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The Impossible Man

Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

by Patchen Barss ...

**A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024A Financial Times Best Book of 2024A Kirkus Best Book of 2024A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).**When he was six yea... ... Read more

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**A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024A Financial Times Best Book of 2024A Kirkus Best Book of 2024A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).**When he was six yea...
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The Erotic Engine

How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google

by Patchen Barss ...

Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the ... Read more

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Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the
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Smarter Than Us

Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity

by Geoffrey Hinton, Patchen Barss ...

The British Canadian Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the foundation for systems like ChatGPT and helped ignite the AI revolution—work that earned him the ... Read more

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The British Canadian Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the foundation for systems like ChatGPT and helped ignite the AI revolution—work that earned him the
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The Impossible Man

Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

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The first biography—“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)—of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on ... Read more

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The first biography—“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)—of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on
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Smarter Than Us

Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity

by Geoffrey Hinton, Patchen Barss ...

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The Nobel Prize–winning "godfather of AI" delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the foundation for systems like ChatGPT and helped ignite the AI revolution—work that earned him the Nobel Prize in ... Read more

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The Nobel Prize–winning "godfather of AI" delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the foundation for systems like ChatGPT and helped ignite the AI revolution—work that earned him the Nobel Prize in
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Circus: A Story from Circus

by Claire Battershill ...

The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

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The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her
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My Brief History

by Stephen Hawking ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.**My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.**My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by James Gleick ...

An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyondRaised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics ... Read more

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An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyondRaised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics
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Black Holes

by Stephen Hawking ...

The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures.“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are ... Read more

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The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures.“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are
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Spooky Action at a Distance

Why Space and Times Are Doomed—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

by George Musser ...

Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardDelightfully readable, Spooky Action at a Distance is a mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change the way we think about reality.What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the ... Read more

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Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardDelightfully readable, Spooky Action at a Distance is a mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change the way we think about reality.What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the
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The Secret of Life

Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

by Howard Markel ...

**An NPR Best Book of the YearAn authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.**James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and why were they the ones ... Read more

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**An NPR Best Book of the YearAn authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.**James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and why were they the ones
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The Quantum Labyrinth

How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality

by Paul Halpern ...

The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and historyIn 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler ... Read more

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The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and historyIn 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler
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