Títulos en Líderes de ciencia y tecnología

Nel novembre 2018 l'astrofisico Federico Nati parte per una missione in Antartide con un team internazionale. La missione è rischiosa e ambiziosa: spedire nella stratosfera un telescopio di tre tonnellate per studiare la nascita delle stelle e le origini del cosmo. Gli scienziati combattono contro le difficoltà del lavoro sperimentale, amplificate dalla ostilità dell'ambiente polare, per portare a compimento l'esperimento su cui hanno scommesso anni di lavoro e carriera.

Idee? Moltissime. Start-up? Anche di più. Che spesso tuttavia non riescono a trasformare il progetto iniziale in business, perdendosi per strada tra problemi finanziari, indifferenza del mercato, incapacità di creare la squadra giusta. In "Innovation", Luca Orlando racconta le storie di giovani imprenditrici e imprenditori italiani che invece sono riusciti a "decollare". Alcuni in senso fisico, costruendo satelliti per la Nasa o tecnologie per i lanciatori di tutto il mondo.

Idee? Moltissime. Start-up? Anche di più. Che spesso tuttavia non riescono a trasformare il progetto iniziale in business, perdendosi per strada tra problemi finanziari, indifferenza del mercato, incapacità di creare la squadra giusta. In "Innovation", Luca Orlando racconta le storie di giovani imprenditrici e imprenditori italiani che invece sono riusciti a "decollare". Alcuni in senso fisico, costruendo satelliti per la Nasa o tecnologie per i lanciatori di tutto il mondo.

Idee? Moltissime. Start-up? Anche di più. Che spesso tuttavia non riescono a trasformare il progetto iniziale in business, perdendosi per strada tra problemi finanziari, indifferenza del mercato, incapacità di creare la squadra giusta. In "Innovation", Luca Orlando racconta le storie di giovani imprenditrici e imprenditori italiani che invece sono riusciti a "decollare". Alcuni in senso fisico, costruendo satelliti per la Nasa o tecnologie per i lanciatori di tutto il mondo.

Idee? Moltissime. Start-up? Anche di più. Che spesso tuttavia non riescono a trasformare il progetto iniziale in business, perdendosi per strada tra problemi finanziari, indifferenza del mercato, incapacità di creare la squadra giusta. In "Innovation", Luca Orlando racconta le storie di giovani imprenditrici e imprenditori italiani che invece sono riusciti a "decollare". Alcuni in senso fisico, costruendo satelliti per la Nasa o tecnologie per i lanciatori di tutto il mondo.

Idee? Moltissime. Start-up? Anche di più. Che spesso tuttavia non riescono a trasformare il progetto iniziale in business, perdendosi per strada tra problemi finanziari, indifferenza del mercato, incapacità di creare la squadra giusta. In "Innovation", Luca Orlando racconta le storie di giovani imprenditrici e imprenditori italiani che invece sono riusciti a "decollare". Alcuni in senso fisico, costruendo satelliti per la Nasa o tecnologie per i lanciatori di tutto il mondo.

At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.

In the last 50 years, life has been simplified by the awe-inspiring advancements that have been achieved in the world of computer science and technology. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak unveiled the Apple I, the first-ever computer that operated on a single-circuit board, just five years after a team of IBM engineers introduced the “floppy disk,” which revolutionized data-sharing.

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. 

This audiobook takes a closer look at who Charles Darwin was, how he lived his everyday life and how influential he became; not just in his own day but into the modern world as well. Find out what interested his incredible mind and how Darwin presented his theories to a yet unsuspecting world. From beetles to butterflies, coral reefs and tropical islands, from apes to humans, learn how Charles Darwin's evidence speaks even to the world today.

Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos.

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin came from humble beginnings to take his place in the annals of history as one of the most celebrated Americans ever to stand on the world stage. The Boston apprentice who ran away because of his brother's ill-treatment found his destiny in Philadelphia, where he became a printer, a scientist, an author, an inventor, a politician, and a citizen of the world. His inventions and his philosophies had the same ultimate goal - to make the world a better place - and Franklin achieved that goal.

Nikola Tesla was a major figure in the world in which he lived. As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, it was Tesla who would contribute to some of the world's most amazing inventions. It was Tesla's theories, patents, and experiments that would pave the way for the digital, wireless world we are so familiar with today. Tesla didn't enjoy the high honors bestowed on so many of his contemporaries, yet he enjoyed the power of knowing that it was his inventions that were powering the world, literally.

A “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) Cold War medical history about a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then pay attention...Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Scientific Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Emergence of Modern Science During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Thinkers Such as Isaac Newton and René Descartes and Galileo Galilei: A Captivating Guide to an Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Engineer and His Impact on the History of Science. So if you want to learn more about the Scientific Revolution and Galileo Galilei listen to this audiobook now!

The MacArthur Foundation awards the "Genius Grant" every year to the most compelling scientists, educators and artists in the country. But who are these "geniuses," really? Host Bob Garfield sits down with fellows, including writer and producer David Simon, radio producer Jad Abumrad, and inventor Amy Smith, to learn what events shaped their life, how they became leaders in their fields, and what they imagine our shared future looks like.

Near the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute ranked the greatest actors and actresses who worked during the Golden Era of Hollywood and the first half of the 1900s, and Sidney Poitier was ranked 22nd among the men. Given the company he was surrounded by, such a distinction could be considered honor enough, but Poitier also happened to be the only minority on the list, an accomplishment made all the more incredible given the systematic discrimination he faced within the industry and the land where he grew up.

If Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it. A wave of great jazz and jazz/pop crossover artists swept over the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, generating a golden age for the genre. Emerging from such a powerful group of talented vocalists was not easy. The woman who has come to represent a model of great, instinctive jazz singing came from nowhere, had nothing, and virtually had no one. She was raw and untrained, but went forward with limited and quirky vocal gifts.

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler: The Lives of the Early Modern Astronomers Whose Partnership Revolutionized the Field of Astronomy examines the work that made the two of them some of history’s most important scientists. You will learn about Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler like never before.

One of the more well-known Mel Brooks quips is his statement, in reference to his birth, that "we were so poor, my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me." While obviously fabricated, the story is worthy of note, as it illustrates Brooks' self-deprecatory Jewish humor and his way of transforming a childhood of deep adversity into fodder for comedy.