Science and Literature

Achieving goals and making the future bright are the dreams of almost every student. So, if you wish to study further to learn and gain knowledge, you need to develop some essential skills for managing your higher education. Students who pursue higher education are competent problem-solvers, decision-makers, and creative thinkers, innovating quick and perfect solutions…

Do you love chemistry as much as I do? So today we’re going to learn about the chemical elements. What are they like? What’s their nature? How do they make friends with each other? And where do they most often live? Here you will find the most interesting things about each of them, the most…

Dawkins Richard Clinton Richard Dawkins is one of today’s most famous thinkers, a brilliant ethologist and one of the most respected evolutionary biologists, a scholar of international renown, a former Oxford University professor for over 13 years, and a tireless popularizer of science, whose books sell millions of copies and have been translated into more…

On Mars, at the coordinates 19°20′ N, 33°33′ W., a small self-propelled vehicle stands covered in sand. And not far from it is a monument to the man whose book you are now holding in your hands. This is the Karl Sagan Memorial Station. In July 1997, it brought the self-propelled rover Passfinder here and…

Genetics is a young science. It has been a little over fifty years since Watson and Crick uncovered the ‘secret of life’ – the structure of the DNA molecule in which the instructions for cellular function are written. The first incomplete version of the human genome was not published until 2001. However, genetics, despite its…

Edward Wilson’s The Meaning of Human Existence About the book: How did humanity arise, and why did a species like ours arise on this planet? Do we have a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps the hardest question, “Why?” This book is a philosophical work, by biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner…

Steven Pinker, a distinguished Canadian-American scientist specializing in experimental psychology and the cognitive sciences, examines human thinking from the perspective of evolutionary psychology and computational theory of consciousness. What makes us rational? What makes us irrational? What makes us angry, happy, disgusted, attracted, inspired? Brain as computer or computer as brain? Morality, religion, reason-how does…

The main factor of evolution Darwin called natural selection, and he drew his conclusions from observing, among other things, the process of domestication of wild animals. Darwin also proved that the evolutionary principle applies not only to the biophysical but also to the psychological-behavioral development of living things and that there is no great gap…

The most famous and significant of Galileo’s astronomical works, published in August 1632 in Florence, and the result of more than thirty years of work and reflection by the great scholar. It was this book that served as the formal occasion for the persecution of the author by the Inquisition. The content of the work…