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We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and the Mysteries of Our Existence

We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and the Mysteries of Our Existence

Raghavendra Gadagkar
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries—and lives.

How does Jane Goodall’s relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of his work on the role of chance in history? What does driving a sports car have to do with Steven Weinberg’s quest for the “theory of everything”?

Physicist and journalist Stefan Klein’s intimate conversations with nineteen of the world’s best-known scientists let us listen in as they talk about their paradigm-changing work—and how it is deeply rooted in their daily lives.

• Cosmologist Martin Rees on the beginning and end of the world
• Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on egoism and selflessness
• Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness
• Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn on aging
• Philosopher Peter Singer on morality
• Physician and social scientist Nicholas Christakis on human relationships
• Biochemist Craig Venter on the human genome
• Chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann on beauty
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The Experiment
Release
September 22, 2015
ISBN
1615190597
ISBN 13
9781615190591

We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and the Mysteries of Our Existence

Raghavendra Gadagkar
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries—and lives.

How does Jane Goodall’s relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of his work on the role of chance in history? What does driving a sports car have to do with Steven Weinberg’s quest for the “theory of everything”?

Physicist and journalist Stefan Klein’s intimate conversations with nineteen of the world’s best-known scientists let us listen in as they talk about their paradigm-changing work—and how it is deeply rooted in their daily lives.

• Cosmologist Martin Rees on the beginning and end of the world
• Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on egoism and selflessness
• Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness
• Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn on aging
• Philosopher Peter Singer on morality
• Physician and social scientist Nicholas Christakis on human relationships
• Biochemist Craig Venter on the human genome
• Chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann on beauty
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The Experiment
Release
September 22, 2015
ISBN
1615190597
ISBN 13
9781615190591

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