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Leer libros aburridos no le gusta a nadie y mucho menos a los jóvenes. Por eso, para animarles a que aprendan alguna cosilla o dos sobre el mundo de la ciencia, de los descubrimientos y de los inventos, hemos usado un recurso supremo que siempre funciona: el humor. Este tratado cuenta de la manera mas sencilla, amena y divertida lo que ha tenido lugar en la historia cientifica desde el momento en que el hombre prehistorico decidio que las ruedas cuadradas no eran lo mas adecuado para sus necesidades hasta los ultimos avances digitales que permiten que tu dispositivo electronico te de la hora, te permita hablar por telefono, ver una pelicula, contar los latidos de tu corazon y, muy pronto, prepararte con el un huevo frito cuando te apetezca.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets'A small classic of the biographer's art' Sunday TimesIn the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone. Wilson didn't know how to climb.He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Maurice Wilson is a man written out of the history books - dismissed as an eccentric and a charlatan by many, but held in the highest regard by world class mountaineers such as Reinhold Messner.

From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch. From the atom to the atomic bomb. From general relativity and classical laws to quantum physics and black holes. From the origin of time and singularity to the breaking of the 4th dimension. Basically, until everything loses meaning.The best ideas of the greatest physicists of all time: Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, James Maxwell, among others.The perception of the reality of the universe around us for someone without prior knowledge. A book from a young academic with many questions to another.Foreword by Jorge Vila (Cancer Institute "Leon Berar" National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France)Review amp; Analysis by:Robert Peter Gale (University of California Los Angeles UCLA amp; Imperial College London)Leo Grimaldi (Harvard University)Julio F. Navarro (Victoria University, Canada)

Las zonas polares, principales responsables del clima de nuestro planeta, están sufriendo cambios drásticos en su naturaleza debido a su alta sensibilidad al cambio global, que afectan directamente a la dinamica climatica, oceanografica y ambiental de latitudes extrapolares. El presente libro pretende dar una vision integral y multidisciplinar del estado del conocimiento de las zonas articas y antarticas: su evolucion geologica, los acuciantes problemas de contaminacion de estos territorios, la caracterizacion de los diversos ecosistemas terrestres y marinos, asi como la evolucion pasada y futura del clima polar. El objetivo final es explicar, de forma clara y amena, las similitudes y diferencias entre ambos polos y concienciar sobre las alteraciones que estan sufriendo debido al cambio global. Asimismo, se dan a conocer las investigaciones, de gran relevancia cientifica y social, realizadas por el personal cientifico y tecnico del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), acercandonos a la historia y situacion actual de la investigacion polar en España.

En las últimas décadas se ha producido una revolución en las ciencias, con la explosión de las tecnologías genómicas, física cuántica, cambio climático o desarrollos tecnológicos en inteligencia artificial, redes o telecomunicaciones. Las artes han seguido un camino parecido, reflejando el mundo desde diferentes perspectivas y tecnicas y aplicando, en muchos casos, la ciencia a la hora de crear.Este catalogo contiene la exposicion "Arte y ciencia del siglo XXI". Organizada por el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), en el año de su 250 aniversario, y la Fundacion Arcilla, la exposicion busca recuperar esa relacion, uniendo en un mismo espacio el arte figurativo (pinturas y esculturas, muchas de ellas creadas expresamente para la exposicion) y una gran parte de la ciencia que se desarrolla en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC).

