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Une plongée aussi passionnante quinsolite dans la grande et les petites histoires de la médecine.La médecine na jamais connu daussi grands progrès que depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Mais fort heureuse

L’air, cette masse invisible qui nous entoure, permet à la vie de se développer. Selon Baudelaire, il «est plein du frisson des choses qui s’enfuient » ; de fait, il renferme une multitude de secret

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2025 & BSHS PICKSTONE PRIZE 2026A GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH BEST SCIENCE BOOK 2025WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK 2025A vital and important book David OlusogaFrom an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choiceAnyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or as capable of pushing our planet to the verge of a sixth mass extinction? Extinction, Sadiah Qureshi shows us, is a surprisingly modern concept and a phenomenon thats not as natural as we might think. In Europe until the late eighteenth century, species were considered perfect and unchanging creations of God. Then in the age of revolutions, scientists gathered enough fossil evidence to determine that mammoth bones, for example, were not just large elephants but a lost species that once roamed the Earth alongside ancient humans. Extinction went from being regarded as theologically dangerous to pervasive, and even inevitable. Yet Vanished shows us that extinction is more than a scientific idea; its a political choice that has led to devasting consequences. Europeans and Americans quickly used the notion that extinction was a natural process to justify persecution and genocide, predicting that nations from Newfoundlands Beothuk to Aboriginal Australians were doomed to die out from imperial expansion. Exploring the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, Vanished weaves together pioneering original research and breath-taking storytelling to show us extinction is both an evolutionary process and a human act: one which illuminates our past, and may alter our future.

La diététique est-elle une science, une pratique quotidienne ou un régime alimentaire ?Aujourdhui, la diététique est partout. Cette pratique, que lon associe souvent à la modernité et à des préoccupa

The international bestsellerAmbitious . . . pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics New ScientistQuantum physics is the cornerstone of our world. Yet, at the same time, its one of the hardest subjects for ordinary mortals to grasp.In Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics, a husband-and-wife duo renowned physicist Frank Verstraete and writer Celine Broeckaert demystifies the essential science behind how our world works. Together, they unravel the reasons the universe behaves in its weird ways and just why its so important to understand them.In this book, you will discover: How symmetry governs the universe The untold history of quantum physics How quantum principles power our gadgets and lives The real essence behind quantum puzzles and discoveries Part history and part popular science, Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics serves as a bridge between the complex world of quantum physics and the curious mind.A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking John Preskill, theoretical physicist and Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at CaltechQuantum physics has long been mysterious, yet [the authors] succeed, often with brilliance, in making its history and mind-blowing ways accessible to lay readers NatureEntertaining, unorthodox and highly readable Ian Stewart FRS, bestselling author of The Science of DiscworldA delightful book for all those who do not speak the language of mathematics but are curious about the most beautiful of theories and their impact on our lives Barbara Terhal, theoretical physicist

ECPA AWARD WINNER A road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhoodby a leading tech policy expertWe know smartphones can be harmful to kids and teens, but what can we do about it? In this indispensable guide, Clare Morell documents the solutions that actually work.Cal Newport, author of Slow ProductivityandDigital MinimalismIts no secret that addictive digital technologies like smartphones and social media apps are harming a generation of kids socially, mentally, and even physically. But a workable solution seems elusive. After all, dont kids need phones, and wont they be vulnerable or socially isolated without tech?Clare Morell, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of its Technology and Human Flourishing Project, argues that the answer is no. She exposes the lies parents have been sold about managing the dangers of tech through parental controls and screen-time limits, and demonstrates that another way is possibleeven if your children are already using smartphones or social media.The Tech Exit maps a doable pathway to freedom from digital technology for families, local communities, and society. Drawing on dozens of interviews with experts and with families who have gone tech-free, as well as Morells own work as a policy expert, The Tech Exit shows how digital technology is anything but necessary for children to live happy, healthy, and socially full lives.The Tech Exit is essential reading for any parent who has felt stuck between an awareness of the dangers of digital technology for kids and the feeling that tech is necessary and inevitable. Clare Morells message is simple and compelling: You and your family can be free. The life you want for your children is within reach.

