Títulos en Líderes de ciencia y tecnología

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty.

Over 1500 years before Leonardo Da Vinci became the Renaissance Man, antiquity had its own in the form of Archimedes, one of the most famous Ancient Greeks. An engineer, mathematician, physicist, scientist and astronomer all rolled into one, Archimedes has been credited for making groundbreaking discoveries, some of which are undoubtedly fact and others that are almost certainly myth.

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures). From Snow White to Moana...

When a young girl, Cardy Raper told her mother, “When I grow up I want to be a scientist and make grand discoveries!” Her mother responded, “You could become a nurse.” Her dream seemed attainable when she met her mentor, Professor John “Red” Raper at the University of Chicago who said “Yes, you can be a scientist!” They became soul mates, fell in love, married, parented children, moved to Harvard, and did research together on the versatile sex life of fungi. Red’s untimely death left Cardy alone in the competitive world of cutting-edge science....

Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system being used by an advanced aerospace vehicle he is told came from outer space. The stressful work and long, odd hours start to wear on Bob and he becomes concerned for his safety. He tells his wife and a couple close friends about what he's doing in the desert, and his employers find out and are furious.

In this remarkable culinary biography, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Benjamin Franklin's experimentation with food throughout his life. At age 16, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early 20s, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for "water gruel", a kind of porridge he enjoyed. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries, including electricity and the lightning rod, and his curiosity and logical mind extended to the kitchen.

As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud developed theories that made him one of the most influential psychologists of the last century. In this rare actual recording from 1938, Freud talks about his professional career and his escape from the Nazis at the age of 82. (Some German is spoken.)

These 12 half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong. He may have kindled a scientific revolution with his famous theory of relativity and his proof that atoms and light quanta exist, but he balked at accepting the most startling implications of these theories - such as the existence of black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and mind-bendingly strange phenomena in the quantum realm. This course by research physicist Dan Hooper of the University of Chicago assumes no background in science and uses very little math.

Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.

Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality.... or (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world.Made your choice? Welcome to the science wars. This long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has reemerged in today's conflict between science and religion over issues like evolution.

These 24 lectures present a wide-ranging intellectual exploration of this iconic scientist, genius, and champion of social justice. More than just a biography of Einstein's life, Albert Einstein provides you with an inside look at how this brilliant thinker arrived at his various revolutionary breakthroughs.

Una figura determinante en la etapa republicana y contemporánea del Perú. Autor de la monumental Historia de la República del Perú, obra cumbre de la historiografía peruana, fue además un fino crítico y estudioso de la literatura de su país, maestro y educador de varias generaciones, catedrático y profesor.

I sei brevi romanzi in cui perdersi in questo audiolibro sono quelli di Marie Curie (1867-1934), Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Emmy Noether (1882-1935), Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) e Mileva Marić (1875-1948). Per molti saranno nomi sconosciuti, eppure queste sei donne sono state delle pioniere. Sono nate tutte nell'arco di cinquant'anni e hanno operato negli anni cruciali e ruggenti del Novecento, che sono stati anni di guerre terribili, ma anche di avanzamenti scientifici epocali.

Il 2 maggio del 1519 moriva in Francia Leonardo da Vinci, il genio inafferrabile che ancora oggi è al centro dell'attenzione con i suoi capolavori e misteri. Dario Pappalardo e la scrittrice Melania Mazzucco discutono della eredità (e attualità) del pittore, architetto, scultore ma soprattutto grande sperimentatore a 500 anni dalla morte.

Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme substance lysozyme in 1923, and the anitbiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. This audiobook is from a 1950 talk he gave on the development of antibiotics.

I testi che seguono sono tratti e liberamente adattati e rielaborati da dichiarazioni pubbliche di Steve Jobs, interviste e memorie che lo riguardano. Avendo l'estensione di un tweet (max 140 caratteri) sono totalmente decontestualizzati, mantenendo tuttavia intatto il loro valore di sentenze e insegnamenti morali e comportamentali. I materiali sono presentati in ordine cronologico e quindi possono essere collegati a episodi e fasi della vita e dei tempi di Steve Jobs. Buon ascolto e ispiratevi!

Alfred Nobel fu uno scienziato e un imprenditore. Di origine svedese ma di formazione cosmopolita, studiò in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, non ponendo mai limiti alla sua voglia di imparare. Il suo lavoro si concretizzò nell'invenzione della dinamite, che in poco tempo cambiò il modo di percepire le armi e la guerra nel mondo intero.

È un libro folletto, che non entra nelle caselle tradizionali. Illustra il continuo corpo-anima dell’autore in modo straordinariamente terrestre e confidenziale, ora rozzo ora fine, ingenuo e scanzonato, pedante e folgorante, spaccone e depresso. Oggi Cardano non è certo dimenticato dagli studiosi; ma la sua notorietà è infima, se la paragoniamo a quella, poniamo, di Leonardo da Vinci, che apparteneva alla generazione precedente.. Ai suoi tempi qualcuno lo chiamò “uomo delle invenzioni”.

Tutti ce lo immaginiamo come una delle più lucide menti del XX secolo, ed è vero, ma dietro alla figura del grande scienziato Albert Einstein c'è qualcosa di più: un uomo estroverso, con lo sguardo oltre ogni pensabile universo, imprevedibile nelle sue reazioni, un filosofo, un padre e un marito dai risvolti affettivi poco noti. David Zuckenberg, giornalista alle prime armi con molte speranze e poche esperienze, fa il possibile per riuscire a strappare un'intervista al celebre scienziato.

"Il pensiero logico, da solo, non ci può fornire conoscenze sul mondo dell'esperienza e termina in essa. Le proposizioni puramente logiche sono vuote davanti alla realtà. È grazie a questa conoscenza e soprattutto per averla fatta penetrare a colpi di martello nel mondo della scienza, che Galileo è diventato il padre della fisica moderna e soprattutto delle scienze naturali moderne". Albert Einstein.