you’ll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. The same pattern is found elsewhere too. Look down on the Earth from space, and you’ll find similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air…
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Möbius bagels, Euclid’s flourless chocolate cake and apple pi – this is maths, but not as you know it. In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and star baker Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch of delicious culinary insights into everything from simple numeracy to category theory (’the mathematics…
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Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens filosofi Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället
Ever since Homo sapiens first looked up at the stars, we as a species have been looking for meaning in the mysteries of the night sky. Over the millennia, as our knowledge, science, and technology developed, the stories we told ourselves about the universe and our place in it developed as well. In The Night Sky,…
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When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered…
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”Readable and engaging, Haisch will be embraced by those concerned with finding ways of reconciling science and religion.” — Booklist
”If you want to put your metaphysical conception of the universe on a more solid scientific basis and/or have great discussions . . .get a little God Theory in…
Kategorier: Afrikas historia Biologi och biovetenskap Historia Historia och arkeologi Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap
De første stegene på vei mot vår egen art, Homo sapiens, ble tatt i Afrika for sju–åtte millioner år siden. Ikke i noen annen verdensdel har mennesker levd like lenge, og vi kan alle følge våre gener tilbake til dette kontinentet.
I denne boka tar forfatteren oss med på en lang og spennende reise helt fram til dagens…
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For decades, psychologists and economists have studied the science of streaks to determine whether the ’hot hand’ exists. Is there such a thing as being in the zone? Or it simply a case of seeing patterns in randomness? Genius scholars and Nobel Prize winners have dedicated years to answering this…
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Natural materials; neutral colours; clean, elegant lines: the Scandinavian look is one of the most popular in contemporary interior design. This book is the perfect introduction to its history and major practitioners, covering such great designers as Arne Jacobsen and Stig Lindberg, and such key furniture and textiles…
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In 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his own lungs. This was the beginning of the terrifying Sin Nombre hantavirus epidemic and the start of a scientific journey that would forever change our understanding of what it means to be human.
After witnessing…
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The journey from Cape Canaveral to the Moon was a tremendous achievement of human courage and ingenuity. It was also a long, deadly march, haunted by the possibility of catastrophic failure on the world’s stage. In an era when the most advanced portable computer weighed 70 pounds, had a 36-kilobite memory and…
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