Wetenschap en Techniek

Voor elke taak bestaat er een juiste aanpak, een verkeerde aanpak en een aanpak die zo ontzettend bizar is dat niemand er ook maar over peinst hem te gebruiken. Hoe dan? is een humoristische handleiding van bestsellerauteur Randall Munroe voor deze derde aanpak. Een wegwijzer boordevol uiterst onpraktisch advies voor van alles en nog wat, van een gat graven tot hoe je een vliegtuig veilig aan de grond zet.

Net als in zijn eerdere boek Wat als? moedigt Randall Munroe ons op briljante wijze aan om de meest absurde uitersten van het mogelijke op te zoeken. In combinatie met zijn scherpe strips en amusante illustraties is Hoe dan? een heerlijke, verbazingwekkende en hilarische manier om de wetenschap en technologie die achter het dagelijkse leven schuilgaan beter te begrijpen

Zeven beschouwingen over fundamentele natuurkunde, zoals de algemene relativiteitstheorie van Einstein, wat denken we dat zwarte gaten zijn en wat is de structuur van het heelal. Ons verlangen om te willen weten is oneindig: wat is de oorsprong van het heelal, wat is tijd, wat zijn zwarte gaten, hoe zit de kosmos in elkaar? 

Deze vragen vormen het uitgangspunt van Carlo Rovelli’s Zeven korte beschouwingen over natuurkunde. In dit overzichtelijke boek behandelt hij de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in de twintigste-eeuwse natuurkunde. Zo bespreekt hij Einsteins relativiteitstheorie, de kwantummechanica en zwarte gaten, de architectuur van het heelal en andere brandende kwesties met betrekking tot de fysische wereld.

Inleidende informatie in woord en beeld over Charles Darwin (1809-1882) en zijn evolutietheorie.

Bevat her eerste hoofdstuk van het boek over de geschiedenis van onze kalender (De Jaartelling).

In de eerste hoofdstukken van het boek wordt een gecomprimeerd beeld gegeven van de huidige stand van de evolutietheorie. De nadruk ligt echter op de latere hoofdstukken waar wordt ingegaan op de doorwerking van de moderne evolutietheorie op vele aspecten van de menselijke cultuur en maatschappij. Zo komen onder meer aan de orde: taal, bewustzijn, religie, vrije wil, moraal, esthetica, geneeskunde, kennis en eugenetica.

"America's most interesting and important essayist." --Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Age of Insight

"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." --Adam Gopnik

Embryonic stem cell research. Evolution vs. intelligent design. The transformation of medicine into "health care." Climate change. Never before has science been so intertwined with politics, never have we been more dependent on scientific solutions for the preservation of the species.

Transporting us across more than four hundred years of pivotal moments in science and medicine, Gerald Weissmann distills history's lessons for today's new age of sect and violence: "The Endarkenment." Among others, he lingers with Galileo and his daughter in seventeenth-century Florence, Diderot and d'Alembert in Enlightenment Paris, William and Alice James in fin de siècle Boston, James Watson as the John McEnroe of DNA, and Craig Venter decoding the genome at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Weissmann's message is clear: "Experimental science is our defense--perhaps our best defense--against humbug and the Endarkenment."

Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 - July 10, 2019) was a physician, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections include The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays; Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science; Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth; and Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment.

This book sets out to do for evolution what Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy did for that subject. Its authors is a leading evolutionary biologist, and unlike many popular books on evolution, it isn't written to prove a particular theory. Instead it reviews the key problems and the main answers to them, in a balanced account which is also authoritative. It will be an invaluable guide to all students of biology, but the clarity of the arguments and the level of writing make it an excellent introduction for general readers as well. Among the concepts and controversies discussed are the nature of heredity, evolution, natural selection, and the existences of species.

Geschiedenis van de wetenschappelijke studie van de getijdenbeweging, afgewisseld met cultuurhistorische bijzonderheden en anekdotes.

Behandeling van de complexiteitstheorie, waarvan de chaostheorie een onderdeel is, die ervanuit gaat dat een paar simpele ordeningsregels de basis van schijnbaar chaotische systemen vormen.

Acclaimed one of the "seminal books... comparable in ultimate importance to... Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill," Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead.-- Saturday Review

In this book the author sets out to describe and discuss the philosophical foundations and conceptual problems encountered in the theory of quantum physics. The book describes the basic ideas of quantum physics and discusses both the long standing and the more modern conceptual problems. It then goes on to discuss the 'Measurement Problem' which arises when quantum physics is taken to be the fundamental theory of physics, applicable to large-scale physical systems as well as to atomic phenomena. Various attempts to resolve the resulting contradictions have led some physicists to suggest that human consciousness plays a unique role in the physical world and others to postulate that the physical universe is continually splitting into a huge number of copies of itself. Recent suggestions that quantum physics might be capable of explaining so-called paranormal phenomena are critically reviewed.

From Darwin onward, it has been second nature for evolutionary biologists to think comparatively because comparisons establish the generality of evolutionary phenomena. Do large genomes slow down development? What lifestyles select for large brains? Are extinction rates related to body size? These are all questions for the comparative method, and this book is about how such questions can be answered. The first chapter elaborates on suitable questions for the comparative approach and shows how it complements other approaches to problem-solving in evolution. The second chapter identifies the biological causes of similarity among closely related species for almost any observed character. The third chapter discusses methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees and ancestral character states. The fourth chapter sets out to develop statistical tests that will determine whether different characters that exist in discrete states show evidence for correlated evolution. Chapter 5 turns to comparative analyses of continuously varying characters. Chapter 6 looks at allometry to exemplify the themes and methods discussed earlier, while the last chapter looks to future development of the comparative approach in both molecular and organismic biology.

Uitleg van Gödels beroemde onvolledigheidsstelling uit 1931, die vergaande konsekwenties had voor de wiskunde en logica.

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Inleiding in de deeltjesfysica, met name het Higgsdeeltje.

Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month?

Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make.

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?

In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of an economy of divine life. It was as if the Trinity amounted to nothing more than a problem of managing and governing the heavenly house and the world. Agamben shows that, when combined with the idea of providence, this theological-economic paradigm unexpectedly lies at the origin of many of the most important categories of modern politics, from the democratic theory of the division of powers to the strategic doctrine of collateral damage, from the invisible hand of Smith's liberalism to ideas of order and security.

But the greatest novelty to emerge from The Kingdom and the Glory is that modern power is not only government but also glory, and that the ceremonial, liturgical, and acclamatory aspects that we have regarded as vestiges of the past actually constitute the basis of Western power. Through a fascinating analysis of liturgical acclamations and ceremonial symbols of powerthe throne, the crown, purple cloth, the Fasces, and moreAgamben develops an original genealogy that illuminates the startling function of consent and of the media in modern democracies. With this book, the work begun with Homo Sacer reaches a decisive point, profoundly challenging and renewing our vision of politics.