From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AIas well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.Included in J.P. Morgans Summer Reading List Included in The Next Big Idea Clubs June 2025 Must-Read BooksAIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, your Instagram AI, and a hundred others adoringly watch and learn to imitate your behavior. Theyre attention-seeking children who want your approval.Our cultures are being shaped by 8 billion humans and perhaps 800 billion AIs. Our artificial children began adopting us 1020 years ago; now these massively powerful influencers are tweens.Hows your parenting?Longtime AI trailblazer De Kai brings decades of his paradigm-shifting work at the nexus of artificial intelligence and society to make sense of the AI age. How does the automation of thought impact our minds? Should we be afraid?What should each of us do as the responsible adults in the room? In Hollywood movies, AI destroys humanity. But with our unconscious minds under the influence of AI, humanity may destroy humanity before AI gets a chance to.Written for the general reader, as well as thought leaders, scientists, parents, and goofballs, Raising AI navigates the revolution to our attitudes and ideas in a world of AI cohabitants. Society can not only survive the AI revolution but flourish in a more humane, compassionate, and understanding worldamongst our artificial children.

Discussões Interdisciplinares: Debates e Discussões entre Ciências Exatas e Naturais – Volume 8 reúne artigos que propõem reflexões críticas e soluções práticas para os desafios ambientais, tecnológi

A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING INBETWEENMost scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole. A pleasure to read, and a lasting accomplishment Richard DawkinsStep aside Star Wars ours is the most astonishing origin story youll ever hear and its beautifully told by Tim Coulson Professor Ken Norris, Deputy Director of Science at the Natural History Museum--What made the universe?How did we come to exist?Where are we going?Once, such questions belonged to religion or philosophy. But in the last century scientists have been uncovering astonishing answers to explain the wonder of ourselves, our world and our universe.Professor Tim Coulson takes us back to the beginning of everything the Big Bang 13.8 million years ago and tells us the epic story of how we came to be.From the emergence of the first atom to the mysteries of human consciousness, this book is, in short, the complete and utter history of everything.--A highly readable and super enjoyable book . . . that takes us on a free-spirited intellectual romp through every aspect of what we know about our universe Peter Hudson FRS Willaman Professor of Biology at Penn StateA charming, engaging and erudite account David Christian, author of New York Times bestseller Origin Story (2018)A gangbuster science book. A cant-put-down read. I dont think I have learned more from a single book Douglas W. Smith, Former Senior Wildlife Biologist, Yellowstone National ParkExceptional. A highly infectious read. From the first page I found it impossible to put down Professor Baroness Kathy Willis, Professor of Biodiversity, University of OxfordAchieves something almost impossible, lucid explanation without dumbing down . . . can read this for fun and accidentally you will know as much general science as any Professor James H Naismith FRS FRSE FMedSci MAE, Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at Oxford, Professor of Structural BiologyWith wit, wisdom and humility. The prose is of a perfect weight, and an absolute joy to read Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of OxfordWill appeal to a broad variety of readers and inspire new generations of scientists for years to come Quentin Paynter

From two award-winning creators comes a picture book that reveals the hidden wonders of how Saharan Dust impacts the world: from slowing a hurricane to nourishing a rainforest.A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThis dust . . .of what lived oncesustains what lives today and what will be born . . .tomorrow.An ancient catfish becomes a fossil, and as the lake where it lived dries up, the fossil turns to dust--but this isnt ordinary dust. This dust begins in Chad, West Africa, but winds carry it across the continent, over the Atlantic ocean, to nourish and replenish the Amazon rain forest and beyond. A Gift of Dust takes readers on a journey that shows just how interconnected our planet is, and how something so small can have such a huge impact. With lyrical, awe-inspiring verse based in fact, and stunning art from a Caldecott honoree, this is a story for our times.

An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers.Heartbeat Art is the first study of how artists have engaged with heartbeats from the 1960s to the present, creating sophisticated and technological works that project in unique ways the circulatory processes of the body beyond its physical limits. Drawing on a long history of scientific and artistic experimentation, Claudia Arozqueta offers detailed case studies of heartbeat works by a wide range of international artists working at the interconnections of our bodies, art, and science and technology, including Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Heinz Mack, Brian ODoherty, Teresa Burga, and many others.Technoscientific advances in monitoring heartbeats and pulses in the nineteenth centurysuch as Rene Laennecs stethoscope, Etienne-Jules Mareys sphygmograph and chronophotograph, and Willem Einthovens electrocardiographtransformed the movements of the heart into audible and visual representations. Artists saw in the language of these scientific technologies a way of mingling the inner with the outer, the physical with the technological, and data with flesh. Using archival research, interviews, and correspondence, Arozqueta describes significant works in detail, discusses their contexts and development, and examines the larger classes and contours of this neglected area of artistic activity. Other artists in the volume include Eliane Radigue, Jean Dupuy, Linda Montano, Catherine Richards, Diana Domingues, Mona Hatoum, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Christian Boltanski.