Antonio Linares Rodríguez, médico de profesión, nos presenta una obra autobiográfica donde combina la narración de algunos de los hechos concretos acaecidos a lo largo de su vida con reflexiones sobre cuestiones que importan o pueden importar a cualquiera, independientemente de donde haya nacido y donde resida: la fe, el amor, la vejez, la vida o la muerte. Y ambas cosas las hace con habilidad y maestria, con sutileza, como ofreciendoselas al lector en pequeñas dosis y de manera alternativa, para que el lector las asimile mejor y las disfrute mas.Tanto la narracion de los hechos que rodean su vida en una pequeña aldea gallega (las penurias economicas de su familia, la infancia, las tareas del campo, las tradiciones populares, el gallego como lengua materna) como la descripcion de algunos de los personajes que rodearon su vida (Ratapon, su madre, su padre, su abuela, su primer amor) o las reflexiones que desarrolla a lo largo de la obra (la fe, la enfermedad, la vejez, la vida y la muerte) enganchan y por momentos sobrecogen. Quizas porque todo ello Antonio Linares Rodriguez lo sabe hacer sin dramatismos de ningun tipo. Sin darse importancia. Con sutileza, dulzura, cercania y verdad.

Tots aquells que ens dediquem a la recerca sabem per què ho fem. Ens mou una curiositat quasi infinita per saber més del camp en el qual treballem. I molts hem tingut la sort de veure, en els darrers

Une plongée dans les profondeurs du système immunitaire, magnifiquement illustrée, qui changera à jamais votre perception de votre corps, par le créateur de la chaîne YouTube de vulgarisation scienti

El cerebro humano, esa compleja estructura anatómica, responsable en el sentir y el pensar profundo de cada uno, es desigual en cada ser. Desigualdad detectable en el temperamento y que se acentúa en el transcurso de la formacion del caracter y la personalidad. Desigualdad biologica que debemos aceptar y valorar en todo su espectro. La humana accion oscila entre el bien y el mal. Lo negativo, cuando excede, daña o hace daño, la envidia, la igualdad y la mentira son temas en los que el autor ha querido profundizar por sentir que estan anormalmente presentes en la sociedad actual.

Un llibre lluminós i captivador sobre la nostra relació amb la naturalesa i sobre el que la fauna i la flora poden ensenyar-nos. Quines lliçons podem aprendre de la fauna i la flora que ens envolten? En que sassemblen les migracions de les aus i les migracions humanes? I els nius dels ocells i les incubadores? Quina relacio hi ha entre les cuques de llum i la pantalla dels mobils? Hi ha cap connexio entre una migranya i el canvi climatic? I entre els cignes i la monarquia britanica?Helen Macdonald reuneix en aquest volum una serie descrits sobre la relacio dels essers humans amb el medi natural. El resultat sassembla a un daquells gabinets de curiositats o cambres de meravelles que van proliferar a lEuropa del segle XVI i en que es podien veure objectes sorprenents. Aixi, el lector assisteix a una trobada fortuta amb un porc senglar, a una sessio dobservacio ornitologica des dun gratacel de Nova York, a una passejada nocturna per un bosc britanic o al debat sobre la pertinencia o no de la cria docells.Lautora combina amb ma mestra la mirada cientifica i la literaria, reflexiona sobre temes ecologics i humans lamor, el dolor, la sup

Game data science defined as the practice of deriving insights from game data has created a revolution in the multibillion dollar games industry informing and enhancing production design and development processes Almost all game companies and academics have now adopted some type of game data science every tool utilized by game developers allows collecting data from games yet there has been no definitive resource for academics and professionals in this rapidly developing sector until now Games Data Science delivers an excellent introduction to this new domain and provides the definitive guide to methods and practices of computer science analytics and data science as applied to video games It is the ideal resource for academic students and professional learners seeking to understand how data science is used within the game development and production cycle as well as within the interdisciplinary field of games research Organized into chapters that integrate laboratory and game data examples this book provides a unique resource to train and educate both industry professionals and academics about the use of game data science with practical exercises and examples on how such processes are implemented and used in academia and industry interweaving theoretical

Harrison Decoded Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison s extraordinary pendulum clock system Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one hundred times the stability of those made by his contemporaries However his final publication which promised to describe the system was a chaotic jumble of information much of which had nothing to do with clockwork One contemporary reviewer of Harrison s book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison s superannuated dotage The focus of this book centres on the making adjusting and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory Greenwich The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system Clock B s performance the methods of data gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison s clockmaking that of his contemporaries and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought

Magisterial Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late 19th century electrification of America and today s computing world Salon

