We live in a world full of gadgets, but we don't seem to have reached the futuristic world imagined by so many. In Future Proof: The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever ImaginedNick Sagan ,Mark Frary and Andy Walker look at the gadgets we have and some of those that didn't quite make it.
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In The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics Leonard Susskind explains his arguments why information is never lost even if it falls into a black hole, and how he persuaded the rest of the physics community to agree with him.
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In We Need to Talk about Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe Marcus Chown links some of the important discoveries of modern science to things which are directly observable in the world around us.
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Since the brain is the seat of thought, it's easy to believe that we know what's going on in there. Reading A User's Guide to the Brain by John Ratey, however, shows that there's more to thinking than you may think.
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James Hansen has been warning us about Global Warming since the 1980's. InStorms of my Grandchildren:The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity he argues why we need to do much more than at present to avoid disaster.
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You've probably heard of the idea that we live in one of many parallel universe. John Gribbin's recent book In search of the Multiverse takes a look at some of the science behind this idea, and where it may lead us.
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