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The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.

Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. As a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to once again connect with nature in less theoretical ways. After seeing a fly-fishing class on the Dartmouth College green, he decided to learn to fly-fish, a hobby, he says, that teaches humility.

Since Copernicus, humanity has increasingly seen itself as adrift, an insignificant speck within a large, cold universe. Brazilian physicist, astronomer, and winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize Marcelo Gleiser argues that we’re using the wrong paradigm to relate to the universe and our position in it. In this deeply researched and beautifully rendered book, he calls for us to embrace a new life-centric perspective, one which recognizes just how rare and precious life is and why it should be our mission to preserve and nurture it.

How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing he reaches a provocative conclusion: Science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know.

Marcelo Gleiser é apaixonado por ciência e pesca desde os tempos de menino nas praias do Rio de Janeiro. Hoje um físico de renome mundial, autor de dezenas de livros e com centenas de artigos publicados nas principais revistas de divulgação científica, sentiu que era o momento de se conectar com a natureza de forma menos teórica. Depois de assistir a uma aula sobre pesca fly na Dartmouth College, onde é professor, interessou-se pela prática e a adotou como hobby.

Do autor vencedor do Prêmio Templeton,  Gleiser nos convida em O caldeirão azul para refletir—e decidir—sobre o futuro que queremos, respeitando as diferenças de cada um e estando abertos para aprender com os que pensam de outras formas.

Criação imperfeita propõe nada menos do que um novo "humanocentrismo" capaz de refletir nossa posição na ordem do universo.