Why do some people remember how to ride a bike but can't remember the ID number?
Why does someone read the word "sky" in a book, and the sour taste of lemon comes out of his mouth?
Why do Europeans write from left to right while Arabs write from right to left?
Our brain is like a blender with the lid open. All kinds of information in the world will be cut into discrete pieces at the moment it enters the brain and splash around in our minds. In order to make a story coherent, the brain will be willing to insert some false plots, because the brain always wants to make a chaotic world orderly.
Similarly, left-handed people, as a special physiological phenomenon, have always been concerned. Because of their unique habits, they were once suppressed, and because of their unique talents, their contribution to human civilization is far greater than their proportion in the total population of the world. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael were all left-handed. What do left-handed painters think of the world?
The brain is the most familiar human organ because we use it all the time. The brain is also the most unfamiliar human organ, because it has too many unsolved mysteries. This reading activity allows us to enter the magical brain world with excellent popular science books under the guidance of experts! Co-organizer: Capital Library
Time: May 16, 14:00- 16:00.
Venue: Lecture Hall, 2nd floor, Capital Library, No.88 East Third Ring South Road, Chaoyang District
Number of people: 120
Guest: Wang Jian, former Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau. Won the second prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award. Visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Li Hao, Ph.D. in Natural Science, Hanover University. A digital library of geodesy was established. 1996 become a volunteer in environmental science. He is now a member of the popular science lecture group of China Academy of Sciences.
Keywords: flood and drought environmental protection
Recommendation list: take the rain home.
When the river dries up,
Clue:
The severe drought in the southwest of China has aroused public concern about water resources. The Yangtze River dried up, the Yellow River cut off, the Bohai Sea red tide, the pollution of Taihu Lake ... a series of shocking events happened around us. The increasing shortage of urban water resources has threatened our daily life. How should we reflect on the destruction of water resources by human behavior? How to solve the relationship between human development and water resources development and utilization; More importantly, how can we take action to join the ranks of protecting water resources more effectively? The Capital Library, together with the Science Squirrel Society, launched this reading salon during the 20 10 Beijing Science and Technology Week. Through the reading recommendation of experts and the analysis of the above problems, I hope everyone can better understand the earth and the water world on it. Co-organizer: Chongwenmen Store of Yufeng Library
Time: May 17, 19:00-2 1:30.
Venue: 2nd floor, Fashion New World Department Store, No.7 Dongmao Market Street, Chongwen District
Number of people: 80
Guest: Wang Jun, Senior Reporter of Xinhua News Agency.
Keywords: urban ecological building traffic
Recommended reading bibliography: the city of the future
"Our Common Future"
Berkeley eco-city
Only one earth
The more food, the hungrier.
Clue:
Do you also think that the farthest distance in the world is the transfer between 13 line and line 2?
Do you often look up at the sky at 45 degrees and feel that the sky is not as fresh as before?
Are you also worried about whether you will get sick or whether your children will go to school?
Do you also live in a small house of several square meters, lamenting that your salary will never run away from the house price?
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And all this is related to a future city. In this sharing activity,
XXX and XXX will be from urban transportation, commercial services, municipal facilities, green space,
Urban housing, public health and other aspects of how to use scientific and technological means to create a sustainable human settlement model are discussed.
We want to see how you can make your life better in the future city. Co-organizer: Extreme Club
Hao San Club
Time: May 18, 19:00-2 1:30.
Venue: Room 43C, AVIC Qingyun Company, No.43 North Third Ring West Road, Haidian District
Number of people: 60
Guest: Zhang Jiang, lecturer of Department of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, postdoctoral fellow of Institute of Systems Studies, China Academy of Sciences.
Di Zengru, a professor in the Department of System Science of Beijing Normal University, is an expert in complex network research.
Keywords: chaos theory of system science
Recommended Reading Bibliography: Complexity —— A Science Born on the Edge of Chaos and Order
Hidden order-adaptability brings complexity
The New Science of Linking Networks
The universe is home.
Fragile territory
Clue:
Energy crisis, environmental pollution, ecological destruction, all these problems of modern people are rooted in people's accustomed dichotomy world outlook and reductionist way of thinking. However, at the beginning of the 20th century, when people reduced matter to isolated atoms or even quarks, a group of scientists founded a science called complexity. They reassembled the universe dismembered by reductionist scientists, looking for the laws that restrict life systems, economic and social systems and the Internet.
In ancient Greece, scientists were not classified and even belonged to philosophy and art.
In17th century, after the Renaissance in Europe, Newton and the giant at his feet started modern science based on mathematical thinking and experiments. For hundreds of years, many clever minds have developed this science more and more powerfully and penetrated into everyone's life in modern society. At the same time, due to the limitations of human understanding of the world, more and more detailed disciplines have emerged in reality. Many scientific workers are like meticulous work on the production line, and they can be called "experts" because they can skillfully handle the work at hand, but for other disciplines, even other branches within a foot, they are as "illiterate" as the public.