If you want to see what that future might look like Duncan s book is a fun place to start NPR Intensely readable downright terrifying and surprisingly uplifting Vanity Fair 5 books not to miss A fascinating work of imaginative futurology USA Today One of Time magazine s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer a riveting read One of David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo s best summer reads on USA Today s Today programme A refreshing variation on the will intelligent robots bring Armageddon genre this colourful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint Kirkus Reviews What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now What do they say about us their creators Will they usher in a fantastic new future or destroy us What do some of our greatest thinkers from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen geneticist George Church and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain anticipate about our human robot future For even as robots and AI intrigue us and make us anxious about the future our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology it s also about what robots tell us about being human From present day Facebook and Amazon bot

Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft It has shaped the world as we know it But its story is little known This is the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times Gripping and brilliantly told Mustafa Suleyman author of The Coming WaveIn June 2024 thirty one years after it was founded in a diner Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware and in the process reinvented the computer Essential to Nvidia s meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang who more than a decade ago on the basis of a few promising scientific results bet his entire company on AI Through unprecedented access to Huang his friends his investors and his employees Stephen Witt documents for the first time the company s epic rise and its single minded and ferocious leader now one of Silicon Valley s most influential figures The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved to supplying hundred million dollar supercomputers It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing becoming one of the wealthiest men alive It is the story of a revolution in compu

Game data science defined as the practice of deriving insights from game data has created a revolution in the multibillion dollar games industry informing and enhancing production design and development processes Almost all game companies and academics have now adopted some type of game data science every tool utilized by game developers allows collecting data from games yet there has been no definitive resource for academics and professionals in this rapidly developing sector until now Games Data Science delivers an excellent introduction to this new domain and provides the definitive guide to methods and practices of computer science analytics and data science as applied to video games It is the ideal resource for academic students and professional learners seeking to understand how data science is used within the game development and production cycle as well as within the interdisciplinary field of games research Organized into chapters that integrate laboratory and game data examples this book provides a unique resource to train and educate both industry professionals and academics about the use of game data science with practical exercises and examples on how such processes are implemented and used in academia and industry interweaving theoretical

A narrative description of the context of natural history study and collecting in later 17th century England It is constructed around the biography of the central figure of Robert Plot but with his activities placed in a broader European context

Who benefits from smart technology Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity Smart technology is everywhere smart umbrellas that light up when rain is in the forecast smart cars that relieve drivers of the drudgery of driving smart toothbrushes that send your dental hygiene details to the cloud Nothing is safe from smartification In Too Smart Jathan Sadowski looks at the proliferation of smart stuff in our lives and asks whether the tradeoff exchanging our personal data for convenience and connectivity is worth it Who benefits from smart technology Sadowski explains how data once the purview of researchers and policy wonks has become a form of capital Smart technology he argues is driven by the dual imperatives of digital capitalism extracting data from and expanding control over everything and everybody He looks at three domains colonized by smart technologies collection and control systems the smart self the smart home and the smart city The smart self involves more than self tracking of steps walked and calories burned it raises questions about what others do with our data and how they direct our behavior whether or not we want them to The smart home collects data about our habits that offe

A bold defense of the internet arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet Taylor Lorenz author of Extremely Online The internet stands accused of dividing us spying on us making us stupid and addicting our children In response the press and panicked politicians seek greater regulation and control which could ruin the web before we are finished building it Jeff Jarvis is convinced we can have a saner conversation about the internet Examining the web s past present and future he shows that many of the problems the media lays at the internet s door are the result of our own failings The internet did not make us hate we brought our bias bigotry and prejudice with us online That s why even well intentioned regulation will fail to fix hate speech and misinformation and may instead imperil the freedom of speech the internet affords to all Once we understand the internet for what it is a human network we can reclaim it from the nerds pundits and pols who are in charge now and turn our attention where it belongs to fostering community conversation and creativity online The Web We Weave offers an antidote to today s pessimism about the internet outlining a bol