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Book Preview: #1 The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the earth was a round sphere rather than a flat plate. He knew that eclipses of the moon were caused by the earth coming between the sun and the moon, and that the North Star appeared lower in the sky when viewed in the south than it did in more northerly regions.
#2 Aristotle believed the earth was the center...
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Get the Summary of Carlo Rovelli's “The Order of Time” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
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#1 Caspian arrived late to the tea party, and was greeted by Audrey, who had a discovery to make about time and quantum physics. She explained that her brother was developing a superior version of the fly that could extract energy from a certain type of light.
#2 I'm a theoretical physicist who works at the intersection of quantum physics, information processing, and...
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#1 Newton was a man who changed our view of the world and set us on the path to modern science. He was not a boy genius, like Mozart, but rather a man who was taught and encouraged by a talented father.
#2 Isaac Newton was born in 1642. He was named after his father, a prosperous yeoman farmer who had died three months earlier. The baby was premature, tiny, and sickly....
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Get the Summary of Dave Goulson's Silent Earth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Drawing on thirty years of research, Goulson has written an accessible, fascinating, and important book that examines the evidence of an alarming drop in insect numbers around the world. "If we lose the insects, then everything is going to collapse," he warned in a recent interview in the New York Times-beginning...
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Get the Summary of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine....
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Get the Summary of Rob Dunn's A Natural History of the Future in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we...
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Get the Summary of Amy Leach's The Everybody Ensemble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Amy Leach, the celebrated author of the transcendent Things That Are, invites you into The Everybody Ensemble, an effervescent tonic of a book. These short, wildly inventive essays are filled with praise songs, poetry, ingenious critique, soul-lifting philosophy, music theory, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature....
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Get the Summary of Michael D. Fayer's Absolutely Small in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Absolutely Small" by Michael D. Fayer delves into the realm of quantum theory, explaining how it revolutionized our understanding of the physical world, particularly the concept of size and its relation to observable phenomena like color. The book distinguishes between classical and quantum mechanics, using Schrödinger's...
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Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, to swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, Crawford...
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That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth...
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Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Between lava that melts and re-forms...
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Get the Summary of Michio Kaku's Quantum Supremacy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Quantum Supremacy" by Michio Kaku chronicles the advent of quantum computing, a transformative technology that surpasses traditional supercomputers by exploiting atomic properties to tackle complex problems, such as simulating chemical reactions. This innovation has sparked a competitive race among tech giants like IBM, Google,...
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#1 The cover of Sports Illustrated, which we are used to seeing adorned by athletes and models, once featured the laughing, square-jawed face of Bobby Fischer. He was a chess champion who gained popularity in the 1972. He was so great because he had a touch of luck and a ton of practice, and an obsessive passion.
#2 There are entire fields devoted to judgment, decision-making,...
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#1 Our eyes and all of our other senses are reliable guides because they were created by evolution to reveal the truth about the world. But the truth is not what we think it is. Our perceptions of snakes and apples, and even space and time, do not reveal objective reality.
#2 The purpose of a desktop interface is to show you the truth of the computer, but this...
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#1 We all have a tendency to connect activities with meaning. This is crucial for learning, as it is hard to learn something if we don't see any value in it. Meaning is the first step in understanding.
#2 The value of meaning is rooted in the brain, and it is something we create. We find our own value in the world, and it serves as a means of perspective, a frame of...
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#1 The boy was shot in the head, and the bullet could not be removed by surgery. It left him paralyzed on one side of his body and suffering from vertigo. He was sent to a mental hospital in Jena, Germany, by his doctor, Hans Berger.
#2 In November 1902, Berger conducted the experiment with the young man. He shaved the man's head, and then toweled it dry. He took extra...
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#1 Yuri Trush, a squad leader in an Inspection Tiger unit, was sent to investigate a tiger attack near Sobolonye, a small logging community in the deep forest. He and his squadmates were shocked by what they found.
#2 The tiger's whiskers are believed to make them bulletproof, and its powdered bones will soothe their aches and pains. Its penis will make them virile,...
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#1 Happiness is that feeling when everything seems right, when all of life's twists and turns and jagged edges seem to fit together perfectly. It is a human desire as basic as the drive to take the next breath.
#2 The default state is happiness. If you don't believe me, spend a little time with a human fresh from the factory, an infant or toddler. They are perfectly...
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#1 The discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965 was the first indication that the Universe had a beginning. It was also an indicator of how hot the Universe was in the beginning.
#2 Arno Penzias was one of the researchers who worked on the horn antenna at Crawford Hill. He had been born into a Jewish family in Munich, Germany, in 1933, the same...
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