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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
The Seven Ages of Death
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Стіни в моїй голові. Жити з тривожністю і депресією
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?
Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong
Quantum Supremacy
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
Den lodande människan: Havet, djupet och nyfikenheten – essäer
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
The World According to Physics
Pańszczyzna. Prawdziwa historia polskiego niewolnictwa
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Universe
The Physics of Climate Change
Maskiner som tenker
Światy równoległe. Czego uczą nas płaskoziemcy, homeopaci i różdżkarze
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Black Hole Survival Guide
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History
Statystycznie rzecz biorąc, czyli ile trzeba zjeść czekolady, żeby dostać Nobla?
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Het water komt
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know
Tak działa mózg. Jak mądrze dbać o jego funkcjonowanie
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Internet
Przepis na człowieka. Czyli krótki wstęp do odpowiedzi na pytanie: dlaczego jesteśmy, jacy jesteśmy
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Dawniej ludzie żyli w brudzie. Kiedy i dlaczego zaczęliśmy o siebie dbać?
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Fungarium
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
Skönheten i kaos
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World
Nel contagio
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Loovusest ja logelemisest. Nutineedusest, mõttevälgatustest ja laste arengust
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality
Простими словами. Як розібратися у своїх емоціях
Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils

Mary Roach
Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva." "Erika, I'm a dried up husk." "Don't say that, Mary. ...more
Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Lysenkoism may be useful only because it provides a lesson. Whether we like it or not, the days of the independent scientist and of independent science are about over. The more important science becomes in the lives of individuals and of nations, the more it will need popular support and will have to submit to social control. But the forms and techniques of this support and control have not yet been devised and tested. The problem is a new one. The Soviet rulers have tried a solution, but their ...more
Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

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