If you had asked me what quantum theory was a month ago, I would have realized something I didn’t really know and tried to stop myself from answering. It’s one of those concepts like space-time or artificial intelligence that many of us are aware of (from science fiction and news) without actually understanding it.there Quantum Supremacy: The Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything (Random House Audio, 10 hours 41 minutes), The theory by renowned theoretical physics translator Michio Kaku that “a fundamentally new type of computer called a quantum computer can outperform ordinary digital supercomputers definitively in certain tasks.” The audiobook explains that it’s named after the stage. Fyodor Chin’s deliberate, sometimes robotic, but lucid explanation begins with the claim by a few companies that we’re already there.
Kaku said the potential benefits of quantum computing, or computing at a subatomic level without the need for microchips, increasingly outweigh the risks, such as the need for microchips. Let me explain how we got to the “point of inflection”. managed state. Kaku spends most of his audiobook telling the history of computing, taking listeners back to the invention of the Turing machine and its essential foundation, the transistor.
The final approximately five hours of this audiobook focus on its amazing future, and how quantum computing can impact the real world: how we can help avoid cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Explore transforming the immune system, increasing crop yields, ending world hunger, and more. As Kaku puts it, “well-known laws of common sense are routinely violated at the atomic level.” But his lucid prose and thought process do a good job of understanding this technology tipping point.
Kaku’s eyes are mainly looking forward, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory (Random House Audio, 12 hours 10 minutes), cosmologist Thomas Hertog focuses on the past, specifically Dr. Hawking’s 1988 landmark text The History of Time, and the collaboration between that text and its authors and Hertog himself. In this scientific intervention, Hertog recalls the moment in 2002 when Dr. Hawking declared: Biography is written from the wrong point of view. ” Hertogg agreed.
Ethan Kelly reads an audiobook with confidence suggesting that he has just emerged from the same Cambridge University hall where Dr. Hawking and Mr. Hartog discussed ideas. This audiobook can make listeners feel smarter than themselves. Hawking and Hertog have considered cosmology from a “god’s perspective” that obscures the essential truth of scientists that “we are in the universe, not outside it.” theorized that it was all wrong.
Some of the deep dives into new inner perspectives may lose the general audience, but the weighty content demonstrates not only the author’s devotion to his mentor, but also the degree of Dr. Hawking’s brilliance and sense of humor. punctuated by refreshing anecdotes that illustrate. Dr. Hawking once typed “I’m dying” into the machine that spoke for him, causing Hertog to remain silent for a long time before finishing with “…a cup of…tea…”.
There are birds so that we can feel anchored in the material world again. At least for Mia Rose Craig, who wrote the book, they’ve always served their purpose. BIRDGIRL: Staring at the Sky for a Better Future (Macmillan Audio, 9 hours 30 minutes). Craig, 21, is something of a genius in the vast (and growing) world of birdwatchers. When she was six years old, she recorded her 325 species in one year alone. Her early travels took her from her home outside Bristol through the English countryside, but she soon accompanied her parents to Ecuador, Antarctica and more. I was. By the time she turned 17, she was the youngest person to have seen over 5,000 species of birds.
A lot of it is thanks to her parents, who were “already part of a famous birdwatching family” when she was born, taking her on birdwatching trips and Twitches from the age of nine. “The three of us created an intricate puzzle,” says Craig, infusing her book with genuine pathos. The daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, her mother struggled with her mental health. Her birds were her comfort and they were birds for her husband and her daughter as well. Not only is the story of jungle adventures and the discovery of rare birds woven with the emotional threads of family life, but the challenge of becoming a prominent bird watcher and conservationist in a field dominated by white men. is also included. There were times when Craig couldn’t stand it, but “there was something about the birds that kept us going,” she says. “
Journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal have always loved birdwatching, but now that they are retired, their interest has taken a deeper turn. their audiobooks A WING AND A PRAYER: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds (Simon & Schuster Audio, 9 hours 3 minutes), Read by Cassandra Campbell and Stephen Greyville, the book is the result of a 25,000-mile journey across the Americas in 2021, during which they will explore the human-induced impacts of habitat destruction and climate. It documents the efforts of ornithologists and conservationists to save the world’s bird species, which are almost universally threatened by factors. change.
Mr. and Mrs. Gyllenhaal are adept storytellers, and their narration is a rare and welcome approach for audiobooks written in the first person plural. “In the past 50 years, nearly one-third of the North American bird population has become extinct,” Grayville says in the introduction. “That equates to three billion birds of all shapes and sizes.” It also mentions lesser-known cases such as the grasshopper sparrow, a species of bird. Most endangered in the United States. Along the way, they meet birds with tiny transistor backpacks and a biologist who has learned to imitate whooping cranes to get close to them.
Mary Oliver, who passed away in 2019, is best known for giving love and care to the natural world through her poetry. “For her, her poetry was a way to celebrate the world, a ‘little alleluia’ in her words, a way to say thank you to our beautiful planet,” actor and narrator Sophia Bush said at the beginning. Says. WILD AND PRECIOUS: A Celebration of Mary Oliver (Pushkin Industries, 4 hours 11 minutes). In a rich and textured production, Bush guides the listener through a tribute to Oliver’s achievements, adding insight from fans who know her beyond her work. Oliver’s poetry is presented with excerpts from recordings made by Oliver himself.
What emerges is a vivid picture of her varied influence on so many different readers, from rabbis who find educational moments in her work, to Oliver’s former students at Bennington College. It’s Oliver’s “obsession with paying attention” that’s stuck in chef and author Samin Nosrat’s mind. Actor Rainn Wilson finds a secular spirituality in his poetry, which describes “God in the form of finding a pile of bones on the road or hearing the wind among the ferns.” I am speaking.” Even for those familiar with Oliver’s work, this voice collage will help you get a more complete picture of what she was like. Poet Elizabeth Bradfield recalls: We talked about dogs. We never talked about poetry. and it was ok. “
