Stefan Klein

“What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?”—Stefan Klein “First and foremost, curiosity.”—Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemist When Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world’s leading scientists, he finds they’re driven by, above all, curiosity. When they talk about their work, they turn to what’s next, to what they still hope to discover. And they see inspiration everywhere: From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for “the theory of everything” to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, they reveal how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab. We hear from extraordinary natural and social scientists, including: Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on ego and selflessness Primatologist Jane Goodall on chimpanzee behavior Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness Geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history Anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood And cosmologist Martin Rees on how “ultimately we ourselves are stardust.”

Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

We Are All Stardust

Have you ever fantasized about having more time-now, this minute, to accomplish everything you need and want to get done today? Or wondered why time flies when you are thoroughly engrossed in something? Or why minutes pass so slowly when you're standing in line at the store or airport, or on hold waiting for a customer service rep to answer your call? Or how, simply, to find more time to relax and unwind?Now, with The Secret Pulse of Time, already a longstanding best seller in Germany, internationally best-selling and award-winning science writer Stefan Klein has crafted what amounts to “operating instructions” for time. “We are all taking part in a giant experiment in dealing with time,” Klein writes-and his aim with this book is to help us each to understand “the degree to which our experience of time hinges on our outlook on life.” With his journalist's unerring eye for the telling detail, Stefan Klein effortlessly combines original investigation and reportage, personal revelation, and a wide-ranging, commanding presentation of scientific research among disciplines including brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics-with the goal of guiding us not only to better master time but also to understand why we so often fail to do so. Woven into his narrative are dozens of practical ways to make sense of and gain control over time, including: How not to lose your head when a deadline is quickly approaching How the present becomes a memory-and vice versa How to attune to your inner clock for more productive, satisfying days How to avoid becoming worn out by the fast tempo of modern life Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have ever before realized.

Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity

The Secret Pulse of Time

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of “survival of the fittest”—and invites us all to think and act more altruistically The phrase “survival of the fittest” conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness and winner of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Scientific Journalism, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. In fact, Klein argues, altruism is our defining characteristic: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture—our very humanity. As Klein puts it, “We humans became first the friendliest and then the most intelligent apes.” To build his persuasive case for how altruistic behavior made us human—and why it pays to get along—Klein synthesizes an extraordinary array of material: current research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioral and anthropological experiments, history, and modern culture. Ultimately, his groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: If we’re really hard-wired to act for one another’s benefit, why aren’t we all getting along? Klein believes we’ve learned to mistrust our generous instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition. In Survival of the Nicest, he invites us to rethink what it means to be the “fittest” as he shows how caring for others can protect us from loneliness and depression, make us happier and healthier, reward us economically, and even extend our lives.

How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

Survival of the Nicest

Stefan Klein explores the hidden dimensions of time, looking at everything from when the present becomes the past to the tribe that see the future backwards, from when sex is best to why the years seem to speed by as we age.

a user's guide

Time

Warum unsere Gesellschaft neue Ziele braucht

Die Ökonomie des Glücks

Bestseller-Autor Stefan Klein nimmt uns mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Geschichte des schöpferischen Denkens. Von den Innovationen der Steinzeit wie Malerei über die Erfindung der Schrift bis hin zu den Leistungen der Computer von morgen zeigt Stefan Klein anschaulich und unterhaltsam, wie der Geist immer wieder neu die Welt verändert hat. Wir begegnen Neandertalern und Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci und Ada Lovelace, Archimedes und AlphaZero. Dabei wird deutlich: Innovation und Fortschritt verdanken wir nicht den Einfällen einsamer Genies – sie entwickeln sich im geistigen Austausch. Denn Kreativität, Phantasie und Innovation sind keine individuellen Talente, sondern entstehen zwischen den Menschen. Wie wurde unsere Welt die, in der wir leben? Wie wurden wir, was wir sind? Und wie geht es weiter? Jede Veränderung beginnt mit einer neuen Idee! Packend erzählt der renommierte Wissenschaftsautor von der Macht der Gemeinschaft, der Zukunft des Denkens und den unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten unserer Kreativität.

