"Conversations with Bronowski" - Voyage Round a Twentieth-Century Skull - 1973

• "Conversations with Bronowski" - Voyage Round a Twentieth-Century Skull
• Language: English | 1973 | MP3 (Radio-Rip) | 40 kbps, 22050 Hz, Mono | 49.5 Mb
• Jacob Bronowski is a Polish-born British mathematician and man of letters who eloquently presented the case for the humanistic aspects of science. He is remembered as writer and presenter of the BBC television series, The Ascent of Man. Bronowski, who had a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry, spent WW II in Operations Research, and was an official observer of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. After this experience, he turned to biology, to better understand the nature of violence.
• Died 22 Aug 1974 (born 18 Jan 1908)
• As a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, he co-edited, with William Empson, the literary periodical Experiment which first appeared in 1928. Bronowski had a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry, and was a poet (he lived near to Laura Riding and Robert Graves in Majorca in the 1930s). He spent the war in Operations Research; afterwards he became Director of Research for the National Coal Board (UK). After his experiences as an official observer of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings he turned to biology, as did his friend, Leo Szilard, to better understand the nature of violence. He was an Associate Director of the Salk Institute from 1964. He is the father of the British academic Lisa Jardine.
• This audiobook is a seria of ten radio conversations that J. Bronowski had with G. Steedman in 1973, one year before his death.
• Voyage Round a Twentieth-Century Skull.
• Dr. Jacob Bronowski in conversation with George Steedman. BBC English courses.
• 1. Conversations with Bronowski - 1 - 19th-20th Century Science (13:56)
• 2. Conversations with Bronowski - 2 - Some trouble about light (19:37)
• 3. Conversations with Bronowski - 3 - Pattern and Growth (17:31)
• 4. Conversations with Bronowski - 4 - The structure of energy (12:30)
• 5. Conversations with Bronowski - 5 - The Structure of Matter (14:32)
• 6. Conversations with Bronowski - 6 - Nuclear Explosion, Unclear Responsibility (19:56)
• 7. Conversations with Bronowski - 7 - The Structure of Life (18:58)
• 8. Conversations with Bronowski - 8 - Evolution is progress (19:08)
• 9. Conversations With Bronowski - 9 - A Most Successful Mammal (19:03)
• 10. Conversations with Bronowski - 10 - The Importance Of Being Highbrowed (19:48)
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