Sapiens meets Why We Sleep in an evolutionary romp through the science of sleepand how we can get better restby one of the worlds leading sleep scientists.We spend roughly a third of our lives in bed, but for millions of us, not all of that time is spent sleeping. We strive for eight hours per night, only to lie awake thanks to stress, our ever-present devices, a new baby, or that 4pm coffee you thought you needed.As sleep scientist and recovering insomniac Merijn van de Laar shows, the struggle with modern insomnia is nothing new. When homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, when saber-toothed tigers were their biggest nighttime worry, wakefulness served to protect ones tribe at night. Research shows these episodic sleep patterns even gave our ancestors an evolutionary advantage. We can look to their example for guidance in improving our sleep health and understanding our natural circadian rhythm, too: how our sleep patterns change as we age, the benefits of communal sleep, the importance of environmental factors such as temperature and light. While our myriad gadgets may distinguish us from early humans, understanding the ways our brains evolved to rest can chart the course toward a better nights sleep.Drawing from emerging science, archeological research into our ancestors habits, and close observation of contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures, How to Sleep Like a Caveman explains everything from why we sometimes jerk awake at nightlikely a remnant of having slept in treesto why our efforts to optimize our sleep schedules might just be a fools errand. The result is a surprising, accessible new framework grounded in ancestral health for thinking about sleepthe way we were designed to. Drawing on the wisdom of our ancestors, youll discover:Evolutionary Sleep Science: Why our brains evolved to wake up during the night and how that episodic sleep was once a survival advantage against saber-toothed tigers. Beyond the 8-Hour Myth: Learn why trying to optimize a perfect eight-hour block of sleep might be a fools errand and what hunter-gatherer societies teach us about flexible sleep patterns. Primal Sleep Instincts: An explanation for why we sometimes jerk awake as we fall asleepa fascinating remnant from our tree-sleeping ancestors. A New Framework for Rest: Practical guidance on environmental factors like temperature and light, and how to apply ancestral wisdom to improve your modern-day sleep health.

Comment devient-on astronaute ? Pourra-t-on un jour envoyer des humains sur Mars ? La guerre spatiale est-elle pour demain ?Alors que les américains et les chinois se livrent une course effrénée en vue dun retour sur la Lune, quel meilleur guide que Neil Armstrong, premier homme a avoir pose le pied sur un autre astre du systeme solaire, pour nous faire decouvrir le voyage dans lespace?Installez-vous confortablement dans votre transat et laissez-vous conter par Charles Frankel lhistoire et le futur de la conquete spatiale.

Qui était Pythagore et quelle était sa vision du monde? Quels secrets cache le nombre dor? A quoi servent les nombres premiers?Au VIe siècle avant notre ère, Pythagore a fondé à Crotone une école bas

A rich account of the worlds leading science prize told through the lives it has changed, the controversies it has generated, and the impact it has made on the public.In a world where the work of science largely remains inscrutable to the general public, the Nobel Prize confers a degree of intelligibility like no other honor. Our best-known and most prestigious award for individual scientific achievement, the Nobel attaches a brilliant face to a story of profound discovery, making moving headlines. In Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints, Massimiano Bucchi tells an equally compelling story of the Nobels transformation of science into an epic pursuit legible both to the field and to the public, bound up with the currents of historical change.Three main narratives characterize the Nobel. The scientist as genius, portrayed as a creative visionary, an exceptional intellect reflecting a solitary and romantic ideal of great communicative impact. The scientist as national hero acts as a surrogate of competition among nations in a peaceful, rational contest. The scientist as saint shines with moral exceptionality, a figure worthy of celebration and worship, known for virtues such as modesty, humility, and total dedication, body and soul, to the scientific enterprise. Whether the recipient was Albert Einstein or a countryside doctor toiling for years in obscurity, whether the prize was worthily given or awarded to work later disproved, or whether we even remember the honorees today, the Nobel defined the image of science in the twentieth century, Bucchi shows, an image that still lives in all sorts of fascinating ways today.