Eine kurze Geschichte des menschlichen Geistes

Wie wir die Welt verändern

Für ein glückliches Leben tun wir alles - und schlittern dabei von einem Unglück ins nächste. Die Probleme beginnen bereits bei der Definition - bislang wusste keiner genau, was Glück eigentlich ist. Selbst die Philosophie, die der Frage seit Tausenden von Jahren nachgeht, hat bis heute nur Antworten voller Widersprüche geben können. Jetzt aber haben sich die Hirnforscher auf die Suche nach den Gefühlen gemacht. Erstmals lassen sich Empfindungen messen. Die Experimente offenbaren, wie in unseren Köpfen das Phänomen 'Glück' entsteht - und sie eröffnen zugleich neue Möglichkeiten, das Glücklichsein zu lernen. Denn Glück ist trainierbar, nur machen die meisten Menschen bisher die falschen Übungen.

Die Glücksformel oder wie die guten Gefühle entstehen

Der bekannte, preisgekrönte Wissenschaftsautor nähert sich dem Phänomen Traum aus dem neuen Blickwinkel der Hirnforschung, die Träume mit riesigen Scannern lesen kann. Er zeigt, wie Träume heute gesehen werden und dass man sie trainieren kann, um neue Seiten unseres Daseins zu entdecken. "Danach sind Träume weit mehr als ein Ausdruck unerfüllter Sehnsüchte. Sie geben Aufschluss darüber, wie sich die Erfahrungen des Tages, die Lebensumstände und die Persönlichkeit im Traum spiegeln. Ferner erweitern sie unsere Erfahrungen und helfen uns, eine weitgehend unbekannte Seite unseres Daseins zu entdecken ... Faszinierendes, gut geschriebenes Sachbuch, das sofort Interesse weckt und spannende Ergebnisse der Hirnforschung gut verständlich erschliesst" Andreas Naumann spricht lebendig und mit angenehmer Betonung die stark gekürzte Lesefassung

eine Reise in unsere innere Wirklichkeit ; alles, was wir heute über Träume wissen únd was sie tatsächlich über uns erzählen

Träume

die Kraft, die unser Leben bestimmt

Alles Zufall

How Our Brains Make Us Happy-and What We Can Do to Get Happier

The Science of Happiness

Das All und das Nichts - Von der Schönheit des Universums

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science. Klein sees in a single rose the sublime interdependence of all life; a day of stormy weather points to the world’s unpredictability; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries—the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity’s place among the galaxies, and more—Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key ideas and theories of twenty-first-century physics that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything. You won’t look at a rose—or at our world—the same way again.

A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

How to Love the Universe

The international bestseller – an enthralling exploration of the how and why behind the science of happiness. We all know what it feels like to be happy, but what mechanisms inside our brains trigger such a positive emotion? What does it really mean to be happy, and why can't we feel that way all of the time? Psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying negative emotions for decades, but until recently few have focused on the subject of happiness. Now, in The Science of Happiness, leading science journalist Stefan Klein ranges widely across the latest frontiers of neuroscience and psychology to explain how happiness is generated in our brains, what biological purpose it serves, and the conditions required to foster 'the pursuit of happiness'. A remarkable synthesis of a growing body of research that has not been brought together before, The Science of Happiness is, ultimately, a book that helps us understand our own quest for happiness and is certain to help make you happier.

how our brains make us happy and what we can do to get happier

Como O Acaso Comanda as Nossas Vidas

Von der Schönheit des Universums

Das All und das Nichts

Explores the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci and explains the profound impact his ideas have had on our times, discussing his paintings, fascination with water, and dream of flying.

