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When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter - one that raises the possibility of new materials with never-before-seen properties but that violates laws set in stone for centuries.

Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human - big breakthroughs that made whole new ways of life possible - including cell division and multicellularity, hard skeletons, the move to land, the origin of forests, the move to the air.

Una colección de las teorías más alucinantes, sugerentes y divertidas del mundo, a cargo de Dan Schreiber, copresentador del exitoso pódcast No Such Thing as a Fish. ¿Por qué estamos aquí? ¿Existen los fantasmas? ¿Viajaremos alguna vez en el tiempo? ¿Nos visitan extraterrestres? ¿Hablaremos alguna vez con los animales? ¿Nos dicen la verdad? ¿Hay criaturas misteriosas vagando por la tierra? ¿Y por qué cuando te duchas, la cortina siempre se te pega? No conocemos las respuestas a ninguna de estas preguntas.

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping. We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. The...

Here, political scientist Jakub J. Grygiel brings to light the importance of incorporating geography into grand strategy. He argues that states can increase and maintain their position of power by pursuing a geostrategy that focuses on control of resources and lines of communication.

Syukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global Warming is his compelling firsthand account of how the scientific community came to understand the human causes of climate change, and how numerical models using the world's most powerful computers have been instrumental to these vital discoveries.

A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries. Simon J. Knell takes the listener on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.

Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later.

Welcome to "J.R. Strain: The Podcast," the captivating podcast that takes you on a thrilling journey through the life and experiences of Jim Strain, the Director of Cultivation for the JR Strain cannabis brand. Join us as we delve into Jim's extraordinary transition from the underground black market to the legalized cannabis industry in the beautiful West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. In this podcast, Jim Strain opens up about his remarkable path, sharing stories of his early days as a street-born cannabis cultivator. He provides an intimate glimpse into the challenges, risks, ...

This Very Short Introduction takes listeners into the inferno of a racing pyroclastic current, and the heart of a moving lava flow, as understood through the latest scientific research. Exploring how volcanologists forensically decipher how volcanoes work, Michael Branney and Jan Zalasiewicz explain what we do (and don't) understand about the fundamental mechanisms of volcanism, and consider how volcanoes interact with other physical processes on the Earth, with life, and with human society.

Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold and furious blizzards. They cross ice fields and hidden crevasses, which one of the team learns about the hard way.

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What happens to the world as we know it after global warming stops the Gulf Stream? Does evolution run wild to keep humans alive? Could you and your descendants live inside a mountain for over 2,000 years? Find out how Ian Kyleson, his family and friends, made it beyond the year 4062! Join the journey - it begins NOW!Music by Sven Neukranz used with permission.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-kyleson-chronicles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Metallaria è un podcast che parla dell’aria che respiriamo tutti i giorni. Un’aria pesante, inquinata, che ogni anno, nel mondo, uccide oltre otto milioni di persone.L’inquinamento atmosferico è una delle conseguenze più gravi dell’impatto dell’uomo sull’ambiente. In particolare, in Pianura Padana, dove si respira l’aria più inquinata d’Europa.Guido Brera con ospite J-Ax, assieme ad esperti nel campo della scienza e della medicina, ci raccontano cause ed effetti dell’inquinamento dell’aria. Cosa è stato fatto, cosa stiamo facendo, e cosa dovremo fare per garantire a ...