Sebastian Vogel, geboren 1955 in Berlin, ist promovierter Biologe und langjähriger Übersetzer. Neben den Werken Neil Shubins hat er Bücher von Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould und Steven Pinker ins Deutsche übertragen.
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New Scientist: Wie dick muss ich werden, um kugelsicher zu sein?
Witzig, absurd und ungewöhnlich: wissenschaftliche Kuriositäten, die uns die Welt aus neuer Perspektive zeigen. Wie lange kann man nur von Bier leben? Warum ist es am Südpol kälter als am Nordpol? Wi …
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New Scientist: 100 Dinge, die Sie tun sollten, solange Sie diesen Planeten bewohnen
Sie leben nur einmal, also sollten sie das Meiste daraus machen. WARUM NICHT MAL – ein Gecko sein? – Vanilleeis aus Flüssigstickstoff machen? – Ihre eigene DNA extrahieren? – über Lava gehen? – eine …
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New Scientist: How Long is Now?
A Sunday Times bestseller How long is ’now’? The short answer is ’somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds’. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the tim …
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New Scientist: Universe Next Door
It’s lucky you’re here. But for a series of choices, accidents and coincidences – any of which could have gone otherwise – your life would have been very different. The same goes for reality. We live …
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New Scientist: This Book Will Blow Your Mind
What’s the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe – and here are …
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New Scientist: How to Be Human
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN.Did you know that half your DNA isn’t human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction?What about …
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New Scientist: Brain
Congratulations! You’re the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many …
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New Scientist: Quantum World
Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are …
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New Scientist: End of Money
Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering… These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies – digital cu …
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New Scientist: How Your Brain Works
Ever wondered what’s going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are somehow conjured up by 1.4 kilograms of grey matter inside …
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New Scientist: Where the Universe Came From
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of t …
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New Scientist: Your Conscious Mind
What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person’ …
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New Scientist: Machines that Think
Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted b …
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New Scientist: Why the Universe Exists
As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as qu …
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New Scientist: How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of e …
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New Scientist: How Numbers Work
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let’s make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from – an infinite number …
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New Scientist: This is Planet Earth
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang a …
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New Scientist: Human Origins
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we hav …
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New Scientist: Journey Through The Universe
There’s a whole universe out there…Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where d …
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New Scientist: Chance
For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it’s not surprising that we persist in thinking …
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New Scientist: Question Everything
All science begins with questions… – Why is the night sky black, even though it’s full of stars? – How do pebbles skim on water? – Why doesn’t your own snoring wake you up? – And why is the Large H …
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New Scientist: Nothing
Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It’s all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known …
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New Scientist: Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?
Why do birds sing at dawn? What’s the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? has the answers …
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New Scientist: Why Are Orangutans Orange?
The 2011 ’Last Word’ collection featured, for the first time, 108 full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us. From ripples in glass to ’holograms’ in ic …
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New Scientist: Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers
In August 1931, New Zealand farmer Richard Buckley hit the local headlines – or rather his trousers did. One minute they were drying in front of the fire; the next there was a huge blast and a ball o …
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New Scientist: Why Can’t Elephants Jump?
Well, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the wrong way? Or do they just wait until n …
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New Scientist: How to Make a Tornado
Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we do …
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New Scientist: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers’ answers to the questions in the ’Last Word’ column of New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal …
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New Scientist: How to Fossilise Your Hamster
How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus (includes helpful recipe)? How long does it take to …
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New Scientist: Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers’ answers to the questions in the ’Last Word’ column of New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly. Following the phen …
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New Scientist: Does Anything Eat Wasps
Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the ’Last Word’ column – regularly …
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New Scientist: Why Do Boys Have Nipples?
Why aren’t there any green mammals?Is eating bogeys bad for you?Do dolphins and whales get thirsty?Why can’t you tickle yourself?Where do astronauts put their dirty underwear?Children make excellent …
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New Scientist: Cât durează acum?
Cât durează ACUM? Răspunsul scurt este „undeva între două şi trei secunde“; răspunsul lung implică o călătorie prin neuroştiinţe, subconştientul nostru şi puterea de modificare a timpului căpătată pr …
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New Scientist & Graham Lawton: Der Ursprung von (fast) allem
Die Geschichte des Universums – Vom Big Bang bis zur Eroberung des Weltraums Der Urknall steht am Beginn von allem, was wir kennen. Danach ging die Party erst richtig los, mit der Bildung unendlich v …
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New Scientist: Cats vs Dogs
Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine’s popular ’Last Word’ column. This book brings together the best of the bu …
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New Scientist: Eureka!
Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili Could you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?Are there any green mammals?Why do pineapples have …
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