Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Joanna Stern

What happens when intelligent machines aren't just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You've heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unima...

Gee, Henry

'Brilliant' - The Times 'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric Idle From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing d...

Metzl, Jamie

From a leading futurist and OneShared.World founder, a "brilliant" (Sanjay Gupta) book that explores how artificial intelligence and other revolutionary technologies are transforming our lives-and our future New technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save ...

Isett, Brian

Interweaving science and storytelling, spirituality and art, a neuroscientist and an artist guide us toward a deeper understanding of how radically interconnected all of life is. A Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview selection! Starting from science, while reaching for spiritual truth, The Forgotten Teachers charts the evolution of life on Earth under the mentorship of six teachers: O...

Nathalie A. Cabrol

One of the world's leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity's most profound questions: Are we alone in the universe? And how did life on Earth begin?We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos. Yet a profound que...

Tom Zeller Jr.

"Required reading for anyone with a head."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and FuzzFor the many millions of headache sufferers, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author's own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disorders that may, finally, offer relief. Virtually ever...

Doughty, Caitlin

Caitlin Doughty tenía poco más de veinte años y un diploma reciente en Historia medieval cuando aceptó un trabajo en un crematorio. Un trabajo como cualquier otro, sobre todo si desde siempre has sentido cierta atracción por lo macabro. Y lo que iba a ser algo temporal acabó convirtiéndose no solo en el trabajo de su vida, sino en una forma de comprender -y reírse- de la muerte...

Doughty, Caitlin

Cada día, la directora de funerarias Caitlin Doughty recibe docenas de preguntas sobre la muerte. Las mejores son las de los niños. ¿Qué le pasaría al cuerpo de un astronauta si lo empujaran desde un transbordador espacial? ¿Se hace caca al morir? ¿Puede la abuela celebrar un funeral vikingo? En "¿El gato se comerá mis ojos?", Doughty combina sus conocimientos funerarios sobre...

Doughty, Caitlin

Fascinada por nuestro miedo generalizado a los cadáveres, la tanatopractora Caitlin Doughty se propuso descubrir cómo se preocupan otras culturas por los muertos. De aquí a la eternidad es un viaje global y envolvente que introduce rituales convincentes y poderosos casi desconocidos. En una zona rural de Indonesia, ve a un hombre limpiar y vestir el cuerpo momificado de su abue...

Doughty, Caitlin

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Caitlin learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who ca...