安德鲁·斯托曼 认知心理学家、西方学院副教授，主攻心理学与认知科学，并担任思维实验室主任。曾于哈佛大学及普林斯顿大学取得心理学学位。作品见于《科学美国人》《国家地理》以及《纽约客》等杂志。现居美国加利福尼亚州。 夏高娃 青年译者。译有《边缘信使》《星空故事：88站夜空漫游指南》等，其中多部译本已授出繁体版权。

汉斯·罗斯林（1948—2017），1948年出生于瑞典乌普萨拉。“开启民智”基金会创始人，《时代》杂志“全球100位最有影响力人物”之一。曾先后担任世界卫生组织、联合国儿童基金会和其他援助机构的顾问。1997年，汉斯开始在卡罗林斯卡学院任教，他发现受到高等教育的学生对 世界抱有极大的误解，他们的想法和决策都相当情绪化。于是他走上TED的演讲舞台，用动态数据图像生动地展示了世界正在经历的真实变化，涉及人口、经济、环境等多个备受关注却从未被真正了解的主题。他的演讲视频获得了上千万次的点击，每一次演讲都大受媒体好评，也受到人们的赞誉：“数据在汉斯手上会唱歌”。多年后，汉斯决定将他毕生的想法写成书。在生命的最后一刻，他还在反复修改书稿，力求向人们更好地展示他一生都在追求的思维方式和思考世界的方法。 欧拉·罗斯林，“开启民智”基金会联合创始人之一，汉斯的儿子...(展开全部)

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at rando...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich wit...(展开全部)

Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we? who are we? Is a person a body or a soul? How do we access the external world if we are nothing but brains encased in bodies? As neuroscientists map the most detailed aspects of the human brain and its interplay with the rest ...(展开全部)

What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less...(展开全部)

Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your great...(展开全部)

克里希那穆提（J.Krishanmurti，1895－1986），印度的著名哲学家，20世纪最伟大的的心灵导师，在西方有着广泛而深远的影响。他主张真理纯属个人了悟，一定要用自己的光荣照亮自己。他一生的教诲皆在帮助人类从恐惧和无明中彻底解脱，体悟慈悲与至乐的境界。他的六十多册著作，都是由空性流露的演讲和讲话集结而成，目前已经译成了47种语言出版。 他是最卓越的宗教人物，是我所见过最美的人类。——乔治·萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856-1950） 当他时入我的屋内时，我禁不住对自己说：“我绝对是菩萨无疑了！”——纪伯伦（Kahlil Gibran，1883-1931） 克里希那穆提是我知道的惟一能完全摒弃自我的人，和他相识是人生最光荣的事！——亨利·米勒（Henry Miller，1891-1980） 那是我听过的最难忘的演讲，就...(展开全部)

We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences...(展开全部)

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality—a grand poetic vision of nature—and how we find our place within it. In the beginning there was light. But more than this, there w...(展开全部)