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"Hace muchos años -1976- estuve en Tucson, Arizona, y en el planetario de la ciudad había un ciclo de charlas de divulgación. Una de ellas me llamó poderosamente la atención. La ofrecía el astrónomo de la Universidad de Arizona, Nick Woolf, y se titulaba "The Universe: I can Feel it in my Bones". El título era tan provocativo que me inspiró para una charla pública que, ya de vuelta en Chile, he dictado durante años: "Somos polvo de estrellas". A miles de jóvenes y no tan jóvenes les he contado lo que yo considero una de las más grandes historias de la astronomía.

Es la intención de este audiolibro mostrar que en la relatividad general esas dos caras de la cultura muestran el mismo aire de familia que cualquiera puede apreciar entre el rostro delirante que la tradición nos ha legado de don Quijote y ese icono de la modernidad que es el rostro de un Einstein desmelenado.

Where do you go to let your curiosity fly? The backyard, of course. The setting for this audio original program is the backyard of William Shatner’s Los Angeles home, where he and Neil deGrasse Tyson enjoy a powerful, open-hearted conversation steeped in wonder. Having become fast friends and verbal sparring partners, the two men discuss the quest for knowledge that has driven human exploration and discovery over centuries, drawing from historical and contemporary examples.

L'universo è un'immensa foresta abitata da feroci predatori. Nascondersi significa sopravvivere, rivelarsi significa diventare prede. È quello che ha fatto la Terra, e ora i predatori stanno arrivando. Impiegheranno 400 anni, attraverso gli spazi siderali, e la Terra tenta di organizzare una disperata resistenza.

En las profundidades de las ruinas de Derinkuyu, la legendaria ciudad subterránea situada en el corazón de Capadocia, el arqueólogo David Birch descubre un artefacto de bronce cubierto de inscripciones griegas y dotado de mecanismos increíblemente avanzados para su época. Mientras descifran los orígenes del artefacto, tropiezan con la asombrosa leyenda de la Máquina del Destino, un dispositivo poderoso oculto al mundo, ligado a los secretos de los dioses y capaz de vislumbrar el porvenir de los días.

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

This new and long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan's international best seller continues the electrifying journey through space and time, linking worlds within and worlds billions of miles away and envisioning a future of science tempered with wisdom. Based on National Geographic's internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up together.

The universe tends toward chaos. Things fall apart, structures dissolve, energy disperses. And yet some systems persist—cells, minds, institutions, civilizations—for millions and even billions of years. How? In The Physics of Identity, Boris Kriger reveals that the answer lies not in any mysterious life force but in two structural necessities that every persistent system must satisfy: it must conserve what defines it, and it must be able to transform its own structures when the world demands it.

This is an English summary of the book 'A Brief History of Time', written by Stephen Hawking. In this insightful book, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking discusses fundamental ideas, like space, time, gravity, black holes, and more. He attempts to answer questions about the cosmos, its structure, origin, development, and what is to happen to it.

Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winner John E. Mack stunned the world when he published the astonishing results of his extensive research involving clients who claimed they had had encounters with alien life-forms. Writing with the authority and insight that have marked his distinguished career as a psychiatrist and writer, Mack used the remarkable stories to show how the abduction phenomenon has the vast potential to transform the foundation of human thought.

Mount Oznol is no longer just a border. It has become a target. When Aresh spots an Accord convoy moving through the canyon with Extractors, escorts, and a second hidden retrieval team, Mira, Sh’ala, and Zaxar are forced into a brutal confrontation where every move reveals more of the enemy’s real purpose. What begins as a defensive strike quickly turns into a deeper discovery: the Accord is not only pushing into Rokar for access, but building a full extraction line tied to the planet’s rare metals and to Zaxar himself.

El siglo XX se recordará como el de la era espacial. Durante las cuatro últimas décadas, además de la inolvidable hazaña de la llegada del hombre a la Luna, se han conseguido otros importantes logros: la exploración minuciosa de Marte y Venus, la visita...

Ian Stewart presenta las vidas extraordinarias y los sorprendentes descubrimientos de 25 de los mejores matemáticos de la historia, desde Arquímedes y Liu Hui hasta Benoit Mandelbrot y William Thurston. Sus sujetos son personas inspiradoras que han hecho contribuciones cruciales a las Matemáticas.

Crecí en una casa finca con tantas plantas que la gente creía que era un vivero y aunque cerca de allí no vivían otrxs niñxs de mi edad, nunca me hicieron falta porque pasaba todo el tiempo con mis dos amigos perros. Hace dos años quise con todo mi corazón que adoptáramos un perrito para amarlo y que mis hijos tuvieran la experiencia de crecer con él y entre 1.200 perros del Centro de Bienestar Animal La Perla de la Alcaldía de Medellín Colombia nos enamoramos de uno. Así que hoy queremos presentarles a Cosmo, un perrito que cada día nos enseña más cosas sobre el amor.

Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a 3,000-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.

 The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the 16th century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society in which Menocchio lived.   

Jóvenes de ambos sexos se encuentran dentro de una nave espacial que tiene un destino desconocido. La única compañía con la que pueden contar, es la de un grupo de robots que les cuidan y asesoran en todo, incluso un poco más de la cuenta.... Pero los jóvenes haciendo gala de esa curiosidad típica en ellos empiezan a investigar.

Quanti anni ha la vita? Qual è il destino delle stelle? Se l'atomo è fatto di vuoto, che cosa sostiene il mondo? Perché solo i nostri neuroni, tra quelli di tutte le specie, sono in grado di descrivere i neutrini? Edoardo Boncinelli e Antonio Ereditato ci raccontano l'avventura dell'Universo: dall'esplosione iniziale al costituirsi dell'architettura delle galassie, dal principio dello spaziotempo all'evoluzione dei sapiens e al sorgere della coscienza umana. Tornano a istanti che vanno da 10-30 a 10-20 secondi dopo il Big Bang.

Es la intención de este audiolibro mostrar que en la relatividad general esas dos caras de la cultura muestran el mismo aire de familia que cualquiera puede apreciar entre el rostro delirante que la tradición nos ha legado de don Quijote y ese icono de la modernidad que es el rostro de un Einstein desmelenado.

Cosmos Raines is considered one of the most brilliant inventors in the world. A prodigy, he is a self-made billionaire who would rather be in his lab than jet-setting around the world. Things change when his latest experiment literally opens a gateway into a whole new world. Now not only has his best friend and her family moved to a new star system through the gateway he has opened but he finds himself with a warehouse full of alien guests, including one very aggravating female who has turned him inside out.