How Da Vinci Reimagined the World

Leonardo's Legacy

Bestsellerautor Stefan Klein über das Geheimnis der gefühlten Zeit Erfüllte Augenblicke der Liebe und des Glücks – warum nur erscheinen sie uns immer so kurz und flüchtig? Und warum will die Zeit, wenn wir ungeduldig warten, so gar nicht vergehen? Wie können wir in unserem hektischen Alltag bewusster mit unserer Zeit umgehen? Stefan Klein, Autor der Bestseller ›Die Glücksformel‹ und ›Alles Zufall‹, lehrt uns, unsere Zeit bewusster und besser zu nutzen: Denn nur wenige Leistungen des Gehirns lassen sich so leicht und so schnell verändern wie unser Zeitsinn. Der Film unseres Lebens entsteht im Kopf. Und wir sind seine Regisseure.

Der Stoff, aus dem das Leben ist. Eine Gebrauchsanleitung

Zeit

«Un libro che ci conduce abilmente nel cuore degli enigmi del mondo» «Die Zeit» Interrogato da un amico artista che gli chiese se uno scienziato, studiando una rosa, non ne uccidesse la bellezza, Richard Feynman rispose che lui riusciva senz’altro a percepirne lo splendore, ma vedeva anche un’altra bellezza, più profonda, rivelata solo dalla comprensione: il fatto, per esempio, che i fiori abbiano assunto colori sgargianti nel corso dell’evoluzione per attirare gli insetti. Una conoscenza più precisa non toglie niente alla bellezza del fiore, anzi dà alla rosa ancora più fascino e mistero. È proprio dallo stupore e dalla meraviglia quotidiana che proviamo per il mondo intorno a noi che Stefan Klein prende spunto per rivelarci la sorprendente bellezza dell’universo: come può un uragano dall’altra parte del mondo rivelare l’imprevedibilità del clima e del caso? L’irreversibilità del tempo che passa, improvvisamente si manifesta a noi nel colore della barba che va ingrigendosi; un divertente racconto poliziesco riesce a spiegare al meglio i concetti di multiverso e di entanglement quantistico; le riflessioni di Einstein sulla luce danno corpo allo spaziotempo; esiste davvero il nulla, l’universo è vuoto o pieno, e cos’è la materia oscura? Il tutto e il niente trasforma una cosa semplice, come un fiore o un giorno di tempesta, nella chiave per comprendere le idee e le teorie più complesse della fisica del XXI secolo, e Stefan Klein con limpidezza e un tocco di poesia scioglie le complessità del mondo con le sue domande gioiose. Più conosciamo la realtà, più ci appare misteriosa, ma è solo continuando a interrogarci su di essa che una rosa sarà ancora molto di più di una semplice rosa.

Sulla bellezza dell'universo

Il tutto e il niente

Stefan Sommer

Stanley Durrleman

Marius Staring

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2018, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in June 2018. The 11 full and poster papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submitted papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Sliding Motion, Groupwise Registration, Acceleration, and Applications and Evaluation.

8th International Workshop, WBIR 2018, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 28-29, 2018, Proceedings

Biomedical Image Registration

***Der Sachbuch-Klassiker in einer aktualisierten und erweiterten Neuausgabe!*** Über ein Jahr stand ›Die Glücksformel‹ auf allen deutschen Bestsellerlisten und machte den Wissenschaftsautor Stefan Klein international bekannt. Denn ihm ist mit diesem Buch gelungen, was bisher keinem zum unerschöpflichen Thema Glück gelang: er fasst unterhaltsam und kompakt all das bisherige Wissen über die guten Gefühle zusammen und gibt so seinen Lesern die entscheidenden Werkzeuge in die Hand, ihrem Leben eine glückliche Wendung zu geben. Er räumt darin auf mit Wissenschaftsmythen und zeigt wie die Erkenntnisse der Neurophysiologen, Verhaltensforscher und Mediziner uns Wege zeigen, die guten Gefühle zu erlernen. Eine einzigartige Entdeckungsreise, die uns alle glücklicher macht.

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