Langbeschreibung
talking SCIENCETV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world's leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives.This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.* Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK) tells her personal story of the discovery of the first pulsar.* Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK) ties knots in nothing.* Richard Dawkins (Oxford, UK) explains what Darwinism means today.* Loren Graham (MIT, US) explains why Stalin's top-down policy meant that no Russian engineering project would ever work properly.* Richard Gregory (Bristol, UK) explores some of the visual illusions that so easily fool us.* Eric Lander (MIT, US) discusses the excitement of the human genome project.* Lord May of Oxford (UK) President of the Royal Society talks about chaos, ecology and HIV.* John Maynard Smith (Sussex, UK) discusses why we bother with sex.* Rosalind Picard (MIT, US) believes in wearable computers that understand our emotions.* Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK), Astronomer Royal, discusses the big bang, black holes and the end of the universe.* Eugenie Scott (Oakland, US) is a leading campaigner for the teaching in schools of evolution rather than creationism.* Lewis Wolpert (UCL, UK) speaks on the ethics and practicality of cloning and on his own depression.* Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard, US) describes the excitement and discomfort of exploring the deep ocean.* Peter Raven (St Louis, US) is a leading advocate of biodiversity - described by Time magazine as a hero for the planet.