Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achie…
How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-…
Traces the story of forgotten genius Ernest Lawrence (1901-1958) and his invention of the cyclotron, which triggered "Big Science" breakthroughs that have rendered science dependent on government and industry
Examines the ethical debates that severely tested the American scientific community during the Cold War. It highlights the contributions of scientists to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age in the 1940s through the Strategic Defense Init…
Om opfinderen af atombomben, Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural diplomacy after World War II, exploring science's link to US propaganda and psychological warfare campaigns during the Cold War and demonstrating the continued hold of…
Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created during the thirteenth century, and offers a look at the full range of mathematical discoveries and theories that were found
The story of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Features hands-on projects that explore the scientific concepts developed by Isaac Newton
Om Albert Einstein (1879-1955) og hans videnskabelige arbejde, samt forslag til forsøg og tankeeksperimenter børn kan lave