4.1.12

New Year, New Good Books

If you are interested in how our brains influence love and sex, Sukel’s new book is for you. She delves into the latest neurobiological research to explore what, exactly, love is and why it makes us do crazy things.

Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships 
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Free Press (January 3, 2012)
ISBN-10: 1451611552


Watch her fascinating talk here.




Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss skewers the notion that creation requires creator. Mounting evidence from cosmology, particle theory, and gravitation, he asserts, indicates that not only could our universe have arisen from nothing but that nothingness might have been required for its origin.
 
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing 
Afterword by Richard Dawkins 
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Free Press (January 10, 2012)
ISBN-10: 145162445X




His talk about a universe from nothing can be watched here. 
You may also follow an amazing lecture of Lawrence Krauss, "the Woody Allen of cosmology" as recommended by Christopher Hitchens in recent debates. It offers clear basic understanding on nothingness. 


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