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Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history
Par Stephen Jay Gould. 1989
The Burgess Shale is a rock formation containing the fossilized remains of a large number of marine creatures that no…
longer exist. An account of the studies, the misinterpretations and the revisions of opinion which arose from the Burgess Shale findings. 1989.View from a height
Par Isaac Asimov. 1964
The cosmological milk shake: a semi-serious look at the size of things
Par Robert Ehrlich. 1994
A physicist's humourous short essays concerning the size, weight, and distance of objects. Answers such questions as "How Tall Can…
Trees Grow?", "How Far Is the Sun?", and "What Does Air Weigh?" 1994.Relativity: the special and the general theory
Par Albert Einstein. 1961
Scientist Albert Einstein presents his theory of relativity--the measurement and study of space and time--for the layman who "is not…
conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." Originally published in 1916. This fifteenth edition includes five appendixes. 1961. Uniform title: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.Le tyrannosaure (Les sciences naturelles de Tatsu Nagata.)
Par Tatsu Nagata, Dedieu. 2016
Catapulté en pleine Préhistoire, Tatsu Nagata observe le terrifiant tyrannosaure. Ce lézard géant pouvait peser jusqu'à 7 tonnes et mesurer…
12 mètres. Ce terrible prédateur, friand de chair fraîche Heureusement lorsqu'ils étaient sur terre, les hommes n'existaient pas encore ! Années M-2 et plus.Le cantique des quantiques: le monde existe-t-il ?
Par Sven Ortoli, Jean-Pierre Pharabod. 2004
L'esprit, cet inconnu ((Que sais-je? ; 698))
Par Jean Emile Charon. 1977
Des atomes et des hommes ((Idées nrf ; 195))
Par Louis Leprince-Ringuet. 1966
La sorcellerie
Par Christine Brouillet. 1991
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, And The Making Of A Spectacle
Par Lukas Rieppel. 2019
Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America…
into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America's Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture.How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Par Randall Munroe. 2019
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the…
#1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Par Sean Carroll. 2019
Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone…
else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line, Carroll says that crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Since the beginning of the universe about fourteen billion years ago, this has happened about ten to the tenth to the one-hundredth power times. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he sets out the major objections to this utterly mind-blowing notion until his case is inescapably established. The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity- his theory of curved spacetime. Carroll argues that our refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded us, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function. No book for a popular audience has attempted to make this radical argument. We're on the threshold of a new way of understanding the cosmos.Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
Par Augusten Burroughs. 2019
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little…
spooky. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note that "witches" and "witchcraft" are absent from this list. When really they should be right there at the top. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: I am a witch."-From Toil & Trouble For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this family tree was filled with witches. It was a bond that he and his mother shared - until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that's a whole other story). After that, Augusten was on his own. On his own to navigate the world of this tricky power; on his own to either use or misuse this gift. From the hilarious to the terrifying, Toil & Trouble is a chronicle of one man's journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. There are very few things that are coincidences, as you will learn in Toil & Trouble. Ghosts are real, trees can want to kill you, beavers are the spawn of satan, houses are alive, and in the end, love is the most powerful magic of all.An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists.In…
1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be, and what might it tell us about our own place in the universe? As it turns out, quite a lot. Fourteen billion years ago, the universe exploded into being, creating galaxies and stars. Planets formed out of the leftover dust and gas that coalesced into larger and larger bodies orbiting around each star. In a sort of heavenly survival of the fittest, planetary bodies smashed into each other until solar systems emerged. Curiously, instead of being relatively similar in terms of composition, the planets in our solar system, and the comets, asteroids, satellites and rings, are bewitchingly distinct. So, too, the halves of our moon. In When the Earth Had Two Moons, esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, When the Earth Had Two Moons is not only a mind-blowing astronomical tour but a profound inquiry into the nature of life here-and billions of miles from home.Le pays qu'habitait Albert Einstein: essai
Par Étienne Klein. 2018
" Albert Einstein, c'est l'audace intellectuelle alliée à une fraîcheur déconcertante, c'est l'imagination ardente soutenue par une obstination imperturbable. Mais…
comment approcher une façon de penser et de créer à nulle autre pareille ? Étienne Klein est parti sur ses traces, il s'est attaché aux époques et aux villes où le destin d'Einstein a basculé : Aarau où, à seize ans, Einstein se demande ce qu'il se passerait s'il chevauchait un rayon de lumière ; Zurich, où il devient ingénieur en 1901 et se passionne pour la physique expérimentale ; Berne où, entre mars et septembre 1905, il publie cinq articles, dont celui sur la relativité restreinte qui révolutionnera les relations de l'espace et du temps, tout en travaillant à l'Office fédéral de la propriété intellectuelle ; Prague où, en 1912, il a l'idée que la lumière est déviée par la gravitation, esquissant ainsi la future théorie de la relativité générale. Puis Bruxelles, Anvers et, enfin, Le Coq-sur-Mer où, en 1933, Einstein se réfugie quelques mois avant de quitter l'Europe pour les États-Unis. Définitivement. "Le violon d'Einstein: variations sur le temps, les quanta, l'infini
Par Yann Verdo. 2018
Quand il ne se lançait pas dans ses fructueuses réflexions sur la nature de l'espace et du temps, Einstein jouait…
du violon ou fumait la pipe, et ces deux objets ne sont certes pas pour rien dans l'élaboration de ses théories. Et même si chacun de nous n'atteint pas des sphères de la pensée aussi vertigineuses que lui, l'art de penser à côté est accessible à tous. Yann Verdo le montre ici, en pratiquant la physique en amateur averti, et en nous invitant à plonger avec lui dans la physique quantique, la relativité générale et la logique. De ses rencontres imaginaires avec Einstein, Cantor et Gödel résultent une familiarité nouvelle avec ces individus hors du commun, et une compréhension profonde des grands thèmes - le temps, l'infini, la matière - qu'ils ont révolutionnésLa théorie de la relativité d'Einstein (Les grandes découvertes scientifiques)
Par Alan Q Morton. 2006
Ce livre [...] examine d'abord la vie et l'époque [d'Einstein], ainsi que les lois de la physique qui précédèrent ses…
théories. Puis il explique la relativité et son rôle dans notre vie quotidienne, pour ensuite analyser les théories de la relativité spéciale et de la relativité générale. Il poursuit en décrivant la façon dont ces idées étonnantes ont ouvert la voie à une toute nouvelle interprétation des forces de l'univers, de la puissance que recèle le noyau d'un atome au comportement des corps célestes qui peuplent l'espace. -- 4e de couvLife: the first four billion years : the story of life from the big bang to the evolution of humans
Par Martin Jenkins. 2019
Dueling dinosaurs and other real dino stories (Highlights Stories)
Par Highlights For Children. 2019
Real dinosaurs! Read about Triceratops' horns and their purpose. Did you know that there are animals alive today that move…
similarly to dinosaurs? Sometimes museums display copies of dinosaur fossils instead of the real thing. Learn how the Smithsonian made an exact copy of a dinosaur skeleton. A dinosaur fan's dreams came true as he watched a dinosaur skeleton being rebuilt. Stories by Sharon Pochron, Cheryl M. Reifsnyder, Ph.D., Suzanne McIntire, and Don Lessem, Dinosaur EditorA Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
Par Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow. 2006
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS Stephen…
Hawking's worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for readers who have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts-the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe-A Briefer History of Time is Professor Hawking's response. Although "briefer," this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawking's earlier work. A Briefer History of Time both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the field-from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make A Briefer History of Time an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.