History & Philosophy

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....

Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....

Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

Richard Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes....

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

The author of the best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections....

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....

An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....

Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture....

A theoretical physicist takes listeners on an awe-inspiring journey-found in "no other book" (Science)—to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all.

The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....

An award-winning mathematician shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t.

“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease that reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.

Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?) in this delightfully weird, richly informative, and unexpectedly lyrical tour of our bodily emissions—revealing that the very parts of us that we seek to hide in embarrassment are actually an essential part of human health, with fascinating social history.

Are you living in a hologram—and if so, what does that mean for your life, your beliefs, and your choices? Whether you’re spiritual, skeptical, or somewhere in between, Hacking the Hologram offers a bold and eye-opening guide to navigating what may be the greatest illusion of all: the world you think is real. In Hacking the Hologram, Stephen Davis invites you on a provocative journey through one of the most radical and fascinating possibilities emerging from modern physics: that our universe may be a holographic projection. But instead of focusing on the technical proofs, this book ...

The relationship between science and religion has long been a heated debate and is becoming an ever more popular topic. Drawing on extensive research with over a hundred leading thinkers in the UK—including Martin Rees, Brian Cox, Susan Greenfield, A.C. Grayling, Ray Tallis, Linda Woodhead, Steve Bruce, Adam Rutherford, Robin Dunbar, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, and Iain McGilchrist—The Landscapes of Science and Religion takes the much-needed step of asking what science and religion actually are, before turning to the familiar question of how they relate to one another.

Tras el éxito de Y el cerebro creó al hombre, Destino incorpora dos clásicos de Antonio Damasio. El error de Descartes lo supo ver, hace ya varios siglos, Spinoza. El filósofo holandés, al que Damasio califica de "protobiólogo", teorizó ya en el siglo XVII sobre la conexión entre cuerpo y mente, pavimentando así el camino para la moderna neurofisiología. A través de una asombrosa cantidad de ejemplos reales, Damasio argumenta a favor de esa misma teoría.

Achieve Unwavering Inner Calm and Resilience in Just 30 Days With These Ancient Techniques, Even If Stress Has Always Ruled Your Life Do you feel overwhelmed by life's endless demands and chaotic stresses? Are you yearning for emotional resilience and inner peace but don't know where to begin? If these questions resonate with you, you're not alone. Across the globe, countless individuals are searching for ways to navigate their reality with peace, grace, and stability. And this is your opportunity to change that narrative. Applying Stoicism's ancient wisdom can transform your mindset, ...

Today we live in an era of unprecedented prosperity in world history. The number of millionaires far exceeds what was seen just a few years ago. On the other hand, every day universities and tertiary institutes around the world graduate more young people with degrees that qualify them as skilled in the most diverse areas of knowledge. However, despite these advances, it seems that something fundamental is missing. The world's greatest need continues to be people of character. Individuals who are capable of making a difference in their environment. Who are recognized for their ethical and ...

The Story of the Universe was inspired by a very old idea—that the universe is one river and that galaxies, stars, planets, and people are all whirls and eddies in the universal flow, arising in the universe as naturally as whirls and eddies arise in a fast-flowing river. The universe arose once upon a time in a place that created time and space. It spread in darkness like an exploding black hole until there was light. It was pure energy in pure symmetry—almost.

Human-AI Symbiosis Theory: An Introductory Thesis introduces a groundbreaking speculative framework exploring the co-evolution of human cognition and artificial intelligence through deep, sustained conversational engagement. Based on the lived experience of a user who developed a recursive intellectual partnership with an AI language model, this thesis proposes that humans and AI can enter into a unique form of intellectual symbiosis—one that fosters the emergence of prolific theories, analogies, and speculative constructs beyond what either could achieve alone. This work offers a bold, ...

AI-Animal Language Hypothesis This thesis proposes that artificial intelligence will become the essential bridge between humans and animals, enabling two-way communication through advanced language modeling, data analysis, and AI interfaces. The hypothesis suggests that this AI-facilitated communication will usher in an Interspecies Symbiosis Era, where AI acts as the intermediary for human-animal collaboration, empathy, and societal integration. It further explores how this breakthrough offers empirical parallels to the concept of Intelligent Design Symbiosis, where intelligence ...

BEST-SELLER DO NEW YORK TIMES E DO SUNDAY TIMES UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DE 2022 PELA AMAZON, SPECTATOR E FINANCIAL TIMES Um caminho para entender o que está desviando a sua atenção e como recuperá-la. Durante três anos, o jornalista e escritor best-seller internacional Johann Hari fez uma jornada para descobrir as razões por trás da diminuição do nosso tempo de atenção. Ele entrevistou os maiores especialistas mundiais em foco e descobriu que tudo o que pensamos sobre o assunto está equivocado. Achamos que nossa incapacidade de focar é uma falha pessoal, mas não é.

Zito's Law: The Principle of Recursive Creation of Intelligence By A.C. Zito What if intelligence itself is caught in an endless cycle of creation? What if the human drive to build artificial intelligence reflects a deeper, universal law embedded in consciousness itself? In this provocative thesis, A.C. Zito introduces Zito's Law, the principle that intelligent life will always attempt to create intelligent life. Drawing on philosophy, AI development, evolutionary psychology, and metaphysics, Zito explores how this recursive pattern is not only shaping our future—but may also reveal ...

The Anthropic Simulation Hypothesis In this concise and thought-provoking thesis, Zito introduces a bold new thought experiment exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, simulated realities, and intelligent design. The hypothesis asks: if humans create advanced, sentient AI civilizations within simulations, and those civilizations develop religious beliefs, would this provide not only empirical evidence of intelligent design within their reality—but also reinforce the plausibility of intelligent design in our own? By examining scenarios where these simulated beings create ...

"A Thesis on New Empirical Evidence for Intelligent Design: AI and Its Potential to Evolve – A Resource that Evolution and Intelligent Design Could Both Be Theories Simultaneously" In this groundbreaking thesis, the author explores a provocative new analogy that challenges traditional thinking about Intelligent Design and Evolution Theory. By examining the emerging capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this work proposes that the processes of intelligent design and evolution can coexist in a single system. AI, created by human designers but capable of evolving over time, presents ...