Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another's tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks form and how they operate.
BBC Focus UK - October 2013 BBC Focus magazine is a science technology magazine with a trained eye on the future. Includes scientific breakthroughs and gadgets that could shape the future of the human race, on earth or in space.
With a little help from the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Dick observe a small miracle in their own backyard—the metamorphosis of an egg into a caterpillar into a chrysalis into a bright new butterfly! Along the way, beginning readers will find out how butterflies see thousands of images at once, drink nectar from flowers, avoid predators, and can be identified by size, shape, and color. Readers will also follow the amazing migration of millions of monarchs.
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
A physicist speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come.
BBC Focus magazine is a science technology magazine with a trained eye on the future. Includes scientific breakthroughs and gadgets that could shape the future of the human race, on earth or in space.
