For many years there has been a growing conflict between the evidence we have been accumulating and the assumptions we have had about the nature of reality.
Reality 101 takes you on a young man's trip into adulthood while he struggles to incorporate his fundamentalist indoctrination into an understanding of science's discoveries and teaching.
As I turned the pages and began reading this odyssey of Barry Johnston, as a veteran and artist, my interest increased, and I was pleased that I had agreed to review it.
Simply to say that this is a collection of essays in honor of the late Wolfgang Yourgrau (1908-1979) is to explain, at least for-the obviously many-"e;insiders,"e; the unusually wide-ranging title of the present volume.
Festschriften, when they are haphazard collections of pieces written by colleagues and well-wishers on the occasion of a major anniversary in the life of a distinguished man, tend to be tedious.
Un anlisis profundo sobre la influencia que enfrentan los usuarios de los medios audiovisuales de comunicacin masiva en la era virtual de Internet y, cmo estos medios, a travs de sus imgenes, estimulan los patrones genticos que determinan las conductas de los individuos, penetrando hasta lo ms profundo de la intimidad de su ser, provocando conductas impulsivas hacia la violencia, la compra de productos innecesarios, la incorrecta alimentacin, la prdida de tiempo valioso y otros flagelos sociales.
A pesar de que sin comunicacin no es posible la existencia, an no se define cientficamente su naturaleza: Hay un vaco epistemolgico que nos impide resolver problemas que aquejan a la humanidad desde sus inicios; partimos de supuestos que no tienen un sustento racional como que el sujeto es quien emite.
This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as 'reality' and 'truth' with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology.
Professor Born, one of the most distinguished physicists of our time, has selected some of his most popular writings covering a period of thirty years, framed between his introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1921) and the postscript to the American edition of The Restless Universe (1951).
The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the Interna- tional Conference Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (MBR'98), held at the Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in December 1998.
This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein's life, with in-depth studies of its background as built upon by ideas from earlier scientists.
Anyone who claims the right 'to choose how to live their life' excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences.
The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon's mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity.
