Anil Ananthaswamy
Auteur de The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
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Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He contributes regularly to New Scientist and has also written for Nature, National Geographic, Discover, Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal, and the afficher plus UK's Literary Review. afficher moins
Œuvres de Anil Ananthaswamy
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (2010) 235 exemplaires
The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self (2005) 213 exemplaires
Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality (2018) 161 exemplaires
Do No Harm: The People Who Amputate Their Perfectly Healthy Limbs, and the Doctors Who Help Them (2012) 13 exemplaires
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The man who wasn't there : investigations into the… par Anil Ananthaswamy
A few interesting bits of research mixed in with a lot of anecdotal or soft studies.The schizophrenic he chose to highlight was diagnosed earlier with. Behavioral disorder, and I think that may have been the more accurate diagnosis. The biid and epilepsy chapters were interesting.
A very well-written account of the human endeavor to understand what quantum phenomena really mean. In my opinion, this is the most accessible account to a layperson trying to get a sense of the weirdness of quantum physics. And while the title of the book might make it sound like the book is narrow in scope, it in fact is anything but!
Before I read this Kindle single I had never heard of Body Integrity Identity Disorder -- which causes people to believe that one of their limbs is not *really* their own, but somehow an alien appendage. This cause such profound psychological distress that many sufferers try to amputate the offending limb by themselves. When they seek medical help, most doctors refuse to help, since they do not see a medical reason to remove a health limb. But within the community of BIID sufferers, there are "gatekeepers" who screen for those who truly want the operation, and connect them with doctors who are willing to help them.
This is an amazing, thought-provoking read, definitely something which challenges the common assumptions of medical ethics.… (plus d'informations)
This is an amazing, thought-provoking read, definitely something which challenges the common assumptions of medical ethics.… (plus d'informations)
A travel book around places where cosmology is done with some well explained cosmology to round it off. Hasn't dated badly. I enjoyed it a lot and it would have got a full four stars if the section on the Large Hadron Colider has been less long. And just after reading that section there was a TV program which included some of the places he had been and up to date video and reports of the LHC and Atlas which gave an extra thrill.
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