Milenioproblemas

progress and happiness - however these terms may be understood in detail - as a significant and constitutive element of scientific inquiry. In this sense the question of the way in which sport really benefits people and contributes to their happiness, and under which individual and social conditions, is a scientific question. It assumes special significance when the fact is taken into account that in the field of sport science a general scepticism is shown towards those dogmas and pedagogical theses which take such an interpretation for granted in the absence of a firm empirical foundation...

Presented in chronological order, this book teaches readers about the greatest accomplishments and discoveries of science from the Ancient Greeks to the present. They include geometry, vaccinations, the periodic table, the theory of relativity, Teflon, nano-technology, and much more.

Love, mourning, compassion: astonishing looks at a hidden world. Through the most recent scientific discoveries, unleashed with observations and personal experiences with animals, the passionate ranger Peter Wohlleben directs deep glances at a world barely investigated: the complex behaviors of forest and farm animals, their emotional and conscious lives. This book allows us to understand that we have the animals closer than we imagined.

A mediados del siglo pasado se descubrió que existen en el universo sistemas físicos extremadamente sensibles a sus condiciones de partida, tanto que una diferencia mínima en su posición inicial o en el impulso que reciben da lugar a una gran diferencia en su desarrollo posterior. A eso los científicos lo han llamado "caos". No es posible, sabemos ahora, entender la complejidad que nos rodea y de la que nosotros también formamos parte sin recurrir a los sistemas caóticos. Pero ese mundo aparentemente tan complejo e impredecible obedece a leyes sencillas de causa y efecto. En este...