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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time
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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time

Author: Lynn Margulis; Eduard Punset
Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Nearly forty of the worldis most esteemed scientists discuss the big questions that drive their illustrious careers.

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Genre/Form: Interviews
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Mind, life, and universe.
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2007
(OCoLC)623270972
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lynn Margulis; Eduard Punset
ISBN: 9781933392615 1933392614 9781933392431 1933392436
OCLC Number: 124036294
Notes: "A Sciencewriters book."
Description: xx, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh --
Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky --
Nearly human / Jane Goodall --
A question of degree / Jordi Sabater Pi --
Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson --
Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston --
Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert --
Psychopaths / Robert Hare --
No one is boss / Daniel Dennett --
The hidden self / Oliver Sacks --
Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Lliná́s --
Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux --
Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler --
Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz --
Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory --
Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey --
Music and talk / Diana Deutsch --
The secret code / Sydney Brenner --
Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine --
The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway --
Immortality from your mother / Douglas Walker --
Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood --
Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock --
Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson --
Evolution and purpose / Stephen Jay Gould --
The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins --
Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan --
Life as growth / William Day --
Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero --
Different from amoebae / John Bonner --
Walk through a cloud of electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky --
Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer --
Too huge for the atom, too tiny for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow --
New dimensions / Lisa Randall --
Manipulation by dwarves / Nicolá́s García --
Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies.
Responsibility: edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset.
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What a delight it is to eavesdrop on conversations with so many agile, inventive, piquantly original minds. That the interviewers are far-sighted and wide-ranging themselves enriches the dialogues. A Read more...

 
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