Our society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transforming our world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient, efficient and—in some cases—fun. Better and cheaper sensors can now be embedded in almost everything, and technologies can log the products we buy and the way we use them. But, argues Evgeny Morozov, technology is having a more profound effect on us: it ...(展开全部)

Our society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transforming our world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient, efficient and—in some cases—fun. Better and cheaper sensors can now be embedded in almost everything, and technologies can log the products we buy and the way we use them. But, argues Evgeny Morozov, technology is having a more profound effect on us: it ...(展开全部)

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? By quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are...(展开全部)

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? By quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are...(展开全部)

A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy

First published in Paris in 1511, "The Praise of Folly" has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. "The Folly" has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's "Utopia", as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social and theological aims and methods of Northern Humanism. Clarence H. Miller's translation o...(展开全部)

玛德琳•帕克特（Madeline Puckette） 侍酒师大师公会（CMS）认证侍酒师，曾在多家餐厅担任侍酒师，拥有丰富的葡萄酒理论知识与实践经验。她创办的WineFolly网站（葡萄酒评论家）荣获2013~2014年度葡萄酒博客奖，并与诸多全球顶尖葡萄酒品牌，以及侍酒师大师公会等机构建立合作。 2012年，玛德琳被Quora评为顶级葡萄酒作家；2015年，被著名葡萄酒杂志《葡萄酒爱好者》评为“40个40岁以下的葡萄酒潮流引领者”之一。 除了品酒、写作、设计葡萄酒评论家网站，玛德琳还喜欢开车、自行车运动、跑步和户外游泳。成为侍酒师之前，玛德琳是音乐制作人和歌手。 贾斯汀•海默克（Justin Hammack） 葡萄酒评论家网站创始人之一，负责概念开发、互动工具设计和品牌开拓。除此之外，他负责通过创意的方法，强调、传递红酒知识，并负责网站所有的视频制...(展开全部)

Duration: 06:21:17 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * "[A] pleasure...I found it helpful—not reassuring, certainly, but mind-expanding—to be reminded of our place in a vast cosmos." —James Gleick, The New York Times Book Review "A thrilling tour of potential cosmic doomsdays....Beyond her deep exper...(展开全部)

From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a ...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜·马祖卡托（Mariana Mazzucato），经济学家，伦敦大学学院（UCL）创新与公共价值经济学教授，创新与公共目的研究所创始人兼所长。 她被美国《新共和》杂志评为“三位最重要的创新经济学家”之一；2014 年，获《新政治家》颁发的政治经济学斯佩里奖；2018年，获列昂季耶夫奖。 她也为世界各地的决策者提供有关创新和可持续增长的建议。2015年9月起，马祖卡托任英国工党七人经济顾问委员会委员，其他委员还包括明星经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂和诺奖得主约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨。2018年起，担任经济合作与发展组织（OCDE）安赫尔·古里亚的特别顾问，2019年加入联合国发展政策委员会。