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Book review: ‘Quantum in Pictures’

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So, whether you’re a high school student or a science enthusiast, the authors are confident that anyone mastering the tools in the book will gain an understanding equivalent to that of a quantum mechanics graduate at university. That’s not to say that people with amateur or specialty surrounding the concepts cannot engage in this book.

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Book interview: Fusion’s Promise

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In the preface to their book – wonderfully subtitled ‘How Technology Breakthroughs in Nuclear Fusion Can Conquer Climate Change on Earth (And Carry Humans to Mars, Too)’ – we’re told that Moynihan answered Bortz’s question in the negative, insisting that the technology was within reach. Both forms have been exploited in weapon technology.

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Book interview: ‘All in on AI’ by Thomas Davenport

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But in our book, we describe the extreme adopters: those who are doing many things with AI, some of which have the potential to transform their strategies, business models or key business processes.” We wrote the book in order to educate other companies about what it takes to succeed with an ‘all in on AI’ approach,” he says.

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Book review: ‘We Are Electric’ by Sally Adee

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Electricity is at the heart of how we are formed, how our brains speak to our bodies, how we heal after injuries, how we think, move, feel. It is astonishing that ‘We Are Electric’ is the first popular science book on this subject; it taps into the magic of science that we are only on the brink of understanding.

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Book review: ‘Virtual You’ by Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield

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The reason for this assumption, says Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan in his foreword to this immensely thought-provoking book, is that while we’re used to thinking of physics and chemistry as disciplines which lend themselves to predictive simulations, biology sits in our mindset as “largely observational and empirical.”

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Supercommunicators

Gary Mintchell

Charles Duhigg has released a new book. His last book, The Power of Habit , was a killer book. The two books taught us how to form habits to improve our daily lives and professional effectiveness. It’s a disappointing book. On the other hand, the book is packed with good stories. Not so much.

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Book review: ‘The First City on Mars’ by Justin Hollander

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There’s no atmosphere to speak of and what water there is comes in the form of ice. The First City on Mars’ is a book like no other, in that its author Justin Hollander gathers current thinking on the nuts and bolts of how we’re going to get there and what happens when we do. The only building materials are sand and rock.

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