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talking SCIENCE

TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives.

This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.

  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK) tells her personal story of the discovery of the first pulsar.
  • Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK) ties knots in nothing.
  • Richard Dawkins (Oxford, UK) explains what Darwinism means today.
  • Loren Graham (MIT, US) explains why Stalin’s top-down policy meant that no Russian engineering project would ever work properly.
  • Richard Gregory (Bristol, UK) explores some of the visual illusions that so easily fool us.
  • Eric Lander (MIT, US) discusses the excitement of the human genome project.
  • Lord May of Oxford (UK) President of the Royal Society talks about chaos, ecology and HIV.
  • John Maynard Smith (Sussex, UK) discusses why we bother with sex.
  • Rosalind Picard (MIT, US) believes in wearable computers that understand our emotions.
  • Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK), Astronomer Royal, discusses the big bang, black holes and the end of the universe.
  • Eugenie Scott (Oakland, US) is a leading campaigner for the teaching in schools of evolution rather than creationism.
  • Lewis Wolpert (UCL, UK) speaks on the ethics and practicality of cloning and on his own depression.
  • Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard, US) describes the excitement and discomfort of exploring the deep ocean.
  • Peter Raven (St Louis, US) is a leading advocate of biodiversity – described by Time magazine as a hero for the planet.

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talking SCIENCE TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 10/09/2004
    ISBN13: 9780470093023, 978-0470093023
    ISBN10: 0470093021

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

    Description

    talking SCIENCE

    TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives.

    This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.

    • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK) tells her personal story of the discovery of the first pulsar.
    • Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK) ties knots in nothing.
    • Richard Dawkins (Oxford, UK) explains what Darwinism means today.
    • Loren Graham (MIT, US) explains why Stalin’s top-down policy meant that no Russian engineering project would ever work properly.
    • Richard Gregory (Bristol, UK) explores some of the visual illusions that so easily fool us.
    • Eric Lander (MIT, US) discusses the excitement of the human genome project.
    • Lord May of Oxford (UK) President of the Royal Society talks about chaos, ecology and HIV.
    • John Maynard Smith (Sussex, UK) discusses why we bother with sex.
    • Rosalind Picard (MIT, US) believes in wearable computers that understand our emotions.
    • Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK), Astronomer Royal, discusses the big bang, black holes and the end of the universe.
    • Eugenie Scott (Oakland, US) is a leading campaigner for the teaching in schools of evolution rather than creationism.
    • Lewis Wolpert (UCL, UK) speaks on the ethics and practicality of cloning and on his own depression.
    • Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard, US) describes the excitement and discomfort of exploring the deep ocean.
    • Peter Raven (St Louis, US) is a leading advocate of biodiversity – described by Time magazine as a hero for the planet.

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