Ergebnis für "Nick" in Wissenschaft & Technik

In der heutigen, durch Reizüberflutung und Überstimulation geprägten Welt leben viele Menschen in einem selbst verursachten mentalen Gefängnis: Sie stecken in unendlichen negativen Gedankenschleifen fest und machen sich damit das Leben im Alltag schwer. Dieses Buch erklärt, was im Gehirn vorgeht, wenn es zu solchen erschöpfenden Denkmustern kommt, wie man sich der Auslöser dafür bewusst wird und wie man diese Negativspiralen beenden kann.

Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing its 10 greatest inventions - from sex and warmth to death - resulting in a stunning account of nature's ingenuity.

For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight-how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise.

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman

Ob im Umgang mit Kindern, mit Kollegen und Mitarbeitern, mit alten Menschen und mit uns selbst: Wir sind es gewohnt, alles als Ressource anzusehen. Kein Wunder, dass 'Burn-Out' die Krankheit unserer Zeit ist, dass wir uns vor Krisen nicht retten können. Denn auch eine Gesellschaft kann kollektiv ihre Begeisterungsfähigkeit verlieren, dann dümpelt man in Routinen dahin, man funktioniert, aber man lebt nicht mehr.

Würde ist ein großer Begriff. Gleich in Artikel 1 des Grundgesetzes heißt es: "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar." Doch was genau ist Würde? Was bedeutet es, wenn uns unsere Würde genommen wird, weil wir etwa in der digitalen Welt nur noch als Datensatz zählen oder im Netz geschmäht werden? Wenn wir uns selbst würdelos verhalten oder andere entwürdigen?

In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, author Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in the exciting field of mitochondria research to reveal how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death.

Oxygen takes the listener on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death.

Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms - three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm, one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, an architect of our modern understanding of the brain, have developed a remarkable new way of looking at the universe.

In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall's death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.

Die aktuelle Demenz-Forschung ist der Überzeugung, dass Demenz durch altersbedingte Abbauprozesse und Ablagerungen im Gehirn verursacht wird. Leicht verständlich und mit überzeugenden Argumenten macht Gerald Hüther, einer der führenden Hirnforscher, deutlich, dass diese im letzten Jahrhundert entwickelte Vorstellung nicht nur unzutreffend ist. Sie hat auch den Blick für das Phänomen verstellt, das tatsächlich für die Herausbildung von Demenz verantwortlich ist.

For decades, biology has been dominated by information—the power of genes. Yet in terms of information there is no difference between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. What really animates cells and sets them apart from non-living matter? This question goes back to the flawed geniuses and heroic origins of modern biology. The answer could turn our picture of life on Earth upside down.

Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source—the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin—game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win, whatever you were doing?

Gesellschaft verstehen und (nicht) verrückt werden – das ist die Kunst des Soziologiestudiums. Doch wie gelingt dieser Balanceakt? Wie unterscheidet sich die Soziologie von anderen Geisteswissenschaften? Was erleichtert den Einstieg und woher kommen die typischen Selbstzweifel? In diesem Podcast teilen wir (Nick, Tom und Prof. Stefan Kühl) persönliche Erfahrungen aus Studierenden- und Professorenperspektiven. Wir bieten Orientierung für Interessierte, Erstsemester und Zweifler, indem wir Einblicke in den Studienalltag bieten und die Herausforderungen des Fachs soziologisiert ...

Willkommen zu einer Reise durch die aufregende und faszinierende Welt der Formel 1 – einer Welt, in der Technik und Talent, Geschwindigkeit und Strategie, Risiko und Belohnung aufeinandertreffen. Seit ihrer Gründung hat die Formel 1 unzählige Generationen von Fans in ihren Bann gezogen, sie inspiriert und immer wieder aufs Neue begeistert. Diese Geschichte der Pferdestärken ist nicht nur eine Chronik der Rennen und Meisterschaften, sondern auch ein Zeugnis des menschlichen Strebens nach Perfektion und des unaufhörlichen Drangs, die Grenzen des Möglichen zu erweitern.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Mind Is Flat, written and read by Nick Chater. Most of us assume that our thoughts, desires and behaviour arise from the murky depths of our minds, and if only we could access this inner world we could truly understand ourselves. For more than a century, psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have struggled, using methods from psychotherapy to brain scans, to discover what lies below the surface of our minds.

In 1994, Patagonia invited representatives from 75 grassroots nonprofit organizations to gather and learn from active experts how to be more effective at what they do. In 2016, Patagonia published Tools for Grassroots Activists, a compilation of presentations from the Tools conferences, accompanied by case studies and inspiring essays from environmental leaders. The world since then has changed in profound ways, and this new edition reflects the world we now occupy.

Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present. Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-size creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years, and travel entire ocean basins. Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection - yet there is still so much we don't know about them.

The public remains largely uninformed about climate change and, for the most part, those who seek to draw attention to the issue are seen as ‘crazy’. There remains a terrifying gap between scientific reality and political action. Packed with his own experiences and insights from expert interviewees, Nick’s compelling account is less about the intricacies of the science and more about the mainstream perception of how we are understanding and responding to the problem.

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, awe and affection - yet we know hardly anything about them. Whales tend to enter our awareness only when they die, struck by a ship or stranded in the surf. They evolved from land-roaming, doglike creatures into animals that move like fish and breathe like us and can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and roam entire ocean basins. Yet despite centuries of observing whales, we know little about their evolutionary past.