style=”flex-grow: 1″> Why?: What Makes Us Curious by Mario LivioRequirements: .MP3 reader, 188.4 MBOverview: Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics – curiosity – as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation – where […]
Why?: What Makes Us Curious by Mario LivioRequirements: .MP3 reader, 187mbOverview: Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear two […]
Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio, Tom Parks (Narrator)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 243MBOverview: Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how – if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind – it can so perfectly explain the physical world. Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner […]
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number by Mario LivioRequirements: .MP3 reader, 119mbOverview: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: […]
Why?: What Makes Us Curious by Mario LivioRequirements: .MP3 reader, 187mbOverview: Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear […]