Alchemy, Chemistry, and Pharmacy

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

Un compendio de amenos ensayos que nos permiten acercanos a la ciencia de la mano de uno de los divulgadores científicos más imporantes de México. El sol muerto de risa es una colección de crónicas y ensayos sobre temas relacionados con la ciencia: cómo se hace, quién la hace, qué historias hay detrás de los resultados científicos, todo narrado desde un punto de vista personal, simpático y ameno. El objetivo es mostrar que la ciencia es parte de la cultura, pero sobre todo divertir y maravillar.

Behind the appearance of an innovative vaccine there is a history of determination and struggle, of breaking established models, and of overcoming the mistrust that generates a new theory. In this book we are going to learn about those stories, the stories of great scientists who fought to prove new theories and are now behind vaccines that save or will save millions of lives. We will experience with them the moment when they discovered that they had defeated a virus. We will travel inside the infectious agents to learn about their ability to gain ground in humans, the biological tools they...

Este trabajo presenta distintas perspectivas en el campo teórico y práctico sobre el periodismo transmedia, poco estudiado en el momento por la academia. Para tal fin, reúne en una única obra expresivos autores pertenecientes a redes y asociaciones internacionales de estudios de medios, como Intercom (Brasil), Red Transmediaticos, Media Ecology Association (Estados Unidos), Coneic (México), RAIC (Iberoamérica), Alaic (América Latina), entre otras. El libro ofrece conceptos inéditos de estos investigadores sobre el campo del periodismo y su aplicabilidad en los medios, a partir de un...