From a leading ethicist, a workable and inspiring model of ethics, showing not only why ethics matters but also how it can be used to improve human welfare.Humanity faces a multitude of profound challenges at present: technological advances, environmental changes, rising inequality, and deep social and political pluralism. These transformations raise moral questionsquestions about how we view ourselves and how we ought to engage with the world in the pursuit of human flourishing. In The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom, Eric Racine puts forward an original interdisciplinary ethics theory that offers both an explanation of the workings of human morality and a model for deliberation-based imaginative processes to tackle moral problems.Drawing from a wide array of disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science, neuroscience, and economics, this book offers an engaging account of situated moral agency and of ethical life as the pursuit of human flourishing. Moral experience, Racine explains, is accounted for in the form of situational unitsmorally problematic situations. These units are, in turn, theorized as actionable and participatory building blocks of moral existence mapping to mechanisms of episodic memory and to the construction of personal identity. Such explanations pave the way for an understanding of the social and psychological mechanisms of the awareness and neglect of morally problematic situations as well as of the imaginative ethical deliberation needed to respond to these situations. Deliberative wisdom is explained as an engaged and ongoing learning process about human flourishing.

A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as more than 200 citations to current scientific developments.Francisco Varelas Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how living systems produce and maintain themselves. This new edition, edited and annotated by cognitive scientists Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompsonrevised and complemented with introductory essays for each part of the bookcontains a wealth of ideas relevant to current projects in theoretical biology, cognitive science, systems theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of biology. Over 220 margin annotations supplement the reading of the text, linking to subsequent research and broader contemporary debates.This foundational book introduces the key concept of autonomy derived as an elaboration of the idea of autopoiesis (the self-production and self-distinction) of living organisms. Varela covers topics in systems theory, neuroscience, theories of perception, and immune networks and offers a participatory epistemology that goes on to be further developed in later enactive literature. These ideas are compelling not only for historical reasons but also because they still illuminate current efforts in developing the enactive approach toward wider and more challenging goals (including language, human cognition, ethics, and environmentalism).

Inspirados por Foucault e Edgar Morin, os autores fazem uma crítica ao positivismo e exploram a ciência como um processo autocrítico e plural, compreendendo-a como construção coletiva e como ato de r

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how societal collapse and other cataclysmic events are not irrevocable endings, but transformations. Perfect for fans of Sapiens or The Dawn of Everything.A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: What happened? The good news is, weve been here before. History is long, and people have already confronted just about every apocalypse were facing today. But these days, archaeologists are getting better at seeing stories of human resilience, transformation, and even progress hidden within those histories of collapse and destruction. Perhaps, we begin to see, apocalypses do not destroy worlds, but create them anew.Apocalypse offers a new way of understanding all of human history, reframing it as a series of crises and cataclysms that we survived, moments of choice in an evolution of humanity that has never been predetermined or even linear. Here Lizzie Wade asks us to reckon with our long-held narratives of these events, from the end of Old Kingdom Egypt, the collapse of the Classic Maya, to the Black Death, and, using the latest findings from archaeology, shows us how people lived through and beyond themand even considered what a new world could look like in their wake.The more we learn about apocalypses past, the more hope we have that we will survive our own. It wont be pleasant. It wont be fair. The world will be different on the other side, and our cultures and communitiesperhaps even our specieswill be different too."Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller. She reminds us that survival always has been, and still is, possible, and that our world always has been, and still is, a choice." Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldThis book upended my understanding of the ancient world. Wade renders our deep past in vivid prose, showing us that times of great rupture also bring great possibilities for new ways of living, if we let them. Apocalypse is the best kind of history book: vibrant and vital. Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light EatersHow did our ancestors survive the end of their worldsand what can they teach us about surviving our own?Ancient Civilizations: From the end of Old Kingdom Egypt to the fall of the Classic Maya, see how societies didnt just disappear, but adapted and transformed in the face of crisis. Climate Instability: Witness the story of Doggerland, a lost world swallowed by the sea, to discover how ancient sea-level rise spurred astonishing human ingenuity. Human Survival: Go back to the deep past, when Homo sapiens were not the only humans, and uncover the surprising new story of Neanderthal extinctionand survivalrevealed by ancient DNA. Lessons for Today: Connect the dots from the Black Death to our own turbulent present, learning how the lessons from apocalypses past offer hope for navigating the challenges of our future.

Sabia que se Alexander Fleming não tivesse tido a oportunidade de cuspir e até de se assoar para cima de placas de Petri talvez nunca tivéssemos descoberto a penicilina? E que Emmanuelle Charpentier,