However, this situation is being changed by some new sciences that have developed for more than half a century. The world is complicated. To realize the true face of this complex world, we need them-whether they are called "system science" or "complex science", they are no longer just mechanical arms on the assembly line, they need brains and wisdom, just like the giants who laid the foundation of the classic science building in hundreds of years before and after Newton.
Under the guidance of the following popular science books, Ji Zhishe will review this history and think about the new science in the future! Co-organizer: Working Group 42
Kubrick bookstore
Time: May 19, 19:00-2 1:30.
Venue: Floor 1, T2 Building, North Zone of Contemporary MOMA, Xiangheyuan Road, Dongzhimen, Dongcheng District 1
Number of people: 60
Guest: Shi, Vice President of Beijing Normal University and Deputy Head of Expert Group of China International Decade for Disaster Reduction.
Yan Peng, editor-in-chief of Global Screen magazine, is a science fiction critic.
Keywords: disaster science fiction
Recommended reading bibliography: the ultimate choice-a disaster that threatens mankind.
Global disaster and the end of the world
When disaster strikes,
Wandering earth
I Am Legend
Clue:
A close reading of human history, even the evolutionary history since the appearance of living things, shows that almost every major change has its own reasons for disasters. Is it the logical necessity of spiral rise? Or the inevitable vibration of the cosmic clock swing?
Taking history as a mirror, we are undoubtedly far better than dinosaurs under the dust or apes on the grassland. But as far as we know today, the history of human civilization is only a moment in the vast universe. We can't know whether there has been a ray frenzy in the depths of the Milky Way in the sky, nor can we predict when the earth under our feet will start to tremble. Even we are not sure whether the next plague will come from us, not to mention Murphy's Law, an unstable hand holding the sword of Damocles. Mankind is still in various crises.
Walking with disasters will make human beings more tenacious, pursue more knowledge, and more importantly, let everyone face dangers and unknowns, learn to accept them, and strive to change their destiny. Co-organizer: Phoenix Reading Club
Sanlian taofen bookstore
Time: May 20th 19:00-2 1:30.
Venue: No.22 East Street, Art Museum, Dongcheng District
Number of people: 60
Guest: Liu Quanru, Professor of School of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University.
National Museum of Natural History
World Wrestling Federation; WWF
Keywords: natural historical ecology
Recommended reading bibliography: the diversity of life
A hundred tails or a thousand leaves
Talk to animals
Common wild flowers
The future of life
Clue:
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. Darwin's theory on the operation mode of nature and biodiversity has been continuously expanded, forming the foundation of modern biology.
The United Nations designated 20 10 as the International Year of Biodiversity. This means that as the masters of the earth, we will be aware of the ecological crisis of the earth. Maybe some species are extinct, some will be extinct, and some will never be extinct, but we really know nothing about them. Is it necessary to wait until one day human beings become the last species on this beautiful planet? Today, with the help of several popular science books, we will start from understanding our own ignorance, look at the miracle of our nature and cherish the existing species. Co-organizers: Hanfenlou Bookstore and Commercial Press.
Time: May 2 1, 19:00-2 1:00.
Venue: No.22, Art Museum East Street, Dongcheng District
Number of people: 80
Guest: Hu Zuoxuan, a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and System Science, China Academy of Sciences, revised the series of Mathematical Journey.
Keywords: history of mathematics, history of mathematics
Recommended Books: Mathematics Journey Series
Clue:
Why do you want to take mathematics as a main course for more than ten years? What's the use of those boring and complicated mathematical theorems and formulas for our ordinary life? There are not a few people who have such doubts about mathematics. This series of American John tabak's Journey to Mathematics published by the Commercial Press may explain our confusion and show us the fascinating side of mathematics in the long history of mathematics told by the author.
Mathematics has a history of thousands of years. The history of mathematics began when humans used stars to predict the future. Later, the ancient Greeks went to Egypt to measure the height of the pyramids by geometric methods. Later, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Leonardo da Vinci ... resounding names one after another. Their bold ideas, calculations and experiments paved the way for mathematics.
Mathematics is not a narrow subject field, and mathematics itself is rich and colorful. It is not only rooted in astronomy and mechanics, but also intertwined with music and philosophy. Because of this, mathematics is also widely used in various fields: the paintings of Renaissance masters are vivid because they mastered the basic methods of perspective, which led to the birth of projective geometry; The era of great navigation has also promoted the development of map (chart) drawing technology, and further promoted people's understanding of surface geometry. The essence of mathematics is to have a set of universal theories and methods to ask and solve problems, and the history of mathematics can give a "holographic picture".