Libri di Telmo Pievani
Good Ignorance
di Telmo Pievani
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
In a world that seems to have all the answers, Pievani invites us to rediscover the value of not knowing. For it is precisely from ignorance – the good kind – that the best questions and progress arise.
Multiplicity
An Adventure in the Great Library of Evolution
di Telmo Pievani
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 200
What kind of world would we have if evolution had taken different paths? And why, instead, did things turned out this way?In his outstanding short story "The Library of Babel", Jorge Luis Borges imagines a seemingly endless place where all the books of the world are collected; those already written and those existing only potentially. Just as a writer can imagine books that have never been written, a scientist in the laboratory can create enzymes that evolution has never created, which are extremely powerful and can do wonderful things.
Proteins, DNA, genomes are also some kind of books: they are sequences formed by codes and therefore, in some way, alphabets. Here a literary idea becomes a scientific metaphor. Telmo Pievani teases our imagination, always assisted by scientific evidence, sharing with the reader hypotheses of historical crossroads, parallel universes, potential lives.
