We Are All Stardust
Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
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Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
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World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer. When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost, curiosity.' In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists, Klein lets us listen in as today's leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover -- and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab. From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for 'the theory of everything' to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, scientists explain how they find inspiration everywhere. Hear from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on selfishness; anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood; primatologist Jane Goodall on animal behaviour; neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness; geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history; and other luminaries!
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Si tratta di un libro che raccoglie una serie di interviste a scienziati quali neurobiologi, chimici, fisici, antropologi, estrapolate da lunghe conversazioni avute dall'autore-fisico e filosofo analitico - con queste persone molto interessanti. C'è un certo bias: gli scienziati intervistati sono sopratutto americani bianchi (ma figura anche un italiano ;) ) ma ciò dipende più dal caso che da un'invenzione., come si legge nella sua prefazione. Alcune interviste non mi hanno detto granché- sembrano peccare di presunzione, anche se inconscia, altre mi hanno dato da pensare cose interessanti.
Be consiglierei la lettura? Forse sì, ma più per comprendere la psicologia dei ricercatori americani che per altro :)
