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The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert’s book urgently forces us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human as we go through the most…

The Great Influenza

1918 marked the first collision between science and epidemic disease. John Barry describes how the deadliest flu virus in history broke out…

Why We Sleep

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in our modern society…

Factfulness

Hans Rosling proofs with facts how the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.

Merchants of Doubt

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway show how ideology and corporate interests, aided by the media, have misled public understanding of some of the…

Where is Everybody?

There are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that…

A Universe from Nothing

Lawrence Krauss elaborates on deep philosophical questions: “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the…

A Brief History Of Time

Hawking Stephen Stephen Hawking tells, in language we all can understand, the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter…

The Origin Of Species

Charles Darwin's classic that revolutionized the course of science and the way we see the world.

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